The Review of Metaphysics back issues from December 2002:
The passions of the wise: phronesis, rhetoric, and Aristotle's passionate practical deliberation.
Dec 01, 2002; ... THERE ARE AT LEAST TWO REASONS WHY contemporary moral and political philosophers should be attentive to Aristotle's account of practical reason. First, in contradistinction with views that characterize the emotions primarily as a hindrance to practical reasoning, moral philosophers have ...
Roger Bacon on the division of statements into single/multiple and simple/composed.
Dec 01, 2002; ... IT IS CERTAINLY THE CASE that twelfth- and thirteenth-century treatises on logic represent in great part attempts to re-present the Organon, Aristotle's books on logic, by rearranging the material, adding clarifications, and sometimes breaking new ground as in the case of the treatise on ...
Herder's philosophy of language, interpretation, and translation: three fundamental principles.
Dec 01, 2002; ... A GOOD CASE COULD BE MADE that Herder is the founder not only of the modern philosophy of language but also of the modern philosophy of interpretation ("hermeneutics") and translation and that he has many things to say on these subjects from which we may still learn today. (1) This essay ...
Creativity and life.
Dec 01, 2002; ... A "return to Bergson" does not only mean a renewed admiration for a great philosopher, but a renewal or an extension of his project today, in relation to the transformations of life and society, in parallel with the transformations of science. Deleuze, Bergsonism "Afterword" to English ...
Why political philosophy?
Dec 01, 2002; ... In memoriam Seth Benardete WE ALL KNOW THE PICTURE OF THE PHILOSOPHER that Aristophanes drew in the Clouds for both philosophers and nonphilosophers. As he is shown to us in this most famous and thoughtworthy of comedies, the philosopher, consumed by a burning thirst for ...
Achterhuis, Hans, editor. American Philosophy of Technology: the Empirical Turn.(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2002; ... Translated by Robert P. Crease. The Indiana Series in the Philosophy of Technology. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001. iii + 175 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $19.95--American Philosophy of Technology: The Empirical Turn is an introduction to the thought about technology by Albert ...
Bruell, Christopher. On the Socratic Education: an Introduction to the Shorter Platonic Dialogues.(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2002; ... Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 1999. vii + 225 pp. Cloth, $35.00--Where Friedrich Schleiermacher left off, Christopher Bruell has dared to set forth. Schleiermacher was the last thinker about Plato to present an order in which the dialogues should be read, on the assumption that an author ...
Chanter, Tina, editor. Feminist Interpretations of Emmanuel Levinas.(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2002; ... Rereading the Canon, vol. 17. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001. xvi + 272 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $25.00--Chanter's book offers a wide array of articles assessing whether Levinas's thoughts about the feminine and otherness hold any promise for feminist ...
Charles, David. Aristotle on Meaning and Essence.(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2002; ... Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000. 432 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $24.95--The central topics of this work are Aristotle's conceptions of meaning, essence, and necessity. These are dealt with in the two parts of the book: in part 1, "Aristotle on Language and Thought," and then in part 2, ...
Frede, Michael, and David Charles, editors. Aristotle's Metaphysics Lambda: Symposium Aristotelicum.(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2002; ... Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000. ix + 366 pp. Cloth, $65.00--This volume contains eleven articles, one on each chapter of book Lambda and two on chapter 9, all by eminent scholars who were all participants at the fourteenth Symposium Aristotelicum. The resultant articles contain close ...
Fried, Gregory. Heidegger's Polemos: From Being to Politics.(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2002; ... New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000. vi + 302 pp. Cloth, $35.00--This excellent study of the theme of polemos shows a detailed grasp of the entire range of Heidegger's writings and relevant parts of the huge and rapidly growing secondary literature. This work is based on recent efforts ...
Habermas, Jurgen. The Postnational Constellation: Political Essays.(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2002; ... Translated, edited, and with an introduction by Max Pensky. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2001. xix + 190 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $21.95--The earlier entries in this slim volume build to the principal essay from which the collection takes its name. For instance the first essay, "What is a ...
