metaethical

What seems to be a higher level metaethical claim that no consistent set of moral judgments is mistaken, is really just another moral judgment and hence one which would be rejected by any moral judge with substantive moral commitments (Blackburn 1998, 296 & 304; Timmons 1999).

Boys in White Suits 2009

Thus Hare included supervenience as one of the phenomena that any adequate metaethical theory should explain and he counted it as a point in favor of his theory that it did so.

Boys in White Suits 2009

These positions constitute two metaethical theories which we might think of as borderline cases lying just outside the non-cognitivist region of logical space.

Boys in White Suits 2009

Many think it a desideratum in metaethical theorizing that a candidate theory be consistent with all or most normative theories actually defended by serious normative ethical proponents.

Boys in White Suits 2009

To discuss all the varieties would require a complete taxonomy of possible metaethical positions.

Boys in White Suits 2009

It has seemed obvious to many that non-cognitivism has much in common with various relativist metaethical views.

Boys in White Suits 2009

One final disagreement, related to the metaethical dispute, concerns the justification for originalism.

The Volokh Conspiracy » The State of Constitutional Theory on the Left and the Right 2009

In large part, this reduces to a metaethical dispute.

The Volokh Conspiracy » The State of Constitutional Theory on the Left and the Right 2009

He then writes, Suppose she finds out that she disagrees with Posner on all matters epistemological, metaphysical, metaethical, and metaphilosophical.

Matthew Yglesias » Linker Replies Again 2007

An important metaethical question about practical reasoning has to do with the modality (roughly, the force) of the family of operators that includes ˜may™, ˜must™, ˜should™, and so on, when what is at issue is what you have reason to do.

Practical Reason and the Structure of Actions Millgram, Elijah 2009