David Braybrooke
Biographic Data
| ID | 239834 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Braybrooke |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Braybrooke |
| SIGNATURE | BRAYBROOKE D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dalhousie University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 44 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 148 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 44 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1955 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Analytical Political Philosophy: From Discourse, Edification
In Analytical Political Philosophy: From Discourse, Edification , distinguished Canadian philosopher David Braybrooke explores this movement by bringing together some of his earlier free-standing studies of the concepts of needs, rights, and rules.
Utilitarianism: Restorations; Repairs; Renovations
What Truth Does the Emotive-Imperative Answer to the Open-Question Argument Leave to Moral Judgments
R Obert A. D Ahl's P Hilosophy of D Emocracy , E Xhibited in H Is E Ssays
Dahl's collected essays give more weight to his achievements as a philosopher of democracy than to his empirical investigations. Nevertheless, they clearly reflect his habit of working close to empirical facts, in particular the problems created for democratic practices by the size of modern political societies, their pluralism, and their intricate involvement with capitalism. His trenchant account, under the head of “polyarchy,” of basic democra…
Moral Objectives, Rules, and the Forms of Social Change
Essays by David Braybrooke take up an assortment of practical concerns that ethics brings into politics: people?s interests; needs along with preferences; work and commitment to work; participation in social life.
Justice in Jeopardy if Needs Not Met: A Reply to Gillian Brock
From Gillian Brock's vigorous probing (Brock 1994, 1996) of my treatment of meeting needs in my book of that title (Braybrooke 1987) I have learned a good deal; and from the article published in Dialogue , which concerns in particular the connection that I made between justice and needs, I have certainly learned how my arguments for that connection might have been expressed more cogently. Yet I think that the arguments I intended, and even the ar…
The Abolition of the British Slave Trade
Logic on the Track of Social Change
This book sets out a new logic of rules, developed to demonstrate how such a logic can contribute to the clarification of historical questions about social rules. The chapters illustrate applications of this new logic in extensive treatments of a variety of accounts of social changes, analysing in these examples the content of particular social rules and the course of changes in them.
Lewis Anthony Dexter
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Economic Theory Stalled: Model-Theoretic Institutionalism as a Way Forward
Both Hausman and Rosenberg reject McCloskey's contention that economics is no more than rhetoric, and do so with cogent reasons drawn from old-fashioned views about truth and objectivity ( R , pp. 30–55; H , pp. 266–67). (Hausman's treatment of McCloskey is more nuanced, but neither of them, I think, make enough allowance for McCloskey's playfulness or for the power, on his less provocative side, of his intermittent argument for a reasonably resp…
Inward and Outward with the Modern Self
The modern self, with its inwardness, its freedom and its individuality (p. ix), suffers, Taylor tells us, from disenchantment (p. 500, cf. pp. 17-18, 186). Moreover, disenchantment has come in spite of the advance, to which Taylor wishes to give full credit, that modernity has made in giving great value to ordinary life at work and in the family (p. 211). For religion, though still present as one layer of sentiment among many in the historical d…
No Rules without Virtues: No Virtues without Rules
Liberalism's Claim to Culture
At the heart of the argument in Kymlicka's book is a principle which is characteristic of liberalism as he conceives it: attachments to a community and to the culture that it embodies are to be honoured as indispensable to intelligible personal choice (p. 47–58, 165–66, 192–93), so long as everyone with the attachments is free to examine them critically and then revise them in any or all of their features (p. 13, 48, 50–51, 167, 172). In one part…
Political CriticismIan Shapiro Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990, pp. xii, 338
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Limits to risk
Philosophy of Social Science
Michalos' Comments on Meeting Needs Disposed of
Can x need y without our being in a position to conceptualize y? Nothing, given ten seconds thought, is easier to show. Every man, woman, and child from the beginning of the human race needed Vitamin C as one ingredient in the minimum provisions for their food. It was only in this century, however, that people arrived at the concept of Vitamin C and became able to assert the need for it. On the record, we may expect more such discoveries
The Meeting of Needs
