Contemporary Metaethics: an Introduction
by Miller, Alex
This new edition of Alexander Miller's highly readable introduction to contemporary metaethics provides a critical overview of the main arguments and themes in twentieth- and twenty-first-century contemporary metaethics. Miller traces the development of contemporary debates in metaethics from their beginnings in the work of G.E. Moore up to the most recent arguments between naturalism and non-naturalism, cognitivism and non-cognitivism. From Moore's attack on ethical naturalism, A.J. Ayer's emo…
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- Full title :Contemporary Metaethics : an Introduction.
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This new edition of Alexander Miller's highly readable introduction to contemporary metaethics provides a critical overview of the main arguments and themes in twentieth- and twenty-first-century contemporary metaethics. Miller traces the development of contemporary debates in metaethics from their beginnings in the work of G.E. Moore up to the most recent arguments between naturalism and non-naturalism, cognitivism and non-cognitivism. From Moore's attack on ethical naturalism, A.J. Ayer's emotivism and Simon Blackburn's quasi-realism to anti-realist and best opinion acco.
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- Publication Date:2014.
- Edition:2nd ed
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Wiley
- Place of Publication:Hoboken
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2014.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (570 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780745680514, 0745680518
- oclc:ocn954594609
- LC Classification:BJ1012
- Dewey Decimal:170.42
Table of Contents
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright; Content; Detailed Chapter Contents; Preface to the First Edition (2003); Preface to the Second Edition (2013); 1: Introduction; 2: Moore's Attack on Ethical Naturalism; 3: Emotivism and the Rejection of Non-Naturalism; 4: Blackburn's Quasi-Realism; 5: Gibbard's Norm-Expressivism; 6: Mackie's 'Error-Theory', the Argument from Queerness and Moral Fictionalism; 7: Judgement-Dependent Accounts of Moral Qualities; 8: Naturalism I -- Cornell Realism; 9: Naturalism II -- Reductionism; 10: Contemporary Non-Naturalism -- McDowell's Moral Realism.
Appendix: Sense, Reference, Semantic Value and Truth-ConditionsNotes; Bibliography; Index.
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