Wittgenstein and the Social Sciences - Robert Vinten

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      Wittgenstein and the Social Sciences

      ANTHEM STUDIES IN WITTGENSTEIN

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      Wittgenstein and the Social Sciences

      Action, Ideology, and Justice

      Robert Vinten

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      This edition first published in UK and USA 2020

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      Copyright © Robert Vinten 2020

      The author asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

      All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise), without the prior written permission of both the copyright owner and the above publisher of this book.

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      A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

       Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2020940392

      ISBN-13: 978-1-78527-311-7 (Hbk)

      ISBN-10: 1-78527-311-6 (Hbk)

      This title is also available as an e-book.

       This book is dedicated to the memory of a former supervisor of mine, Bob Arrington, who sadly died in 2015. My discussions with him have had an enormous influence on the way that I think about philosophy.

      CONTENTS

       Acknowledgements

       Introduction

       Part 1The Nature of Philosophy and of Social Science

      1.Is There Such a Thing as a Social Science?

       Part 2Does Wittgenstein’s Work Have Ideological Implications?

       3.Was Wittgenstein a Conservative Philosopher?

       4.Was Wittgenstein a Liberal Philosopher?

       5.Leave Everything as It Is

       6.Eagleton’s Wittgenstein

       Part 3Applying Wittgenstein’s Work to Problems in Social Philosophy

       7.Wittgenstein and Freedom of the Will

       8.Wittgenstein and Justice

       Bibliography

       Index

       ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

      In Portugal I would like to thank Nuno Venturinha and Diogo Pires Aurélio, who were my advisors during my doctoral studies. Nuno, in particular, has been very helpful not only with advice about my philosophical work but also with administrative business in the university and outside of it. He helped to arrange for me to travel to Granada, Spain, to give a talk there (a paper about justice which appears, in slightly revised form, as Chapter 8 of this book), and has also invited me to speak at conferences at Universidade Nova de Lisboa.

      I would like to thank the MLAG group at the Universidade do Porto for giving me the opportunity to present my paper about Wittgenstein and Freedom of the Will at their conference (the organisers of the conference were Anna Ciaunica, Sofia Miguens, João Alberto Pinto, José Pedro Correia, Diana Couto, and Luís Veríssimo). That paper has now become Chapter 7 of this book.

      In Spain I would particularly like to thank Vicente Sanfélix Vidarte. He arranged for me to visit the Universitat de València to present a paper about Wittgenstein and Liberalism. That paper has since appeared in the Spanish journal Teorema (in English) in 2017 and in the Colombian journal Análisis (in Spanish) in 2018. I’m grateful to participants in the seminar in Valencia for their comments. Nicolas Sanchez Dura, in particular, was very involved in the discussion both during and after the talk. Carlota Sánchez Garcia translated my paper into Spanish before the talk so that those who wanted to read it in Spanish could read it. It is her translation that appeared in Análisis. I am very grateful to her. I am would also like to thank Simon Glendinning for comments on an earlier draft of that chapter as well as to two anonymous referees at the journal Teorema. A revised version of that paper appears within this book as Chapter 4.

      Various people have commented on my published work during the course of the past six years. I would like to thank participants in the Dimensões da Epistemologia conference, held at Universidade Nova de Lisboa on 6 September 2016, for their comments on an earlier draft of the first chapter of this book. Modesto Gómez-Alonso gave me very helpful comments after the event, which helped me in redrafting my work. I am grateful to Wayne Blackledge, António Caeiro, Philip Cartwright, Pedro Karczmarczyk, Gavin Kitching, Nigel Pleasants, Constantine Sandis,

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