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The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Philosophy Jackson, Frank visiting Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University and at La Trobe University Smith, Michael Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University Print publication date: 2007 (this edition) Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-923476-9 Published to Oxford Handbooks Online: September 2009
1 Meta-Ethics doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199234769.003.0001 Michael Smith Abstract: Introduction – Why Meta-Ethicists Should Focus on Meta-Level Questions About Reasons and Rationality – Deontic Concepts versus Evaluative Concepts – Moore's Definition of the Deontic – Sidgwick's Definition of the Evaluative – Cognitivism or Non-Cognitivism? – Conclusion Keywords: concept, definition, ethics, evaluative, moral philosophy, philosophy, rational, rationality, reason, cognitivism, meta-ethics,	Related Content in OHO 'Political, Moral, and Critical Theory' in The Oxford Handbook of Continental Philosophy 'Morality Critics' in The Oxford Handbook of Continental Philosophy 'American Moral Philosophy' in The Oxford Handbook of American Philosophy 'Socratic Ethics and Moral Psychology' in The Oxford Handbook of Plato 'Plato’s Ethics' in The Oxford Handbook of Plato 'Art and Morality' in The Oxford Handbook of Aesthetics 'Aesthetics and Ethics' in The Oxford Handbook of Aesthetics 'The Way We Reason Now' in The Oxford Handbook of Bioethics 'Metaethics, Metaphilosophy, and Free Will Subjectivism' in The Oxford Handbook of Free Will 'Morality and Religion' in The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Religion The Oxford Handbook of Ethical Theory
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