Hannay, Alastair. Kierkegaard: a Biography.(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2002; ... Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. xvi + 496 pp. Cloth, $39.95--Professor Hannay's biography on the famous Danish thinker is a welcome addition to those previously made available in English. Ever since Walter Lowrie's monumental Kierkegaard was published several decades ago, ...
Hughes, Glenn, Stephen A. McKnight, and Geoffrey L. Price, editors. Politics, Order and History: Essays on the Work of Eric Voegelin.(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2002; ... Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2001. 654 pp. Cloth, $95.00--As Stephen A. McKnight says in his introduction, this substantial collection of twenty-one original essays "explores the development of Eric Voegelin's distinctive approach to politics and history from its early formulation ...
Husserl, Edmund. Logik. Vorlesung 1902/03; Allgemeine Erkenntnistheorie. Vorlesung 1902/03.(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2002; ... Husserliana Materialienbande, vol. 2. Edited by Elisabeth Schuhmann. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001. xvi + 311 pp. Cloth, $108.00. Allgemeine Erkenntnistheorie. Vorlesung 1902/03. Husserliana Materialienbande, vol. 3. Edited by Elisabeth Schuhmann. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic ...
Japaridze, Tamar. The Kantian Subject: Sensus Communis, Mimesis, Work of Mourning.(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2002; ... Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000. ix + 168 pp. Cloth, $50.50; paper, $17.95--This interesting book has a double project: One is to show that Kant's third Critique, the Critique of Judgment, contains the solution to a deep difficulty apparently posed by the previous ...
Kallenberg, Brad J. Ethics as Grammar: Changing the Postmodern Subject.(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2002; ... Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2001. xv + 329 pp. Cloth, $39.95--This book outlines Wittgenstein's criticisms of traditional philosophy and shows the impact of Wittgenstein's therapeutic approach to philosophy on theologian Stanley Hauerwas's approach to Christian ethics, on ...
Lange, Marc. Natural Laws in Scientific Practice.(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2002; ... New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. xvi + 348 pp. Cloth, $60.00--One might view the literature on laws of nature as dividing into two camps: the "metaphysical" advocates of laws as objective realities beyond any actual regularities, and the "antimetaphysical" skeptics. Hard-liners in ...
Long, R. James, and Maura O'Carroll, SND. The Life and Works of Richard Fishacre, O.P.: Prolegomena to the Edition of his Commentary on the Sentences.(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2002; ... Veroffentlichungen der Kommission fur die Hersausgabe ungedrukter Texte aus der mittelalterlichen Geisteswelt, bd. 21. Munich: Verlag der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1999. 235 pp. Paper, n. p.--In this preliminary volume of the forthcoming edition of Richard Fishacre's opus ...
Lowe, E. Jonathon. An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind.(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2002; ... Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xiii + 318 pp. Cloth, $65.00--Recent years have witnessed an unprecedented proliferation of introductory texts in the philosophy of mind, many of them (like the volume under review) written by eminent practitioners in the field. Never before ...
Mahoney, Daniel. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: the Ascent from Ideology.(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2002; ... Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2001. xiv + 200 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $21.95--To begin with the bad news. Mahoney does not write well. He moves in perplexing ways from the stylistic register of the journalistic, to that of the scholarly, to political philosophy and back again. His ...
Marcel, Gabriel. Gabriel Marcel's Perspectives on "The Broken World."; Dot the I and The Double Expertise (Two One Act Plays).(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2002; ... Translation, Preface and Foreword by Katherine Rose Hanley. Introduction by Ralph McInerny. Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 1998. 242 pp. Paper, $25.00. Dot the I and The Double Expertise (Two One Act Plays). Translated and Introduced by Katherine Rose Hanley. Directed by John ...
Moreland, J. P. Universals.(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2002; ... Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001. viii + 184 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $27.95--Despite announcing that this introduction to the nominalism-realism dialectic is pitched at "upper level undergraduates, graduate students and professional philosophers" (p. vi.)--a seemingly ...
Perler, Dominik, editor. Ancient and Medieval Theories of Intentionality.(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2002; ... Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters, vol. 76. Leiden: Brill, 2001. x + 347. Cloth, $107.00--This volume of fifteen essays plus an introduction and preface is the outcome of a conference organized by Dominik Perler at Basel in June 1999. The topic is obviously ...