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access The Meeting of Needs. By David Braybrooke (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987. Pp. xi + 344. Price £23.40, pb. £8.35). Gordon Graham Gordon Graham University of St. Andrews Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 38, Issue 152, July 1988, Pages 381–383, https://doi.org/10.2307/2220139 Published: 01 July 1988
Meeting Needs
The concept of needs works to sort out social policies. Yet the idea is in disrepute with many thinkers who, led by economists, accuse it of being too fluid, or too narrow, or of serving no purpose that the concept of preferences does not serve better. David Braybrooke refutes these charges by providing a model of how the concept of needs works when it is working well. Originally published in 1987. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest pri…
Inequality: Essays on the Political Economy of Social Welfare
The Maximum Claims of Gauthier's Bargainers: Are the Fixed Social Inequalities Acceptable
A central feature of David Gauthier's impressively searching version of social contract theory is the principle of maximin relative advantage. Given certain assumptions—more than he originally thought—this principle may be described as calling for maximum equal advantage, which is easier to talk about; and I shall refer to the principle under this description. Maximum equal relative advantage is equivalent to minimum equal relative concession; he…
Inequalities Not Conceded Yet: A Rejoinder to Gauthier's Reply
Gauthier's thinking about the social contract continues to develop vigorously. Had I aimed my criticisms at the stage of his thinking that he had reached at the time of his reply to them, rather than at earlier stages already in print, I would have organized my argument differently. Yet the earlier stages were interesting enough—and remain so—to deserve attention for their own sake. Moreover, my criticisms, even as they stand, have some effects t…
Essays on Explanation and Understanding: Studies in the Foundations of Humanities and Social Sciences
I/Approaches to Teleology, Intentionality, and Historical Understanding.- Causal and Historical Explanation.- Against Reductionism and Purism : Tertium Datur.- Is Transcendental Hermeneutics Possible?.- The Intentions of Intentionality.- Comments on Professor Hintikka's Paper.- Reply to J. N. Findlay.- II/Causality and Intervention.- Causality and Action.- Causality and History.- An Analysis of Causality.- Explanation and Understanding of Human B…
Explanation
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Explanation. Edited by Stephan Körner. (Oxford: Basil Blackwell. 1975. Pp. viii + 219. Price £5.50) David Braybrooke David Braybrooke Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 27, Issue 106, January 1977, Pages 74–78, https://doi.org/10.2307/2218935 Published: 01 January 1977
Causal Explanation and Model Building in History, Economics, and the New Economic History
A Strategy of Decision
Philosophical Problems of the Social Sciences
Philosophy of Social Science
The Relevance of Norms to Political Description
The dangers that arise when norms and personal values intrude upon scientific work are familiar to every political scientist-so familiar, that nowadays the dangers are likely to be shrugged off with undeserved contempt. "The 'cult of objectivity' has passed in social science," one writer has recently proclaimed; and David Easton declares, less dramatically, that even though he assumes that "factual and moral propositions are logically heterogeneo…
Inward and Outward with the Modern Self
The modern self, with its inwardness, its freedom and its individuality (p. ix), suffers, Taylor tells us, from disenchantment (p. 500, cf. pp. 17-18, 186). Moreover, disenchantment has come in spite of the advance, to which Taylor wishes to give full credit, that modernity has made in giving great value to ordinary life at work and in the family (p. 211). For religion, though still present as one layer of sentiment among many in the historical d…
Inequality: Essays on the Political Economy of Social Welfare
The Insoluble Problem of the Social Contract
The traditional problem of the social contract defies solution. Agents with the motivations traditionally assumed would not in the circumstances traditionally assumed voluntarily arrive at a contract or voluntarily keep it up, as we can now understand, more clearly than our illustrious predecessors, by treating the problem in terms not available to them: the terms of Prisoner's Dilemma and of the theory of public goods
How are Moral Judgments Connected with Displays of Emotion
Most philosophers, I think, would hold that there is a great deal more to be noticed about moral judgments than any special connections which they may be supposed to have with displays of emotion. I strongly hold this myself. Many philosophers, however-and I am one of them-are inclined to believe that special connections of this kind do exist. Agitation counts in ethics. But just what does it count for? What is to be made of the central fact that…
Berkeley on the Numerical Identity of Ideas
The Value Judgement
Philosophy, Politics and Society
The Relevance of Norms to Political Description
The dangers that arise when norms and personal values intrude upon scientific work are familiar to every political scientist-so familiar, that nowadays the dangers are likely to be shrugged off with undeserved contempt. "The 'cult of objectivity' has passed in social science," one writer has recently proclaimed; and David Easton declares, less dramatically, that even though he assumes that "factual and moral propositions are logically heterogeneo…
