Charles Lowney
Biographic Data
| ID | 9207301 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Charles Lowney |
| GIVEN NAMES | Charles |
| FAMILY NAME | Lowney |
| SIGNATURE | LOWNEY C |
| AFFILIATIONS | WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY, LEXINGTON, VA, USA, |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7982-4253 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Rawls’s Political Liberalism from an Emergentist Perspective
John Rawls’s political liberalism is supported and better understood via Michael Polanyi’s tacit and emergent structures. Rawls claims the political is “freestanding” and “neutral” relative to comprehensive moral doctrines and metaphysical assumptions. Polanyian critics of Rawls emphasize the personal nature of our political commitments and Polanyi’s metaphysical realism. They also claim tacit knowing makes Rawls’s “veil of ignorance” impossible…
Michael Polanyi
Robust Moral Realism
Rethinking the Machine Metaphor Since Descartes
Michael Polanyi’s conceptions of tacit knowing and emergent being are used to correct a reductionism that developed from, or reacted against, the excesses of several Cartesian assumptions: (a) the method of universal doubt; (b) the emphasis on reductive analysis to unshakeable foundations, via connections between clear and distinct ideas; (c) the notion that what is real are the basic atomic substances out of which all else is composed; (d) a sha…
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Rethinking the Machine Metaphor Since Descartes
Michael Polanyi’s conceptions of tacit knowing and emergent being are used to correct a reductionism that developed from, or reacted against, the excesses of several Cartesian assumptions: (a) the method of universal doubt; (b) the emphasis on reductive analysis to unshakeable foundations, via connections between clear and distinct ideas; (c) the notion that what is real are the basic atomic substances out of which all else is composed; (d) a sha…
Robust Moral Realism
Michael Polanyi
Rawls’s Political Liberalism from an Emergentist Perspective
John Rawls’s political liberalism is supported and better understood via Michael Polanyi’s tacit and emergent structures. Rawls claims the political is “freestanding” and “neutral” relative to comprehensive moral doctrines and metaphysical assumptions. Polanyian critics of Rawls emphasize the personal nature of our political commitments and Polanyi’s metaphysical realism. They also claim tacit knowing makes Rawls’s “veil of ignorance” impossible…
Epistemology (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Metaphysics (2 works) · Philosophy and History of Science (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Realism (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Classical liberalism (1 work) · Cognitive science (1 work) · Consciousness (1 work)