Introduction to Contemporary Metaethics Author:Alexander Miller An Introduction to Contemporary Metaethics 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-natu... more »ralism, cognitivism and non-cognitivism. Individual chapters deal with: the open-question arguments and Moores attack on ethical naturalism; A. J. Ayers emotivism and the rejection of non-naturalism; Simon Blackburns quasi-realism; Allan Gibbards norm-expressivism; J. L. Mackies error-theory of moral judgement; anti-realist and best opinion accounts of moral truth; the non-reductionist naturalism of the Cornell realists; Peter Railtons naturalistic reductionism; the analytic functionalism of Frank Jackson and Philip Pettit; the contemporary non-naturalism of John McDowell and David Wiggins; and the debate between internalists and externalists in moral psychology. The book will be an invaluable resource for students, teachers and professional philosophers with interests in contemporary metaethics.« less