Jamie Gough
Biographic Data
| ID | 1370089 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jamie Gough |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jamie |
| FAMILY NAME | Gough |
| SIGNATURE | GOUGH J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sheffield |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2591-5744 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 49 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 226 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 49 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1930 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Phenomenal consciousness and moral status: Taking the moral option
Intuitively, there is a close link between moral status and phenomenal consciousness. Taking the link seriously can serve as the basis of a proposal that appears to have a surprising number of theoretical benefits. This proposal is the moral option, according to which moral status is partly determinative of phenomenal consciousness, and phenomenal consciousness is sufficient for possession of a moral property I refer to as “moral status.” I argue…
Mental fictionalism and the dangers of Cartesian apologia
Toon (2023) argues that “the mind is a useful fiction.” The mind, for Toon, is essentially an “inner world” or “inner grotto,” which is “private” and which “houses our mental states – our beliefs, desires, hopes, fears, and the rest.” His position, according to which the metaphor of mind is a “story that we cannot avoid telling” risks elevating the concept of mind to that of a “sacrosanct given.” Work in philosophy, history, and anthropology show…
Ways of Being a Mess: Distinguishing Heterogeneity from Pluralistic Eliminativism
There are two forms of argument for eliminativism which ought to be distinguished, but which generally are not. One of these, heterogeneity eliminativism , starts from the claim that the extension of a given term is heterogeneous, that is, does not form a natural kind. The other, pluralistic eliminativism, starts from the claim that a term is ‘pluralistic’, demanding different precise definitions, measures, and generalizations in different specia…
The embodied, relational self: Extending or rejecting the mind
In putting forward the modern concept of mind, Descartes identified the mind with the self. Recently, communitarian and feminist scholars have argued in favor of a conception of the self according to which it includes relations to the social world and parts of the body. If they are correct, it initially seems damning for the view that the self is the mind. I examine whether this is so, by considering whether the identification of self and mind ca…
Affect, Autonomy, Authenticity, and the Assessment of Decision‐Making Capacity: The Problem of Tyrannical Coherence
There are cases of psychiatric disorder where affective states produce severely self‐destructive behavior. Sufferers do not appear to be making autonomous decisions, and appear to be severely impaired in their decision‐making capacity. Suffers of these kinds of cases of these kinds of disorders fall into a “gray area” in the law. If this gray area is to be avoided, the law requires clearer criteria for determining how affect can undermine autonom…
Mind’ and ‘mental’: Extended, pluralistic, eliminated
The terms ‘mind’ and ‘mental’ are used to refer to different phenomena across and within at least philosophy, psychology, psychiatry, and cognitive science. My main aim in this paper is to argue that the terms ‘mind’ and ‘mental’ are in this way ‘pluralistic’, and to explore the different options for responding to this situation. I advocate for a form of pluralistic eliminativism about the terms ‘mind’ and ‘mental’, ‘mind concept eliminativism,’ …
Understanding understanding in psychiatry
Originally put forward to defend history from the encroachment of physics, the distinction between understanding and explanation was built into the foundations of Karl Jaspers’ ‘phenomenological’ psychiatry, and it is revised, used and defended by many still working in that tradition. On the face of it, this is rather curious. I examine what this notion of ‘understanding’ amounts to, why it entered and remains influential in psychiatry, and what …
On the Proper Epistemology of the Mental for Psychiatry: What’s the Point of Understanding and Explaining
The distinction between explanation and understanding was foundational to Jaspers’s ‘phenomenological’ approach to psychiatry. It makes sense that those now calling for a phenomenological approach to psychiatry would look to Jaspers for inspiration, and that in doing so, they would take up this distinction. However, I argue that it is and was a mistake to use the distinction in work on psychiatry: adhering to the distinction now would undermine, …
