Ian Carter
Biographic Data
| ID | 102976 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ian Carter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ian |
| FAMILY NAME | Carter |
| SIGNATURE | CARTER I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pavia |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3547-2334 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 91 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
When is Equality Basic
In this paper we steer a course between two views of the value of equality that are usually understood as diametrically opposed to one another: on the one hand, the view that equality has intrinsic value; on the other, the view that equality is a normatively redundant notion. We proceed by analysing the different ways in which the equal possession of certain relevant properties justifies distributive equality. We then present an account of ‘basic…
Adaptive and anti-adaptive neighbourhoods: Investigating the relationship between individual choice and systemic adaptability
Recent work on ‘anti-adaptive’ neighbourhoods has highlighted a number of common features, including scale of design, number of designers, mono-functionality, percentage of public space, planning rules and system of ownership. This article aims to provide a more general conceptual analysis of adaptability and anti-adaptability in terms of degrees of individual choice, where an individual’s choice set is understood as a combination of individual f…
Ancient Cultures of Conceit: British University Fiction in the Post-War Years
The campus novel is one of the best loved forms of fiction in the post-war period. But what are its characteristic themes? What are its prejudices? And what does it take for granted? Originally published in 1990, this is the first study to connect literary, historical, and sociological aspects of modern British universities. It shows that the culture celebrated in British university fiction represents a particular view of humane education which h…
The Impossibility of “Freedom as Independence
Most of the recent work on freedom is concerned with the liberal-republican debate. The latest move in this debate has been made by List and Valentini who argue in favor of a conception of freedom (called “freedom as independence”) that is located midway between the liberal and republican conceptions. In this article, we review some key aspects of the debate that led to List and Valentini’s move and then argue that their midway position is untena…
Opacity respect, bureaucracy and philanthropy: A response to Nathan
In ‘Bureaucratic respectful equality’, Christopher Nathan puts forward two challenges for the author’s claim that basic equality can be grounded in a form of ‘opacity respect’ appropriately shown by the state towards citizens. According to the first challenge, this account is less powerful than the author supposed, inasmuch it does not rule out any equalizandum of distributive equality as long as that equality is pursued by individuals rather tha…
Health and Disease in Translocated Wild Animals
The Role of Animal Translocations in Conserving British Wildlife: An Overview of Recent Work and Prospects for the Future
Value-freeness and Value-neutrality in the Analysis of Political Concepts
This chapter defends the use of value-free and value-neutral concepts in political philosophy. A concept is value-free if it is defined without using evaluative terms, whereas a concept is value-neutral if its use does not imply the superiority of any of a range of divergent ethical positions. Each of these two features is a methodological desideratum in the case of certain concepts in certain theoretical contexts. For example, freedom can be fru…
Is the Capability Approach Paternalist?
Capability theorists have suggested different, sometimes incompatible, ways in which their approach takes account of the value of freedom, each of which implies a different kind of normative relation between functionings and capabilities. This paper examines three possible accounts of the normative relation between functionings and capabilities, and the implications of each of these accounts in terms of degrees of paternalism. The way in which ca…
Basic Equality and the Site of Egalitarian Justice
The nature of basic equality (what it is that makes us all equals) can have implications not only for the question of the currency of egalitarian justice but also for that of its ‘site’. The latter question is raised by G. A. Cohen in his critique of John Rawls's theory of justice. In this paper I argue that Rawlsian liberals might provide an answer to Cohen's critique by establishing two distinct kinds of basic equality, thus providing a ‘twofol…
Are Toleration and Respect Compatible?
