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Euan Metz, assistant professor, at AUC's Department of Philosophy for a talk that explores the relationship between two aspects of moral philosophy. A central task for normative ethical theory is to provide a systematic explanation of what makes acts, motives, social institutions, etc. wrong. A central task of metaethical theory is to provide an answer to the question of what normative properties, such as the property of being wrong, are. The question I explore is whether answers to these questions are (conceptually, or metaphysically) independent of each other. I restrict the scope of discussion to what I call “structural” (non-reductive) theories in metaethics (where previous work on “metaethical neutrality” has focused on reductive explanations of moral properties) particularly examining value-based explanations of reasons for action and non-consequentialist moral theories.
