Bøker av J. L. Mackie

This volume is a typescript by J. L. Mackie that was prepared for an Oxford seminar series. It elaborates Mackie's own theory of justice and rights, and criticizes those of John Rawls, Ronald Dworkin, and Robert Nozick.

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.

Classic work by one of the most brilliant figures in post-war analytic philosophy.

A Miracle of Theism