The Review of Metaphysics back issues from June 2004:
The metaphysical roots of Aristotle's teleology.(Critical Essay)
Jun 01, 2004; ... IN GENERATION AND CORRUPTION 2.9, Aristotle sets out to give an account of "how many and what are the principles of all coming to be are like." (1) In doing so, he situates the cause "for the sake of which," [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII], within a causal nexus familiar to readers of ...
The problem of Aristotle's nous poietikos.(Critical Essay)
Jun 01, 2004; ... DESPITE THE WELL-KNOWN historical significance of Aristotle's doctrine of the productive or active intellect (the nous poietikos or intellectus agens) it is not unusual to find contemporary discussions treating the doctrine as an excrescence on the text of the De anima, a work, it is ...
Truth vs. necessary truth in Aristotle's sciences.(Critical Essay)
Jun 01, 2004; ... AT POSTERIOR ANALYTICS (APO) 1.1.71B15 AND FOLLOWING, Aristotle identifies six characteristics of the first principles from which demonstrative science (apodeiktike episteme) proceeds. These are traditionally grouped into two sets of three: group A: (1) (true) ex alethon, (2) (primary) ...
Figurative synthesis and synthetic a priori knowledge.(Critical Essay)
Jun 01, 2004; ... KANT'S GOAL IN THE TRANSCENDENTAL DEDUCTION was to demonstrate that the categories are applicable to objects of sensible intuition. He carried out this task by disclosing the necessity of a transcendental synthesis. In the Transcendental Deduction in the second edition of the Critique of ...
The dissolving force of the concept: Hegel's ontological logic.(Critical Essay)
Jun 01, 2004; ... I OVER THE PAST FEW DECADES many attempts have been made to defend Hegel's philosophy against those who denounce it as crypto-theological, dogmatic metaphysics. (1) This was done first of all by foregrounding Hegel's indebtedness to Kant, that is, by interpreting speculative ...
Achtenberg, Deborah. Cognition of Value in Aristotle's Ethics: Promise of Enrichment, Threat of Destruction.(Book Review)
Jun 01, 2004; ... ACHTENBERG, Deborah. Cognition of Value in Aristotle's Ethics: Promise of Enrichment, Threat of Destruction. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002. xiv + 218 pp. Cloth, $62.50; paper, $20.95--This book is based on arguments presented in Achtenberg's 1982 doctoral dissertation ...
Ameriks, Karl. Kant and the Fate of Autonomy.(Book Review)
Jun 01, 2004; ... AMERIKS, Karl. Kant and the Fate of Autonomy. Modern European Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xiii + 351 pp. Cloth, $58.00--This book contains material from some 15 years of scholarly work on the philosophy of Immanuel Kant and its reception by his immediate ...
Beets, M. G. J. Socrates on the Many and the Few: a Companion to Plato's Politeia.(Book Review)
Jun 01, 2004; ... BEETS, M. G. J. Socrates on the Many and the Few: A Companion to Plato's Politeia. Part I Books I-V. Baarn: Duna, 2002. 352 pp.--This is not, the author admits, a scholarly work. "No attempt has been made to review and digest the masses of publications" (p. 5). Nor is it a textbook with a ...
Bennett, Jonathan. Learning From Six Philosophers: Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume.(Book Review)
Jun 01, 2004; ... BENNETT, Jonathan. Learning From Six Philosophers: Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2001. 420 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $29.95--Claiming to learn something from a philosopher can be fraught with difficulty. I may dispute your claim that ...
Brainard, Marcus. Belief and Its Neutralization: Husserl's System of Phenomenology in Ideas I.(Book Review)
Jun 01, 2004; ... BRAINARD, Marcus. Belief and Its Neutralization: Husserl's System of Phenomenology in Ideas I. SUNY Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002. xvii + 331 pp. Cloth, $86.50; paper, $29.95--Brainard's systematic introduction to Husserl's ...
