Richard W Miller
Biographic Data
| ID | 302717 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard W Miller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard W |
| FAMILY NAME | Miller |
| SIGNATURE | MILLER R W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cornell University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4409-1173 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 104 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Climate Change, Catholic Social Teaching, and Human Rights
The development of human rights thinking in the United Nations and the Catholic Church has operated on a separate track from the development of thinking regarding environmental concerns. This paper traces this historical divergence and some factors contributing to this divergence. It argues that climate stability is the most pressing earth system problem and not only should not be neglected by human rights thinkers (as in Catholic circles) or act…
Analyzing Marx
Michael Blake's Border Controls
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The Ethics of America's Afghan War
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Relationships of Equality
Forças produtivas e forças de transformação
O presente artigo constitui uma resenha crítica da obra Karl Marx's Theory of History (KMTH), de Gerald A. Cohen. A partir da apresentação e da problematização da noção de determinismo tecnológico presente em KMTH e alhures, são discutidas asprincipais teses formuladas por Cohen, principalmente aquela da primazia explicativa das forças produtivas. Em seguida, procura-se demonstrar as diferenças existentes entre a interpretação de Cohen do materia…
Moral closeness and world community
Ordinary moral thinking about aid to needy strangers discriminates in favor of the political closeness of compatriots and the literal closeness of people in peril who are close at hand. For example, in ordinary moral thinking, I have, as an American citizen, a much more demanding duty to support tax-financed aid to the poor of the United States than to support such aid to the foreign poor. I have a duty to save a drowning toddler I encounter at t…
Cosmopolitanism and Its Limits
Darrel Moellendorf believes that our political choices should be guided by moral principles attending to interests of people throughout the world, that the interests of compatriots do not necessarily take priority over the interests of foreigners, that people in rich and powerful countries ought to do much more than they do now to help poor and oppressed foreigners, and that the justification of these moral demands properly expresses a perspectiv…
Beneficence, Duty and Distance
Too Much Inequality
It used to seem so simple. In the old days (the seventies and eighties of the last century), most political philosophers who were inclined to call themselves “egalitarian” thought that one or another version of this argument established at least the approximate truth about economic justice.
Moral Contractualism and Moral Sensitivity
If it is reasonable to reject the framework of What We Owe to Each Other1 wholesale, in favor of an utterly different approach to duty, I am ill equipped to discover the reasons why. Like many others', my whole way of deliberating about duty has been shaped by the deeply insightful essays that preceded this book, and the basic shaping is, I expect, irreversi ble. Rather, I will be offering doubts about certain specific theses that lead to a frien…
Half-Naturalized Social Kinds
We often legitimately ascribe reality both to social and to natural kinds. But the bases for these ascriptions are not entirely the same. In both cases, reality is typically determined by what characterizations of causal factors are indispensable to adequate explanation. Nonetheless, a psychological role as part of an identity that instances embrace is sometimes, distinctively, a condition for ascribing reality to a social kind. Although such ass…
Cosmopolitan Respect and Patriotic Concern
The Norms of Reason
A belief is rational just in case it is governed by the norms underlying cooperation in pursuit of truth. A person knows something just in case her belief in it results from successful conformity to these norms. I will develop and defend this cooperative view of rational belief and knowledge, and employ it to advance two central projects of epistemology: finding a principled response to wholesale skepticism that is not a license for dogmatic beli…
The Advancement of Realism
Some of us (for example, Philip Kitcher and I) think that the current consensus in the natural sciences is closer to the truth than it has ever been before. But for decades we have been told that important parts of this consensus are due to interactions of power, rhetoric and custom which have no tendency to promote truth in our own view. I think that the debunking of this debunking in The Advancement of Science is a devastating success, an aweso…
Moral Differences
In a wide-ranging inquiry Richard W. Miller provides resources for coping with the most troubling types of conflict - disagreements in conviction, conflicting interests, and the tension between conscience and desires. Drawing on most fields in philosophy and the social sciences, including his previous work in the philosophy of science, he presents an account of our access to truth, and, within this framework, develops a theory of justice and an a…
Moral Differences
In a wide-ranging inquiry Richard W. Miller provides new resources for coping with the most troubling types of moral conflict: disagreements in moral conviction, conflicting interests, and the tension between conscience and desires. Drawing on most fields in philosophy and the social sciences, including his previous work in the philosophy of science, he presents an account of our access to moral truth, and, within this framework, develops a theor…
