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 | | The dual nature of metaethics suited Moore himself perfectly: Moor e had a novel ethical vision to propound, with its organic wholes in place of hedonism and its stress on the value of taking pleasure in true beauty and true friendship. | | | The doctrine of organic wholes, as we would now say, is a sub stantive ethical claim, not a conclusion of his metaethical arguments. | | | That\rquote s not because all of Moore\rquote s arguments for the indefinability claim were sharply different from Sidgwick\rquote s. |
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http://www.stanford.edu/~dlafave/gibbard.rtf
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| | Ethics [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] |
| | Metaethical answers to these questions focus on the issues of universal truths, the will of God, the role of reason in ethical judgments, and the meaning of ethical terms themselves. | | | The metaphysical component of metaethics involves discovering specifically whether moral values are eternal truths that exist in a spirit-like realm, or simply human conventions. | | | Some things in the universe are made of physical stuff, such as rocks; and perhaps other things are nonphysical in nature, such as thoughts, spirits, and gods. |
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http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/e/ethics.htm
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| | Non-Descriptivist Cognitivism: |
| | An adequate metaethical position should be faithful to the phenomena it seeks to understand. | | | We therefore reject metaethical descriptivism; on our view, moral beliefs (and the sentences expressing them) are not descriptive. | | | A critic might be inclined to say that we are trading in the implausibility of metaethical descriptivism, with its burdensome metaphysical commitments, for a complicated and |
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http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/philo/courses/factual/papers/HorganNondescriptive.html
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| | Mark van Roojen's Philosophy Page |
| | So far most of my publications have been on metaethics, a reasonably abstract subfield of ethics having to do with issues surrounding the nature of moral judgements and properties. | | | I'm not sure what I can say here to help, but if you want to do some reading in metaethics check out Jimmy Lenman's web-based metaethics bibliography. | | | Unless you're up on metaethics yourself, this probably doesn't mean much to you. |
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http://www.geocities.com/~mvr1/Philosophy.html
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| | PEA Soup: Metaethics |
| | That is to say, moral expertise is a kind of practical expertise. | | | Continue reading "The Strangeness of the Queerness Argument" » | | | Posted by Dan Boisvert on December 01, 2004 at 11:38 AM in Dan Boisvert's Posts, Metaethics |
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http://peasoup.typepad.com/peasoup/metaethics
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| | Lecture One — Introduction and IMR |
| | There is an additional set of arguments, in my view connected with Arg from Relativity, which we can call the ‘Argument from Epistemology’ (it’s sometimes referred to as the ‘Argument from Observation’). | | | (ix) Again, what are the connections between metaethics and one’s everyday metaethical intuitions? | | | Metaethics can also be thought of in terms of philosophy of language. |
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http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Philosophy/UG/ugunits0203/Metlecs.html
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| | Metaethics Bibliography A-H |
| | "Stevenson, Meaning and Metaethics" in Methodos 14, 1962. | | | What he proposes the expressivist should say is that: "Saying what people ought to do expresses a so-called desire that such things be done." | | | This is consistent with quasi-realism, however, as we can read the counterfactuals that state it as expressing first order moral commitments rather than as espousing metaethical realism. |
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http://www.shef.ac.uk/philosophy/staff/lenman/bib1.htm
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| | matters to metaethics |
| | Metaethics thus can be the entrée of unified scheme of things rather than a mere branch of philosophical ethics. | | | Metaethics is about such a universal concept by not considering particularity, or in more logically sound way of saying, by including all possible situations and by counting all plausible reasons to be considered. | | | Hence if in such a way one’s objective goal is realized and actualized, there must be a consequence in which whatever he or she would do is validly ethical, regardless of what he or she is and how it is done. |
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http://www.metaethics.org/mtm/doc0913.html
