Teaching and learning guide for: theorizing social change

Zheng, R. (2023) Teaching and learning guide for: theorizing social change. Philosophy Compass, 18(10), e12948. (doi: 10.1111/phc3.12948)

Abstract

How do we remake our world into a new and better one? Philosophers have been surprisingly reticent on this question. Theories of justice tell us what an ideally justsociety would look like. Ethical theories tell us the morally right thing to do. But philosophers have virtually no such comparably systematic theories of social change, that is, theories telling us the right way to bring about a just society. An underlying interest in social change animates the growing number of what Sally Haslanger (2013) calls “ameliorative” projects that have taken root in the so-called ’core’ areas of metaphysics, epistemology, and language, just as it has promoted greater attention to real-world oppression within ethics, moral psychology, aesthetics, social and political philosophy. This article shows that social change deserves to be recognized as an area of philosophical study in its own right.

• Item Type: Articles
• Status: Published
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Zheng, Dr Robin
• Authors: Zheng, R.
• College/School: College of Arts & Humanities > School of Humanities > Philosophy
• Journal Name: Philosophy Compass
• Publisher: Wiley
• ISSN: 1747-9991
• ISSN (Online): 1747-9991
• Published Online: 21 August 2023
• Copyright Holders: Copyright © 2023 The Author
• First Published: First published in Philosophy Compass 18(10):e12948
• Publisher Policy: Reproduced under a Creative Commons License