Cicovacki, Predrag. Between Truth and Illusion: Kant at the Crossroads of Modernity.(Book Review)
Jun 01, 2004; ... CICOVACKI, Predrag. Between Truth and Illusion: Kant at the Crossroads of Modernity. Lanham: Rowan & Littlefield Publishers, 2002. x + 229 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $21.95--Cicovacki traces postmodernism's subjectivism, relativism, and nihilism to Kant's "Copernican revolution," which ...
de Vries, Hent. Religion and Violence: Philosophical Perspectives from Kant to Derrida.(Book Review)
Jun 01, 2004; ... DE VRIES, Hent. Religion and Violence: Philosophical Perspectives from Kant to Derrida. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. xxiii + 443 pp. Cloth, $64.00; paper, $26.95--This book deals with an alleged turn to religion in an era of "post-theism" (p. xiii). It ...
Dostal, Robert J., editor. The Cambridge Companion to Gadamer.(Book Review)
Jun 01, 2004; ... DOSTAL, Robert J., editor. The Cambridge Companion to Gadamer. Cambridge Companions to Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xiii + 322 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $23.00--This collection of twelve essays (plus an introduction) achieves well the many objectives of the ...
Dusing, Klaus. Subjektivitat und Freiheit: untersuchungen zum Idealismus von Kant bis Hegel.(Book Review)
Jun 01, 2004; ... DUSING, Klaus. Subjektivitat und Freiheit: Untersuchungen zum Idealismus von Kant bis Hegel. Spekulation und Erfahrung, series II, vol. 47. Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt: Frommann-Holzboog, 2002. 321 pp. Cloth, 50.00 [euro]--This volume contains nine essays published between 1980 and 1997 by ...
Fitzgerald, Michael J. Albert of Saxony's Twenty-five Disputed Questions on Logic. A Critical Edition of His Quaestiones circa logicam.(Book Review)
Jun 01, 2004; ... FITZGERALD, Michael J. Albert of Saxony's Twenty-five Disputed Questions on Logic. A Critical Edition of His Quaestiones circa logicam. Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des mittelalters 79. Leiden: Brill, 2002. ix + 433 pp. Cloth, $177.00--Albert of Saxony was a major figure in ...
Gloyna, Tanja. Kosmos und System: Schellings Weg in die Philosophie.(Book Review)
Jun 01, 2004; ... GLOYNA, Tanja. Kosmos und System: Schellings Weg in die Philosophie. Schellingiana, Vol. 15. Stuttgart: Frommann-Holzboog, 2002. viii + 301 pp.--It can hardly be denied that since Schelling's early comment on Plato's Timaeus was published (F. W. J. Schelling, "Timaeus" (1794) ....
Halbig, Christoph. Objektives Denken. Erkenntnistheorie und 'Philosophy of Mind' in Hegel's System.(Book Review)
Jun 01, 2004; ... HALBIG, Christoph. Objektives Denken. Erkenntnistheorie und 'Philosophy of Mind' in Hegel's System. Stuttgart: Friedrich Fromann Verlag, 2002. 400 pp. Cloth, 69.00 [euro]--The book explores Hegel's epistemology and philosophy of mind, primarily using Hegel's Encyclopedia and his Logics. ...
Hall, Jonathan M. Hellenicity: Between Ethnicity and Culture.(Book Review)
Jun 01, 2004; ... HALL, Jonathan M. Hellenicity: Between Ethnicity and Culture. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2002. xviii + 312 pp. Cloth, $50.00--Good historical writing not only gives us insight into the past, it also loosens the hold the present has on us and enables us to engage that present ...
Hill, Thomas E., Jr. Human Welfare and Moral Worth: Kantian Perspectives.(Book Review)
Jun 01, 2004; ... HILL, Thomas E., Jr. Human Welfare and Moral Worth: Kantian Perspectives. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. xi + 415 pp. Cloth, $72.00; paper, $19.95--This anthology contains several of Thomas E. Hill's essays on the contributions various basic Kantian themes can be seen to make to ...
Kestenbaum, Victor. The Grace and Severity of the Ideal: John Dewey and the Transcendent.(Book Review)
Jun 01, 2004; ... KESTENBAUM, Victor. The Grace and Severity of the Ideal: John Dewey and the Transcendent. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2002. 261 pp. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $20.00--Many commentators on John Dewey's pragmatism contend that, after an early emphasis on the role of transcendent ...