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| | And against, Mill’s claims that morality has an adequate empirical basis in natural conscience (the salience of the “moral point of view”), sympathy, and the desire to be in unity with others, Nietzsche argues that its genesis depends on particular historical circumstances and continued ignorance of its real causes. | | | III For Mill, the question is what is the relation between his (metaethical) empirical naturalism and his (normative) qualitatively hedonist value theory and his utilitarian moral theory? | | | In the end, it is up to each of us to decide what answers to these questions we find most convincing. |
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http://www-personal.umich.edu/~sdarwall/361sum97.txt
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| | Metaethics in Pessimism: Schopenhauer Nietzsche Mann Adorno |
| | Allow me to explain metaethics as i have thus far learned of it. | | | Metaethical questions are of the sort that investigate the foundation of the Moral claim, (that which is used to explain the Ethical prescription). | | | There are two schools of thought in Metaethics, realism and irrealism. |
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http://physics-philosophy-metaphysics.com/forum/about62.html
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| | Quotes from Mary Daly |
| | -Mary Daly, Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism | | | As a creative crystallizing of the movement beyond the State of Patriarchal Paralysis, this book is an act of Dis-possession; and hence, in a sense beyond the limitations of the label anti-male, it is absolutely Anti-androcrat, A-mazingly Anti-male, Furiously and Finally Female" |
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http://www.equityfeminism.com/mary_daly/daly_quotes.html
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| | The Leiter Reports: Editorials, News, Updates: Metaethics |
| | Miller, who has published widely in philosophy of language and mind, metaphysics, and metaethics, sent me the manuscript for the book some time ago, but I'm glad to see it is now out. | | | Anecdotal evidence, in the form of inquiries from students here and elsewhere, suggests that there is a real desire for a good introductory text on metaethics, on the whole range of issues about the semantics, metaphysics, and epistemology of value (esp. moral value). | | | If you're interested in metaethics, or trying to sort your way through the thicket of philosophical issues, you'll find this book very helpful. |
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http://webapp.utexas.edu/blogs/archives/bleiter/000573.html
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| | Source of morality (Metaethics) |
| | Ockham: divine command theory: moral standards are completely created by God’s will | | | METAETHICS: where our moral standards come from and what they mean |
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http://www.utm.edu/staff/jfieser/vita/teaching/2003/ethics-outline.htm
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| | Amazon.co.uk - Query Results |
| | Daly, Mary: Gyn / Ecology - The Metaethics of Radical Femini... | | | Wilcox, John T: Truth And Value In Nietzsche: A Study Of His... | | | Dimensions of Moral Theory: An Introduction to Metaethics an... |
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http://s1.amazon.co.uk/exec/varzea/search-handle-url/index=zshops-uk&field-keywords=Metaethics&bq=1
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| | Tiller on Metaethics |
| | In fact, one may see this naturalistic analysis of moral judgments not as foundering on Santayana's realm of essence, but made viable through his doctrine of non-literal knowledge. | | | This note has raised more questions than it answers; and it is tempting to say that Santayana would regard this metaethical concern as merely a question of grammar. | | | For even if we grant that Santayana would not put much stock in contemporary metaethics with its linguistic bias, the argument against non-cognitivism does raise certain questions about Santayana's reasons for accepting non-cognitivism; questions which can be framed and discussed within the context of his own system. |
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http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/~kerrlaws/Santayana/Bulletin/s6_98.htm
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| | In this simple, almost childish, example, the beauty of a single flower leads us to conserve thought, and think about the web of relationship of all life. | | | Yet examples are indispensable for learning to apply the principle of reverence for life in practice. | | | Schweitzer did not discuss reverence for life in terms of metaethics. |
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http://members.aol.com/dbscriptor/we2-19.htm
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| | Undetached Rabbit Parts |
| | The dates for the conference cover Sept 16-18, 2005. | | | Metaethics delves into issues that coincide with metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of language, and several other philosophical interests. | | | Plus, this conference features some of the best philosophers in metaethics explaining the cutting edge material. |
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http://wmuphilosophy.blogspot.com