Pillow, Kirk. Sublime Understanding: Aesthetic Reflection in Kant and Hegel.(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2002; ... Cambridge: MIT Press, 2000. viii + 377 pp. Cloth, $37.95--This study concerns the role of reflective judgment in both aesthetical appreciation and one's serf-understanding in relation to an unfamiliar other. Pillow's thesis is that "Sublime reflection can provide ... a model for a kind of ...
Polt, Richard, and Gregory Fried, editors. A Companion to Heidegger's Introduction to Metaphysics.(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2002; ... New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001. xvii + 342 pp. Cloth, $40.00; paper, $18.00--The coterie of commentators represented in the present volume include some of the clearest voices for Heidegger's way of thinking among the second and third generations of American Heidegger scholars. Two ...
Reeve, C. D. C. Substantial Knowledge: Aristotle's Metaphysics.(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2002; ... Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing, 2000. xviii + 322 pp. Cloth, $34.95--This dense book consists of an Introduction (pp. xii-xvi), a list of Abbreviations of Aristotle's Works (pp. xvii-xviii), ten chapters subdivided into numbered parts (pp. 1-302), a bibliography (called "References"), ...
Schlagel, Richard H. The Vanquished Gods: Science, Religion and the Nature of Belief.(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2002; ... Prometheus Lecture Series. Amherst: Prometheus Books, 2001. 350 pp. Cloth, $36.00--Professor Schlagel asserts in his introduction that "the Age of Religion is coming to an end" despite the worldwide resurgence of religious fundamentalism (p. 15). The first chapter, "Our Changing World," ...
Shapiro, Ian, and Stephen Macedo, editors. Designing Democratic Institutions.(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2002; ... Nomos XLII. New York: New York University Press, 2000. xii + 331 pp. Cloth, $50.00--This is a book of applied political theory; one that attempts to span the gap between political philosophy and political science. Divided into three parts, the book focuses on several questions involving ...
Sharples, R. W., editor. Whose Aristotle? Whose Aristotelianism?(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2002; ... Ashgate Keeling Series in Ancient Philosophy. Burlington: Ashgate, 2001. 192 pp. Cloth, $59.95--The relation between Aristotle's own views and inquiries and later Aristotelians, observes Sharpies, is a problematic one. Right from the outset one may ask whether Aristotle's immediate ...
Stroud, Barry. Understanding Human Knowledge.(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2002; ... New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. xix + 246 pp. Cloth, $35.00--Stroud is one of the most important and influential epistemologists working on issues related to the challenge of skepticism. This book collects fourteen of his essays written between 1968 and 1999. The papers have all ...
Tymieniecka, Anna-Teresa. Impetus and Equipoise in the Life-Strategies of Reason: Logos and Life Book 4.(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2002; ... Analecta Husserliana: The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research Volume LXX. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000. xxxvi + 684 pp. Cloth, $198.00--With this fourth volume in her Logos and Life series, Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka offers a monumental, comprehensive philosophical system, ...
Villa, Dana, editor. The Cambridge Companion to Hanna Arendt.(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2002; ... Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xvi + 304 pp. Cloth, $54.95; paper, $19.95--If there were any doubt concerning the fecundity, richness, indeed, ambiguity of Hannah Arendt's oeuvre, it will be laid to rest by The Cambridge Companion to Hannah Arendt. This collection of ...
Wolin, Richard. Heidegger's Children: Hannah Arendt, Karl Lowith, Hans Jonas, and Herbert Marcuse.(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2002; ... Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001. xvi + 276 pp. Cloth, $29.95--There seems to be a general consensus that the most important Continental philosopher of the twentieth century was Martin Heidegger. Even Etienne Gilson spoke of him as one of only two real philosophers of his ...
Announcements.(Nicholas Rescher awarded honorary Doctor of Philosophy degree by Fernuniversitaet)(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2002 ... Nicholas Rescher, University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh, was awarded an honorary Doctor of Philosophy degree by the university of his native city of Hagen in Germany, the Fernuniversitaet, which has grown into Germany's second ...