1st Edition

Defending Objectivity Essays in Honour of Andrew Collier

Edited By Margaret Archer, William Outhwaite Copyright 2004
284 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

Andrew Collier is the boldest defender of objectivity - in science, knowledge, thought, action, politics, morality and religion. In this tribute and acknowledgement of the influence his work has had on a wide readership, his colleagues show that they have been stimulated by his thinking and offer challenging responses. This wide-ranging book covers key areas with which defenders of objectivity... Read more
Encounters with Andrew Collier 1. Roy Bhaskar, A Considerable Realist: A Personal and Intellectual Tribute to Andrew Collier2. Ruth Merttens , Losing the Plot Critiques of Counter-Objectivity 3. Ray Monk , Objectivity, Postmodernism and Biographical Understanding: Andrew Collier on R. D. Laing4. Douglas V. Porpora , Objectivity and Phallogocentrism The Objectivity of Value 5. Alison Assiter , The Objectivity of Value6. John O'Neil , Commerce and the Language of Value7. Andrew Sayer , Restoring the Moral dimension in Social Scientific Accounts: A Qualified Ethical Naturalist Approach Objectivity and Everyday Knowledge 8. Margaret S. Archer , Objectivity and the Growth of Knowledge9. Justin Cruickshank , Practical Knowledge and Realism: Linking Andrew Collier on Lay Knowledge to Karl Popper on the Philosophy of Science10. Jonathan Joseph , Being and Knowledge Objectivity and Materialism 11. Jolyon Agar, Towards Objectivity: From Kant to Marx12. Christopher J. Arthur , The Contradictions of Capital13. Phil Warden , Understanding Objectivity in a Material World Objectivity and Reflexivity 14. Alan Montefiore , Reason and its Self-Undoing?15. William Outwaite , Intentional and Reflexive Objectivity: Some Reflections Objectivity and Nature 16. Ted Benton , Realism about the Value of Nature? Andrew Collier's Environmental Philosophy17. Kate Soper , Objectivity, Experience and the Aesthetic of Nature

Biography

Margaret Archer, William Outhwaite