{"product_id":"contemporary-metaethics-9780745646596","title":"Contemporary Metaethics","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"No student or teacher could want for a more knowledgable and lucid guide - essential reading for any moral philosopher who wants to be taken seriously.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eMorning Star\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"This remains the indispensable guide to the subject for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and philosophers wanting to get 'up to speed' on the issues.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eBrian Leiter, University of Chicago\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"For many years, the first edition of Alex Miller’s \u003ci\u003eAn Introduction to Contemporary Metaethics\u003c\/i\u003e has been the primary text for my course on metaethics. No text that I know of introduces students so thoroughly to the central theories, distinctions and arguments. The second edition fills in the additional background now needed. In particular, the expansion of the chapter on error theories is particularly welcome.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eNadeem Hussain, Stanford University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Given its breadth, thoroughness, and originality, Miller's \u003ci\u003eAn Introduction to Contemporary Metaethics\u003c\/i\u003e is compulsory reading for everyone interested in metaethics. The updated material of this second edition guarantees that there will soon exist a second generation of metaethicists for whom reading this book is a formative experience.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eJussi Suikkanen, University of Birmingham\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Acclaim for the first edition:\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eAn Introduction to Contemporary Metaethics\u003c\/i\u003e provides for the first time a critical survey of famous figures in 20th Century metaethics together with in-depth discussions of contemporary philosophers and will be an invaluable resource for students, teachers and professional philosophers with interests in contemporary metaethics.\"\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Philosophical Inquiry\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"His discussion is always succinct, rigorous and lucid. The book will be very useful to upper-division undergraduates.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eChoice Magazine\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"A precise and accessible reading of a rather complicated subject.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eSyzetesis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"In this book Alexander Miller, an established expert in moral philosophy, provides a concise, clear and insightful account of the central issues of metaethics. He manages to make these difficult issues accessible to those who are new to this area of philosophy, while offering original contributions to the debates that will be of interest to experts in the field. This is an engaging and accomplished introductory work.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePhilip Stratton-Lake, University of Reading\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Miller’s book is ambitious, lucid, and comprehensive – an extremely useful and detailed study of the field. I wish it had been available when I taught my graduate seminar in moral realism, for it would have made an excellent reference work throughout the course – both for its clear exposition and its rigorous critical perspectives. I recommend it to all serious students of metaethics.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eJohn Corvino, Wayne State University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1 Introduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2 Moore’s Attack on Ethical Naturalism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3 Emotivism and the Rejection of Non-Naturalism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4 Blackburn’s Quasi-Realism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5 Gibbard’s Norm-Expressivism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6 Mackie’s ‘Error-theory’, The Argument From Queerness and Moral Fictionalism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7 Judgement-Dependent Accounts of Moral Qualities\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8 Naturalism I - Cornell Realism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 9 Naturalism II - Reductionism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 10 Contemporary Non-Naturalism - McDowell’s Moral Realism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAppendix: Sense, Reference, Semantic Value, and Truth-Conditions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48865705492823,"sku":"9780745646596","price":21.84,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780745646596.jpg?v=1722275191","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/contemporary-metaethics-9780745646596","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}