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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 ...
Penguin Books Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong is a 1977 work of ethics by J. L. Mackie known for its espousal of moral skepticism and the argument from queerness . Contents
Alvin Plantinga's free-will defense is a logical argument developed by the American analytic philosopher Alvin Plantinga and published in its final version in his 1977 book God, Freedom, and Evil. [1] Plantinga's argument is a defense against the logical problem of evil as formulated by the philosopher J. L. Mackie beginning in 1955.
J. L. Mackie, The Miracle of Theism: Arguments for and against the Existence of God, 1982; John Hick, An Interpretation of Religion: Human Responses to the Transcendent, 1989/2004; William L. Rowe, "The Evidential Argument from Evil: A Second Look", 1996; Alvin Plantinga, Warranted Christian Belief, 2000
The Kalam cosmological argument has received criticism from philosophers such as J. L. Mackie, Graham Oppy, Adolf Grunbaum, Michael Martin, Quentin Smith, Wes Morriston and Alex Malpass as well as physicists Sean M. Carroll, Lawrence Krauss and Victor Stenger. [19]
J. L. Mackie argues that there are no objective ethical values, by arguing that they would be queer (strange): If there were objective values, then they would be entities or qualities or relations of a very strange sort, utterly different from anything else in the universe.
J. L. Mackie (1917–1981), Australian-born philosopher, best known for his views on meta-ethics John Mackie, Baron John-Mackie (1909–1994), British Labour Member of Parliament 1959–1974 John Mackie (Scottish Unionist politician) (1898–1958), Scottish Unionist Member of Parliament for Galloway 1931–1958
Atheist philosopher Graham Oppy stated that the work is the "very best book on arguments about the existence of God that has yet appeared." [8] Catholic philosopher Robert Koons described the work as the best book on philosophy of religion written from an atheistic point of view since J. L. Mackie’s The Miracle of Theism. [9]