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A companion to applied philosophy / edited by Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen, Kimberley Brownlee, and David Coady.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Blackwell companions to philosophy ; 63.
- THEi Wiley ebooks.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Applied philosophy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (663 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chichester, UK ; Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, 2017.
- System Details:
- Access using campus network via VPN at home (THEi Users Only).
- Summary:
- Applied philosophy has been a growing area of research for the last 40 years. Until now, however, almost all of this research has been centered around the field of ethics. A Companion to Applied Philosophy breaks new ground, demonstrating that all areasof philosophy, including epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of science, and philosophy of mind, can be applied, and are relevant to questions of everyday life. This perennial topic in philosophy provides an overview of these various applied philosophy developments, highlighting similarities and differences between various areas of applied philosophy, and examining the very nature of this topic. It is an area to which many of the towering figures in the history of philosophy have contributed, and this timely Companion demonstrates how various historical contributions are actually contributions within applied philosophy, even if they are not traditionally seen as such. The Companion contains 42 essays covering major areas of philosophy; the articles themselves are all original contributions to the literature and represent the state of the art on this topic, as well as offering a map to the current debates.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Introductory Articles
- Chapter 1 The Nature of Applied Philosophy
- Introduction
- The Relevance Conception
- The Specificity Conception
- The Practical Conception
- The Activist Conception
- The Methodology Conception
- The Empirical Facts Conception
- The Audience Conception
- Conclusion
- References
- Further Reading
- Chapter 2 The Methodology of Applied Philosophy
- Introduction: What Is Applied Philosophy?
- The Top-Down Model
- Bottom-Up Models
- Thought Experiments
- Expertise
- Concluding Thoughts
- Chapter 3 The Value of Applied Philosophy
- Differing Views and Different Modes
- Key Considerations and Assumptions
- Dual Points of Reference
- Challenges and Tensions
- How Should Applied Philosophy Be Practically Relevant?
- Concluding Remarks
- Part II Epistemology
- Chapter 4 Applied Epistemology
- Notes
- Chapter 5 Gender and Feminist Epistemology
- Feminist Philosophy as Activist: Doing Philosophy as a Feminist
- Activist Feminist Epistemology: Changing Focus
- Situated Knowers and Feminist Standpoint Epistemology
- Feminist Epistemologies of Science
- Redefining Objectivity
- Testimonial Injustice, Ignorance, and Attention to Particulars
- Acknowledgment
- Chapter 6 The Epistemology of Deliberative Democracy
- The Deliberative Conception of Democracy
- Instrumental Arguments for Deliberative Democracy
- Instrumental Arguments against Deliberative Democracy
- Non-instrumental Arguments for Deliberative Democracy
- Non-instrumental Arguments against Deliberative Democracy.
- Concluding Remarks
- Chapter 7 Information Markets
- What Are Information Markets?
- Information Markets and Expertise
- Some Problems (and Solutions)
- Information Markets and Applied Social Epistemology: Three Applications
- Chapter 8 Epistemology for (Real) People
- Normativity
- Belief Theories and Reasoning Theories
- How to Evaluate Reasoning
- Diagnostic Reasoning
- Consilience and Mongrel Epistemology
- Chapter 9 Are Conspiracy Theorists Epistemically Vicious?
- Vice, Virtue, and the Intellect
- Conspiracies, Elites, and the Open Society
- On the Vices of Anti-Conspiracism
- Chapter 10 Experts in the Climate Change Debate
- Expertise: Variations and Equivocations
- Trust (and Its Exploitation) in Climate Debates
- Climate Consensus and Credibility
- Going Forward
- Chapter 11 Freedom of Expression, Diversity, and Truth
- Deliberation and Diversity
- Diversity and the Invisible Hand
- Promoting Compliance with the Norms of Deliberation
- Part III Metaphysics and Philosophy of Language
- Chapter 12 Applied Metaphysics
- Applying Metaphysics within Philosophy
- Case Study I: Applied Ontology
- Case Study II: Social Ontology
- Case Study III: Natural Kinds in Psychiatry and Medicine
- Further Examples
- Conclusions?
- Chapter 13 Applied Philosophy of Language
- What Are We Studying When We Study Language?
- Philosophy of Language as Applied in Terms of Subject Matter
- The Ontology and Methodology of Natural Language Inquiry.
