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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).
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.
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His book Sorting Out Ethics might be interpreted as saying that Hare is as much a Kantian as he is a utilitarian, but other sources [14] disagree with this assessment. Although Hare used many concepts from Kant, especially the idea of universalisability , he was still a consequentialist , rather than a deontologist , in his normative ethical views.
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]
Metaepistemology is a relatively modern term and probably originated at some point in the 20th century. [2] Dominique Kuenzle identifies Roderick Firth as possibly coining it in a 1959 article discussing the views of Roderick Chisholm on the ethics of belief. [3]
Quasi-realism, a meta-ethical approach, enables ethics based on actions, virtues and consequences to be reconciled. Attempts have been made to derive from it a comprehensive theory of ethics, such as Iain King 's quasi-utilitarianism in his book How to Make Good Decisions and Be Right All the Time (2008).
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 ]