J.L. Mackie
Australian philosopher known for contributions to metaethics, metaphysics, and philosophy of religion; advocated moral error theory and wrote major works including 'Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong' and 'The Miracle of Theism.'
Books
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1. Ethics
Inventing Right and Wrong
This book argues that moral judgments, though commonly treated as reports about objective values, are systematically mistaken because there are no mind-independent moral properties; it develops the argument from cultural diversity and the argument from queerness to show the metaphysical and epistemological implausibility of objective values, defends a form of moral error theory, and examines the consequences for moral language and practice while considering how moral discourse might nonetheless be retained for its social and motivational functions.
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2. The Oilmen