An introduction to contemporary metaethics / Alexander Miller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miller, Alexander, 1965-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethics.

Social acceptance.

Physical Description:

xi, 316 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK : Polity Press ; Malden, Mass. : Distributed in the by Blackwell Pub., 2003.

Summary:

An Introduction to Contemporary Metaethics provides a highly readable critical overview of the main arguments and themes in twentieth-century and contemporary metaethics. The book traces the development of contemporary debates in metaethics, from their beginnings in the work of G. E. Moore to the most recent debates between naturalism and non-naturalism, cognitivism and noncognitivism. This volume provides a critical survey of famous figures in twentieth-century metaethics such as Moore, Ayer, and Mackie together with in-depth discussions of contemporary philosophers such as Blackburn, Gibbard, Wright, Harman, Railton, Sturgeon, McDowell, and Wiggins.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [305]-314) and index.

ISBN:

0745623441

074562345X

OCLC:

50906252