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- John Leslie Mackie FBA (25 August 1917 – 12 December 1981) was an Australian philosopher. He made significant contributions to ethics, the philosophy of religion, metaphysics, and the philosophy of language. Mackie had influential views on metaethics, including his defence of moral scepticism and his sophisticated defence of atheism.
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John Leslie Mackie FBA (25 August 1917 – 12 December 1981) was an Australian philosopher. He made significant contributions to ethics, the philosophy of religion, metaphysics, and the philosophy of language. Mackie had influential views on metaethics, including his defence of moral scepticism and his sophisticated defence of atheism. He wrote ...
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Truth, Probability and Paradox: Studies in Philosophical Logic. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1973. The Cement of the Universe: A Study of Causation. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974. Problems from Locke. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976. Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong. Harmondsworth, U.K.: Penguin, 1977. Hume's Moral Theory. London: Routledge and Kegan Pa...
Mackie, J., and P. Mackie, eds. Logic and Knowledge: Selected Papers. Vol. 1. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1985. Mackie, J, and P. Mackie, eds. Persons and Values; Selected Papers. Vol. 2. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1985.
Honderich, T., ed. Morality and Objectivity; a Tribute to J. L. Mackie. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1985. Contains a comprehensive Mackie bibliography. Keith Campbell (1996, 2005)
In his defense of moral subjectivism, Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong (1977), Mackie argued that Hare had stretched the notion of universalizability far beyond anything inherent in moral language. Moreover, Mackie insisted, even if such a notion were embodied in the ways…. Read More.
John Leslie Mackie FBA (25 August 1917 – 12 December 1981) was an Australian philosopher. He made significant contributions to ethics, the philosophy of religion, metaphysics, and the philosophy of language. Mackie had influential views on metaethics, including his defence of moral scepticism and his sophisticated defence of atheism. He wrote ...
John Leslie Mackie, 1917 – 1981 CE, usually writing as J. L. Mackie, was an Australian philosopher. He made significant contributions to the philosophy of religion, metaphysics, and the philosophy of language, and is perhaps best known for his views on meta-ethics, especially his defense of moral scepticism. He authored six books.
John Leslie Mackie (1917-1981) was a philosopher who made significant contributions to the fields of ethics, metaphysics, and the philosophy of religion. A professor of philosophy at the...
Overview. John Leslie Mackie. (1917—1981) philosopher. Quick Reference. (1917–81). Born in Australia, lived and taught in Australia and New Zealand before moving to England, teaching finally at Oxford University. He was the author of six books and numerous ... From: Mackie, John L. in The Oxford Companion to Philosophy » Subjects: Philosophy.
