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Peter Guy Winch was born on January 14, 1926 in London, United Kingdom. He was the son of William Edward and Gertrude (Gifford) Winch.
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In the fiftieth anniversary of this book’s first release, Winch’s argument remains as crucial as ever. Originally published in 1958, The Idea of a Social Science and Its Relation to Philosophy was a landmark exploration of the social sciences, written at a time when that field was still young and had not yet joined the Humanities and the Natural Sciences as the third great domain of the Academy. A passionate defender of the importance of philosophy to a full understanding of 'society' against those who would deem it an irrelevant 'ivory towers' pursuit, Winch draws from the works of such thinkers as Ludwig Wittgenstein, J.S. Mill and Max Weber to make his case. In so doing he addresses the possibility and practice of a comprehensive 'science of society'.
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This book examines the religious, social, and political thought of Simone Weil in the context of the rigorous philosophical thinking out of which it grew. It also explores illuminating parallels between these ideas and ideas that were simultaneously being developed by Ludwig Wittgenstein. Simone Weil developed a conception of the relation between human beings and nature which made it difficult for her to explain mutual understanding and justice. Her wrestling with this difficulty coincided with a considerable sharpening of her religious sensibility, and led to a new concept of the natural and social orders involving a supernatural dimension, within which the concepts of beauty and justice are paramount. Professor Winch provides a fresh perspective on the complete span of Simone Weil's work, and discusses the fundamental difficulties of tracing the dividing line between philosophy and religion.
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Peter Winch's translation of Wittgenstein's remarks on culture and value presents all entries chronologically, with the German text alongside the English and a subject index for reference. "It was Wittgenstein's habit to record his thoughts in sequences of more or less closely related 'remarks' which he kept in notebooks throughout his life. The editor of this collection has gone through these notebooks in order to select those 'remarks' which deal with Wittgenstein's views abou the less technical issues in his philosophy. So here we have Wittgenstein's thoughts about religion, music, architecture, the nature of philosophy, the spirit of our times, genius, being Jewish, and so on. The work is a masterpiece by a mastermind."—Leonard Linsky Peter Winch's translation of Wittgenstein's remarks on culture and value presents all entries chronologically, with the German text alongside the English and a subject index for reference. "It was Wittgenstein's habit to record his thoughts in sequences of more or less closely related 'remarks' which he kept in notebooks throughout his life. The editor of this collection has gone through these notebooks in order to select those 'remarks' which deal with Wittgenstein's views abou the less technical issues in his philosophy. So here we have Wittgenstein's thoughts about religion, music, architecture, the nature of philosophy, the spirit of our times, genius, being Jewish, and so on. The work is a masterpiece by a mastermind."—Leonard Linsky
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Ludwig Wittgenstein once said to a friend, "I am not a religious man: but I cannot help seeing every problem from a religious point of view." This puzzling, but intriguing remark is the focus of Norman Malcolm's essay, which forms the centerpiece of this three-part work. Malcolm first draws together a large and illuminating collection of remarks made by Wittgenstein at various stages of his life and in many different contexts that express his attitude toward religion. He discusses some of the ways in which Wittgenstein was drawn to religious modes of thinking and speculates concerning the barriers which kept him from full religious commitment. With great vigor he discusses what be considers the most important features of Wittgenstein's philosophical work and the nature of and reasons for the changes which took place in his thinking between Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and Philosophical Investigation. He concludes by offering four analogies between Wittgenstein's philosophical methods and his religions attitudes generally. Peter Winch, who opens the volume with an introduction that places Malcolm's essay in the context of his other writings, concludes with a substantial critique of the proposed analogies and suggests an alternative reading of the "spiritual" dimension in Wittgenstein's inquiries.
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The Political Responsibility of Intellectuals addresses the many problems in defining the relationship of intellectuals to the society in which they live. In what respects are they responsible for, and to, that society? Should they seek to act as independent arbiters of the values explicitly or implicity espoused by those around them? Should they seek to advise those in public life about the way in which they should act, or should they withdraw from any form of political involvement? And how should their preoccupations with truth and language find practical expression? The contributors to this volume seek to provide tentative answers to these questions. They come from a wide variety of disciplines, ranging from economics to linguistics and sociology to philosophy, and are drawn from both America and Eastern and Western Europe. The volume is given a particular interest by recent political upheavals in Eastern Europe, where many intellectuals have been confronted with sharply practical, sometimes dramatic, choices about their role in the political arena.
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Peter Guy Winch was born on January 14, 1926 in London, United Kingdom. He was the son of William Edward and Gertrude (Gifford) Winch.
Winch attended Leyton County High School for boys (now Leyton Sixth Form College), before going to St Edmund Hall, Oxford to read Philosophy, Politics and Economics. He obtained Master of Arts degree from the University of Oxford in 1949. He also became Bachelor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford 2 years later.
Winch worked for more than forty years as an educator at University College of Swansea at the University of Wales in 1951. When he left the Swansea faculty in 1964, he was senior lecturer in philosophy. His next post was at the University of London as a reader in philosophy at Birkbeck College. He remained there until 1967 when he became a professor of philosophy at King’s College, where he stayed until 1984.
He then began a stint at the University of Illinois at Urbana.
He also taught briefly at the University of Rochester, University of Arizona, University of Konstanz, City University of New York, the Academy of Finland, and the University of Tubingen.
In addition, he edited the periodical Analysis from 1965 to 1971. Winch was the author and editor of numerous books, especially on philosopher Wittgenstein. Among Winch’s books were The Idea of a Social Science and Its Relation to Philosophy, Wittgenstein: Attention to Particulars, The Just Balance, Understanding a Primitive Society, Studies in the Philosophy of Wittgenstein, Ethics and Action, and The Political Responsibility of Intellectuals.
(Peter Winch's translation of Wittgenstein's remarks on cu...)
(This book examines the religious, social, and political t...)
(The Political Responsibility of Intellectuals addresses t...)
(Ludwig Wittgenstein once said to a friend, "I am not a re...)
( In the fiftieth anniversary of this book’s first releas...)
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Several features in the philosophical orientation of Peter Winch have their primary roots in some central themes in the later Wittgenstein: the concentration on concrete examples, the attention to particulars and the mistrust of generalizing, the investigation of diverse forms of life and the relations between language, reality and social institutions. Again following Wittgenstein but of much broader base is the recurrent concern with understanding as such and its limits, making sense or failing despite appearances to so.
Winch was a member of the Aristotelian Society (he served there as a president and a vice president), American Philosophical Association, American Association of University Professors and Association University Teachers.
Winch married Erika Irene Neumann in January 1947. They had 2 children - Christopher and David.