Contemporary Metaethics - 9780745646589

Contemporary MetaethicsAn Introduction\nAuthor(s): Alexander Miller\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Polity Press\nISBN-13: 9780745646589, 978-0745646589\nSynopsis\nThis new edition of Alexander Millers 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 Moores attack on ethical naturalism, A. J. Ayers emotivism and Simon Blackburns 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 upda.