Metaethics: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy) - Hardcover

Van Roojen, Mark

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415894417 ISBN 13: 9780415894418

Publisher: Routledge, 2015

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Mark van Roojen is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He works primarily in ethics and metaethics but remains interested in the rest of philosophy. His most widely read papers are on moral rationalism, expressivism, moral psychology, and the semantics of moral terms.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0415894417
• ISBN 13: 9780415894418
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 310