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A contemporary collection of readings in metaethics. This work contains introductions from the editors that contextualise each section. It discusses key questions in metaethics like: do moral properties exist?; and how they fit into the world as science conceives it? It is useful for the study of metaethics at undergraduate and postgraduate level.