Error Theory
Abstract
With this chapter, we begin a survey of the main varieties of relatively comprehensive metaethical theories. And we start our overall survey with error theory , the view that ethics is all a big mistake. Error theorists about morality believe about the moral roughly what atheists believe about the divine. Just as atheists think it is mistaken to predicate being loved by God or gods of anything, error theorists think there is a mistake in predicating rightness or wrongness of any action, or moral goodness or badness of anything.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Philosophical Ethics and Theory
Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
Ethics
Aesthetics
and Art
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Routledge eBooks
- Pages
- 84–108
- Publication date
- 6 February 2026
- Language
- EN
- Document type
- Book chapter