Ethics, Society and Politics: Themes from the Philosophy of Peter Winch

Michael Campbell is researcher at the Centre for Ethics in the University of Pardubice. He works on issues at the intersection of meta-ethics and normative moral philosophy, and is interested in bringing moral philosophy into discussion with psychology.Lynette Reid is associate professor in the Bioethics Department at Dalhousie University, Canada. She completed a PhD on Wittgenstein’s Tractatus with Winch at Illinois in the mid-1990s. She works on ethical, political, and philosophical issues in public health, focusing on cancer screening, the normative significance of health inequalities, and preferential access in universal health care syste s.

• Chapter 1. Introduction: The Unity of Winch's Philosophy(Michael Campbell).- Chapter 2. Winch on First Philosophy: Einheit und Vielheit (Steven Burns).- Chapter 3.The idea of a Weltanschauung and its Relation to Philosophy (Lars Hertzberg ).- Chapter 4. Moral Agency (Carolyn Wilde).- Chapter 5. Wittgenstein and Winch on the Will (David Cockburn).- Chapter 6. The Identity of Man – Winch between Spinoza, Weil, and Wittgenstein (Sarah Tropper).- Chapter 7. The Will, Punishment, and the Justification of Political Authority (Lynette Reid).- Chapter 8. 'Work Against the Government': Winch on Political Authority (Michael Campbell).- Chapter 9. Old Age on the Opera Stage – Ethical Problems Regarding Questions of Power, Government and Law contra Conviction (Helen Geyer).- Chapter 10. The Personal in Ethics: Winch on Universalisability, Difference and Disagreement (Kamila Pacovská).- Chapter 11. The Personal and The Universal in Morality (Takeshi Sato).- Chapter 12. Winch between Wittgenstein and Weber: “understanding human behaviour” as the Hermeneutic Aim for Contemporary Social Sciences (Francesca Romana Recchia Luciani).- Chapter 13. The Good and the Bad in Sexual Relations: A Reconsideration of Winch’s Limiting Notions (Camilla Kronqvist).- Chapter 14. Researching Education: Perspectives from Winch’s Approach to the Social Sciences (Christopher Winch).- Chapter 15. Winch and Animal Minds (Craig Taylor).