Andrew Collier
Biographic Data
| ID | 3744543 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Collier |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Collier |
| SIGNATURE | COLLIER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Schlumberger (Ireland) |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5220-6244 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
How effective is public health policy in Scotland on vitamin D deficiency during pregnancy
Objective: To evaluate the uptake of universal vitamin D supplementation during pregnancy, its effectiveness in preventing vitamin D deficiency and the factors associated with these. Design: The regional public health organisation in Ayrshire, Scotland has a policy of universal provision of vitamin D supplements (10 μg/d) to all pregnant women for the duration of their pregnancy. Pregnant women in this area were recruited at their 12-week antenat…
Teachers and gangsters
In this article, Andrew Collier explains why the ideas of revolutionary thinkers, such as Jesus, Marx and Nietzsche, often degrade into violent ‘gangsterism’ in the hands of revolutionary leaders, such as Torquemada, Stalin and Hitler. In his explanation, Collier corrects a misunderstanding about communism: namely that it aims to achieve certain administrative goals, such as state ownership of the means of production. To the contrary, Marx merely…
Socialism and the right to property: Marx and Chesterton
In this article, Andrew Collier critiques the method, but not the aim, of Rerum Novarum, the Catholic argument against socialism, as interpreted by G.K. Chesterton. He holds that Rerum Novarum may have incorrectly interpreted Marx’s – and thus socialists’ – definition of private property by assuming that socialists want to end private ownership of (1) necessary consumables (e.g. food), (2) non-consumables required for a certain standard of life (…
The Politics of Method in the Human Sciences: Positivism and Its Epistemological Others
Critical Realism
Christianity and Marxism: A Philosophical Contribution to Their Reconciliation
Andrew Collier analyses recent cooperation between Christianity and Marxism after earlier years of antagonism. He first discusses the nature of Christianity and Marxism and their place amongst contemporary world views, before looking at areas of apparent conflict and possible reconciliation. This groundbreaking work will be of interest to those involved in philosophy, theology, politics and Marxism.
Critical Realism: Essential Readings
Transcendence: Critical Realism and God
Three Essays Against Nietzsche
These essays defend Christian, socialist and realist positions against Nietzsche's critiques. Each essay addresses a problem in Nietzsche's work. The first deals with perspectivism. On his view, the idea of objectivity disappears, becoming no more than simply a multiplicity of perspectives. The essay shows how Nietzsche's approach to knowledge commits the epistemic fallacy, i.e. evades questions about truth by collapsing them into questions about…
Power1.5 and the weakness of liberalism
Values and Ontology
Philosophy and Politics
Power 1.5 and the Weakness of Liberalism
(2007). Power1.5 and the Weakness of Liberalism. Journal of Critical Realism: Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 111-116
Philosophy and Critical Realism: Critical Realism
Being and Worth
In Defence of Objectivity
This volume addresses the interlocking themes of realism, objectivity, existentialism and (eco-socialist) politics, based on critical realism. However, it moves beyond the purely scientific orientation of earlier contributions to this philosophy, to further develop the themes. The title essay defends objectivity in science, everyday knowledge, and ethics, and examines both subjective idealism and existentialist critiques of objectivity. The other…
Devil You Know
Dialectic in Marxism and critical realism
Constraints on the reproduction of societies are more complex and their theorising is more original to Karl Marx. There is a broad sense in which the absolute idealism of G. W. F. Hegel and his followers, the dialectical materialism of Marx and his followers, and critical realism all belong to the family of dialectical philosophies. So when Marx, in the time-honoured metaphor, cracks Hegel's idealist nut to extract the dialectical kernel, he shat…
In defence of objectivity and other essays: On realism, existentialism and politics
1. The Inorganic Body and the Ambiguity of Freedom 2. Value, Rationality and the Environment 3. Unhewn Demonstrations 4. Critical Realism and the Heritage of the Enlightenment 5. On Slave Rebellions in Morals 6. The Right Rebellion in the Wrong Cause: Heidegger, Technology and the Market 7. Sartre: Intimations of Authenticity 8. Sartre's Mistaken Approach to Marxism 9. Berdyaev's Socialism 10. In Defence of Objectivity
Notes on James Daly's Review of Christianity and Marxism
Christianity and Marxism: A Philosophical Contribution to their Reconciliation
Andrew Collier analyses recent cooperation between Christianity and Marxism after earlier years of antagonism. He first discusses the nature of Christianity and Marxism and their place amongst contemporary world views, before looking at areas of apparent conflict and possible reconciliation. This groundbreaking work will be of interest to those involved in philosophy, theology, politics and Marxism
