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A Contemporary Introduction

Metaethics

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A Contemporary Introduction
ByMark van Roojen
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2015
eBook Published 25 June 2015
Pub. Location New York
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315697055
Pages 324
eBook ISBN 9781315697055
Subjects Humanities
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van Roojen, M. (2015). Metaethics: A Contemporary Introduction (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315697055

ABSTRACT

Metaethics: A Contemporary Introduction provides a solid foundation in metaethics for advanced undergraduates by introducing a series of puzzles that most metaethical theories address. These puzzles involve moral disagreement, reference, moral epistemology, metaphysics, and moral psychology. From there, author Mark van Roojen discusses the many positions in metaethics that people will take in reaction to these puzzles. Van Roojen asks several essential questions of his readers, namely: What is metaethics? Why study it? How does one discuss metaethics, given its inherently controversial nature? Each chapter closes with questions, both for reading comprehension and further discussion, and annotated suggestions for further reading.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|8 pages

A Brief Introduction

chapter 2|28 pages

A Subject Matter for Ethics?

chapter 3|17 pages

Moral Epistemology and the Empirical Underdetermination of Ethical Theory

chapter 4|21 pages

The Practicality of Morality and the Humean Conception of Reason and Motivation

chapter 5|24 pages

Error Theory

chapter 6|17 pages

Simple Subjectivism

chapter 7|25 pages

The Cognitivist Heirs of Simple Subjectivism

Ideal Observers and Ideal Agents

chapter 8|35 pages

Noncognitivist Heirs of Simple Subjectivism

chapter 9|25 pages

Fictionalism

chapter 10|9 pages

Externalist Backlash

chapter 11|27 pages

Scientific Naturalism I

Cornell Realism

chapter 12|16 pages

Scientific Naturalism II

Moral Functionalism and Network Analyses

chapter 13|26 pages

Nonnaturalism and Antireductionism

chapter 14|14 pages

Odds, Ends, and Morals

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