Works by Fred D'agostino
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- The Ethos of Games.Fred D'Agostino -1981 -Journal of the Philosophy of Sport 8 (1):7-18.
- Free public reason: making it up as we go.Fred D'Agostino -1996 - New York: Oxford University Press.Free Public Reason examines the idea of public justification, stressing its importance but also questioning the coherence of the concept itself. Although public justification is employed in the work of theorists such as John Rawls, Jeremy Waldron, Thomas Nagel, and others, it has received little attention on its own as a philosophical concept. In this book Fred D'Agostino shows that the concept is composed of various values, interests, and notions of the good, and that no ranking of these is possible. (...) The notion of public justification itself is thus shown to be contestable. In demonstrating this, D'Agostino undermines many current political theories that rely on this concept. Having broken down the foundations of public justification, D'Agostino then offers an alternative model of how a workable consensus on its meaning might be reached through the interactions of a community of interpreters or delegates at a constitutional convention. (shrink)
- Incommensurability and Commensuration: The Common Denominator.Fred D'Agostino -2019 - Routledge.This book was published in 2003.This volume presents a detailed examination of incommensurability in the value-theoretical sense. Exploring how choosers deal with problems and constraints of choice, the author draws on work in cognitive psychology, in sociology, in jurisprudence, in economics, and in the theory of value to show how choosers learn to make trade-offs when there is potential incommensurability among the options they are considering. The analysis is also informed by recent work in the tradition of Michel Foucault. With (...) so many modern devices and ideals of government dependent on the comparability of options, this book is timely and can inform public debate about de-regulation, user-pays, accountability, and the substitution of market mechanisms for government regulation and supply. (shrink)
- Contemporary Approaches to the Social Contract.Fred D'Agostino,John Thrasher &Gerald Gaus -2011 -Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
- The Orders of Public Reason.Fred D'Agostino -2013 -Analytic Philosophy 54 (1):129-155.Critical notice of The Order of Public Reason by Gerald Gaus.
- Naturalizing epistemology: Thomas Kuhn and the 'essential tension'.Fred D'Agostino -2010 - New York: Palgrave-Macmillan.In identifying that the 'essential tension' is the balance between conservative and innovative approaches in the development of knowledge - tried-and tested or new directions - Kuhn pointed out that these two attitudes are both appropriate. This study adds to this picture the social and psychological dynamics that underpin any such balancing.
- Chomsky's System of Ideas.G. R. Sampson &Fred D'Agostino -1987 -Philosophical Quarterly 37 (149):477.
- Original position.Fred D'Agostino -forthcoming -Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
- Pluralism and Liberalism.Fred D'Agostino,G. Gaus &C. Kukathas -2004 - In Gerald F. Gaus & Chandran Kukathas,Handbook of political theory. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: SAGE.
- From the organization to the division of cognitive labor.Fred D'Agostino -2009 -Politics, Philosophy and Economics 8 (1):101-129.Discussion of the cognitive division of labor has usually made very little contact with relevant materials from other disciplines, including theoretical biology, management science, and design theory. This article draws on these materials to consider some unavoidable conundrums faced by any attempt to present a particular way of dividing tasks among a labor team as the uniquely rational way of doing this, given the interdependence of the underlying evaluative standards by which the products of a system of division of labor (...) will be judged. Divisions of labor will typically cut across these interdependencies in ways which leave the outcomes of a process of labor hostage to path dependencies and suboptimalities. Some attempts to avoid these results are shown to be unsuccessful. All these difficulties are compounded by the fact that, in many cases, the division of labor has to be constructed over a ground of values that is itself being constructed simultaneously with the products which they are invoked to assess. Key Words: risk spreading • interdependency • NK fitness landscapes • complexity • epistasis • Kuhn • modularity • path dependency. (shrink)
- Kuhn's Risk-Spreading Argument and The Organization of Scientific Communities.Fred D'Agostino -2005 -Episteme 1 (3):201-209.One of Thomas Kuhn's profoundest arguments is introduced in the 1970 “Postscript” to The Structure of Scientific Revolutions . Kuhn is discussing the idea of a “disciplinary matrix” as a more adequate articulation of the “paradigm” notion he'd introduced in the first, 1962, edition of his famous work . He notes that one “element” of disciplinary matrices is likely to be common to most or even all such matrices, unlike the other elements which serve to distinguish specific disciplines and sub-disciplines (...) from one another. This is the element which he calls “values”, which, as he notes , being common to a number of otherwise distinct disciplinary matrices, “do much to provide a sense of community to natural scientists as a whole”. On the other hand, they also do much, and crucially in Kuhn's view, to promote and sustain a healthy diversity among the practitioners who share any specific disciplinary matrix. In particular, Kuhn claims that “individual variability in the application of shared values may serve functions essential to science.”. (shrink)
- Public justification.Fred D'Agostino -2008 -Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
- Leibniz.Fred D'Agostino &S. C. Brown -1986 -Philosophical Quarterly 36 (142):95.No categories
- Some modes of public justification.Fred D'Agostino -1991 -Australasian Journal of Philosophy 69 (4):390 – 414.
