An introduction to contemporary metaethics

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Miller Alexander 1965-
Published: Polity Press Distributed in the USA by Blackwell Publishers,
Publisher Address: Cambridge, UK Malden, MA
Publication Dates: 2003.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
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Carrier Form: xi, 316 p.: ill. ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 0745623441 (hbk.)
074562345X (pbk.)
Index Number: B82
CLC: B82
Call Number: B82/M647
Contents: Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-314) and index.
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' and the argument from queerness -- 'Best opinion' accounts of moral qualities -- Naturalism I: Cornell realism -- Naturalism 2: reductionism -- Contemporary non-naturalism: McDowell's moral realism.