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Contemporary Metaethics: An Introduction

Miller, Alexander

9780745646596 - Contemporary Metaethics: An Introduction
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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.

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Author Miller, Alexander
ISBN/EAN 9780745646596
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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.

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Author Miller, Alexander
ISBN/EAN 9780745646596