Alexander Miller

Contemporary Metaethics (eBook, ePUB)

An Introduction

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780745680514
• Artikelnr.: 40716921

Autorenporträt

Alexander Miller is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Otago.

Inhaltsangabe

* 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', TheArgument 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'sMoral Realism
* Appendix: Sense, Reference, Semantic Value, andTruth-Conditions
* Bibliography

Rezensionen

"No student or teacher could want for a more knowledgable and lucidguide - essential reading for any moral philosopher who wants to betaken seriously."
Morning Star

"This remains the indispensable guide to the subject for advancedundergraduates, graduate students, and philosophers wanting to get'up to speed' on the issues."
Brian Leiter, University of Chicago

"For many years, the first edition of Alex Miller's AnIntroduction to Contemporary Metaethics has been the primarytext for my course on metaethics. No text that I know of introducesstudents so thoroughly to the central theories, distinctions andarguments. The second edition fills in the additional backgroundnow needed. In particular, the expansion of the chapter on errortheories is particularly welcome."
Nadeem Hussain, Stanford University

"Given its breadth, thoroughness, and originality, Miller's AnIntroduction to Contemporary Metaethics is compulsory readingfor everyone interested in metaethics. The updated material of thissecond edition guarantees that there will soon exist a secondgeneration of metaethicists for whom reading this book is aformative experience."
Jussi Suikkanen, University of Birmingham

Acclaim for the first edition:

"An Introduction to Contemporary Metaethics provides for thefirst time a critical survey of famous figures in 20th Centurymetaethics together with in-depth discussions of contemporaryphilosophers and will be an invaluable resource for students,teachers and professional philosophers with interests incontemporary metaethics."
Philosophical Inquiry

"His discussion is always succinct, rigorous and lucid. The bookwill be very useful to upper-division undergraduates."
Choice Magazine

"A precise and accessible reading of a rather complicatedsubject."
Syzetesis

"In this book Alexander Miller, an established expert in moralphilosophy, provides a concise, clear and insightful account of thecentral issues of metaethics. He manages to make these difficultissues accessible to those who are new to this area of philosophy,while offering original contributions to the debates that will beof interest to experts in the field. This is an engaging andaccomplished introductory work."
Philip Stratton-Lake, University of Reading

"Miller's book is ambitious, lucid, and comprehensive- an extremely useful and detailed study of the field. I wishit had been available when I taught my graduate seminar in moralrealism, for it would have made an excellent reference workthroughout the course - both for its clear exposition and itsrigorous critical perspectives. I recommend it to all seriousstudents of metaethics."
John Corvino, Wayne State University