Critical Reaalism: Essential Readings
Language, Practice and Realism
Critical realism: An introduction to Roy Bhaskar's philosophy
Retrieving structural Marxism
R.D. Laing's Politics
Retrieving structural Marxism
Critical realism: An introduction to Roy Bhaskar's philosophy
Language, Practice and Realism
Christianity and Marxism: A Philosophical Contribution to their Reconciliation
Andrew Collier analyses recent cooperation between Christianity and Marxism after earlier years of antagonism. He first discusses the nature of Christianity and Marxism and their place amongst contemporary world views, before looking at areas of apparent conflict and possible reconciliation. This groundbreaking work will be of interest to those involved in philosophy, theology, politics and Marxism
Critical Reaalism: Essential Readings
Notes on James Daly's Review of Christianity and Marxism
Dialectic in Marxism and critical realism
Constraints on the reproduction of societies are more complex and their theorising is more original to Karl Marx. There is a broad sense in which the absolute idealism of G. W. F. Hegel and his followers, the dialectical materialism of Marx and his followers, and critical realism all belong to the family of dialectical philosophies. So when Marx, in the time-honoured metaphor, cracks Hegel's idealist nut to extract the dialectical kernel, he shat…
In defence of objectivity and other essays: On realism, existentialism and politics
1. The Inorganic Body and the Ambiguity of Freedom 2. Value, Rationality and the Environment 3. Unhewn Demonstrations 4. Critical Realism and the Heritage of the Enlightenment 5. On Slave Rebellions in Morals 6. The Right Rebellion in the Wrong Cause: Heidegger, Technology and the Market 7. Sartre: Intimations of Authenticity 8. Sartre's Mistaken Approach to Marxism 9. Berdyaev's Socialism 10. In Defence of Objectivity
In Defence of Objectivity
This volume addresses the interlocking themes of realism, objectivity, existentialism and (eco-socialist) politics, based on critical realism. However, it moves beyond the purely scientific orientation of earlier contributions to this philosophy, to further develop the themes. The title essay defends objectivity in science, everyday knowledge, and ethics, and examines both subjective idealism and existentialist critiques of objectivity. The other…
Devil You Know
Philosophy and Critical Realism: Critical Realism
Being and Worth
Power 1.5 and the Weakness of Liberalism
(2007). Power1.5 and the Weakness of Liberalism. Journal of Critical Realism: Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 111-116
Philosophy and Politics
Values and Ontology
Power1.5 and the weakness of liberalism
Three Essays Against Nietzsche
These essays defend Christian, socialist and realist positions against Nietzsche's critiques. Each essay addresses a problem in Nietzsche's work. The first deals with perspectivism. On his view, the idea of objectivity disappears, becoming no more than simply a multiplicity of perspectives. The essay shows how Nietzsche's approach to knowledge commits the epistemic fallacy, i.e. evades questions about truth by collapsing them into questions about…
Critical Realism
Christianity and Marxism: A Philosophical Contribution to Their Reconciliation
Andrew Collier analyses recent cooperation between Christianity and Marxism after earlier years of antagonism. He first discusses the nature of Christianity and Marxism and their place amongst contemporary world views, before looking at areas of apparent conflict and possible reconciliation. This groundbreaking work will be of interest to those involved in philosophy, theology, politics and Marxism.
Critical Realism: Essential Readings
Transcendence: Critical Realism and God
Teachers and gangsters
In this article, Andrew Collier explains why the ideas of revolutionary thinkers, such as Jesus, Marx and Nietzsche, often degrade into violent ‘gangsterism’ in the hands of revolutionary leaders, such as Torquemada, Stalin and Hitler. In his explanation, Collier corrects a misunderstanding about communism: namely that it aims to achieve certain administrative goals, such as state ownership of the means of production. To the contrary, Marx merely…
Socialism and the right to property: Marx and Chesterton
In this article, Andrew Collier critiques the method, but not the aim, of Rerum Novarum, the Catholic argument against socialism, as interpreted by G.K. Chesterton. He holds that Rerum Novarum may have incorrectly interpreted Marx’s – and thus socialists’ – definition of private property by assuming that socialists want to end private ownership of (1) necessary consumables (e.g. food), (2) non-consumables required for a certain standard of life (…
The Politics of Method in the Human Sciences: Positivism and Its Epistemological Others
Philosophy (16 works) · Epistemology (13 works) · Political science (12 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Politics (10 works) · Political Economy and Marxism (7 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Critical realism (5 works) · Critical Theory and Philosophy (5 works)