Metaethics: A Contemporary Introduction

This book maps the terrain of the part of ethics that reflects on the nature of ethics itself, a field known as metaethics.

It helps upper-level undergraduates and other interested readers understand the main theoretical innovations as reactions to puzzles about moral disagreement, reference, moral epistemology, metaphysics, and moral psychology. The book provides the necessary background to grasp the puzzles and to understand the solutions offered. More complex positions are displayed as de...