Toleration and respect are often thought of as compatible, and indeed complementary, liberal democratic ideals. However, it has sometimes been said that toleration is disrespectful, because it necessarily involves a negative evaluation of the object of toleration. This article shows how toleration and respect are compatible as long as ‘respect’ is taken to mean (what some moral philosophers have called) recognition respect, as opposed to appraisa…
Respect and the Basis of Equality
In what sense are persons equal, such that it is appropriate to treat them as equals? This difficult question has been strangely neglected by political philosophers. A plausible answer can be found by adopting a particular interpretation of the idea of respect. Central to this interpretation is the thought that in order to respect persons we need to treat them as ‘opaque', paying attention only to their outward features as agents. This proposed b…
La métrique de la liberté globale: Son importance éthique et sa neutralité par rapport aux valeurs
On peut dire d'une personne non seulement qu'elle est libre ou non libre de faire certaines actions spécifiques, mais aussi qu'elle a un certain degré de liberté en un sens global. Le degré de liberté globale représente un certain type d'agrégation des libertés et des non libertés d'une personne. Dans cet article, je rappelle succinctement quelques unes des raisons que j'ai avancées dans mes travaux antérieurs pour soutenir que l'intérêt pour les…
Debate: The Myth of ‘Merely Formal Freedom’
Hillel Steiner and the Anatomy of Justice: Themes and Challenges
The Development of Capability Indicators
This paper is motivated by sustained interest in the capabilities approach to welfare economics combined with the paucity of economic statistics that measure capabilities at the individual level. Specifically, it takes a much discussed account of the normatively desirable capabilities constitutive of a good life, argued to be comprehensive at a high level of abstraction, and uses it to operationalize the capabilities approach by developing a surv…
The Quality of Freedom
Book Review| October 01 2005 The Quality of Freedom Matthew H. Kramer, The Quality of Freedom. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. ix, 482. Ian Carter Ian Carter Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2005) 114 (4): 551–553. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-114-4-551 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Ian Carter; The Quality of Free…
Choice, freedom, and freedom of choice
The Lady in the Trunk: Railways, Gender and Crime Fiction
Freedom, Power & Political Morality: Essays for Felix Oppenheim
Freedom, Power and Political Morality: Essays for Felix Oppenheim
The Lost Idea of a Train’: Looking for Britain's Railway Novel
L'article retrace l'evolution de la litterature portant sur les chemins de fer britannique. L'auteur rend hommage aux ecrivains qui ont contribue a en faire un sujet pour leur roman et discute des nouveaux styles emergents
A Measure of Freedom
When liberal political philosophers talk of equalizing, increasing or maximizing freedom (or liberty), they implicitly assume freedom to be a measurable attribute. Freedom is one of the currencies of a liberal theory of distributive justice, and is therefore assumed to be something that individuals can possess in varying degrees. Yet it is rarely clear what is meant by claims about degrees of freedom. To make sense of such claims, we need to clar…
Ancient Cultures of Conceit: British University Fiction in the Post-War Years
1. Not with a Wimp, but a Banger 2. The Exemplar 3. Keep and Outworks 4. Culture and Anarchy 5. Barbarous Proletarians 6. Barbarous Scientists 7. Barbarous Women 8. Barbarous Foreigners 9. American Difference 10. Dark Days and Black Papers 11. How to be an Alien
Being Free When Being Forced to Choose
The Development of Capability Indicators
This paper is motivated by sustained interest in the capabilities approach to welfare economics combined with the paucity of economic statistics that measure capabilities at the individual level. Specifically, it takes a much discussed account of the normatively desirable capabilities constitutive of a good life, argued to be comprehensive at a high level of abstraction, and uses it to operationalize the capabilities approach by developing a surv…
The Impossibility of “Freedom as Independence
Most of the recent work on freedom is concerned with the liberal-republican debate. The latest move in this debate has been made by List and Valentini who argue in favor of a conception of freedom (called “freedom as independence”) that is located midway between the liberal and republican conceptions. In this article, we review some key aspects of the debate that led to List and Valentini’s move and then argue that their midway position is untena…
Debate: The Myth of ‘Merely Formal Freedom’
Ancient Cultures of Conceit: British University Fiction in the Post-War Years
1. Not with a Wimp, but a Banger 2. The Exemplar 3. Keep and Outworks 4. Culture and Anarchy 5. Barbarous Proletarians 6. Barbarous Scientists 7. Barbarous Women 8. Barbarous Foreigners 9. American Difference 10. Dark Days and Black Papers 11. How to be an Alien
The peasantry of northeast Scotland
Little attention has been paid to peasant agriculture in Britain. This paper is an attempt-of inordinate length-to give an account of the articulation of capitalist and peasant agriculture in northeast Scotland between 1840 and 1914. It uses a very wide range of sources including folk song and novels, as well as reminiscences and interviews, but seeks to ground these cultural productions-in which the study area is very rich indeed-in the material…
The Measurement of Pure Negative Freedom
Dorset, Kincardine and peasant crisis: A comment on David Craig
David Craig's paper 'Novels of Peasant Crisis' is to be warmly welcomed. But Craig provides no adequate analysis of the peasant crises underlying the novels which he considers. This paper considers one of Craig's novels; Lewis Grassic Gibbon's Sunset Song. Craig's explanation of this book in terms of depopulation and the destruction of the Kincardine peasantry from outside is seen to be inadequate. Sunset Song is about the crumbling of a peasant …
Human Nature and the Utopianism of the New Right
Social differentiation in the Aberdeenshire peasantry, 1696-1870