Kisiel, Theodore. Heidegger's Way of Thought: Critical and Interpretive Signposts.(Book Review)
Jun 01, 2004; ... KISIEL, Theodore. Heidegger's Way of Thought: Critical and Interpretive Signposts. Edited by Alfred Denker and Marion Heinz. New York and London: Continuum, 2002. xvi + 259 pp. Cloth $115.00; paper $33.95--This collection of nine important essays by Theodore Kisiel, most of them written ...
Kuntz, Marion Leathers. The Anointment of Dionisio: Prophecy and Politics in Renaissance Italy.(Book Review)
Jun 01, 2004; ... KUNTZ, Marion Leathers. The Anointment of Dionisio: Prophecy and Politics in Renaissance Italy. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001. xviii + 446 pp. Cloth, $55.00--In the spring of 1566, a mysterious stranger appeared in Venice and began to preach around the ...
Malpas, Jeff, Ulrich Arnswald, and Jens Kertsher, editors. Gadamer's Century: Essays in Honor of Hans-Georg Gadamer.(Book Review)
Jun 01, 2004; ... MALPAS, Jeff, Ulrich ARNSWALD, and Jens KERTSHER, editors. Gadamer's Century: Essays in Honor of Hans-Georg Gadamer. Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought. London: MIT Press, 2002. xiv + 363 pp. Paper, $25.00--The title of this collection of essays contains a productive ambiguity ...
Marion, Jean-Luc. Being Given. Toward a Phenomenology of Givenness.(Book Review)
Jun 01, 2004; ... MARION, Jean-Luc. Being Given. Toward a Phenomenology of Givenness. Translated by Jeffrey L. Kosky. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002. xi + 385 pp. Paperback, $24.95--Jean-Luc Marion is one of several contemporary French philosophers who focus upon the issue of givenness and gift; ...
Mele, Alfred. Motivation and Agency.(Book Review)
Jun 01, 2004; ... MELE, Alfred. Motivation and Agency. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. xiii + 264 pp. Cloth, $49.95--Why do we do what we do? Alfred Mele attempts to answer this question and related ones by drawing from the fields of action theory, philosophy of mind, moral philosophy, and even ...
Morrison, Benjamin. On Location: Aristotle's Concept of Place.(Book Review)
Jun 01, 2004; ... MORRISON, Benjamin. On Location: Aristotle's Concept of Place. Oxford Aristotle Series. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. viii + 194 pp. Cloth, $45.00--This book is a revised version of Morrison's doctoral thesis. Unlike many revised theses, however, this book is very readable and ...
Papineau, David. The Roots of Reason: Philosophical Essays on Rationality, Evolution, and Probability.(Book Review)
Jun 01, 2004; ... PAPINEAU, David. The Roots of Reason: Philosophical Essays on Rationality, Evolution, and Probability. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. viii + 242 pp. Cloth, $29.95--In his The Roots of Reason, a collection of previously published and, in places, slightly modified essays on ...
Phillips, D. Z. Religion and the Hermeneutics of Contemplation.(Book Review)
Jun 01, 2004; ... PHILLIPS, D. Z. Religion and the Hermeneutics of Contemplation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. vii + 330 pp. Paper, $26.00--Twenty-five years after publishing Religion Without Explanation, D. Z. Phillips thought it rime to reassess the book in the form of a second edition ....
Reid, Thomas. Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man.(Book Review)
Jun 01, 2004; ... REID, Thomas. Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man. Edited by Derek Brooks. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002. xiv + 651 pp. Cloth, $95.00--With this volume, the third in what will be a total of ten, the scholarly debt to Knud Haakonssen and Penn State ...
Sagi, Avi. Albert Camus and the Philosophy of the Absurd.(Book Review)
Jun 01, 2004; ... SAGI, Avi. Albert Camus and the Philosophy of the Absurd. Translated by Balya Stein. Value Inquiry Book Series, Vol. 125. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2002. iii + 193 pp. Cloth, $37.00--"[E]ven if we cannot characterize the whole of Camus's aeuvre by one overall assessment, the leit-motiff of his ...
Sallis, John. On Translation.(Book Review)
Jun 01, 2004; ... SALLIS, John. On Translation. Studies in Continental Thought. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002. xii + 125 pp. Cloth, $42.95; paper, $19.95--John Sallis's study on the activity of translation is a methodical reflection structured as variations on a theme. The theme, certainly, is ...