- Public reason.Fred D'Agostino &Gerald F. Gaus (eds.) -1998 - Brookfield, VT: Ashgate.The essays that make up this volume, explore the idea of public reason. The task of identifying a distinctively public reason has become pressing in our deeply pluralistic society, just because doubt has arisen whether what is good reasoning for one must be good reasoning for all. Examining the theories of Hobbes and Kant, and also using more recent work such as the comments and theories of John Rawls and David Gauthier, this book explores aspects of the idea of public (...) reason. It explains public reason, and discusses areas such as pluralism, reasonable disagreement, moral conflict, political legitimacy, public justification and post-modernism. (shrink)
- The aimless rationality of science.Fred D'Agostino -1990 -International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 4 (1):33 – 50.Abstract It is usually attempted teleologically to demonstrate the rationality of the so?called scientific method. Goals or aims are posited (and their specification defended) and it is then argued that conformity with some body of methodological rules is conducive to the realization of these goals or aims. A ? deontological? alternative to this approach is offered, adapting insights of contemporary political philosophers, especially John Rawls and Bruce Ackerman. The ?circumstances of method? are defined as those circumstances in which it alone (...) makes sense to seek some method for the resolution of disputed issues. It is then shown that individuals who find themselves in these circumstances have reason to conduct themselves in conformity with certain simple rules of argumentation?have reason, indeed, in the very fact that they do so find themselves and altogether without reference to any goals or aims which it might be hoped to achieve. These rules require non?interference, responsiveness, relevance, and publicity, and are, arguably, the rules which define the concept (and which therefore provide a framework for various conceptions,) of scientific method. (shrink)
- The doctrine of filial Piety: A philosophical analysis of the concealment case.B. I. Lijun &Fred D'agostino -2004 -Journal of Chinese Philosophy 31 (4):451–467.
- Freedom and Rationality: Essays in Honor of John Watkins.Fred D'Agostino &I. C. Jarvie (eds.) -1989 - Reidel.INTRODUCTION The editors of this volume - Jarvie and D'Agostino - encountered John Watkins at such different times in his career that they have never ...
- The Ethics of Social Science Research.Fred D'agostino -1995 -Journal of Applied Philosophy 12 (1):65-76.ABSTRACT Ethical thinking about social science research is dominated by a biomedical model whose salient features are the assumption that only potential harms to subjects of research are relevant in the ethical evaluation of that research, and in the emphasis on securing informed consent in order to establish ethical probity. A number of counter‐examples are considered to the assumption, a number of defences against these counter‐examples are examined, and an alternative model is proposed for the ethical evaluation of social science (...) research: a model which can cope with the systemic harms which have been identified. This model is based on John Rawls's idea of original position reasoning and treats social science research as an institutional feature of the basic structure of society. (shrink)
- Democratic Legitimacy: Plural Values and Political Power.Fred D'Agostino -2003 -Mind 112 (447):499-502.
- Incommensurability and commensuration: lessons from ethico-political theory.Fred D'Agostino -1999 -Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 31 (3):429-447.
- Mill, paternalism and psychiatry.Fred D'Agostino -1982 -Australasian Journal of Philosophy 60 (4):319 – 330.
- The 'Optimum'Aim for Science.Fred D'Agostino -1989 - In Fred D'Agostino & I. C. Jarvie,Freedom and Rationality: Essays in Honor of John Watkins. Reidel. pp. 247--256.No categories
- Adjudication as an epistemological concept.Fred D'agostino -1989 -Synthese 79 (2):231 - 256.No categories
- (1 other version)BRACKEN, HARRY M. [1984]: Mind and Language: Essays on Descartes and Chomsky. Foris Publications. ISBN 90 6765 020 X.Fred D'Agostino -1986 -British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 37 (2):249-251.
- Complexity.Fred D'Agostino -2022 - In Chris Melenovsky,Routledge Handbook of Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. New York: Routledge.Export citation
Bookmark - Chomsky's Generative Theory of Human Nature and the Boundaries of Diversity.Fred D'Agostino -1998 -Journal of Critical Realism 1 (1):20-22.No categories
- Chomsky on creativity.Fred D'Agostino -1984 -Synthese 58 (1):85 - 117.
- How can we collectivise a set of visions about social epistemology?Fred D'Agostino -unknown
- Hermeneutics, epistemology, and science.Fred D'Agostino -unknownNo categories
- Language, creativity and freedom.Fred D'Agostino -1984 -Philosophy of the Social Sciences 14 (2):251-262.
- Ontology and explanation in historical linguistics.Fred D'Agostino -1985 -Philosophy of the Social Sciences 15 (2):147-165.
- Rational Agency.Fred D'Agostino -2011 - In Ian Jarvie Jesus Zamora Bonilla,The Sage Handbook of the Philosophy of Social Sciences. SAGE Publications. pp. 182.
