Contemporary Metaethics
An Introduction
2nd Edition
Published on 27. February 2014
320 pages
978-0-7456-8051-4 (ISBN)
Description
This new edition of Alexander Miller's highly readableintroduction to contemporary metaethics provides a criticaloverview of the main arguments and themes in twentieth- andtwenty-first-century contemporary metaethics. Miller traces thedevelopment of contemporary debates in metaethics from theirbeginnings in the work of G. E. Moore up to the most recentarguments between naturalism and non-naturalism, cognitivism andnon-cognitivism.
From Moore's attack on ethical naturalism, A. J. Ayer'semotivism and Simon Blackburn's quasi-realism to anti-realistand best opinion accounts of moral truth and the non-reductionistnaturalism of the 'Cornell realists', this bookaddresses all the key theories and ideas in this field. As well asrevisiting the whole terrain with revised and updated guides tofurther reading, Miller also introduces major new sections on therevolutionary fictionalism of Richard Joyce and the hermeneuticfictionalism of Mark Kalderon.
The new edition will continue to be essential reading for students,teachers and professional philosophers with an interest incontemporary metaethics.
From Moore's attack on ethical naturalism, A. J. Ayer'semotivism and Simon Blackburn's quasi-realism to anti-realistand best opinion accounts of moral truth and the non-reductionistnaturalism of the 'Cornell realists', this bookaddresses all the key theories and ideas in this field. As well asrevisiting the whole terrain with revised and updated guides tofurther reading, Miller also introduces major new sections on therevolutionary fictionalism of Richard Joyce and the hermeneuticfictionalism of Mark Kalderon.
The new edition will continue to be essential reading for students,teachers and professional philosophers with an interest incontemporary metaethics.
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Content
Preface
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Moore's Attack on Ethical Naturalism
Chapter 3 Emotivism and the Rejection of Non-Naturalism
Chapter 4 Blackburn's Quasi-Realism
Chapter 5 Gibbard's Norm-Expressivism
Chapter 6 Mackie's 'Error-theory', The Argument From Queerness and Moral Fictionalism
Chapter 7 Judgement-Dependent Accounts of Moral Qualities
Chapter 8 Naturalism I - Cornell Realism
Chapter 9 Naturalism II - Reductionism
Chapter 10 Contemporary Non-Naturalism - McDowell's Moral Realism
Appendix: Sense, Reference, Semantic Value, and Truth-Conditions
Bibliography
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Moore's Attack on Ethical Naturalism
Chapter 3 Emotivism and the Rejection of Non-Naturalism
Chapter 4 Blackburn's Quasi-Realism
Chapter 5 Gibbard's Norm-Expressivism
Chapter 6 Mackie's 'Error-theory', The Argument From Queerness and Moral Fictionalism
Chapter 7 Judgement-Dependent Accounts of Moral Qualities
Chapter 8 Naturalism I - Cornell Realism
Chapter 9 Naturalism II - Reductionism
Chapter 10 Contemporary Non-Naturalism - McDowell's Moral Realism
Appendix: Sense, Reference, Semantic Value, and Truth-Conditions
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