- A Cognitively Real Semantic Theory and the Search for Evidence
- Chapter 14 Social Ontology and War
- Armed Forces, Waging War, and Joint Action
- War, Collective Self-Defense, and Collective Moral Responsibility
- Individualism, Collectivism, and the Principles of Necessity, Proportionality, and Discrimination
- Chapter 15 The Metaphysics of Gender
- Philosophical Conceptions of Gender
- Essentialism and Anti-Essentialism
- Realism and Nominalism
- Chapter 16 The Existence of the Dead
- Being Dead
- Being Alive
- Being Neither Dead Nor Alive
- Resurrection
- Deathless Annihilation
- Annihilationless Death
- Death for Us
- Applied Philosophy
- Chapter 17 Freedom of Expression and Derogatory Words
- Direct and Indirect Hate Speech
- Five Models of Hate Speech
- Hate Speech, Non-persuasive Influence, and Harm
- Regulating Vituperative Expression
- Hate Speech and Silencing
- Part IV Ethics
- Chapter 18 Applied Moral Philosophy
- Results and Lessons of Following Reflective Equilibrium Methods: Opposed Views
- Chapter 19 Neuroethics and Responsibility
- Neuroethics and the Mental States of Actors
- The Mental State of the Attributor
- Chapter 20 Non-ideal Theory
- What Is Non-ideal Theory?
- Varieties of Non-ideal Theory
- The Relationship between Ideal and Non-ideal Theory
- Non-ideal Theory, Realism and Applied Philosophy
- Further Reading.
- Chapter 21 Death: Badness and Prudential Reasons
- The Lucretian Problem
- Psychological Relations
- Maximization of Intrinsic Value
- Part V Political Philosophy and Philosophy of Law
- Chapter 22 Applied Political and Legal Philosophy
- Standard Activist Approach
- Extreme Activist Approach
- Conceptual Activist Approach
- Chapter 23 Legal Human Rights Theory
- From Human Rights Practice to Human Rights Theory: Law as the Missing Link
- The Law in "Political" and "Ethical" Human Rights Theories
- Human Rights Theory qua Legal Theory
- Legal Human Rights Theory as Applied Philosophy
- Chapter 24 Collectivism and Reductivism in the Ethics of War
- The Ethics of War as Applied Philosophy
- The Origins of the Just War Tradition
- The Collectivist View
- The Individualist View
- Reductive Individualism: Implications and Objections
- Legitimate Authority
- Chapter 25 Freedom of Association
- The Content of Freedom of Association
- The Scope and Value of Freedom of Association
- Chapter 26 Neuroethics and Criminal Justice
- Neuroscience and the Criminal Justice System
- Neuroethical Challenges
- Neuroscience and Criminal Justice Ethics
- Neuroscience, Criminal Justice, and Applied Philosophy
- Chapter 27 Deliberative Democracy
- The Moral Ideal of Deliberative Democracy
- Cognitive Diversity in Deliberative Democracies
- The Problem of Rational Ignorance
- Inequality in Public Deliberation.
- The Problem of Group Polarization
- Chapter 28 Tax Ethics: Political and Individual
- The Tax System?
- Tax Justice and Horizontal Equity
- Taxation and Liberty
- Taxpayer Morality
- Chapter 29 Benefiting from Wrongdoing
- Benefiting from Wrongdoing as a Problem of Applied Philosophy
- Two Versions of the Principle of Wrongful Benefits
- Limiting the Principle
- The Principle of Wrongful Benefits and Luck Egalitarianism
- Chapter 30 Freedom of Religion and Expression
- Freedom of Religion
- Freedom of Expression
- Part VI Philosophy of Science
- Chapter 31 Applied Philosophy of Social Science: The Case of the Social Construction of Race
- Denying the Biological Reality of Race
- Race as a Social Construction
- Generalist Elements in the Construction of Race
- Summary
- Chapter 32 Social Constructivism in Social Science and Science Wars
- Constructivism and Natural Science
- The Science Wars
- Discourse Analysis: Laclau and Mouffe
- Social Constructivism in Feminist Philosophy
- The Impact of Constructivist Arguments
- Chapter 33 Did Climate Change Cause That?
- Increasing Probability
- The "But-For" Test: Causation as Counterfactual Dependence
- The Fraction of Attributable Risk
- The Butterfly Effect
- Probability Raising and Causal Influence
- Part VII Aesthetics
- Chapter 34 Applied Aesthetics
- On the Very Idea of "Applied Aesthetics"
- The "Top-down" Model of Applied Philosophy in Ethics
- The Disciplinary Substructures of Ethics and Aesthetics Contrasted
- The Disciplinary Substructure of Philosophy of Art.
- The Roles of Artistic Practice in Philosophical Thinking about the Arts.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781118869123
- 1118869125
- 9781118869116
- 1118869117
- 9781118869109
- 1118869109
- OCLC:
- 958864494
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