The many theories of mind: Eliminativism and pluralism in context
In recent philosophy of science there has been much discussion of both pluralism, which embraces scientific terms with multiple meanings, and eliminativism, which rejects such terms. Some recent work focuses on the conditions that legitimize pluralism over eliminativism – the conditions under which such terms are acceptable. Often, this is understood as a matter of encouraging effective communication – the danger of these terms is thought to be e…
Chaos for enquiries
Fuck Business’: The Conservative Party, capital, and Britain's EU membership
Brexit, xenophobia and left strategy now
The economic consequences of Brexit are dire. But an even more serious problem for the left thrown up by the vote to Leave is what it shows about working-class consciousness regarding 'immigrants', and how the anti-immigration Leave campaign has shifted working-class opinion to the right. It is this aspect of Brexit that I focus on in this article. In England and Wales, the majority of the working class (in the everyday rather than Marxist sense)…
Kevin Cox and Electoral Geography
Human Geography Special Issue: Marxist Geography
Introduction to the special section: Urban neoliberalism, strategies for urban struggles, and 'the right to the city
The strategy and demand for the 'right to the city' was first advanced by Henri Lefebvre in the late-1960s. The concept has been used as a slogan by urban movements in various countries since the 2000s, and has also been discussed in left academic literature. This special section of Capital & Class contains interviews on contemporary urban politics and the right to the city by two Marxist urbanists, Neil Smith and Jamie Gough. These are preceded …
The difference between local and national capitalism, and why local capitalisms differ from one another: A Marxist approach
This paper develops a notion of 'local capitalisms'. Starting from a particular, Marxist theorisation of capitalism and of the state, local capitalism is analysed as a nexus of production, reproduction of people, and the state within a locality. The latter construct, and are constructed by, specific relations of class, gender, ethnicity and age, themselves internally related. On this basis one can specify the 'vertical difference' of local from n…
Work, Locality and the Rhythms of Capital
This theoretical and empirical study examines the relationship between the organisation of work, industrial relations, production spaces and the dynamics of capitalist investment. Jamie Gough explores the connections between labour process change, products, local economy and society, spaces and forms of competition, and firm's locational strategies. In a path-breaking analysis he shows that these are closely bound up with the business cycle and o…
Socialism and ‘Social Economy’
Many socialists support initiatives to develop the social economy. Yet the social economy is deeply ambiguous in its politics: it promises radical economic democracy, yet it is often sponsored by the Right and Centre as a means of class stabilization, workers’ self-exploitation, and social reproduction on the cheap. We locate this political ambiguity in the contradictions of capitalist accumulation, particularly the contradictions of socialisatio…
Workers' strategies to secure jobs, their uses of scale, and competing economic moralities: Rethinking the 'geography of justice
Spaces of Social Exclusion
The Relevance of The Limits to Capital to Contemporary Spatial Economics: For an Anti‐Capitalist Geography
Changing scale as changing class relations: Variety and Contradiction in the Politics of Scale
The Genesis and Tensions of the English Regional Development Agencies: Class Relations and Scale
This paper argues that the origin of the recently founded Regional Development Agencies (RDAs) in England should be theorized in terms of the class relations and tensions of economic regulation in Britain and the use of scale and rescaling to manage those tensions. The paper considers the class logic of neo-liberalism, which has been particularly strongly developed in Britain due to its long-standing liberal settlement, and the problems of social…
The Genesis and Tensions of the English Regional Development Agencies: Class Relations and Scale
Neoliberalism and Socialisation in the Contemporary City: Opposites, Complements and Instabilities
This paper explores some dialectics of neoliberalism and socialisation in contemporary urbanism. The significance of socialisation—nonmarket cooperation between social actors—in both production and reproduction has tended to increase in the long term. Socialisation does not always take politically progressive forms, yet it always has a problematic relation with private property and class discipline. Socialisation of diverse forms grew during the …