This paper considers two questions. First, what was the course of social differentiation in Aberdeenshire in the agricultural revolution? Second, why did peasants in the county survive the strong differentiating pressures of the mid-nineteenth century? We find that as late as 1870 Aberdeenshire had only a semi-proletariat; the agricultural working class was still rooted in the peasantry. The reasons for the failure to complete primitive accumulat…
Ancient Cultures of Conceit: British University Fiction in the Post-War Years
The campus novel is one of the best loved forms of fiction in the post-war period. But what are its characteristic themes? What are its prejudices? And what does it take for granted? Originally published in 1990, this is the first study to connect literary, historical, and sociological aspects of modern British universities. It shows that the culture celebrated in British university fiction represents a particular view of humane education which h…
Being Free When Being Forced to Choose
Agricultural Workers in the Class Structure: A Critical Note
To roose the countra fae the caul' morality o' a deid moderatism’: William Alexander and Johnny Gibb of Gushetneuk
Agricultural Workers in the Class Structure: A Critical Note
Dorset, Kincardine and peasant crisis: A comment on David Craig
David Craig's paper 'Novels of Peasant Crisis' is to be warmly welcomed. But Craig provides no adequate analysis of the peasant crises underlying the novels which he considers. This paper considers one of Craig's novels; Lewis Grassic Gibbon's Sunset Song. Craig's explanation of this book in terms of depopulation and the destruction of the Kincardine peasantry from outside is seen to be inadequate. Sunset Song is about the crumbling of a peasant …
The peasantry of northeast Scotland
Little attention has been paid to peasant agriculture in Britain. This paper is an attempt-of inordinate length-to give an account of the articulation of capitalist and peasant agriculture in northeast Scotland between 1840 and 1914. It uses a very wide range of sources including folk song and novels, as well as reminiscences and interviews, but seeks to ground these cultural productions-in which the study area is very rich indeed-in the material…
Social differentiation in the Aberdeenshire peasantry, 1696-1870
This paper considers two questions. First, what was the course of social differentiation in Aberdeenshire in the agricultural revolution? Second, why did peasants in the county survive the strong differentiating pressures of the mid-nineteenth century? We find that as late as 1870 Aberdeenshire had only a semi-proletariat; the agricultural working class was still rooted in the peasantry. The reasons for the failure to complete primitive accumulat…
Lewis Grassic Gibbon, and the Pesantry
Lewis Grassic Gibbon, and the Pesantry: A Scots Quair Ian Carter Ian Carter Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 6, Issue 1, AUTUMN 1978, Pages 169–185, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/6.1.169 Published: 01 October 1978
The Rural North
garrulous, overwritten and frequently facetious to no obvious purpose, but it does have interesting things to say on a whole collection of matters: the psychological formation of Burke and Hare in Ireland and in Scotland; the plight of Gaelic-speaking labourers in an alien environment; the formation of the stereotype of the Irishman (cunning and stupid at the same time); Dr. Knox as a prophet of racism; Sir Walter Scott's views on medical ethics;…
Farmlife in Northeastern Scotland, 1840-1914. The Poor Man's Country
The Rural Community and the Small School
A failed graft: Rural sociology in New Zealand
Human Nature and the Utopianism of the New Right
Is Analytical Action Theory Reductionist
Steven Lukes and Alasdair MacIntyre have accused analytical action theory of being motivated by reductionist aims and of ignoring the fact that what is distinctively human about actions is their essentially social character. These reductionist aims are said to ‘subvert’ the search for the distinctively human. Enterprises that have particularly come under fire (and which Lukes recommends ‘abandoning’) are the search for ‘basic’ actions and attempt…
Ancient Cultures of Conceit: British University Fiction in the Post-War Years
1. Not with a Wimp, but a Banger 2. The Exemplar 3. Keep and Outworks 4. Culture and Anarchy 5. Barbarous Proletarians 6. Barbarous Scientists 7. Barbarous Women 8. Barbarous Foreigners 9. American Difference 10. Dark Days and Black Papers 11. How to be an Alien
Being Free When Being Forced to Choose
The Measurement of Pure Negative Freedom
A Measure of Freedom
When liberal political philosophers talk of equalizing, increasing or maximizing freedom (or liberty), they implicitly assume freedom to be a measurable attribute. Freedom is one of the currencies of a liberal theory of distributive justice, and is therefore assumed to be something that individuals can possess in varying degrees. Yet it is rarely clear what is meant by claims about degrees of freedom. To make sense of such claims, we need to clar…
The Lost Idea of a Train’: Looking for Britain's Railway Novel
L'article retrace l'evolution de la litterature portant sur les chemins de fer britannique. L'auteur rend hommage aux ecrivains qui ont contribue a en faire un sujet pour leur roman et discute des nouveaux styles emergents
Freedom, Power & Political Morality: Essays for Felix Oppenheim
Freedom, Power and Political Morality: Essays for Felix Oppenheim
The Lady in the Trunk: Railways, Gender and Crime Fiction
Choice, freedom, and freedom of choice
The Quality of Freedom
Book Review| October 01 2005 The Quality of Freedom Matthew H. Kramer, The Quality of Freedom. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. ix, 482. Ian Carter Ian Carter Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2005) 114 (4): 551–553. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-114-4-551 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Ian Carter; The Quality of Free…
Hillel Steiner and the Anatomy of Justice: Themes and Challenges
The Development of Capability Indicators
This paper is motivated by sustained interest in the capabilities approach to welfare economics combined with the paucity of economic statistics that measure capabilities at the individual level. Specifically, it takes a much discussed account of the normatively desirable capabilities constitutive of a good life, argued to be comprehensive at a high level of abstraction, and uses it to operationalize the capabilities approach by developing a surv…
Debate: The Myth of ‘Merely Formal Freedom’
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