Mackie, John Leslie

Abstract

The Australian philosopher J.L. Mackie (1917–1981) made significant contributions to (meta‐)ethics, metaphysics, philosophy of language, and the philosophy of religion. At least two of his six books, Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong (1977) and The Miracle of Theism (1982), became classics in their field. This entry on Mackie is devoted to his last book, in which he develops a convincing case for atheism.