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Huemer's purpose with this book is a strange combination of ambitious and non-ambitious.  The book is ambitious because it wishes to present a coherent picture of how to approach philosophizing about morality, and it tries to act out these lessons in the discussion of various views in metaethics.  The book is also ambitious in that what it claims to establish is in some sense a quite robust metaphysical system which many contemporary authors shy away from.  In other ways though, the book is not ambitious, many of the views that Huemer tries to make sound controversial and revolutionary are in fact, if not the consensus, at least less controversial than he tries to make it sound.  Further, Huemer's attacks on his opponents rarely culminate in intriguing new objections, instead he tends to prefer Moorean shifts and psychologizing his opponents.  Sometimes Huemer makes such low blows that one has to wonder whether he misunderstands his opponents, or if he is deliberately misrepres

I will attempt to give some kind of account of the material I'm reading, both to keep myself accountable, and so someone else might find the summaries helpful.  I am currently properly reading one book, which is Michael Huemer's Ethical Intuitionism , on which my complete thoughts might be available in the next couple weeks (EDIT: I have it written, I will edit and publish it this weekend).  I've recently been picking up and putting down Royden's Real Analysis in order to shore up my basic measure theory knowledge (of which I had none prior to looking at it), and once I have an acceptable grasp on that I'll be taking a stab of John Conway's A Course on Functional Analysis . In order to keep myself honest I am promising a review of Huemer by the end of this month.  So far the review will probably not be very good.

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