Fred D’agostino
Biographic Data
| ID | 1239183 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fred D’agostino |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fred |
| FAMILY NAME | D’agostino |
| SIGNATURE | D’AGOSTINO F |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Queensland |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5725-5723 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Routledge Companion to Social and Political Philosophy
The Routledge Companion to Social and Political Philosophy, Second Edition 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
Growth of knowledge
Evaluation and innovation
Picking up on Olof Hallonsten's contention that contemporary science evaluation is 'mostly counterproductive', we argue that the contemporary focus on evaluation is antagonistic to innovation or novelty in science, even though innovation is one of the values that evaluation is often supposed to support. In arguing for the antagonistic relation between evaluation and innovation, we consider arguments from the nature of audit and the situational lo…
Gerald Francis (‘Jerry’) Gaus (1952-2020)
Jerry Gaus died in his sleep, of an apparent heart attack, in Tucson, Arizona on 19 August 2020. He was a co-editor of AJP, with Peter Forrest and Fred D’Agostino, between 1997 and 2001. Jerry had
The Promise of Democracy
In this paper, I will use methods associated primarily with applied ethics and economic theory to provide a philosophical demonstration, within the social contract tradition, of the importance for a democracy of the substantive equality of its citizens. The social contract is a familiar modality of contemporary democratic theorising in political philosophy. An unfamiliar but promising way of thinking about the social contract is via analogy with …
The Situational Logic of Disciplinary Scholarship
Social Science, The Idea of
Verballed? Incommensurability 50 years on
An Analytics of Marginality
How does something come to be considered ‘marginal’ or ‘central’? More specifically, on what grounds do particular approaches to understanding in the human and natural sciences become marginal or central? The answer to this question depends, in particular, on two different orders of analysis: a metaphysics of inquiry and an empirics of inquiry. Taken together these analyses enable us to understand why marginalities are inevitable concomitants of …
From the organization to the division of cognitive labor
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 underlyi…
Naturalizing the essential tension
Two conceptions of reason
Two conceptions of reason are considered – the planning conception, embodied, for example, in rational choice theory and other familiar paradigms, and the improvisational conception, emerging from work on artificial intelligence and organization theory. Two illustrations are given of the problematic nature of the planning conception: (1) the inevitability of incompleteness in contracting and (2) the burdens of reason identified by John Rawls. Two…
Rituals of Impartiality
Two conceptions of autonomy
Classical liberal theoryhas worked with a rationalistic conception of autonomy. S/he behaves autonomously who behaves in accordance with reason. The prominence of this conception of autonomy has contributed to the exploitation, by liberal political practice, of discourses of expertise which work to heteronomize citizens' choices and actions. A pluralisticconception of autonomy is developed, based on insights of Stanley Benn, which may provide a b…
The Possibility of Public Reason
In this paper, I am going to consider the important idea of public reason, which has associations with many other ideas of ethico-political importance – e.g. those of legitimacy and obligation. Crudely, this idea demands, at least in principle, that no collectively binding coercively enforced system of social arrangements is legitimate, and hence morally obligates citizens to conformity with its requirements, unless it is reasonable from every po…
Value pluralism, public justification, and post-modernism
Social Science as a Social Institution
Michael Root argues, in 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 t…
The Idea and the Ideal of Public Justification
Freedom and Rationality
Adjudication as an epistemological concept
The Sacralization of Social Scientific Discourse
Science and Scepticism
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Science and Scepticism. By John Watkins. (London: Hutchinson, 1984. Pp. xvii + 387. Price £25.) Fred D’Agostino Fred D’Agostino University of New England Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 37, Issue 146, January 1987, Pages 104–108, https://doi.org/10.2307/2220065 Published: 01 January 1987
Chomsky's System of Ideas
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Chomsky's System of Ideas. By Fred D’agostino (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986, Pp. xii + 226. Price £19.50.) G. R. Sampson G. R. Sampson University of Leeds Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 37, Issue 149, October 1987, Pages 477–481, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219585 Published: 01 October 1987
Leibniz
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Leibniz. By S. C. Brown. (Brighton: Harvester, 1984. Pp. xvi + 223. Price £22.50) Fred D’agostino Fred D’agostino University of New England Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 36, Issue 142, January 1986, Pages 95–99, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219316 Published: 01 January 1986
Ontology and Explanation in Historical Linguistics
From the organization to the division of cognitive labor
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 underlyi…
Two conceptions of autonomy
Classical liberal theoryhas worked with a rationalistic conception of autonomy. S/he behaves autonomously who behaves in accordance with reason. The prominence of this conception of autonomy has contributed to the exploitation, by liberal political practice, of discourses of expertise which work to heteronomize citizens' choices and actions. A pluralisticconception of autonomy is developed, based on insights of Stanley Benn, which may provide a b…