Social and political theory
Marx's writings include over a thousand pages of theories, explanations, and arguments concerning capitalist societies, some brief but intriguing discussions of precapitalist societies, and at most ten pages of general statements about all (or all class-divided) societies. The meaning of the general statements, important though they are, can be discovered only by understanding how they are used in his historically specific inquiries. So no matter…
The Cambridge Companion to Marx
Marx was a highly original and polymathic thinker, unhampered by disciplinary boundaries, whose intellectual influence has been enormous. Yet in the wake of the collapse of Marxism-Leninism in Eastern Europe the question arises as to how important his work really is for us now. An important dimension of this volume is to place Marx's writings in their historical context and to separate what he actually said from what others (in particular, Engels…
A Critique of the New Natural Law Theory. Russell Hittinger
In Search of Einstein's Legacy
Richard W. Miller, In Search of Einstein's Legacy: A Critical Notice of Arthur Fine, The Shaky Game: Einstein, Realism, and the Quantum Theory, The Philosophical Review, Vol. 98, No. 2 (Apr., 1989), pp. 215-238
Fact and Method. Explanation, Confirmation and Reality in the Natural and the Social Sciences
Fact and Method
In this bold work, of broad scope and rich erudition, Richard Miller sets out to reorient the philosophy of science. By questioning both positivism and its leading critics, he develops new solutions to the most urgent problems about justification, explanation, and truth. Using a wealth of examples from both the natural and the social sciences, Fact and Method applies the new account of scientific reason to specific questions of method in virtuall…
Fact and method
Analyzing Marx
Cosmopolitan Respect and Patriotic Concern
Fact and Method
In this bold work, of broad scope and rich erudition, Richard Miller sets out to reorient the philosophy of science. By questioning both positivism and its leading critics, he develops new solutions to the most urgent problems about justification, explanation, and truth. Using a wealth of examples from both the natural and the social sciences, Fact and Method applies the new account of scientific reason to specific questions of method in virtuall…
Beneficence, Duty and Distance
Methodological Individualism and Social Explanation
Past criticisms to the contrary, methodological individualism in the social sciences is neither trivial nor obviously false. In the style of Weber's sociology, it restricts the ultimate explanatory repertoire of social science to agents' reasons for action. Although this restriction is not obviously false, it ought not to be accepted, at present, as a regulative principle. It excludes, as too far-fetched to merit investigation, certain hypotheses…
The Ethics of America's Afghan War
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Fact and Method. Explanation, Confirmation and Reality in the Natural and the Social Sciences
Ways of Moral Learning
The issue of moral relativism is the question of how similar morality is to science-or, more precisely, to the common image of science as using reason and evidence to establish objective truths. So one would think that the best discussions of moral relativism would be based on the best philosophy of science of the time. In fact, the most advanced discussions of the issue are still limited by obsolete views of meaning and justification, inherited …
Knowledge and Human Interests
Michael Blake's Border Controls
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Half-Naturalized Social Kinds
We often legitimately ascribe reality both to social and to natural kinds. But the bases for these ascriptions are not entirely the same. In both cases, reality is typically determined by what characterizations of causal factors are indispensable to adequate explanation. Nonetheless, a psychological role as part of an identity that instances embrace is sometimes, distinctively, a condition for ascribing reality to a social kind. Although such ass…
The Advancement of Realism
Some of us (for example, Philip Kitcher and I) think that the current consensus in the natural sciences is closer to the truth than it has ever been before. But for decades we have been told that important parts of this consensus are due to interactions of power, rhetoric and custom which have no tendency to promote truth in our own view. I think that the debunking of this debunking in The Advancement of Science is a devastating success, an aweso…
Propensity
Perception, Sensation and Verification
Knowledge and Human Interests
Propensity
Wittgenstein in Transition
Absolute Certainty
Absolute Certainty Get access RICHARD W. MILLER RICHARD W. MILLER CORNELL UNIVERSITY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Mind, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 1, 1978, Pages 46–65, https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/LXXXVII.1.46 Published: 01 January 1978
Methodological Individualism and Social Explanation
Past criticisms to the contrary, methodological individualism in the social sciences is neither trivial nor obviously false. In the style of Weber's sociology, it restricts the ultimate explanatory repertoire of social science to agents' reasons for action. Although this restriction is not obviously false, it ought not to be accepted, at present, as a regulative principle. It excludes, as too far-fetched to merit investigation, certain hypotheses…
Marx and Aristotle
