Metaethics from a First Person Standpoint

Metaethics from a First Person Standpoint: An Introduction to Moral Philosophy is a 2016 book by Catherine Wilson which deals with the central questions of metaethics. The author aims to present a coherent and positive argument for the existence of moral knowledge that would be persuasive in the face of the possibility that morality is both a natural phenomenon and a human invention.^[1] The book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0).

Metaethics from a First Person Standpoint

Author	Catherine Wilson
Language	English
Subject	meta-ethics
Published	2016
Publisher	Open Book Publishers
Media type	Print
Pages	132 (viii + 124)
ISBN	978-1-78374-198-4

Reception

The book has been reviewed in Ratio by Gerald Lang (from University of Leeds) and in Ethical Perspectives by Herman Philipse (from Utrecht University). Gerald Lang calls the book "enjoyable, intellectually nimble, and thought-provoking."^[2] and Philipse recommends it "warmly" because it "is written beautifully, and a great pleasure to read."^[3]