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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).
An important development in 20th-century ethics in analytic philosophy was the emergence of metaethics. [234] Significant early contributions to this field were made by G. E. Moore (1873–1958), [ 235 ] who argued that moral values are essentially different from other properties found in the natural world. [ 236 ]
Non-cognitivism is the meta-ethical view that ethical sentences do not express propositions (i.e., statements) and thus cannot be true or false (they are not truth-apt). A noncognitivist denies the cognitivist claim that "moral judgments are capable of being objectively true, because they describe some feature of the world."
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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]
Mackie is best known for his contributions to metaethics, philosophy of religion, and metaphysics. In his work The Cement of the Universe: A Study of Causation, Mackie makes an analysis of causality by prior philosophers and sets forth his theory of causality based on counterfactual conditionals.
His interests include logic, philosophy of mathematics and selected topics in metaethics and philosophy of mind. He is the author of numerous articles on logic, philosophy of mathematics, and the history of analytic philosophy. In 2012, he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. [1] He is the brother of Barbara Burgess.
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]