Neoliberalism and Socialisation in the Contemporary City: Opposites, Complements and Instabilities
This paper explores some dialectics of neoliberalism and socialisation in contemporary urbanism. The significance of socialisation—nonmarket cooperation between social actors—in both production and reproduction has tended to increase in the long term. Socialisation does not always take politically progressive forms, yet it always has a problematic relation with private property and class discipline. Socialisation of diverse forms grew during the …
Changing scale as changing class relations: Variety and Contradiction in the Politics of Scale
Workers' strategies to secure jobs, their uses of scale, and competing economic moralities: Rethinking the 'geography of justice
Structure, System, and Contradiction in the Capitalist Space Economy
A theoretical approach to analysing the capitalist space economy is presented and is applied to the analysis of local economies. Capitalist society itself creates a distinction between 'structures', embodying necessary social relations and processes, and 'systems', which articulate contingent, external relations, in particular market relations. The development of structures from abstract to concrete forms incorporates space as spatial differentia…
The contradictions of neo‐Keynesian local economic strategy
The last twenty years have seen the rise of local economic initiatives in the developed capitalist countries. Despite the dominance of neo‐liberalism at the national level, most of these local programmes are neo‐Keynesian, seeking to use non‐market coordination pragmatically to address market failures and to use localism to develop active cooperation, between the state, capital and sometimes labour and residents. This article argues that, despite…
Industrial policy and socialist strategy: Restructuring and the unity of the working class
Jamie Gough continues the reassessment of industrial intervention from the left, starting with Goodwin and Duncan's critical look at Sheffield's experience in Capital & Class 27 and Cochrane's review of the London Industrial Strategy in Capital & Class 28, but shifts the analysis from their emphasis on the local versus national problematic to the more general implications of the underlying models of intervention. He argues that recent left-wing r…
Workers' Competition, Class Relations, and Space
In this paper the nature of workers' support for economic competition between areas is explored, The connection between class relations and competition in space is theorised through a distinction between 'structure' and 'system' and through a specifically Marxist conception of competition. It is argued that workers' interests in spatial competition are contradictory and thus take diverse forms. These interests are analysed through a development o…
The Construction of Mainstream Local Economic Initiatives: Mobility, Socialization, and Class Relations
The mainstream of local economic initiatives in Western Europe and to a lesser extent the United States embodies mild intervention in production, attention to welfare, and collaborative class relations. Thus, in the midst of national neoliberalism, there is a return to the pragmatic, interventionist politics of the postwar built on class consensus at the local level. In this paper we seek to explain the paradox in terms of the contradictory uniti…
The Modernisation of Britain and Local Economic Policy: Promise and Contradictions
Britain's poor economic performance is often thought to be the product of exceptional, archaic characteristics of British society which weaken domestic industry; 'modernisation' is seen as the creation of a 'normal' capitalism. The modernisation project in recent years has shifted from the national to the local level, partly as a reaction to national neoliberalism which prioritises capital mobility over socialisation to promote manufacturing, Loc…
The difference between local and national capitalism, and why local capitalisms differ from one another: A Marxist approach
This paper develops a notion of 'local capitalisms'. Starting from a particular, Marxist theorisation of capitalism and of the state, local capitalism is analysed as a nexus of production, reproduction of people, and the state within a locality. The latter construct, and are constructed by, specific relations of class, gender, ethnicity and age, themselves internally related. On this basis one can specify the 'vertical difference' of local from n…
Not Flexible Accumulation-Contradictions of Value in Contemporary Economic Geography: 2. Regional Regimes, National Regulation, and Political Strategy
