I’m sympathetic to Robin on this one. For people who are interested in thinking seriously about these questions, I think a good first thing to do would be to run a search for metaethics on the stanford encylopedia of philosophy (http://plato.stanford.edu/). If people like that, then it might be good to buy a book that would serve as an introduction to metaethics, maybe an anthology, or a textbook. I’m not familiar with much of the literature, but I can say that Michael Smith’s “The Moral Problem,” serves as a pretty good introduction to a wide number of metaethical debates, though it’s not written as an introductory book. I’m sure the bibliographies on the stanford encylopedia of philosophy articles would also be helpful.
I’m sympathetic to Robin on this one. For people who are interested in thinking seriously about these questions, I think a good first thing to do would be to run a search for metaethics on the stanford encylopedia of philosophy (http://plato.stanford.edu/). If people like that, then it might be good to buy a book that would serve as an introduction to metaethics, maybe an anthology, or a textbook. I’m not familiar with much of the literature, but I can say that Michael Smith’s “The Moral Problem,” serves as a pretty good introduction to a wide number of metaethical debates, though it’s not written as an introductory book. I’m sure the bibliographies on the stanford encylopedia of philosophy articles would also be helpful.