From: rgroff-AT-yorku.ca
Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 09:38:27 -0400
Subject: Re: BHA: Nice to meet you all


Hi Oliver,

Welcome to the bhaskar list.  Things are fairly slow these days.  You should
seriously consider having a look at the archives for years of rich discussion
about critical realism and its various transformations.  There also may be other
times when people introduced themselves.

I'm Ruth Groff.  I recently finished my PhD in political theory and philosophy
at York University, in Toronto.  I'm a transplanted Philadelphian, though am now
off to Wisconsin for a year, to teach political theory and philosophy of social
science at a Jesuit university in Milwaukee.

I'm most interested in the earlier phases of critical realism, and especially in
the neo-Aristotelian theory of causality it contains, and the implications
thereof for epistemology.  I've got a book coming out (hopefully late this year)
in which I engage with several thinkers who I think are key, in an effort to
defend said realism about causality and implications.  I'm working now on a
response to a contemporary Kantian who wrote a good article in Philosophy and
Phenomenological Research a couple of years ago (time-lag because I just found
the article) and also on a piece about Adorno and the concepts of causality and
freedom.  For better or for worse, I'm really interested in the history of
western philosophy, esp. in some (though certainly not all) of the thinkers
where you can clearly see metaphysics, epistemology and political thought come
together: Aristotle, Locke, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Marx.  On the side I collect
beautiful fabrics and make quilts.  The more colour the better.

Welcome, again.  Do consider having a look at the archives.

Warmly,
Ruth

 


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