Ontology revisited
Subtitle: metaphysics in social and political philosophy
By: Ruth Groff
Series: Ontological explorations
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415574112; 9780203855157
Subjects: Ontology; Philosophy; Metaphysics; Political science; Social sciences
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Myth of metaphysical neutrality; title: Hume : custom as metaphysical necessity; title: J.S. Mill : humeanism and the perfection of distinctively human capacities; title: Kant and the frankfurt School : freedom as escape from the transcendental subject; title: Agents, powers, and events: humeanism and the free will debate; title: Metaphysics and the capabilities approach :  Martha Nussbaum, political liberalism and the ideal of metaphysical neutrality; title: Powers, ontology and the appeal to Spinoza.