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In "Metaethics: An Introduction", Andrew Fisher proposes to give an introduction to such types of questions, and to discuss the main Meta-ethics book proposed by philosophers, presupposing none or very little prior knowledge on the part of the reader.

Fisher does a very good by: 7. This book covers a good spectrum of metaethics in sufficient depth to understand many of the central arguments.

It does not go as far or as There is a challenge in introducing metaethics - writing something that is both sufficiently detailed to provide knowledge to the readers, whilst not going so far as to loose them/5. Books shelved as metaethics: Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong by John Leslie Mackie, The Sources of Normativity by Christine M.

Korsgaard, Metaethics: A Home My Books. The book will be very useful to upper-division undergraduates." Choice Magazine "A precise and accessible reading of a rather complicated subject." Syzetesis "In this book Alexander Miller, an established expert in moral philosophy, provides a concise, clear and insightful account of the central issues of by: This article aims to bring some of the general underlying questions that hover in the background of meta-ethical discussions into the foreground and then to suggest some answers.

An initial question that hovers in the background of discussions in meta-ethics is why we bother thinking about meta-ethical questions in the first place, as opposed to meta-level questions about other normative domains.

Meta-Ethics, a Primer by Jan Jacko is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution International License, except where otherwise noted.

Powered by Pressbooks Guides and Tutorials. Metaethics: An Introduction presents a very clear and engaging survey of the key concepts and positions Meta-ethics book what has become one of the most exciting and influential fields of philosophy.

Free from. Free from technicality and jargon, the book covers the main ideas that have shaped metaethics from the work of G. Moore to the latest thinking.

Written specifically for beginning students, the book assumes no prior philosophical knowledge. The book highlights ways to avoid common errors, offers hints and tips on learning the subject Cited by: 7.

Metaethics: A Contemporary Introduction – Mark van Roojen. Publisher description: Metaethics: A Contemporary The Routledge Handbook of Metaethics – Tristram McPherson & David Plunkett. Publisher description: This Handbook surveys Foundations of Ethics: An Anthology – Russ Shafer-Landau &.

A brief account of the distinction between normative ethics and meta-ethics will serve as an introduction to the readings that follow. SUBSCRIBE TODAY. Full access to this book and o more.

These are all questions in metaethics, the branch of ethics that investigates the status of morality, the nature of ethical facts, and the meaning of ethical statements.

Book Description 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.

Oxford University Press is proud to announce an annual volume presenting a selection of the best new work in Metaethics. Oxford Studies in Metaethics is the only publication devoted exclusively to original philosophical work in the foundations of ethics.

It provides an annual selection of much of the best new scholarship being done in the field. Meta-ethics is the area of philosophy in which thinkers explore the language and nature of moral discourse and its relations to other non-moral areas of life.

In this introduction to the discipline written explicitly for novices, Leslie Allan outlines the key questions and areas of analysis in contemporary meta-ethics. Metaethics from a First Person Standpoint is published in Open Access by Open Book Publishers and freely available to read here.

It presupposes no prior training in philosophy and is a must-read for philosophers, students and general readers interested in gaining a better understanding of morality as a personal philosophical quest. The chapters in this book defend a variety of positions in both normative moral theory and metaethics.

The first part of the volume contains the chapters on metaethical issues, and the second part contains the chapters on normative issues. Issues in these two areas are much more closely connected than might seem to be the case, given what I say. James Gray is a very clear writer, I think, who has generously left some short ebooks online.

He is a naturalist and moral realist, and this link takes you to one of the best surveys of the nature and history of meta-ethics I have ever read. This is an area that textbooks cover very poorly – tending to over-simplify or mislead the student, which produces a nervousness or confusion when.

As mentioned earlier, metaethics deals not with the substantive content of ethical theories or moral judgments but rather with questions A brief treatment of metaethics follows. For further discussion, see ethics: Metaethics. Syzetesis "In this book Alexander Miller, an established expert in moral philosophy, provides a concise, clear and insightful account of the central issues of s: 6.

This chapter begins by explaining the distinction between meta-ethics and normative ethics. It then introduces the main issues in the two fields and provides a critical overview of the chapters in the volume.

In meta-ethics, it focuses on explaining the different kinds of moral realism and anti-realism, including the divine command theory, naturalism, non-naturalism, relativism, nihilism, and.

Meta Ethics - discussion of ethical theories and language. So, ethics and morality are not the same things! A person is moral if that person follows the moral rules. A person is immoral if that person breaks the moral rules. A person is amoral if that person does not know about or care about the moral rules.

Normative ethics doesn’t speak to specific actions, but it does try to develop a working framework by which actions can be deemed ethical or unethical. Metaethics is the study of ethics itself. It delves into the language, nature, motivation, and source of morality.

The two main schools of metaethics are cognitivism and non-cognitivism.[Book Review] Noumenautics: metaphysics - meta-ethics - psychedelics Peter is a fantastic writer, and almost all his work is very much worth reading. This book was a bit different than I expected, with psychedelics being a rather small component of the book and his arguments.