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| | Questions about what moral beliefs are true or justified | | | METAETHICS: A philosophical study of the meaning, nature and methodology of moral judgments and terms, relations between moral concepts, the correct ways of arguing about moral issues, similarities and differences between various normative systems (e.g., morality, religion, law, etiquette, aesthetics, the requirements of prudence, the judgments of taste), etc. | | | Some metaethics definitions and principles (usually, they display relations between various moral concepts): |
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http://falcon.tamucc.edu/~sencerz/metaeth.htm
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| | "The Form of Self-Knowledge in Kant's Metaethics," in Diskursparadigma: Form. | | | Trained at CCNY, the University of Heidelberg, and Harvard University, her principle publications are in metaethics and Kant's metaphysics. | | | Her three-volume project on Kantian metaethics, Rationality and the Structure of the Self, for which she recently has been awarded NEH and Getty Distinguished Scholar grants, is nearing completion. |
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http://www.cddc.vt.edu/feminism/Piper.html
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| | Metaethics |
| | We propose a metaethical view that combines the cognitivist idea that moral judgments are genuine beliefs and moral utterances express genuine assertions with the idea that such beliefs and utterances are nondescriptive in their overall content. | | | Copp nicely brings out the force of our argument, not only through his exposition of it, but through his attempt to defeat it, since his efforts, we think, only help to make manifest the deep difficulties the Moral Twin Earth argument poses for the synthetic moral naturalist. | | | This sort of view has not been recognized among the standard metaethical options because it is generally assumed that all genuine beliefs and assertions must have descriptive content. |
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http://minimalism.linguistics.arizona.edu/~thorgan/publications/metaethics.htm
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| | Metaethics seeks to answer the question, "What is the nature of moral discourse?" The reading by Ayer is an example of metaethics. | | | Metaethics is the examination of the logic and language of moral reflection, moral discourse, and moral action. | | | The person doing metaethics does not make recommendations on how people should behave but rather seeks to gain insight on the nature of moral terms, on the logical structure and interrelatedness of moral assertions, and the like. |
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http://macserver.ius.indiana.edu/humanities/philosophy/programs/courses_s96/Intro-to-Phil-Ethics.html
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| | A METAETHICAL ANALYSIS OF COMPUTER ETHICS |
| | I would define metaethics as the generic name for inquiries about the source of moral judgments (i.e., about their basis) and how such judgments are to be justified. | | | For example, it is possible for people of different philosophic world views to agree upon the same standards -- although for different reasons. | | | William Halverson (1981) regards metaethics as "The generic name for inquiries that have as their object the language of moral appraisal." This definition reflects the viewpoint of the philosophy known as Linguistic Analysis. |
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http://www.nd.edu/~rbarger/metaethics.html
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| | Morals and Ethics |
| | That we ordinarily do not agree on the meaning of common ethical terms can be easily seen by the following quiz. | | | We know what yellow is even though we do not know that it has a frequency, and even if we did know the frequency, it would not be an adequate definition. | | | Although different writers use the words "ethics" and "morals" in different senses, in this course we will make the following distinctions in order to avoid fallacies of equivocation in ethical arguments. |
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http://philosophy.lander.edu/ethics/types.html
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| | Search Results for metaethics - Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | As previously noted, metaethics deals not with substantive ethical theories or moral judgments but rather with questions about the nature of these theories and judgments. | | | Includes extensive notes on John Stuart Mill, metaethics, Immanuel Kant, Friedrich Nietzsche, Aristotle, and Carol Gilligan. | | | In metaethics, a form of cognitivism that holds that moral statements... |
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http://www.britannica.com/search?query=metaethics&submit=Find&source=MWTEXT
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| | Evolution and Philosophy: a Revolution IN Philosophy. Home of Metaethical Functionalism and Metaphysical Functionalism. |
| | Welcome to the home of "Metaphysical Functionalism" (or, with respect to ethics, "Metaethical Functionalism" or "Panvitalism"), which applies evolutionary theory to help illuminate the nature, origins, and practice of philosophy. | | | Here you can learn about evolutionary theory, metaethics, metaphysics, functionalism, ethics (especially axiology), philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and much more. | | | It offers what I think are fascinating implications for psychology, the philosophy of mind, and many other areas of inquiry -- including the "unholy grail" of philosophy, a naturalized ethics (in the form of axiology)! |
