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Hume's moral theory was the most important contribution to the sustained debate among the British Moralists of the 17th and 18th centuries. J. L. Mackie's classic text examines this debate and provides an excellent introduction to some of the main problems of moral philosophy.
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9780710005243 | Routledge Kegan & Paul, September 1, 1980, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Hume's moral theory was the most important contribution to the sustained debate among the British Moralists of the 17th and 18th centuries.

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9780415104364 | Routledge, February 1, 1994, cover price $41.95 | About this edition: Hume's moral theory was the most important contribution to the sustained debate among the British Moralists of the 17th and 18th centuries.

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9780203359891 | Routledge, March 9, 2004, cover price $41.95

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Product Description: This title presents an insight into moral skepticism of the 20th century. The author argues that our every-day moral codes are an 'error theory' based on the presumption of moral facts which, he persuasively argues, don't exist. His refutation of such facts is based on their metaphysical 'queerness' and the observation of cultural relativity...read more
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9780140135589 | Reprint edition (Viking Pr, July 1, 1991), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: This title presents an insight into moral skepticism of the 20th century.

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Product Description: This collection of John Mackie's papers on personal identity and topics in moral and political philosophy, some of which have not previously been published, deal with such issues as: multiple personality; the transcendental "I"; responsibility and language; aesthetic judgements; Sidgwick's pessimism; act-utiliarianism; right-based moral theories; cooperation, competition, and moral philosophy; universalization; rights, utility, and external costs; norms and dilemmas; Parfit's population paradox; and the combination of partially-ordered preferences...read more
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9780198246787 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, October 10, 1985, cover price $180.00 | About this edition: This collection of John Mackie's papers on personal identity and topics in moral and political philosophy, some of which have not previously been published, deal with such issues as: multiple personality; the transcendental "I"; responsibility and language; aesthetic judgements; Sidgwick's pessimism; act-utiliarianism; right-based moral theories; cooperation, competition, and moral philosophy; universalization; rights, utility, and external costs; norms and dilemmas; Parfit's population paradox; and the combination of partially-ordered preferences.

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Product Description: This collection of John Mackie's papers on topics in epistemology, some of which have not previously been published, deal with such issues as: incorrigible empirical statements; rationalism and empiricism; the philosophy of John Anderson; self-refutation; Plato's theory of idea; ideological explanation; problems of intentionality; Popper's third world;; mind, brain, and causation; Newcomb's Paradox and the direction of causation; induction; causation in concept, knowledge, and reality; absolutism; Locke and representative perception; and anti-realisms...read more
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9780198246794 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, October 10, 1985, cover price $125.00 | About this edition: This collection of John Mackie's papers on topics in epistemology, some of which have not previously been published, deal with such issues as: incorrigible empirical statements; rationalism and empiricism; the philosophy of John Anderson; self-refutation; Plato's theory of idea; ideological explanation; problems of intentionality; Popper's third world;; mind, brain, and causation; Newcomb's Paradox and the direction of causation; induction; causation in concept, knowledge, and reality; absolutism; Locke and representative perception; and anti-realisms.

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9780198246824 | Oxford Univ Pr, January 13, 1983, cover price $54.95

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9780198246657 | Oxford Univ Pr, January 13, 1983, cover price $32.50

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Product Description: Studies causation both as a concept and as it is 'in the objects' Offers new accounts of the logic of singular causal statements, the form of causal regularities, the detection of causal relationships, the asymmetry of cause and effect, and necessary connection, and it relates causation to functional and statistical laws and to teleology...read more
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9780198246428 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, October 9, 1980), cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Studies causation both as a concept and as it is 'in the objects' Offers new accounts of the logic of singular causal statements, the form of causal regularities, the detection of causal relationships, the asymmetry of cause and effect, and necessary connection, and it relates causation to functional and statistical laws and to teleology.

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Product Description: This book deals with problems raised in Locke's Essay concerning Human Understanding that remain of interest to contemporary philosophers. The main topics discussed are primary and secondary qualities, representative theories of perception, substance, real and nominal essence, abstraction and universals, identity and diversity, personal identity, and innate ideas and empiricism...read more
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9780198245551 | Oxford Univ Pr, May 6, 1976, cover price $32.00 | About this edition: This book deals with problems raised in Locke's Essay concerning Human Understanding that remain of interest to contemporary philosophers.

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9780198750369 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, June 24, 1976, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: This book deals with problems raised in Locke's Essay concerning Human Understanding that remain of interest to contemporary philosophers.

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Product Description: Classic work by one of the most brilliant figures in post-war analytic philosophy.
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9780198244028 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, January 18, 1973, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: Classic work by one of the most brilliant figures in post-war analytic philosophy.

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