John Leslie Mackie FBA (25 August 1917 – 12 December 1981) was an Australian philosopher. He made significant contributions to ethics, the philosophy of...

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....

assertions raised by J. L. Mackie. First, Mackie asserts "there is no possible world" in which the "essential" theistic beliefs Mackie describes can all...

logical problem of evil as formulated by the philosopher J. L. Mackie beginning in 1955. Mackie's formulation of the logical problem of evil argued that...

Diderot, Denis (1875–77) [1746]. J. Assézar (ed.). Pensées philosophiques, LIX, Volume 1 (in French). p. 167. Mackie, J. L. (1982). The Miracle of Theism...

defended atheism include Graham Oppy, Paul Draper, Quentin Smith, J. L. Mackie, and J. L. Schellenberg. Positions on the existence of God can be divided...

elicited public debate between Craig and Graham Oppy, Adolf Grünbaum, J. L. Mackie and Quentin Smith, and has been used in Christian apologetics. According...

to take the form of an Error Theory: the view developed originally by J.L. Mackie in his 1977 book Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong. Error theory and...

related to J. L. Austin. J. L. Austin The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy "John Langshaw Austin". Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. "J. L. Austin:...

skepticism include Pyrrho, Aenesidemus, Sextus Empiricus, David Hume, J. L. Mackie (1977), Friedrich Nietzsche, Richard Joyce (2001), Joshua Greene, Richard...

to be unproductive. J.O. Urmson's article "On Grading" also called the is/ought distinction into question. Australian J. L. Mackie, in Ethics: Inventing...

Australian realism David Malet Armstrong David Chalmers J. L. Mackie Peter Singer J. J. C. Smart Cambridge Arif Ahmed Charlie Broad Casimir Lewy Norman...

Armstrong, J. L. Mackie, Ullin Place, J. J. C. Smart, and David Stove. The label "Australian realist" was conferred on acolytes of Anderson by A. J. Baker...

Catholic University of America Press. ISBN 978-0-8132-1864-9. Erickson, Millard J. (1992). Introducing Christian Doctrine. Baker Book House. p. 103. Hammond...

Moore and the error theories of J. L. Mackie who seeks a real basis, if any, for talk of values and right and wrong. Mackie is sceptical about solving the...

thought and philosophical movements. Contents Top 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z See also Absurdism - Academic skepticism - Achintya...

controversial concept, and criticized by David Hume, Immanuel Kant, J. L. Mackie, and Richard Swinburne, among others. Metaphysical necessity is contrasted...

created free creatures that always do right, contra Plantinga's claim. J. L. Mackie saw Plantinga's free-will defense as incoherent. Plantinga's well-received...

would also describe himself as an agnostic. According to philosopher William L. Rowe, in this strict sense, agnosticism is the view that human reason is...

morals. While prominent non-theistic philosophers such as the atheist J. L. Mackie agreed that the argument is valid, they disagreed with its premises....

belief in Part 1, "The Leap of Doubt". Skeptical authors cited include J. L. Mackie, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens...

Charles and Myrtle Fillmore (founders of Unity), and Malinda Cramer and Nona L. Brooks (founders of Divine Science) were all greatly influenced by Transcendentalism...

make God not God. In a 1955 article in the philosophy journal Mind, J. L. Mackie tried to resolve the paradox by distinguishing between first-order omnipotence...

essays in honor of Norman L. Geisler. InterVarsity Press. p. 124. ISBN 978-0-8308-2735-0. Rowe, William L. (2007). William L. Rowe on Philosophy of Religion:...

Foundations of Empirical Knowledge was famously criticised by fellow Oxonian J. L. Austin in Sense and Sensibilia, a landmark 1950s work of ordinary language...

Frithjof Schuon J L Mackie Walter Kaufmann Martin Lings Peter Geach George I Mavrodes William Alston Antony Flew 1970 1990 2010 William L Rowe Dewi Z Phillips...

Academic Press. pp. 43–44. ISBN 978-1-898723-93-6.[permanent dead link] James L. Ford (2016). The Divine Quest, East and West: A Comparative Study of Ultimate...

moral truths might entail the existence of God. Atheist philosopher J. L. Mackie accepted that, if objective moral truths existed, they would warrant...

their traditional spiritual ways "shamanism." However, according to Richard L. Allen, research and policy analyst for the Cherokee Nation, they are regularly...

Church (New York: Penguin, 1997), 262. Paulsen, David L.; Cook, Roger D.; Christensen, Kendel J. (2010). "The Harrowing of Hell: Salvation for the Dead...