Bounds of Freedom: Popper, Liberty and Ecological Rationality (Series in the Philosophy of Karl R. Popper and Critical Rationalism, 16) (Schriftenreihe Zur Philosophie Karl R. Poppers Und Des Kriti)

Dr Chaudhury is concerned to defend what is responsible and hopeful in contemporary ecological thinking, but to avoid the trap of denying that any positive contribution can be made by western science and technology. Critical rationalists do not need to agree with her suggestions and recommendations in order to welcome her positioning of environmental issues alongside the traditional human and political debates about freedom. The Indian perspective that informs this book is particularly impressive and interesting. David Miller (University of Warwick) Professor Mahasweta Chaudhury is Professor for Philosophy at Calcutta University in India. In the late sixties she studied at the London School of Economics under Karl Popper, John Watkins, Alan Musgrave and Imre Lakatos. Contents......Page 6 Preface......Page 8 Introduction......Page 10 CHAPTER I: Mill’s Social Physics and Individual Liberty: The Programme and its Problems......Page 18 CHAPTER II: Freedom and Equality......Page 40 CHAPTER III: Tyranny in Disguise: Expert Knowledge – A New Form of Paternalism......Page 64 CHAPTER IV: Freedom, Determinism, Indeterminism......Page 98 CHAPTER V: Reason, Tradition and Freedom: Some Perspectives on Ecology......Page 130 Bibliography......Page 182 G......Page 188 P......Page 189 Z......Page 190 I......Page 192 U......Page 193 There are very few concepts like freedom that contain so much multifarious content and controversial element. Mahasweta Chaudhury. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [181]-186) And Index.