In this and a previous paper, work by geographers that is based on the idea that we are in a period of transition to an epoch of flexible accumulation, or post-Fordism, is examined. It is argued that this thesis relies on abstracting the technical and organisational aspects of current restructuring from its value relations. An account which includes value relations shows that the phenomena said to characterise flexible accumulation are more contr…
James Tyrrell, Whig Historian and Friend of John Locke
It has been said of James Tyrrell that his ‘main claim to distinction was perhaps his friendship with John Locke’, but his elaborate monument in Oakley church, near Brill in Buckinghamshire, although it records a number of his qualities and achievements, does not mention this. James was the eldest son of Sir Timothy Tyrrell, Knight, of Shotover House, near Oxford; his mother's father was James Ussher, archbishop of Armagh. Sir Timothy had been a …
The Social Contract: A Critical Study of its Development
The book first discusses the various ideas which comprise the theory of the social contract, and then traces the history as it developed. The central theme of the social contract, the relationship of citizens and government, is also analyzed
Not Flexible Accumulation-Contradictions of Value in Contemporary Economic Geography: 1. Workplace and Interfirm Relations
In this and a subsequent paper, work by geographers that is based on the idea that we are in a period of transition to an epoch of flexible accumulation, or post-Fordism, is examined. It is argued that this thesis relies on abstracting the technical and organisational aspects of current restructuring from its value relations. An account which includes value relations shows that the phenomena said to characterise flexible accumulation are more con…
Brexit, xenophobia and left strategy now
The economic consequences of Brexit are dire. But an even more serious problem for the left thrown up by the vote to Leave is what it shows about working-class consciousness regarding 'immigrants', and how the anti-immigration Leave campaign has shifted working-class opinion to the right. It is this aspect of Brexit that I focus on in this article. In England and Wales, the majority of the working class (in the everyday rather than Marxist sense)…
Introduction to the special section: Urban neoliberalism, strategies for urban struggles, and 'the right to the city
The strategy and demand for the 'right to the city' was first advanced by Henri Lefebvre in the late-1960s. The concept has been used as a slogan by urban movements in various countries since the 2000s, and has also been discussed in left academic literature. This special section of Capital & Class contains interviews on contemporary urban politics and the right to the city by two Marxist urbanists, Neil Smith and Jamie Gough. These are preceded …
Socialism and ‘Social Economy’
Many socialists support initiatives to develop the social economy. Yet the social economy is deeply ambiguous in its politics: it promises radical economic democracy, yet it is often sponsored by the Right and Centre as a means of class stabilization, workers’ self-exploitation, and social reproduction on the cheap. We locate this political ambiguity in the contradictions of capitalist accumulation, particularly the contradictions of socialisatio…
Lavoisier's Early Career in Science: An Examination of Some New Evidence
Shortly before his death in 1934, the British historian of chemistry, A. N. Meldrum, published two lengthy articles on Lavoisier's early career in science. After a careful investigation of the collection of manuscripts at the Académie des Sciences in Paris and in light of a detailed and penetrating analysis of Lavoisier's published work, Meldrum concluded that as a youth, Lavoisier was concerned with chemistry only to the extent that he found it …
The many theories of mind: Eliminativism and pluralism in context
In recent philosophy of science there has been much discussion of both pluralism, which embraces scientific terms with multiple meanings, and eliminativism, which rejects such terms. Some recent work focuses on the conditions that legitimize pluralism over eliminativism – the conditions under which such terms are acceptable. Often, this is understood as a matter of encouraging effective communication – the danger of these terms is thought to be e…
The Relevance of The Limits to Capital to Contemporary Spatial Economics: For an Anti‐Capitalist Geography
The Genesis and Tensions of the English Regional Development Agencies: Class Relations and Scale
The Division of Labour, Capitalism and Socialism: An Alternative to Sayer
Sayer (1995) has argued that the division of labour has a structure that is distinct from capitalist relations of production, and, following Hayek, that it is determined most strongly by the use of knowledge by enterprises. Conscious coordination or alteration of the division of labour therefore usually result in reduced efficiency and in an authoritarian suppression of difference. In this article we argue that the division of labour in capitalis…
