This Handbook surveys the contemporary state of the burgeoning field of metaethics. Forty-three chapters, all written exclusively for this volume, provide expert introductions to:

• the central research programs that frame metaethical discussions
• the central explanatory challenges, resources, and strategies that inform contemporary work in those research programs
• debates over the status of metaethics, and the appropriate methods to use in metaethical inquiry

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