An Introduction to Contemporary Metaethics 1st Edition

by Alex Miller (Author)

1 customer review

ISBN-13: 978-0745623450

ISBN-10: 074562345X

Why is ISBN important?

Have one to sell? Sell on Amazon

More Buying Choices

9 New from $44.44 25 Used from $5.47

34 used & new from $5.47

See All Buying Options

There is a newer edition of this item:

Contemporary Metaethics: An Introduction
$74.95
(1)
In Stock.

Free%20Two-Day%20Shipping%20for%20College%20Students%20with%20Amazon%20Student

This introduction provides a highly readable critical overview of the main arguments and themes in twentieth-century and contemporary metaethics. It 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.

A highly readable critical overview of the main arguments and themes in twentieth century and contemporary metaethics.
Asks: Are there moral facts? Is there such a thing as moral truth? Is moral knowledge possible?
Traces the development of contemporary debates in metaethics from their beginnings in the work of G. E. Moore up to the most recent debates between naturalism and non-naturalism, cognitivism and noncognitivism.
Provides for the first time 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.

An Introduction to Contemporary Metaethics

Available from these sellers.

Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought

Page 1 of 1 Start overPage 1 of 1

This shopping feature will continue to load items. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading.

Bernard Williams

8

Paperback
$30.72
Geoffrey…

3

Paperback
$29.95
T. M. Scanlon

1

Hardcover
$29.95
John Skorupski
Paperback
$55.00
Mario De Caro

2

Paperback
$34.00
Michael Devitt

1

Paperback

NO_CONTENT_IN_FEATURE

Product Details

Paperback: 328 pages
Publisher: Polity; 1 edition (October 20, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 074562345X
ISBN-13: 978-0745623450
Product Dimensions: 6 x 1 x 9 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,588,295 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #100 in Books > Politics & Social Sciences > Philosophy > Movements > Structuralism
- #2181 in Books > Textbooks > Humanities > Philosophy > Ethics
- #3190 in Books > Medical Books > Psychology > Social Psychology & Interactions

Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?

Customer Reviews

4.0 out of 5 stars

5 star		0%
4 star		100%
3 star		0%
2 star		0%
1 star		0%

See all verified purchase reviews

Share your thoughts with other customers

Write a customer review

Top Customer Reviews

A Helpful Guide to Contemporary Positions in Meta-Ethics

By ctdreyer on February 16, 2004

Format: Paperback

Miller has written a good book that covers a lot of the territory in contemporary meta-ethics. The book is structured around two basic debates within the field: the debate between cognitivists and noncognitivists, and the debate between realists and anti-realists.
The presentation of the material reflects the canned history of twentieth-century meta-ethics that should be familiar to anyone with some knowledge of the area. Our story begins with G. E. Moore's Principia Ethica, which is the subject of the second chapter of Miller's book. Moore's Principia (along with the work of Prichard, Ross, et al.) involves a defense of a particularly puzzling and problematic form of moral realism, namely non-naturalist intuitionism, and includes his famous Open Question Argument, which is the focus of Miller's chapter.
The second part of our story, and the remainder of Miller's book, begins with a backlash against Moore. Moore's non-naturalist intuitionism included the following views: that central components of moral language are indefinable, that moral facts can only be known as self-evident intuitions, and that moral properties are sui generis and not reducible to natural properties. A rejection of views of this sort gave rise to various forms of noncognitivism found in Ayer (who is Miller's representative of early noncognitivism), Stevenson, Hare, et al. that dominated English-language meta-ethics in the middle of the twentieth century. These philosophers rejected Moore's non-naturalist metaphysics and intuitionist epistemology as inconsistent with a naturalistic conception of the world.Read more ›

1 Comment 88 people found this helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Sending feedback...

Thank you for your feedback.

Sorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again

Report abuse

See all verified purchase reviews (newest first)