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Ethics, Society and Politics: Themes from the Philosophy of Peter Winch (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
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Ethics, Society and Politics: Themes from the Philosophy of Peter Winch (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Series: Nordic Wittgenstein Studies, 6
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This volume is a reappraisal of the work of Peter Guy Winch (1926
-1997), one of the most important philosophers of the 20th Century.
Winch faded into relative obscurity compared to his contemporaries
due to a mistaken belief that there are no systematic connections
between the different aspects of his work. This volume corrects
that presupposition and reintroduces Winch's work to a new
generation of scholars. By showing how ethical, political and
social issues are interrelated in Winch's work, and by making clear
the connections between these issues and themes in metaphysics and
the philosophy of mind, the volume demonstrates both the breadth
and the unity of Winch's approach. It discusses topics such as
ethics, political philosophy, social science, the philosophy of
action, the philosophy of mind, metaphysics, and the philosophy of
language. Despite this apparent variety of topics, the contributors
to the volume share Winch's conviction that the different areas of
philosophy are interdependent. As a result, the volume as a whole
shows unity in diversity and provides an example of a manner of
philosophising in which different approaches and sub-disciplines
are placed in dialogue with each other. Peter Guy Winch is most
famous for his early work on the philosophy of the social sciences.
His On the Idea of a Social Science and its Relation to Philosophy
(ISS) generated controversy within both philosophical and social
scientific circles. In that work and subsequent publications Winch
argued against the presupposition that social relations could be
understood using the conceptual tools of the natural sciences.
Winch would later describe ISS as a 'young man's book' and would
come to regret the reputation it garnered him - a mixture of
roughly equal degrees fame and infamy. Alongside his work on the
philosophy of social sciences, Winch was an interpreter and exegete
of Wittgenstein. He also published a ground-breaking study of the
philosophy of Simone Weil, entitled Simone Weil: The Just Balance.
Winch also published numerous essays on issues in ethics, political
philosophy and the philosophy of religion, and at his death was
working on a book manuscript on the problem of political authority.
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