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http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/KVC/evolphi.htm
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| | METAETHICS |
| | Metaethics asks questions like “What do normative theories | | | Is morality merely a matter of individual feelings (emotions) rather than reason? | | | If you are interested in the free will question, have a look at my notes on "Free Will and Determinism." |
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http://instruct.westvalley.edu/lafave/intro_metaethics.html
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| | Amazon.com: Books: Introduction to Contemporary Metaethics |
| | It traces the development of contemporary debates in metaethics from their beginnings in the work of G. Moore up to the most recent arguments between naturalism and non-naturalism, cognitivism and non-cognitivism. | | | He is the author of *Philosophy of Language*(1998) and co-editor (with Crispin Wright) of *Rule-Following and Meaning*(2002), as well as a number of articles on the philosophy of language and mind, metaphysics and metaethics. | | | In this chapter I provide a brief account of the territory covered in mathematics, an of the main philosophical positions in metaethics to be covered in detail in the curse of the book. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/074562345X?v=glance
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| | book of metaethics |
| | These articles are based on the new theory of metaethics in this book. | | | New Theory of Metaethics: Principle of Morality and Five Dimensional Modeling |
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| | A Darwinian Approach to Metaethics |
| | Now, keep in mind that I have not yet attempted to explain what I mean by the word “morality.” Up to this point I have only been trying to lay the framework in which it will be defined. | | | After all, God-dependent metaethics doesn't somehow become true by default. However, much more can be said for a reason-based, non-theistic approach than that it is no worse than theistic-based approaches. | | | Of course, it still remains to address the question of why one should consider any particular behavior (even if it does promote the well-being of humanity) as one a human ought to pursue, rather than just a description of a possible human behavior is along with its likely effects. |
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http://www.freethoughtdebater.com/FEvolutionaryEthics.htm
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| | Moral Philosophy .Info |
| | While metaethics treats the most abstract questions of moral philosophy, normative ethics is more concerned with providing a moral framework that can be used in order to work out what kinds of action are good and bad, right and wrong. | | | Metaethics is the most abstract area of moral philosophy. | | | Moral philosophy is the area of philosophy concerned with theories of ethics, with how we ought to live our lives. |
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http://www.moralphilosophy.info
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| | Metaethics. Uppsala 2001 |
| | GOOD AND GOLD: Metaethics from Moore through Mackie. |
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| | Class notes on ethics from The University of Western Australia address metaethics. | | | This paper questions 'is' versus 'ought' in metaethical theory. | | | This copyright material may not be published, broadcast or redistributed in any manner. |
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http://www.pearsoncustom.com/allpages/metaethics_bot.html
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| | Detail: Metaethics vs. Normative Ethics |
| | Now, here's a crucial point for my philosophy: I claim that comparative terms (e.g., "X is 'greater than' Y") are allowable in metaethics, being simple, logical comparisons of things we observe and describe. | | | If you can refute this claim, you will have trashed everything I have built. | | | All we're allowed to use in our discussion of metaethics are descriptive and logical terms. |
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http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/KVC/ethx.htm
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| | On the Relevance of Metaethics |
| | However, as work went on here, philosophers encountered problems concerning the methods of moral reasoning and the structure of justification of moral claims that were recognized to be metaethical. | | | This led to a renewal of metaethics now freed from its previously narrow linguistic focus and a prioristic restrictions. | | | In this collection of original essays on metaethics, the nature of morality and the structure of moral reasoning are characterized, the limits of justification in ethics examined and the underlying rationale of moral philosophy probed. |
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http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/departments/UP/0-919491/0-919491-21-9.html