The Genesis and Tensions of the English Regional Development Agencies: Class Relations and Scale
This paper argues that the origin of the recently founded Regional Development Agencies (RDAs) in England should be theorized in terms of the class relations and tensions of economic regulation in Britain and the use of scale and rescaling to manage those tensions. The paper considers the class logic of neo-liberalism, which has been particularly strongly developed in Britain due to its long-standing liberal settlement, and the problems of social…
National and regional technology policies in the USA, Japan and Western Europe
State Policies and Techno‐Industrial Innovation. Edited by Ulrich Hilpert. Routledge, 1991. Pp. 372. £40 hb. Regional Innovation and Decentralisation: high tech industry and government policy. Edited by Ulrich Hilpert. Routledge, 1991. Pp. 331. £40 hb
Local authority policies in inner London — Monitoring the responses of manufacturing firms
LVI.—T he A greements of the P eople , 1647–491
Harrington and Contemporary Thought
Journal Article Harrington and Contemporary Thought Get access J. W. Gough J. W. Gough University of Bristol, England Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 45, Issue 3, September 1930, Pages 395–404, https://doi.org/10.2307/2143194 Published: 15 September 1930
The Social Contract: A Critical Study of its Development
The book first discusses the various ideas which comprise the theory of the social contract, and then traces the history as it developed. The central theme of the social contract, the relationship of citizens and government, is also analyzed
A History of Political Theory
John Locke's Political Philosophy
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access John Locke’s Political Philosophy.. By J. W. Gough (Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1950. Pp. viii + 204. Price 12s 6d). A. G. Wernham A. G. Wernham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 1, Issue 3, April 1951, Pages 271–272, https://doi.org/10.2307/2217255 Published: 01 April 1951
John Locke's Political Philosophy: Eight Studies
Fundamental Law in the Seventeenth Century
Flowers of the Crown
Journal Article Flowers of the Crown Get access J. W. GOUGH J. W. GOUGH Oriel CollegeOxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume LXXVII, Issue CCCII, January 1962, Pages 86–93, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/LXXVII.CCCII.86 Published: 01 January 1962
Lavoisier's Early Career in Science: An Examination of Some New Evidence
Shortly before his death in 1934, the British historian of chemistry, A. N. Meldrum, published two lengthy articles on Lavoisier's early career in science. After a careful investigation of the collection of manuscripts at the Académie des Sciences in Paris and in light of a detailed and penetrating analysis of Lavoisier's published work, Meldrum concluded that as a youth, Lavoisier was concerned with chemistry only to the extent that he found it …
James Tyrrell, Whig Historian and Friend of John Locke
It has been said of James Tyrrell that his ‘main claim to distinction was perhaps his friendship with John Locke’, but his elaborate monument in Oakley church, near Brill in Buckinghamshire, although it records a number of his qualities and achievements, does not mention this. James was the eldest son of Sir Timothy Tyrrell, Knight, of Shotover House, near Oxford; his mother's father was James Ussher, archbishop of Armagh. Sir Timothy had been a …
Local authority policies in inner London — Monitoring the responses of manufacturing firms
Industrial policy and socialist strategy: Restructuring and the unity of the working class
Jamie Gough continues the reassessment of industrial intervention from the left, starting with Goodwin and Duncan's critical look at Sheffield's experience in Capital & Class 27 and Cochrane's review of the London Industrial Strategy in Capital & Class 28, but shifts the analysis from their emphasis on the local versus national problematic to the more general implications of the underlying models of intervention. He argues that recent left-wing r…
Structure, System, and Contradiction in the Capitalist Space Economy
A theoretical approach to analysing the capitalist space economy is presented and is applied to the analysis of local economies. Capitalist society itself creates a distinction between 'structures', embodying necessary social relations and processes, and 'systems', which articulate contingent, external relations, in particular market relations. The development of structures from abstract to concrete forms incorporates space as spatial differentia…
Where’s the Value in ‘Post-Fordism’?
