As I understand it, ethics is often split into the branches meta-ethics, normative ethics, and applied ethics. I’m guessing the Moral Philosophy tag is meant to cover all of those branches, or maybe just the latter two. Meta-Ethics would just cover questions about “the nature, scope, and meaning of moral judgment” (Wikipedia).
So some questions that wouldn’t fit in Meta-Ethics, but would fit in Moral Philosophy, include:
Should we be deontologists or consequentialists?
What should be considered intrinsically valuable (e.g., suffering, pleasure, preference satisfaction, achievement, etc.)?
Whereas Meta-Ethics could include posts on things like arguments for moral realism vs moral antirealism. (I’m not sure whether those posts should also go in Moral Philosophy.)
(Update: I’ve now made this tag.)
Moral Uncertainty
Argument against:
Arguably a subset of Moral Philosophy
Overlaps with Meta-Ethics
Argument for:
Arguably an important subset of Moral Philosophy
I’d estimate there’s at least 10 posts on the topic
I’d be in favor.
What’s the intended difference between Meta-Ethics and Moral Philosophy?
As I understand it, ethics is often split into the branches meta-ethics, normative ethics, and applied ethics. I’m guessing the Moral Philosophy tag is meant to cover all of those branches, or maybe just the latter two. Meta-Ethics would just cover questions about “the nature, scope, and meaning of moral judgment” (Wikipedia).
So some questions that wouldn’t fit in Meta-Ethics, but would fit in Moral Philosophy, include:
Should we be deontologists or consequentialists?
What should be considered intrinsically valuable (e.g., suffering, pleasure, preference satisfaction, achievement, etc.)?
What beings should be in our moral circles?
Whereas Meta-Ethics could include posts on things like arguments for moral realism vs moral antirealism. (I’m not sure whether those posts should also go in Moral Philosophy.)