In English-speaking universities, political philosophy has long been dominated by two moral outlooks, the Judgment of institutions by the utility they create and the Judgment of institutions by conformity to rights held to be binding apart from their consequences. In the history of philosophy, Marx and Aristotle are the most striking and attractive contrasts to both alternatives. As against rights-based morality, both Judge institutions by the ki…
Productive Forces and the Forces of Change
In the fifties and sixties, the point of most Anglo-American Marx studies was to show that Marx's theories were not worth studying, except as historically important relics. Acton, Berlin, Popper, and Plamenetz are just a few of those who argued that Marx's ideas were too confused, unclear, metaphysical, or obviously mistaken to merit further empirical investigation. In philosophy, Gerald Cohen has been a leader, probably the leader, in turning th…
Rights and Reality
S ome rights that are narrow in scope seem to be absolute, in that they should never be overridden. There seems to be such a right not to be killed in peacetime unless after careful determination that one has committed a crime. Is there also an absolute right that is so broad as to be fundamental, in that conformity to it would determine all the main features of a society? The most influential moral philosophy of the last ten years has been an ef…
Class, Politics, and Family Organization in San Cosme Xalostoc, Mexico
Analyzing Marx
Ways of Moral Learning
The issue of moral relativism is the question of how similar morality is to science-or, more precisely, to the common image of science as using reason and evidence to establish objective truths. So one would think that the best discussions of moral relativism would be based on the best philosophy of science of the time. In fact, the most advanced discussions of the issue are still limited by obsolete views of meaning and justification, inherited …
Fact and method
Analyzing Marx
Fact and Method
In this bold work, of broad scope and rich erudition, Richard Miller sets out to reorient the philosophy of science. By questioning both positivism and its leading critics, he develops new solutions to the most urgent problems about justification, explanation, and truth. Using a wealth of examples from both the natural and the social sciences, Fact and Method applies the new account of scientific reason to specific questions of method in virtuall…
In Search of Einstein's Legacy
Richard W. Miller, In Search of Einstein's Legacy: A Critical Notice of Arthur Fine, The Shaky Game: Einstein, Realism, and the Quantum Theory, The Philosophical Review, Vol. 98, No. 2 (Apr., 1989), pp. 215-238
Fact and Method. Explanation, Confirmation and Reality in the Natural and the Social Sciences
A Critique of the New Natural Law Theory. Russell Hittinger
Social and political theory
Marx's writings include over a thousand pages of theories, explanations, and arguments concerning capitalist societies, some brief but intriguing discussions of precapitalist societies, and at most ten pages of general statements about all (or all class-divided) societies. The meaning of the general statements, important though they are, can be discovered only by understanding how they are used in his historically specific inquiries. So no matter…
The Cambridge Companion to Marx
Marx was a highly original and polymathic thinker, unhampered by disciplinary boundaries, whose intellectual influence has been enormous. Yet in the wake of the collapse of Marxism-Leninism in Eastern Europe the question arises as to how important his work really is for us now. An important dimension of this volume is to place Marx's writings in their historical context and to separate what he actually said from what others (in particular, Engels…
Moral Differences
In a wide-ranging inquiry Richard W. Miller provides new resources for coping with the most troubling types of moral conflict: disagreements in moral conviction, conflicting interests, and the tension between conscience and desires. Drawing on most fields in philosophy and the social sciences, including his previous work in the philosophy of science, he presents an account of our access to moral truth, and, within this framework, develops a theor…
Moral Differences
In a wide-ranging inquiry Richard W. Miller provides resources for coping with the most troubling types of conflict - disagreements in conviction, conflicting interests, and the tension between conscience and desires. Drawing on most fields in philosophy and the social sciences, including his previous work in the philosophy of science, he presents an account of our access to truth, and, within this framework, develops a theory of justice and an a…
The Norms of Reason
A belief is rational just in case it is governed by the norms underlying cooperation in pursuit of truth. A person knows something just in case her belief in it results from successful conformity to these norms. I will develop and defend this cooperative view of rational belief and knowledge, and employ it to advance two central projects of epistemology: finding a principled response to wholesale skepticism that is not a license for dogmatic beli…
The Advancement of Realism
Some of us (for example, Philip Kitcher and I) think that the current consensus in the natural sciences is closer to the truth than it has ever been before. But for decades we have been told that important parts of this consensus are due to interactions of power, rhetoric and custom which have no tendency to promote truth in our own view. I think that the debunking of this debunking in The Advancement of Science is a devastating success, an aweso…
Cosmopolitan Respect and Patriotic Concern
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