Current debate on post-Fordism is centred on technical-organisational questions. These questions dominate discussion of the labour process, the organisation of the firm, inter-firm relations and the relation between production and consumption. Attention is focused on how, with given basic technology, the design, production and marketing can be organised in the most ‘efficient’ way; that is, to achieve some combination of cost minimisation, qualit…
Workers' Competition, Class Relations, and Space
In this paper the nature of workers' support for economic competition between areas is explored, The connection between class relations and competition in space is theorised through a distinction between 'structure' and 'system' and through a specifically Marxist conception of competition. It is argued that workers' interests in spatial competition are contradictory and thus take diverse forms. These interests are analysed through a development o…
The Politics of Local Economic Policy
National and regional technology policies in the USA, Japan and Western Europe
State Policies and Techno‐Industrial Innovation. Edited by Ulrich Hilpert. Routledge, 1991. Pp. 372. £40 hb. Regional Innovation and Decentralisation: high tech industry and government policy. Edited by Ulrich Hilpert. Routledge, 1991. Pp. 331. £40 hb
The contradictions of neo‐Keynesian local economic strategy
The last twenty years have seen the rise of local economic initiatives in the developed capitalist countries. Despite the dominance of neo‐liberalism at the national level, most of these local programmes are neo‐Keynesian, seeking to use non‐market coordination pragmatically to address market failures and to use localism to develop active cooperation, between the state, capital and sometimes labour and residents. This article argues that, despite…
The Modernisation of Britain and Local Economic Policy: Promise and Contradictions
Britain's poor economic performance is often thought to be the product of exceptional, archaic characteristics of British society which weaken domestic industry; 'modernisation' is seen as the creation of a 'normal' capitalism. The modernisation project in recent years has shifted from the national to the local level, partly as a reaction to national neoliberalism which prioritises capital mobility over socialisation to promote manufacturing, Loc…
Not Flexible Accumulation-Contradictions of Value in Contemporary Economic Geography: 2. Regional Regimes, National Regulation, and Political Strategy
In this and a previous paper, work by geographers that is based on the idea that we are in a period of transition to an epoch of flexible accumulation, or post-Fordism, is examined. It is argued that this thesis relies on abstracting the technical and organisational aspects of current restructuring from its value relations. An account which includes value relations shows that the phenomena said to characterise flexible accumulation are more contr…
Not Flexible Accumulation-Contradictions of Value in Contemporary Economic Geography: 1. Workplace and Interfirm Relations
In this and a subsequent paper, work by geographers that is based on the idea that we are in a period of transition to an epoch of flexible accumulation, or post-Fordism, is examined. It is argued that this thesis relies on abstracting the technical and organisational aspects of current restructuring from its value relations. An account which includes value relations shows that the phenomena said to characterise flexible accumulation are more con…
The Construction of Mainstream Local Economic Initiatives: Mobility, Socialization, and Class Relations
The mainstream of local economic initiatives in Western Europe and to a lesser extent the United States embodies mild intervention in production, attention to welfare, and collaborative class relations. Thus, in the midst of national neoliberalism, there is a return to the pragmatic, interventionist politics of the postwar built on class consensus at the local level. In this paper we seek to explain the paradox in terms of the contradictory uniti…
The Division of Labour, Capitalism and Socialism: An Alternative to Sayer
Sayer (1995) has argued that the division of labour has a structure that is distinct from capitalist relations of production, and, following Hayek, that it is determined most strongly by the use of knowledge by enterprises. Conscious coordination or alteration of the division of labour therefore usually result in reduced efficiency and in an authoritarian suppression of difference. In this article we argue that the division of labour in capitalis…
Regional development strategies: A European perspective
Neoliberalism and Socialisation in the Contemporary City: Opposites, Complements and Instabilities
This paper explores some dialectics of neoliberalism and socialisation in contemporary urbanism. The significance of socialisation—nonmarket cooperation between social actors—in both production and reproduction has tended to increase in the long term. Socialisation does not always take politically progressive forms, yet it always has a problematic relation with private property and class discipline. Socialisation of diverse forms grew during the …
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