- Social science as a social institution: Neutrality and the politics of social research.Fred D'Agostino -1995 -Philosophy of the Social Sciences 25 (3):396-405.Philosophy of Social Science, that social scientific investigations do not and cannot meet the liberal requirement of "neutrality" most familiar to social scientists in the form of Max Weber's requirement of value-freedom. He argues, moreover, that this is for "institutional," not idiosyncratic, reasons: methodological demands (e.g., of validity) impel social scientists to pass along into their "objective" investigations the values of the people, groups, and cultures they are studying. In this paper, I consider the implications of Root's claims for the (...) use of social scientific results in the formation of policy in a democratic society. In particular, I argue that Root's results amplify familiar "post-modernist" conclusions: there is no "neutral" and "objective" basis for policy-making. (shrink)
- Transcendence and Conversation: Two Conceptions of Objectivity.Fred D'Agostino -1993 -American Philosophical Quarterly 30 (2):87 - 108.
- The necessity of theology and the scientific study of religious beliefs.Fred D'agostino -1993 -Sophia 32 (1):12-30.An earlier version of this paper was prepared for a University of New England Social Sciences Seminar on ‘Religion and the Social Sciences’, organized by Professor of Philosophy peter forrest, to which it was presented on 14 June 1989.
- The Possibility of Public Reason.Fred D'agostino -1997 -Theoria 44 (90):25-47.
- The sacralization of social scientific discourse.Fred D'Agostino -1988 -Philosophy of the Social Sciences 18 (1):21-39.
- The Sinews of a Free Society: Autonomy, Democracy, and Education.Fred D'Agostino -unknownWhat is the relation between autonomy, education, and democracy?No categories
- (3 other versions)Routledge Companion to Social and Political Philosophy.Gerald F. Gaus &Fred D'Agostino (eds.) -2012 - London: Routledge.The Routledge Companion to Social and Political Philosophy is a comprehensive, definitive reference work, providing an up-to-date survey of the field, charting its history and key figures and movements, and addressing enduring questions as well as contemporary research. Features unique to the Companion are: an extensive coverage of the history of social and political thought, including separate chapters on the development of political thought in the Islamic world, India, and China as well in modern Germany, France, and Britain a focus (...) on the core concepts and the normative foundations of social and political theory a seven-chapter section devoted exclusively to distributive justice, the central issue of political philosophy since Rawls' Theory of Justice extensive coverage of global justice and international issues, which recently have emerged as vital topics an eight-chapter section on issues in social and political philosophy. The Companion is divided into eight thematic sections: The History of Social and Political Theory; Political Theories and Ideologies; Normative Foundations; The National State and Beyond; Distributive Justice; Political Concepts; Concepts and Methods in Social Philosophy; Issues in Social and Political Philosophy. Comprised of sixty-nine newly commissioned essays by leading scholars from throughout the world, The Routledge Companion to Social and Political Philosophy is the most comprehensive and authoritative resource in social and political philosophy for students and scholars. (shrink)
- Book Review: How is Language Possible? [REVIEW]Fred D'Agostino -1989 -Philosophy of the Social Sciences 19 (4):507-509.
- Double Review:Chomsky: Ideas and Ideals by Neil Smith andChomsky: Language, Mind, and Politics by James McGilvray. [REVIEW]Fred D'Agostino -2001 -Mind and Language 16 (3):335-344.
- Chomsky's Generative Theory of Human Nature and the Boundaries of Diversity: Review ofNoam Chomsky: On Power, Knowledge and Human Nature by Peter Wilkin. [REVIEW]Fred D'Agostino -2002 -Journal of Critical Realism 1 (1).
- J. Watkins, "Science and Scepticism". [REVIEW]Fred D'agostino -1987 -Philosophical Quarterly 37 (46):104.Export citation Bookmark
- Reviews. [REVIEW]Fred D'agostino -1984 -British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 35 (4):408-411.
- Review: Knowledge of Language. [REVIEW]Fred B. D'Agostino -1977 -British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 28 (1):74 - 80.
- Stuart C. Brown, "Leibniz". [REVIEW]Fred D'agostino -1986 -Philosophical Quarterly 36 (42):95.No categoriesExport citation Bookmark
- Value pluralism, public justification, and post-modernism: The conventional status of political critique. [REVIEW]Fred D'Agostino -1995 -Journal of Value Inquiry 29 (3):351-366.
- Book reviews : Language in mind and language in society. By Trevor Pateman. Oxford: Clarendon press, 1987. Pp. XIII + 194. $47.00 us. [REVIEW]Fred D'Agostino -1989 -Philosophy of the Social Sciences 19 (3):398-401.
- Book Review: Baert, P. (2005). Philosophy of the Social Sciences: Towards Pragmatism. Cambridge: Polity. [REVIEW]Fred D'Agostino -2007 -Philosophy of the Social Sciences 37 (4):541-543.
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