Adam Smith : systematic philosopher and public thinker / Eric Schliesser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schliesser, Eric, 1971- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Smith, Adam, 1723-1790.

Smith, Adam.

Philosophy.

Economics--Philosophy.

Economics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Other Title:

Systematic philosopher and public thinker

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017.

Summary:

Adam Smith was a famous economist and moral philosopher. This book treats Smith also as a systematic philosopher with a distinct epistemology, an original theory of the passions, and a surprising philosophy mind. The author argues that there is a close, moral connection between Smith's systematic thought and his policy recommendations.

Contents:

Cover; Adam Smith; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Bibliographic Note; 1. Introduction: Systematic Philosopher and Public Thinker; a. Systems in Adam Smith; b. Smith's Corpus as Two Systems of Philosophy; c. A Bibliographic Interlude; d. Methodologic Remarks; e. Summary; Part 1 Propensities and Passions; 2. Passionate Human Nature; a. Human Propensities and Smithian Social Explanation; b. Mind, Language, and Society; 3. The Passions, Rationality, and Reason; a. Natural Passions; b. Proto-​Passions, Preconceptions, and Why Smith Is Not an Empiricist

C. Causation, Sound Judgment, and Environmental Rationalityd. Reason as an Active Principle; e. Natural Unexpected Passions: The Intellectual Sentiments; f. Derived Passions; 4. From Natural Sentiments to General Rules and Moral Sentiments; a. Natural Sentiments; i. Smith's Criticisms of Hume's Account of Property; ii. The Natural Sentiments and General Rules; b. Moral Faculties: The Moral Sense and Conscience; 5. The Sympathetic Process and Judgments of Propriety; a. Sympathetic Process (Feelings); b. Sympathy and Knowledge of Causal Relations; c. Judgments of Proportionality.

D. Counterfactual Reasoning in the Sympathetic Processe. The Piacular, or On Seeing Oneself as a Moral Cause in Adam Smith; i. We (Ought to) See Ourselves as Causes!; ii. Norms of Appeasement, or On Experts and Smith's Embrace of Fortune ... ; iii. Superstition and Grandeur; iv. Natural Sentiments and Enlightenment, or Nature Versus Reason; f. The Impartial Spectator; Part 2 Society; 6. Society and Political Taxonomy: Individuals, Classes, Factions, Nations, and Governments; 7. Adam Smith's Foundations for Political Philosophy; a. "A New Utopia"; b. Even the Humane Smith; c. Belonging to Society.

I. The Genealogy of Propertyii. Original and Derived Property; iii. The Turn to History: The Enlightenment Imperative; 8. Social Institutions and Consequentialism; a. Society, Justice, and Group Selection; b. Utility and Social Institutions; c. The Measure of Real Price: Adam Smith's Science of Equity; d. Progressive Taxation; e. On Theoretical Partiality Toward the Working Poor; f. The Role of the Legislator; Private Virtue, Public Happiness; g. Liberty; h. Regulating Markets; 9. Virtue; a. Virtue as Excellence or Virtue in Common Life?; b. Excellent-​in-​Virtue-​of-​Character

10. Three Invisible Handsa. The Invisible Hand of Jupiter, and Miracles; b. The "Vain and Insatiable Desires" of the Rich; c. Promoting Unintended Ends in WN; d. Comparing the Three Invisible Hands; 11. Philosophy of Science; a. Philosophy Within the Division of Labor; b. Social Epistemology and the Impartial Spectator; c. Copernicus and Newton: Modest Scientific Realism; d. Magnanimous Superstition; 12. The Methodology of Wealth of Nations; a. Reflexivity; b. Natural and Market Prices; c. Deviations from Nature, "The Price of Free Competition"; i. Newton's Fourth Rule of Reasoning.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on September 18, 2017).

ISBN:

0-19-069014-3

0-19-069015-1