Concept
Metaethics
Overview
branch of ethics seeking to understand ethical properties
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Philosophers who discussed Metaethics
- G. E. Moore
- Tibor Machan
- A. J. Ayer
- Frank Cameron Jackson
- Henry Sidgwick
- John McDowell
- Judith Jarvis Thomson
- J. L. Mackie
- R. M. Hare
- Brian Leiter
- Peter Geach
- Timothy Williamson
- Simon Blackburn
- Allan Gibbard
- Derek Parfit
- Charles Stevenson (philosopher)
- David Hume
- David Wiggins
- John P. Burgess
- Michael A. Smith (philosopher)
- Tara Smith (philosopher)
- Richard Joyce (philosopher)
- Roger Crisp
- Peter Railton
Related ideas
- Empiricism
- Moral nihilism
- Australasian Journal of Philosophy
- Macmillan Publishers
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Moral sense theory
- Foundationalism
- G. E. Moore
- Philosophy
- Moral universalism
- Immanuel Kant
- Fictionalism
- Isaiah Berlin
- Analytic philosophy
- Truth value
- Expressivism
- Kai Nielsen (philosopher)
- Proof theory
- Metaphilosophy
- Metaphysics
- Culture
- Christine Korsgaard
- Imperative mood
- A. J. Ayer
Opposing perspectives
- Moral nihilism
- Non-cognitivism
- Moral skepticism
- Cognitivism (ethics)
- Proposition
- Ethical intuitionism
- Universal prescriptivism
- Normative ethics
- Emotivism
- Subjectivism
- Applied ethics
- Descriptive ethics
- Truth-bearer
- Good reasons approach
Place in the tradition
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