03277oam 2200733I 450 991078574140332120230124190505.01-136-99557-91-283-60793-X97866139203861-136-99558-70-203-85515-910.4324/9780203855157 (CKB)2670000000242190(EBL)1024688(OCoLC)811506530(SSID)ssj0000821453(PQKBManifestationID)11510322(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000821453(PQKBWorkID)10871474(PQKB)11756086(MiAaPQ)EBC1024688(Au-PeEL)EBL1024688(CaPaEBR)ebr10603388(CaONFJC)MIL392038(OCoLC)815486303(OCoLC)1226772753(FINmELB)ELB139918(EXLCZ)99267000000024219020180706d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrOntology revisited metaphysics in social and political philosophy /Ruth GroffAbingdon, Oxon :Routledge,2013.1 online resource (153 p.)Ontological explorationsDescription based upon print version of record.1-138-79851-7 0-415-57411-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Ontology RevisitedMetaphysics in Social and Political Philosophy; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; 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; NotesBibliographyIndexGroff's argument runs counter to the 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 an attendant 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. ""Ruth Groff has broken new ground in demonstrating the connection betweOntological explorations.MetaphysicsOntologySocial sciencesPhilosophyPolitical sciencePhilosophyMetaphysics.Ontology.Social sciencesPhilosophy.Political sciencePhilosophy.110Groff Ruth1963-,849151MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910785741403321Ontology revisited3746020UNINA