An introduction to contemporary metaethics

Introduction

Moore's attack on ethical naturalism

Emotivism and the rejection of non-naturalism

Blackburn's quasi-realism

Gibbard's norm-expressivism

Mackie's 'error-theory' and the argument from queerness

'Best opinion' accounts of moral qualities

Naturalism I: Cornell realism

Naturalism 2: reductionism

Contemporary non-naturalism: McDowell's moral realism.