Contemporary metaethics : an introduction / Alexander Miller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miller, Alexander, 1965-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Metaethics.

Physical Description:

xiv, 314 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

Second edtion.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity Press, 2013.

Summary:

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 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 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. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction

Moore's attack on ethical naturalism

Emotivism and the rejection of non-naturalism

Blackburn's quasi-realism

Gibbard's norm-expressivism

Mackie's 'Error-Theory, ' the argument from queerness and moral fictionalism

Judgement-dependent accounts of moral qualities

Naturalism I-Cornell realism

Naturalism II-Reductionism

Contemporary non-naturalism- McDowell's moral realism

Appendix: Sense, reference, semantic value and truth-conditions

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

"First edition published in 2003 by Polity Press"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 280-311) and index.

ISBN:

9780745646589

0745646581

074564659X

9780745646596

OCLC:

812687082