Titlebook: Ethics, Society and Politics: Themes from the Philosophy of Peter Winch; Michael Campbell,Lynette Reid Book 2020 The Editor(s) (if applica

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,“Don’t Mention the Idea of a Social Science”: The Legacy of an Idea,e book that focus on the irreducibly ethical character of philosophical and social inquiry, further supported by external sources. The essay then concludes with opening the work up to current debates in the philosophy of social science and critical social theory, thus arguing for the book’s continue

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Winch and Animal Minds,her party in this shared activity? The reference to a shared activity is important here. For the way in Winch makes his point throws into doubt the idea that there is in a case like this (with an animal) any such thing as a shared activity. Using an example of the way in which children play games wi

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Moral Agency,nts. In contrast, he uses examples from within the narratives of serious works of literature in order to focus upon the ways in which a particular agent’s own perception of a particular situation informs their response to it. In this way, he is applying Wittgenstein’s admonishment not just to say wh

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Ethics and Action,osophy of mind and action. In one strand in these discussions Winch argues that certain familiar tendencies to say how things . be in ethics spring from a mistaken metaphysical picture of “the will”. However, other strands in his discussions raise the possibility that the inclinations in our thinkin

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Winch on Punishment: Contested Concepts, Justification, and Primitive Reactions, to rescue the intelligibility of a cluster of concepts loosely characterized as retributive concepts, and his characterization that an important philosophical problem—or set of problems—about punishment arise from what I call the intensionality of punishment—what it is for punishment to be “for” a

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Political Philosophy and the Primacy of Agency,was the critique of classical social contract theory. His second theme is best characterised as the primacy of agency over spectatorship. This long-term philosophical commitment is distinct from another central theme for Winch, his emphasis on particular cases. In ethics and politics, the perspectiv

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,Winch on Political Authority & Obedience,nts from Wittgenstein’s . To do so he argues against the desire-belief conception of action, the view that any reasonable action, including obedience, is based on justified belief. He argues instead that rationality is itself based on primitive and habitual trust obedience of authority, and that far