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Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong J. L. Mackie
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An introduction to Ethics., OUP 1992. This is along the lines of Mackie's argument from queerness. For instance, little bits of both realist Singer's "The Expanding Circle" and anti-realist Mackie's "Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong" seem to indicate agreement with this theory. The direct method of distinguishing between a right action and a wrong action is act-utilitarianism, by which an action is deemed right as long as it maximizes welfare. To anyone interested in getting a fuller exposition, I highly recommend his “Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong”. Likewise, in his influential book Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong, J.L. Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong (Pelican). The first chapter is sufficient for getting the argument. Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong. Thesis: “There are no objective values.” Question: What does he mean by objective values? Mackie's “Values are Subjective” from his book Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong (1977). Thrush, in Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 84, 67-83. A., Textbook of Christian Ethics, T & T Clark 1989. Inventing Right and Wrong, Penguin 1990. 'Fine-tuning, Multiple Universes, and the “This Universe” Objection', with Michael J.