The Routledge Handbook of Metaethics

Contents

Contributors

Acknowledgements

Preface

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

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
   Isidora Stojanovic

II.　　　 Central Problems and Strategies in Metaethics

8. Realism and Objectivity
   Billy Dunaway
9. Metaphysical Relations in Metaethics
   Gideon Rosen
10. The Supervenience Challenge to Non-Naturalism
    Pekka Väyrynen
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 Björnsson
18. Cognitivism 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. Ethical Expertise
    Karen Jones and Francois 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

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 Darwall
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
    Karl Schafer and Doug Kremm
42. Methodological Naturalism in Metaethics 　
    Daniel Nolan
43. Normative Ethics and Metaethics 　
    Mark Schroeder

Biography

Tristram McPherson is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Ohio State University.

David Plunkett is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Dartmouth College.

"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