Ruth Groff

Ontology Revisited (eBook, ePUB)

Metaphysics in Social and Political Philosophy

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Groff's argument runs counter to a familiar anti-metaphysical habit. Social and political philosophy, she maintains, is not as metaphysically neutral as it may seem. Even the most deontological of theories connects up with a set of philosophical commitments regarding what kinds of things exist, as a fundamental ontological matter, and what they are like. These are topics of interest not just to social and political philosophers, but to social scientists and to philosophers of social science as well.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 152
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. September 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136995576
• Artikelnr.: 38270565

Autorenporträt

Ruth Porter Groff is Assistant Professor of political philosophy at Saint Louis University. She is a member of the Centre for Contemporary Aristotelian Studies in Ethics and Politics, and a former editor of the Journal of Critical Realism. She is the co-editor of Powers and Capacities in Philosophy: The New Aristotelianism.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Myth of Metaphysical Neutrality
2. Hume: Custom as Metaphysical Necessity
3. J. S. Mill: Humeanism and the Perfection of Distinctively Human Capacities
4. Kant and The Frankfurt School: Freedom as Escape from the Transcendental Subject
5. Agents
Powers and Events: Humeanism and the Free Will Debate
6. Metaphysics and the Capabilities Approach: Martha Nussbaum
Political Liberalism and the Ideal of Metaphysical Neutrality
7. Powers
Ontology and the Appeal to Spinoza