Understanding Society

The causal-mechanisms theory of social explanation has been influential throughout an extensive network of European philosophers and social ...

Most people would probably say they would prefer to live in a more just world to a less just one. There is a strong moral basis for preferr...

This week's conference on Causality and Explanation in the Sciences in Ghent was an unusually good academic meeting ( link ). Participa...

Jim Woodward has extended a lot of his philosophical effort towards the task of understanding causation in the sciences ( Making Things Happ...

There is a pervasive feature of modern economic life that never entered into the theories of the economists in th...

Consider a social entity -- say the IBM corporation -- and consider the group of individuals who currently make up the entity. What is the r...

Stanley Aronowitz and William DiFazio wrote a pretty gloomy book in 1994 with the striking title, The Jobless Future . Here is a Harvard Edu...

A recent post considered the question, do organizations have causal powers? There I argued that they do, in a number of ways. Here I'd...

source: J. G. Speth, The Bridge at the End of the World A recent post on Rawls's critique of capitalism closed with an intriguing ment...

During the final preparation of The Law of Peoples: with "The Idea of Public Reason Revisited" John Rawls had extensive interacti...