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 accounts of moral truth
and the non-reductionist naturalism of the ‘Cornell realists’,
this book addresses all the key theories and ideas in this field. As
well as revisiting the whole terrain with revised and updated guides
to further reading, Miller also introduces major new sections on the
revolutionary fictionalism of Richard Joyce and the hermeneutic
fictionalism of Mark Kalderon. The new edition will continue to be
essential reading for students, teachers and professional philosophers
with an interest in contemporary metaethics.
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An Introduction
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780745680514
Publisert
2018
Utgave
2. utgave
Utgiver
Wiley Professional, Reference & Trade (Wiley K&L)
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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