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en-wikipedia-org-1322		J. L. Mackie - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	3174	538	58	John Leslie Mackie FBA (25 August 1917–12 December 1981) was an Australian philosopher. He made significant contributions to the philosophy of religion, metaphysics, and the philosophy of language, and is perhaps best known for his views on metaethics, especially his defence of moral scepticism. He posthumously published The Miracle of Theism: Arguments For and Against the Existence of God (1983), has been called "a tour de force" in contemporary analytic philosophy.[1] Many considered Mackie one of the best defenders of philosophical atheism. After being given a copy of Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene as a Christmas present,[4] in 1978 Mackie wrote an article in the journal Philosophy praising the book and discussing how its ideas might be applied to moral philosophy.[14] The philosopher Mary Midgley responded in 1979 with "Gene-Juggling", an article arguing that The Selfish Gene was about psychological egoism rather than evolution.[15] This started a dispute between Mackie, Midgley, and Dawkins that was ongoing at the time of Mackie's death.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-1322.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-1322.txt