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The following sources are recommended by a professor whose research specialty is metaethics.

Six Superlative Sources

· Stephen Darwall, Alan Gibbard and Peter Railton (eds): Moral Discourse and Practice (Cambridge University Press, 1997).

· R.M. Hare: The Language of Morals (Oxford University Press, 1952).

· James Lenman: A Bibliography of Metaethics. http://www.lenmanethicsbibliography.group.shef.ac.uk/Bib.htm

· Alexander Miller: An Introduction to Contemporary Metaethics (Polity Press, 2003).

· Michael Smith: The Moral Problem (Blackwell, 1994).

· Bernard Williams: Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy (Fontana/Collins, 1986).

Other Excellent Sources

-- JOURNALS-- Note: The journals cited below are the main ethics journals but there is at present no dedicted metaethics journal. Many articles on metaethics also appear in general philosophy journals such as: The American Philosophical Quarterly, The Australasian Journal of Philosophy, The Journal of Philosophy, Mind, Nous, The Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, The Philosophical Quarterly, The Philosophical Review, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.

· The Philosophers' Index. Philosopher's Information Center.

· Ethics: An International Journal of Social, Political and Legal Philosophy. University of Chicago Press.

· Ethical Theory and Moral Practice: An International Forum. Kluwer Academic Publishers.

· The Journal of Ethics: An International Philosophical Review. Kluwer Academic Publishers.

· Philosophy and Public Affairs. Princeton University Press.

· Utilitas. Edinburgh University Press. http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Bentham-Project/info/utilitas.htm

-- BOOKS --

· Simon Blackburn: Essays in Quasi-Realism (Oxford University Press, 1995).

· Simon Blackburn: Ruling Passions (Oxford University Press, 1999).

· Ruth Chang: Incommensurability, Incomparability, and Practical Reason (Harvard University Press, 1999).

· Alan Gibbard: Wise Choices, Apt Feelings (Oxford University Press, 1990).

· R.M. Hare: Freedom and Reason (Oxford University Press, 1963).

· Gilbert Harman and Judith Jarvis Thomson: Moral Relativism and Moral Objectivity (Blackwell, 1996).

· Brad Hooker (ed.): Truth in Ethics (Blackwell, 1996).

· Susan Hurley: Natural Reasons (Oxford University Press, 1989).

· Christine M. Korsgaard: The Sources of Normativity (Cambridge University Press, 1996).

· J.L. Mackie: Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong (Penguin, 1977).

· John McDowell: Mind, Value and Reality (Harvard University Press, 1998).

· David McNaughton: Moral Vision (Blackwell, 1988).

· James Rachels (ed.): Ethical Theory (Oxford University Press, 1998).

· Peter Railton: Facts, Values, and Norms: Essays toward a Morality of Consequence (Cambridge University Press, 2003).

· John Rawls: A Theory of Justice (Oxford University Press, 1971).

· Joseph Raz: Engaging Reason: On the Theory of Value and Action (Oxford University Press, 2002).

· Geoffrey Sayre-McCord (ed.): Essays on Moral Realism (Cornell University Press, 1989).

· T.M. Scanlon: What We Owe to Each Other (Harvard University Press, 1999).

· Walter Sinnott-Armstrong and Mark Timmons (eds.): Moral Knowledge (Oxford University Press, 1996).

· Michael Smith (ed.): Meta-Ethics (Dartmouth Publishing Company, 1995).

· Charles Stevenson: Facts and Values (Yale University Press, 1963).

· Bernard Williams: Morality: An Introduction to Ethics (Cambridge University Press, 1972).

· Crispin Wright: Truth and Objectivity (Harvard University Press, 1992).

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