is4junk comments on Open thread, Jan. 19 - Jan. 25, 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Gram_Stone 19 January 2015 12:26:18PM 3 points [-]

I've never studied any branch of ethics, maybe stumbling across something on Wikipedia now and then. Would I be out of my depth reading a metaethics textbook without having read books about the other branches of ethics? It also looks like logic must play a significant role in metaethics given its purpose, so in that regard I should say that I'm going through Lepore's Meaning and Argument right now.

Comment author: is4junk 19 January 2015 03:28:01PM 2 points [-]

I was looking at this article as a starting point. I end up at either error theory or non-cognativism. Is there value in reading further down the tree or would it be like learning more phlogiston theory (at least for me)?