Metaethics: A Contemporary Introduction provides advanced students with a solid foundation in metaethics by presenting a series of puzzles that most metaethical theories address. These puzzles concern moral disagreements, reference, moral epistemology, metaphysics, and moral psychology. From there, the author Mark van Roojen discusses the many positions in metaethics that people will take in response to these puzzles. Van Roojen poses several fundamental questions to his readers, namely: What is metaethics? Why should one study it? How does one discuss metaethics, given its inherently controversial nature? Each chapter concludes with questions for both comprehension and further discussion, as well as annotated suggestions for additional reading.