This Handbook surveys the contemporary state of the burgeoning field of metaethics. This is essential reading for anyone with an interest in metaethics, from those coming to it for the first time to those actively pursuing research in the field.

Introduction: The Nature and Explanatory Ambitions of Metaethics
Tristram McPherson and David Plunkett

Part I. Central Organizing Options in Metaethics

1. Non-Naturalistic Realism in Metaethics
   David Enoch
2. Naturalistic Realism in Metaethics
   Peter Railton
3. Error Theory in Metaethics
   Jonas Olson
4. Fictionalism in Metaethics
   Richard Joyce
5. Metaethical Expressivism
   Elisabeth Camp
6. Metaethical Contextualism
   Alex Silk
7. Metaethical Relativism
   Isadora Stojanovic

Part II. Central Problems and Strategies in Metaethics

8. Realism and Objectivity
Billy Dunaway

9. Metaphysical Relations in Metaethics
G. Rosen

10. The Supervenience Challenge to Non-Naturalism
Pekka Vayrynen

11. Vagueness and Indeterminacy in Ethics
Tom Dougherty

12. Deontic Modals
Jennifer Carr

13. Thick Concepts
Debbie Roberts

14. The Frege-Geach Problem
Jack Woods

15. Hybrid Accounts of Ethical Thought and Talk
Teemu Toppinen

16. Conceptual Role Accounts of Meaning in Metaethics
Matthew Chrisman

17. The Significance of Ethical Disagreement for Theories of Ethical Thought and Talk
Gunnar Bjornsson

18. Cognitive and Non-Cognitivism
Matthew S. Bedke

19. Ethical Judgment and Motivation
David Faraci and Tristram McPherson

20. Reasons Internalism
Errol Lord and David Plunkett

21. The Wrong Kind of Reasons
Howard Nye

22. Mind-Dependence and Moral Realism
Connie S. Rosati

23. Constitutivism
Michael Smith

24. Constructivism
Melissa Barry

25. Normativity and Agency
Hille Paakkunainen

26. Mores and Morals: Metaethics and the Social World
Kenneth Walden

27. The Autonomy of Ethics
Barry Maguire

28. Explanatory Challenges in Metaethics
Joshua Schechter

29. Moral Expertise
Karen Jones and Francois Schroeter

30. Intuitionism in Moral Epistemology
Elizabeth Tropman

31. Moral Scepticism
Matt Lutz and Jacob Ross
32. The Epistemic Significance of Moral Disagreement
Dustin Locke

Part III. The Status and Methodology of Metaethics

33. Metasemantics and Metaethics
Laura Schroeter and Francois Schroeter

34. Conceptual Analysis in Metaethics
Nicholas Laskowski and Stephen Finlay

35. Ethics and Morality
Stephen Darwell

36. The Varieties of Normativity
Derek Baker

37. Pragmatism and Metaethics
Andrew Sepielli

38. Feminism and Metaethics
Amia Srinivasan

39. Experimental Philosophy and Moral Theory
Chandra Sripada

40. Quasi-realism
Terence Cuneo

41. Metaethical Quietism
Doug Kremm and Karl Schafer

42. Methodological Naturalism in Metaethics
Daniel Nolan

43. Normative Ethics and Metaethics
Mark Schroeder