Abstract
We, however, have rejected this transcendental deduction, just as we have rejected the others, and so have brought to an end the old association of philosophy with feasting. The Platonic archetype was a dinner plus a panel of several speakers. This was changed to a dinner with one speaker, or, alternatively, to a symposium of three speakers without dinner. Now we have no dinner and only one speaker. As the speaker, I must hope that this is the end of the line, for only one more step remains: no dinner and no speaker. I shudder to think that this speech may result in that step's being taken. For this address will be an essay in metaethics, and I know that some have complained that moral philosophers today do too much metaethics and too little normative ethics. But, whatever may be said about my analytical friends and relations, I think I have done enough normative ethics lately to deserve at least one more metaethical fling.
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