Two conceptions of reason
Two conceptions of reason are considered – the planning conception, embodied, for example, in rational choice theory and other familiar paradigms, and the improvisational conception, emerging from work on artificial intelligence and organization theory. Two illustrations are given of the problematic nature of the planning conception: (1) the inevitability of incompleteness in contracting and (2) the burdens of reason identified by John Rawls. Two…
Individualism and Collectivism
Sampson's ‘Dilemma’
Leibniz on Compossibility and Relational Predicates
Journal Article Leibniz on Compossibility and Kelational Predicates Get access F. B. D’agostino F. B. D’agostino London School of Economics and Political Science Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 26, Issue 103, April 1976, Pages 125–138, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219130 Published: 01 April 1976
The Routledge Companion to Social and Political Philosophy
The Routledge Companion to Social and Political Philosophy, Second Edition 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
Growth of knowledge
Evaluation and innovation
Picking up on Olof Hallonsten's contention that contemporary science evaluation is 'mostly counterproductive', we argue that the contemporary focus on evaluation is antagonistic to innovation or novelty in science, even though innovation is one of the values that evaluation is often supposed to support. In arguing for the antagonistic relation between evaluation and innovation, we consider arguments from the nature of audit and the situational lo…
Verballed? Incommensurability 50 years on
The Sacralization of Social Scientific Discourse
Language, Creativity and Freedom
Chomsky on creativity
Symbolism and literalism in anthropology
Knowledge of Language
Rethinking Transformational Linguistics
Leibniz on Compossibility and Relational Predicates
Journal Article Leibniz on Compossibility and Kelational Predicates Get access F. B. D’agostino F. B. D’agostino London School of Economics and Political Science Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 26, Issue 103, April 1976, Pages 125–138, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219130 Published: 01 April 1976
Knowledge of Language
Sampson's ‘Dilemma’
Individualism and Collectivism
Symbolism and literalism in anthropology
Language, Creativity and Freedom
Chomsky on creativity
Ontology and Explanation in Historical Linguistics
Leibniz
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Leibniz. By S. C. Brown. (Brighton: Harvester, 1984. Pp. xvi + 223. Price £22.50) Fred D’agostino Fred D’agostino University of New England Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 36, Issue 142, January 1986, Pages 95–99, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219316 Published: 01 January 1986
Science and Scepticism
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Science and Scepticism. By John Watkins. (London: Hutchinson, 1984. Pp. xvii + 387. Price £25.) Fred D’Agostino Fred D’Agostino University of New England Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 37, Issue 146, January 1987, Pages 104–108, https://doi.org/10.2307/2220065 Published: 01 January 1987
Chomsky's System of Ideas
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Chomsky's System of Ideas. By Fred D’agostino (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986, Pp. xii + 226. Price £19.50.) G. R. Sampson G. R. Sampson University of Leeds Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 37, Issue 149, October 1987, Pages 477–481, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219585 Published: 01 October 1987
The Sacralization of Social Scientific Discourse
Freedom and Rationality
Adjudication as an epistemological concept
The Idea and the Ideal of Public Justification
Value pluralism, public justification, and post-modernism
Social Science as a Social Institution
Michael Root argues, in 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 t…
The Possibility of Public Reason
In this paper, I am going to consider the important idea of public reason, which has associations with many other ideas of ethico-political importance – e.g. those of legitimacy and obligation. Crudely, this idea demands, at least in principle, that no collectively binding coercively enforced system of social arrangements is legitimate, and hence morally obligates citizens to conformity with its requirements, unless it is reasonable from every po…
Two conceptions of autonomy
Classical liberal theoryhas worked with a rationalistic conception of autonomy. S/he behaves autonomously who behaves in accordance with reason. The prominence of this conception of autonomy has contributed to the exploitation, by liberal political practice, of discourses of expertise which work to heteronomize citizens' choices and actions. A pluralisticconception of autonomy is developed, based on insights of Stanley Benn, which may provide a b…
Rituals of Impartiality
Two conceptions of reason
Two conceptions of reason are considered – the planning conception, embodied, for example, in rational choice theory and other familiar paradigms, and the improvisational conception, emerging from work on artificial intelligence and organization theory. Two illustrations are given of the problematic nature of the planning conception: (1) the inevitability of incompleteness in contracting and (2) the burdens of reason identified by John Rawls. Two…
Naturalizing the essential tension
From the organization to the division of cognitive labor
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 underlyi…
An Analytics of Marginality
How does something come to be considered ‘marginal’ or ‘central’? More specifically, on what grounds do particular approaches to understanding in the human and natural sciences become marginal or central? The answer to this question depends, in particular, on two different orders of analysis: a metaphysics of inquiry and an empirics of inquiry. Taken together these analyses enable us to understand why marginalities are inevitable concomitants of …
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