How is it similar and dissimilar to that of the natural sciences as we have come to classify them? I take up this question from a pragmatic perspective in this paper, setting economics within the wider context of social inquiry. This raises the question addressed in this paper, namely, what is economics, and social science more broadly speaking, for? What is their aim, and While it is almost universally accepted that the goals of explanation and prediction of natural and non-human phenomena have been met with great success since the scientific revolution, it is almost just as universally accepted that the social sciences have not even come close to achieving these goals. The goals towards which that discipline is aiming. more The methodological foundations of any scientific discipline are shaped by The methodological foundations of any scientific discipline are shaped by Likewise, the practical proposals for moving beyond methodological nationalism with respect to forming publics for the sake of problemsolving, while providing a clarifying and fresh starting point, are still too beholden to models of agency and expressions of coordinated action that themselves are the very fruit of those systems which undermine democratic power in the first instance. This turn to social philosophy as a theoretically more sufficient conceptual vocabulary, extended in detail by Frega, raises questions regarding the work that a social ontology does in clarifying the role of economic and political approaches to democracy that are worth further exploration. In particular, Frega takes a social philosophical starting point and draws out the consequences of this fundamental shift in approach to questions of democratic and political theory. He brings into the contemporary conversation regarding democracy's fortunes both classical and somewhat neglected figures in the pragmatic tradition to deal with questions of power, ontology, and politics. more Roberto Frega's Pragmatism and the Wide View of Democracy reformulates the question of democracy posed by our current historic conjuncture using the resources of a variety of pragmatic thinkers. Roberto Frega's Pragmatism and the Wide View of Democracy reformulates the question of democracy. While Jaeggi’s is an excellent contribution to the discourse on critique and justification, we find that there are commitments in her idea of “immanent critique” that require reformulation with respect to the question of real interests. Properly understanding how these standards of immanent critique work dissolves the problem of how to apply these to external contexts. Our strategy is to first explore the possibility of immanent normative critique of interests expressed in forms of life using Wittgenstein and Dewey in light of Rahel Jaeggi’s Critique of Forms of Life (2018). Rather our position is that the concept of real interests is already operant within the practices of judgment that constitute a community, or a form of life. We argue that this is a particularly unfruitful conceptual strategy. What critical standards are available when encountering a society’s practices that are different from one’s own? One strategy for dealing with this is to separate out questions of ethics from questions of morality. One of the most serious difficulties is the question of the criteria for judgment. more The fact of pluralism has set a number of practical and theoretical problems for political theorists. The fact of pluralism has set a number of practical and theoretical problems for political theor.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |