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In metaphilosophy and ethics, metaethics is the study of the nature, scope, ground, and meaning of moral judgment, ethical belief, or values.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).
Sharon Street (born 1973) is a professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at New York University. [1] She specializes in metaethics, focusing in particular on how to reconcile our understanding of normativity with a scientific conception of the world. [1]
James Dreier (born 1960) is an American philosopher and Judy C. Lewent and Mark L. Shapiro Professor of Philosophy at Brown University. He is known for his work in metaethics, [1] [2] [3] especially on the subjects of expressivism and metametaethics. [4] [5] Dreier is an associate editor of Ethics (journal). [6]
Some philosophers consider metaphilosophy to be a subject apart from philosophy, above or beyond it, [4] while others object to that idea. [5] Timothy Williamson argues that the philosophy of philosophy is "automatically part of philosophy", as is the philosophy of anything else. [6]
Christine Tappolet is a philosopher, academic, and author.She is a Full Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the Université de Montréal, and has authored and edited several books including, Emotions, Values, and Agency, and Philosophy of Emotion: A Contemporary Introduction.
He made significant contributions to ethics, the philosophy of religion, metaphysics, and the philosophy of language. Mackie had influential views on metaethics, including his defence of moral scepticism and his sophisticated defence of atheism. He wrote six books.
Sayre-McCord has written widely on metaethics, David Hume, contractualism and on issues at the intersection of philosophy, politics, and economics. He is author of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entries on moral realism [2] and metaethics. [3] For five years, Sayre-McCord was a co-editor of the journal Noûs.
Nick Zangwill (born 1957) is a British philosopher and honorary research professor at University College London and the University of Lincoln. [1] He is known for his expertise on moral philosophy, especially metaethics, and aesthetics, especially the philosophy of music and visual art.