Branch of ethics seeking to understand ethical properties
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In metaphilosophy and ethics, metaethics is the study of the nature, scope, and meaning of moral judgment. It is one of the three branches of ethics generally studied by philosophers, the others being normative ethics (questions of how one ought to be and act) and applied ethics (practical questions of right behavior in given, usually contentious, situations).
While normative ethics addresses such questions as "What should I do?", evaluating specific practices and principles of action, metaethics addresses questions such as "What is goodness?" and "How can we tell what is good from what is bad?", seeking to understand the assumptions underlying normative theories. Another distinction often made is that normative ethics involves first-order or substantive questions; metaethics involves second-order or formal questions.
Some theorists argue that a metaphysical account of morality is necessary for the proper evaluation of actual moral theories and for making practical moral decisions; others reason from opposite premises and suggest that studying moral judgments about proper actions can guide us to a true account of the nature of morality.
1995. "Introduction: The Ages of Metaethics." Pp. 1–30 in On the Relevance of Metaethics: New Essays in Metaethics, edited by J. Couture and K. Nielsen...
value. The epistemological side of metaethics discusses whether and how people can acquire moral knowledge. Metaethics further covers psychological and...
characterized her writing, she soon abandoned the latter. In Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism (1978), Daly argues that men throughout history have...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. "On Being Social in Metaethics," Oxford Studies in Metaethics, Vol. 8, 2013, ed. Russ Shafer-Landau, Oxford: Oxford...
interests revolve around the field of ethics, with a particular focus on metaethics, moral psychology, and emotion theory. Her main research interest is the...
"Constructivism in Metaethics". Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Retrieved 4 December 2018. Jezzi, Nathaniel. "Constructivism in Metaethics". Internet Encyclopedia...
direct role regarding which ends to follow. Central to Hume's position in metaethics is the is-ought distinction. It states that is-statements, which concern...
implications in the fields of descriptive ethics, normative ethics, and metaethics. Descriptive evolutionary ethics consists of biological approaches to...
Ethics and Metaethics Jeanes 2019, p. 66 Nagel 2006, pp. 379–380 Dittmer, 1. Applied Ethics as Distinct from Normative Ethics and Metaethics Jeanes 2019...
a "fundamental contradiction" in our moral consciousness. Sidgwick's metaethics involve an explicit defense of a non-naturalist form of moral realism...
April 2021. Chang's principal research interests lie in normative ethics, metaethics, action theory and moral psychology. Her work focuses on practical conflict...
18 June 2022 – via newspapers.com. Daly, Mary (1990). Gyn/ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism. Beacon Press. pp. 225–. ISBN 9780807014134. Archived...
philosophy Region Western philosophy School Analytic Main interests Normative ethics, metaethics, bioethics, Thomas Hobbes Notable ideas Ten moral rules...
is known for his work on moral philosophy, including on the subject of metaethics. James Dreier (ed.), Contemporary Debates in Moral Theory, Blackwell,...
the Department of Philosophy at New York University. She specializes in metaethics, focusing in particular on how to reconcile our understanding of normativity...
what we Mean", pp. 35–71 in Russ Shafer-Landau, ed., Oxford Studies in Metaethics, vol. 1. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Darwall, Stephen, Gibbard, Allan...
the fields of Value theory, that is their focus on moral psychology, metaethics, applied ethics, philosophy of law, and history of philosophy ranging...
level of a good", which mirrors Mary Daly's analysis in Gyn/Ecology: the Metaethics of Radical Feminism. One college instructor discovered that the book caused...
Vrije Universiteit. ISBN 978-90-819608-0-9. Sayre-McCord, Geoff (2023). "Metaethics". The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford...
Applied ethics: How do we take moral knowledge and put it into practice? Metaethics: What does "right" even mean? Applied ethics – using philosophical methods...
Design. W. W. Norton & Company. Adams, Robert Merrihew. "Divine Command Metaethics Modified Again." The Journal of Religious Ethics, vol. 33, no. 1, 2005...
ought to behave, applied ethics concerning particular moral issues, and metaethics concerning the nature of morality itself. Every language has a word expressing...
Gambit (2006) Doctoral advisor Ernest Sosa Main interests epistemology, moral psychology, metaethics, aesthetics Website sites.google.com/site/allanhazlett/...
(June 1, 2020). "Theory of mind network activity is associated with metaethical judgment: An item analysis". Neuropsychologia. 143: 107475. doi:10.1016/j...
January 2018. Retrieved 21 May 2021. Bloomfield, P. (2007). "Two Dogmas of Metaethics". Philosophical Studies. 132 (3): 439–466. doi:10.1007/s11098-005-2509-9...
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