The Routledge Handbook of Metaethics

This Handbook surveys the contemporary state of the burgeoning field of metaethics. This is essential reading for anyone with an interest in metaethics, from those coming to it for the first time to those actively pursuing research in the field.

"This is a superb collection, edited by two of the leading lights in the field. This volume provides a splendid view of the rich and varied terrain of contemporary metaethics, with contributions by an all-star roster of philosophers. Those looking to familiarize themselves with what is happening in metaethics today need look no further than this immensely helpful handbook." --Russ Shafer-Landau, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill "This is an extremely valuable, comprehensive volume of essays on metaethics. The contributors, whether veterans or new voices, provide knowledgeable and original perspectives on just about every aspect of contemporary metaethical theory." -Jamie Dreier, Brown University

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Tristram McPherson is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Ohio State University. David Plunkett is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Dartmouth College.

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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.

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Introduction: The Nature and Explanatory Ambitions of Metaethics
Tristram McPherson and David Plunkett ****

Part I. Central Organizing Options in Metaethics

1. Non-Naturalistic Realism in Metaethics
   David Enoch

2. Naturalistic Realism in Metaethics
   Peter Railton

3. Error Theory in Metaethics
   Jonas Olson

4. Fictionalism in Metaethics
   Richard Joyce

5. Metaethical Expressivism
   Elisabeth Camp

6. Metaethical Contextualism
   Alex Silk

7. Metaethical Relativism
   Isadora Stojanovic **** Part II. Central Problems and Strategies in Metaethics

   8. Realism and Objectivity
      Billy Dunaway

   9. Metaphysical Relations in Metaethics
      G. Rosen

   10. The Supervenience Challenge to Non-Naturalism
       Pekka Vayrynen

   11. Vagueness and Indeterminacy in Ethics
       Tom Dougherty

   12. Deontic Modals
       Jennifer Carr

   13. Thick Concepts
       Debbie Roberts

   14. The Frege-Geach Problem
       Jack Woods

   15. Hybrid Accounts of Ethical Thought and Talk
       Teemu Toppinen

   16. Conceptual Role Accounts of Meaning in Metaethics
       Matthew Chrisman

   17. The Significance of Ethical Disagreement for Theories of Ethical Thought and Talk
       Gunnar Bjornsson

   18. Cognitive and Non-Cognitivism
       Matthew S. Bedke

   19. Ethical Judgment and Motivation
       David Faraci and Tristram McPherson

   20. Reasons Internalism
       Errol Lord and David Plunkett

   21. The Wrong Kind of Reasons
       Howard Nye

   22. Mind-Dependence and Moral Realism
       Connie S. Rosati

   23. Constitutivism
       Michael Smith

   24. Constructivism
       Melissa Barry

   25. Normativity and Agency
       Hille Paakkunainen

   26. Mores and Morals: Metaethics and the Social World
       Kenneth Walden

   27. The Autonomy of Ethics
       Barry Maguire

   28. Explanatory Challenges in Metaethics
       Joshua Schechter

   29. Moral Expertise
       Karen Jones and Fran*cois Schroeter

   30. Intuitionism in Moral Epistemology
       Elizabeth Tropman

   31. Moral Scepticism
       Matt Lutz and Jacob Ross
   32. The Epistemic Significance of Moral Disagreement
       Dustin Locke

Part III. The Status and Methodology of Metaethics

33. Metasemantics and Metaethics
    Laura Schroeter and Francois Schroeter

34. Conceptual Analysis in Metaethics
    Nicholas Laskowski and Stephen Finlay

35. Ethics and Morality
    Stephen Darwell

36. The Varieties of Normativity
    Derek Baker

37. Pragmatism and Metaethics
    Andrew Sepielli

38. Feminism and Metaethics
    Amia Srinivasan

39. Experimental Philosophy and Moral Theory
    Chandra Sripada

40. Quasi-realism
    Terence Cuneo

41. Metaethical Quietism
    Doug Kremm and Karl Schafer

42. Methodological Naturalism in Metaethics
    Daniel Nolan

43. Normative Ethics and Metaethics
    Mark Schroeder