Metaethics After Moore

by Mark Timmons and Terence Horgan

Book Overview

Metaethics, understood as a distinct branch of ethics, is often traced to G. E. Moore's 1903 classic, Principia Ethica. Whereas normative ethics is concerned to answer first-order moral questions about what is good and bad, right and wrong, metaethics is concerned to answer second-order non-moral questions about the semantics, metaphysics, and epistemology of moral thought and discourse. Moore has continued to exert a powerful influence, and the sixteen...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199269912
• ISBN13: 9780199269914
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 410 Pages
• Weight: 1.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.2"