The Routledge Handbook of Metaethics

Tristram McPherson is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Ohio State University. David Plunkett is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Dartmouth College.

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

Part I. Central Organizing Options in Metaethics






Non-Naturalistic Realism in Metaethics
David Enoch



Naturalistic Realism in Metaethics
Peter Railton



Error Theory in Metaethics
Jonas Olson



Fictionalism in Metaethics
Richard Joyce



Metaethical Expressivism
Elisabeth Camp



Metaethical Contextualism
Alex Silk
Metaethical Relativism
Isadora Stojanovic


Part II. Central Problems and Strategies in Metaethics

8. Realism and Objectivity
Billy Dunaway

9. Metaphysical Relations in Metaethics
G. Rosen

10. The Supervenience Challenge to Non-Naturalism
Pekka Vayrynen

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 Bjornsson

18. Cognitive 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. Moral 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

Part 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 Darwell

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
Doug Kremm and Karl Schafer

42. Methodological Naturalism in Metaethics
Daniel Nolan

43. Normative Ethics and Metaethics
Mark Schroeder