Bernard R. Boxill, race, and social justice: A case study in the sociology of philosophical knowledge.

Fundmental to Collins' theory of "the sociology of mind" worked up in I The Sociology of Philosophies i is an account of networked intellectual activity as a form of ritualized interactions in which "symbols are generated and are felt to be morally and cognitively binding" (Collins [6], 20). Regarding the latter, to be noted is the monumental work by sociologist Randall Collins, I The Sociology of Philosophies i : I A Global Theory of Intellectual Change i (Collins [6]), and other writings by him devoted to explorations of Philosophy (Collins, Reflexivity and Social Embeddedness in the History of Ethical Philosophies [10]). A more focused study by Collins is especially pertinent to preparing a way toward a context within which to situate a critical appreciation of Boxill's contributions to explorations of social justice, namely, his (Collins') sociological examination of histories of ethical philosophies (Collins, Reflexivity and Social Embeddedness in the History of Ethical Philosophies [10]). Keywords: Blacks and social justice; ethics; political philosophy; social philosophy; sociology of knowledge; sociology of philosophy EN Blacks and social justice ethics political philosophy social philosophy sociology of knowledge sociology of philosophy 333 349 17 09/21/23 20230901 NES 230901 "PHILOSOPHY": FROM IDEAL TO IDEOLOGY It has long been argued by many philosophers that "philosophy" I proper i is constituted only by logical relations among statements in views articulated as arguments, and that the success, or failure, of the arguments is, or should be, determined only by the success, or failure, in abiding by established norms of logical relations in reasoning in forming and articulating arguments, by nothing more. [Extracted from the article]