ABSTRACT

This Handbook surveys the contemporary state of the burgeoning field of metaethics. Forty-four chapters, all written exclusively for this volume, provide expert introductions to:

    • the central research programs that frame metaethical discussions
    • the central explanatory challenges, resources, and strategies that inform contemporary work in those research programs
    • debates over the status of metaethics, and the appropriate methods to use in metaethical inquiry

This is essential reading for anyone with a serious interest in metaethics, from those coming to it for the first time to those actively pursuing research in the field.

chapter |25 pages

Introduction

The Nature and Explanatory Ambitions of Metaethics

part |106 pages

Central Organizing Options in Metaethics

chapter |14 pages

Error Theory in Metaethics

chapter |15 pages

Fictionalism in Metaethics

chapter |15 pages

Metaethical Expressivism

chapter |17 pages

Metaethical Contextualism

chapter |14 pages

Metaethical Relativism

part |384 pages

Central Problems and Strategies in ­Metaethics

chapter |16 pages

Realism and Objectivity

chapter |17 pages

Deontic Modals

chapter |15 pages

Thick Concepts

chapter |17 pages

The Frege-Geach Problem

chapter |16 pages

Reasons Internalism

chapter |15 pages

The Wrong Kind of Reasons

chapter |14 pages

Constitutivism

chapter |17 pages

Constructivism

chapter |15 pages

Normativity and Agency

chapter |12 pages

The Autonomy of Ethics

chapter |13 pages

Moral Expertise

chapter |15 pages

Moral Skepticism

part |170 pages

The Status and Methodology of Metaethics

chapter |15 pages

Ethics and Morality

chapter |15 pages

The Varieties of Normativity

chapter |13 pages

Pragmatism and Metaethics

chapter |14 pages

Feminism and Metaethics

chapter |17 pages

Quasi-realism

chapter |16 pages

Metaethical Quietism

chapter |13 pages

Normative Ethics and Metaethics