Dimensions of Freedom: An Analysis
A Strategy of Decision: Policy Evaluation as a Social Process
A Strategy of Decision: Policy Evaluation As a Social Process
Legal Positivism: Its Scope and Limitations
How are Moral Judgments Connected with Displays of Emotion
Most philosophers, I think, would hold that there is a great deal more to be noticed about moral judgments than any special connections which they may be supposed to have with displays of emotion. I strongly hold this myself. Many philosophers, however-and I am one of them-are inclined to believe that special connections of this kind do exist. Agitation counts in ethics. But just what does it count for? What is to be made of the central fact that…
Philosophical Problems of the Social Sciences
Refinements of Culture in Large-Scale History
Doubts about the Concept of Culture. The mere curiosity men feel about large-scale changes in history, like changes in culture, may not justify professional historians' giving attention to such changes, except to demolish other people's attempts to describe them. Culture may be too grandiose and polymorphous a concept for an historian to handle responsibly. If the concept could be used for one age and region, it is true, it could (given comparabl…
A Strategy of Decision
Dialectic in History: Rejoinder to Professor Mulholland's Comments
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History and Social Theory
The Firm But Untidy Correlativity of Rights and Obligations
The correlativity of rights and obligations is one of the few stock topics in the basic repertory of English-speaking philosophy th-t is considered suitable for assignment to philosophers specializing in political philosophy (even so it is a topic that must be shared with ethics). It is a topic perennially discussed, chiefly (I think) for reasons that have little to do with its importance: namely, just because it is a recognized topic and because…
The Logical Character of Verdicts: A Case Study
Léon Dion, Société et politique - la vie des groupes: Tome 1, Fondements de la société libérale; Tome 2, Dynamique de la société libérale. Québec: Les Presses de l'Université Laval, 1971, 1972, 444, 6…
Léon Dion, Société et politique - la vie des groupes: Tome 1, Fondements de la société libérale; Tome 2, Dynamique de la société libérale. Québec: Les Presses de l'Université Laval, 1971, 1972, 444, 616, pp. - Volume 6 Issue 3
Echange Exchange
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The Insoluble Problem of the Social Contract
The traditional problem of the social contract defies solution. Agents with the motivations traditionally assumed would not in the circumstances traditionally assumed voluntarily arrive at a contract or voluntarily keep it up, as we can now understand, more clearly than our illustrious predecessors, by treating the problem in terms not available to them: the terms of Prisoner's Dilemma and of the theory of public goods
Explanation
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Explanation. Edited by Stephan Körner. (Oxford: Basil Blackwell. 1975. Pp. viii + 219. Price £5.50) David Braybrooke David Braybrooke Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 27, Issue 106, January 1977, Pages 74–78, https://doi.org/10.2307/2218935 Published: 01 January 1977
Causal Explanation and Model Building in History, Economics, and the New Economic History
Essays on Explanation and Understanding: Studies in the Foundations of Humanities and Social Sciences
I/Approaches to Teleology, Intentionality, and Historical Understanding.- Causal and Historical Explanation.- Against Reductionism and Purism : Tertium Datur.- Is Transcendental Hermeneutics Possible?.- The Intentions of Intentionality.- Comments on Professor Hintikka's Paper.- Reply to J. N. Findlay.- II/Causality and Intervention.- Causality and Action.- Causality and History.- An Analysis of Causality.- Explanation and Understanding of Human B…
The Maximum Claims of Gauthier's Bargainers: Are the Fixed Social Inequalities Acceptable
A central feature of David Gauthier's impressively searching version of social contract theory is the principle of maximin relative advantage. Given certain assumptions—more than he originally thought—this principle may be described as calling for maximum equal advantage, which is easier to talk about; and I shall refer to the principle under this description. Maximum equal relative advantage is equivalent to minimum equal relative concession; he…
Inequalities Not Conceded Yet: A Rejoinder to Gauthier's Reply
Gauthier's thinking about the social contract continues to develop vigorously. Had I aimed my criticisms at the stage of his thinking that he had reached at the time of his reply to them, rather than at earlier stages already in print, I would have organized my argument differently. Yet the earlier stages were interesting enough—and remain so—to deserve attention for their own sake. Moreover, my criticisms, even as they stand, have some effects t…
Inequality: Essays on the Political Economy of Social Welfare
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