My Meta-ethical Account

Preface
This page exists to document my views on metaethics. I quite expect it to be constantly incomplete and requiring revision as it is a rather difficult subject and as a philosopher and writer, I'm really a beginner and this is a big topic. I expect many views to persuade me in the future.

I take metaethics to be a field of research attempting to explain moral conversations. This is a non-standard approach, as often meta-ethics seeks to explain what we mean by certain moral terms, like good or bad, right or wrong, ought and should. However, I start at moral conversations for a reason: I don't want to suggest that moral terms necessarily have meaning that requires accounting for. What I *am* sure of, is that people use them. They exist in some sort of language game. The question of whether those terms have meaning is secondary (but important) to that fact. That being said, I will mostly be proceeding as any typical meta-ethicist would.

I also take metaethics to be an epistemic question that is objective. Such that, if we say morality is subjective, we are saying "It is an epistemic objective fact that morality is subjective." Of course, in that sentence, when we say "morality is subjective" morality is not referring to meta-ethics.

Some Background Positions
I want to share some initial positions that I don't want to argue for within this page. Perhaps they will be argued for in new articles in the future. However, it's important to declare these commitments as they will shape much of the conversation below.

1) There is no Free Will. All I mean by this is that if time was rewound, and you can make a choice again, you would always make the same choice.

2) "You" are a physical object from which emerges a dualism of properties. I don't take "lightwave frequencies" and "color" to be the same thing, but I do take the latter being dependent on the former.

3) There is nothing irreducibly you which makes decisions. You are the network of multiple processes working together.

Morality is Subjective
My first position is that morality is ontologically subjective. In basic terms, that means morality exists in people