LEADER 03277oam 2200733I 450 001 9910785741403321 005 20230124190505.0 010 $a1-136-99557-9 010 $a1-283-60793-X 010 $a9786613920386 010 $a1-136-99558-7 010 $a0-203-85515-9 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203855157 035 $a(CKB)2670000000242190 035 $a(EBL)1024688 035 $a(OCoLC)811506530 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000821453 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11510322 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000821453 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10871474 035 $a(PQKB)11756086 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1024688 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1024688 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10603388 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL392038 035 $a(OCoLC)815486303 035 $a(OCoLC)1226772753 035 $a(FINmELB)ELB139918 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000242190 100 $a20180706d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aOntology revisited $emetaphysics in social and political philosophy /$fRuth Groff 210 1$aAbingdon, Oxon :$cRoutledge,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (153 p.) 225 0 $aOntological explorations 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-138-79851-7 311 $a0-415-57411-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aOntology 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; Notes 327 $aBibliographyIndex 330 $aGroff's argument runs counter to the familiar anti-metaphysical habit. Social and political philosophy, she maintains, is not as metaphysically neutral as it may seem. Even the most deontological of theories connects up with an attendant set of philosophical commitments regarding what kinds of things exist, as a fundamental ontological matter, and what they are like. These are topics of interest not just to social and political philosophers, but to social scientists and to philosophers of social science as well. ""Ruth Groff has broken new ground in demonstrating the connection betwe 410 0$aOntological explorations. 606 $aMetaphysics 606 $aOntology 606 $aSocial sciences$xPhilosophy 606 $aPolitical science$xPhilosophy 615 0$aMetaphysics. 615 0$aOntology. 615 0$aSocial sciences$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aPolitical science$xPhilosophy. 676 $a110 700 $aGroff$b Ruth$f1963-,$0849151 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910785741403321 996 $aOntology revisited$93746020 997 $aUNINA