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| | Paper on metaethics |
| | I shall indicate how it connects to historical approaches and to some leading views in the contemporary literature. | | | It is meant to be open to interpretation, both for purposes of metaethical neutrality and just because a certain amount of indeterminacy is appropriate to capturing what we have in mind. | | | But this is compatible with an admission that, in order to support intuitively plausible rules of social justice, it may need to have some normative content. |
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http://www.philosophy.umd.edu/Faculty/PGreenspan/Res/soc.html
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| | metaethics - OneLook Dictionary Search |
| | Tip: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "metaethics" is defined. | | | We found 7 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word metaethics: | | | metaethics : Encarta® World English Dictionary, North American Edition [home, info] |
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http://www.onelook.com/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/bware/dofind.cgi?word=metaethics
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| | Ali-Baba.com » Society » Philosophy » Ethics » Metaethics |
| | Below are some useful links about Metaethics on Ethics: | | | Evolution and Philosophy - Introduces Metaethical Functionalism and explores other implications of evolutionary theory for philosophy. | | | Moral Responses and Moral Theory - On the metaethical role of psychological reactions, specifically emotions. |
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http://www.bergersallemands.com/Society/Philosophy/Ethics/Metaethics
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| | Metaethics |
| | Those who investigate 'Metaethics' divide into two generally recognized groups: 1) Cognitivists and 2) Non-Cognitivists. | | | The Cognitivists argue that moral language is semantically rich (i.e., meaningful), although there is disagreement as to what meaning moral designators convey. |
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http://www.mc.maricopa.edu/~bfvaughan/text/lex/defs/metaethics.html
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| | 2nd annual Metaethics workshop |
| | This workshop is designed to provide an annual forum for new work in metaethics, broadly construed to range across issues in the metaphysics, semantics, and epistemology of morality, as well as issues concerning moral motivation and the relation between morality and practical reason. | | | Program information, a list of registrants, and a great many photos from the inaugural gathering are available here. | | | The Second Annual Metaethics Workshop is supported by the University of Wisconsin Anonymous Fund. |
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http://philosophy.wisc.edu/info/2005Metaethics.htm
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| | The Infography about Metaethics |
| | -- JOURNALS-- Note: The journals cited below are the main ethics journals but there is at present no dedicted metaethics journal. | | | The following sources are recommended by a professor whose research specialty is metaethics. | | | Many articles on metaethics also appear in general philosophy journals such as: The American Philosophical Quarterly, The Australasian Journal of Philosophy, The Journal of Philosophy, Mind, Nous, The Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, The Philosophical Quarterly, The Philosophical Review, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. |
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| | Metaethics Quentin Smith |
| | In my response to the argument from queerness, I indicated how a constitutional nonnaturalism could be defended against it. | | | But this does not imply that the preferred metaethical theory for the moral realist is non- naturalism. | | | Moral realism has stronger epistemic weight if it is combined with ethical naturalism. |
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| | metaethics from FOLDOC |
| | Meta-ethical theories typically offer an account of moral language and its uses together with an explanation of the logical relations between assertions of fact and value. | | | Nearby terms: meta « Metaclass « meta-data « metaethics » metaheuristic » metalanguage » metalogic | | | Recommended Reading: Robin Attfield, Value, Obligation, And Meta-ethics (Rodopi, 1995); David O. Brink, Moral Realism and the Foundations of Ethics (Cambridge, 1989); Bernard Williams, Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy (Harvard, 1986); T. Tannsjo, The Relevance of Metaethics to Ethics (Coronet, 1976); and Andrew Minase, A Book of Metaethics (iUniverse, 2000). |
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| | Ali-Baba.com » Society » Philosophy » Ethics » Metaethics » Ethical Relativism |
| | Below are some useful links about Ethical Relativism on Metaethics: | | | The content of this page about Metaethics Ethical Relativism is based on the Open Directory Project. | | | Ali-Baba.com » Society » Philosophy » Ethics » Metaethics » Ethical Relativism |
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http://www.bergersallemands.com/Society/Philosophy/Ethics/Metaethics/Ethical_Relativism
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