Author : Joel Feinberg
Publisher : Englewood Cliffs, N.J : Prentice-Hall
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 25,2 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
This book discusses problems of conceptual analysis as well as normative issues of vital contemporary concern.
Author : Michael Martin
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 818 pages
File Size : 30,8 MB
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 9780262631518
the first comprehensive anthology in the philosophy of social science to appear since the late 1960s
Author : Gerald F. Gaus
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 40,53 MB
Release : 2015-03-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1317459679
This accessible introductory text discusses how people in a pluralistic society such as ours can accept a common social ethic - a publicly justified morality. It presents analyses of the basic concepts, including justifications of liberty, harm to others, private property rights, distributive justice, environmental harms, help to others and offensive behaviour. Gaus acquaints the reader with the major figures in social philosophy - John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, David Hume, John Rawls, David Gauthier, and Joel Feinberg - as well as recent communitarian philosophers. The basic technical aspects of social philosophy are also introduced: game theory, social choice theory, the ideas rational action, rational bargaining, and public goods. Throughout, helpful short examples and stories are used to illustrate the material.
Author : John Somerville
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 36,35 MB
Release : 2012-09-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 030782635X
An anthology of basic statements by the most influential social and political philosophers of Western civilization. Includes Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Jefferson, Thoreau, Mill, Marx and Engels, Lenin, Mussolini, Hitler, Dewey, and Gandhi.
Author : Henry Silton Harris
Publisher :
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 38,24 MB
Release : 1960
Category : Idealism
ISBN :
Author : Michael O. Hardimon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 14,67 MB
Release : 1994-05-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521429146
Hegel's social theory is designed to reconcile the individual with the modern social world. The concept of reconciliation is explored in detail along with Hegel's views on the relationship between individuality and social membership, as well as on the family, civil society and the state.
Author : Rosita L. Navarro
Publisher : Goodwill Trading Co., Inc.
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 22,17 MB
Release : 2001
Category :
ISBN : 9789715740487
Author : Rik Peels
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 25,64 MB
Release : 2016-06-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1317369548
This edited collection focuses on the moral and social dimensions of ignorance—an undertheorized category in analytic philosophy. Contributors address such issues as the relation between ignorance and deception, ignorance as a moral excuse, ignorance as a legal excuse, and the relation between ignorance and moral character. In the moral realm, ignorance is sometimes considered as an excuse; some specific kind of ignorance seems to be implied by a moral character; and ignorance is closely related to moral risk. Ignorance has certain social dimensions as well: it has been claimed to be the engine of science; it seems to be entailed by privacy and secrecy; and it is widely thought to constitute a legal excuse in certain circumstances. Together, these contributions provide a sustained inquiry into the nature of ignorance and the pivotal role it plays in the moral and social domains.
Author : Leonard Mlodinow
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 44,81 MB
Release : 2008-05-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 0307377547
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the classroom to the courtroom and from financial markets to supermarkets, an intriguing and illuminating look at how randomness, chance, and probability affect our daily lives that will intrigue, awe, and inspire. “Mlodinow writes in a breezy style, interspersing probabilistic mind-benders with portraits of theorists.... The result is a readable crash course in randomness.” —The New York Times Book Review With the born storyteller's command of narrative and imaginative approach, Leonard Mlodinow vividly demonstrates how our lives are profoundly informed by chance and randomness and how everything from wine ratings and corporate success to school grades and political polls are less reliable than we believe. By showing us the true nature of chance and revealing the psychological illusions that cause us to misjudge the world around us, Mlodinow gives us the tools we need to make more informed decisions. From the classroom to the courtroom and from financial markets to supermarkets, Mlodinow's intriguing and illuminating look at how randomness, chance, and probability affect our daily lives will intrigue, awe, and inspire.
Author : Andrew Brower Latz
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 11,18 MB
Release : 2018-02-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1498243894
Gillian Rose was one of the most important social philosophers of the twentieth century. This is the first book to present her social philosophy as a systematic whole. Based on new archive research and examining the full range of Rose's sources, it explains her theory of modern society, her unique version of ideology critique, and her views on law and mutual recognition. Brower Latz relates Rose's work to numerous debates in sociology and philosophy, such as the relation of theory to metatheory, emergence, and the relationship of sociology and philosophy. This book makes clear not only Rose's difficult texts but the entire structure of her thought, making her complete social theory accessible for the first time.