Schantz, Richard, editor. What is Truth? Current Issues in Theoretical Philosophy.(Book Review)
Jun 01, 2004; ... SCHANTZ, Richard, editor. What is Truth? Current Issues in Theoretical Philosophy, vol. 1. New York: de Gruyter, 2002. 339 pp. Cloth, $54.95--"'What is truth?' said jesting Pilate and would not stay for an answer," writes Francis Bacon, in his "On Truth." The Pilatean question stands in ...
Van Fraassen, Bas C. The Empirical Stance.(Book Review)
Jun 01, 2004; ... VAN FRAASSEN, Bas C. The Empirical Stance. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. v + 282pp. Cloth, $30.00--Van Fraassen begins with a swingeing attack on metaphysics in general and analytical metaphysics in particular. This is reasonably familiar territory, as he is best known for his ...
Wallace, William A. Domingo de Soto and the Early Galileo.(Book Review)
Jun 01, 2004; ... WALLACE, William A. Domingo de Soto and the Early Galileo. Burlington: Ashgate Publishing Co., 2004. xiv + 340 pp. Cloth, $105.95--William A. Wallace's credentials as a Galileo scholar are well established. With seven books to his credit, notably Prelude to Galileo (1981), Galileo and His ...
Recent titles in philosophy *.
Jun 01, 2004; ... ABBAGNANO, NICOLA. The Human Project: The Year 2000. Atlanta: Editions Rodopi B.V., 2001. xxv + 162 pp. Paper, $28.00. ABELA, PAUL. Kant's Empirical Realism. New York: Clarendon Press, 2002. x + 303 pp. Cloth, $55.00. ACHTNER, WOLFGANG, STEFAN KUNZ, AND THOMAS WALTER ....
American philosophical quarterly: vol. 41, no. 3, July 2004.(Philosophical Abstracts)(Critical Essay)
Jun 01, 2004 ... On Being Simple Minded, PETER CARRUTHERS Why Not to Trust Other Philosophers, CHARLES HUENEMANN This article argues that in some cases we should not rely on the testimony of experts but instead should insist upon knowing things for ourselves. One such case is when we ...
Australasian journal of philosophy: vol. 82, no. 1, March 2004.(Philosophical Abstracts)(Critical Essay)
Jun 01, 2004 ... How Many Lives Has Schrodinger's Cat? DAVID LEWIS Counting the Holes, ROBERTO CASATI and ACHILLE C. VARZI Argle claimed that holes supervene on their material hosts, and that every truth about holes boils down to a truth about perforated things. This may well be ...
International philosophical quarterly: vol. 44, no. 1, March 2004.(Philosophical Abstracts)(Critical Essay)
Jun 01, 2004 ... Local Motion and the Principle of Inertia: Aquinas, Newtonian Physics, and Relativity, THOMAS McLAUGHLIN The author argues that the Aristotelian definition of motion, "the act of what exists potentially insofar as it exists potentially," and the mover causality principle, ...
Journal of the history of philosophy: vol. 42, no. 3, July 2004.(Philosophical Abstract)(Critical Essay)
Jun 01, 2004 ... Virtue as "Likeness to God" in Plate and Seneca, DANIEL C. RUSSELL Although Plato's thesis that virtue is "likeness to God" is repeated in several dialogues and is prominent among ancient Platonists, today it is often treated as too otherworldly to be of much relevance to us ....
Journal of philosophy: vol. 101, no. 1, January 2004.(Philosophical Abstracts)(Critical Essay)
Jun 01, 2004 ... In Search of a Substantive Theory of Truth, GILA SHER This paper offers an analysis of the major difficulties facing a substantive (informative, explanatory, theoretical, nondeflationist, nonminimalist, nonquietist) account of truth. It suggests that substantive theorizing in ...
Journal of philosophy: vol. 101, no. 2, February 2004.(Philosophical Abstracts)(Critical Essay)
Jun 01, 2004 ... Logic and Absolute Necessity, SCOTT A. SHALKOWSKI The received view about necessities is that logical necessity is the least controversial necessity since it does not commit one to anything beyond a logic. An extension of this view is that if other metaphysically significant ...
Journal of philosophy: vol. 101, no. 3, March 2004.(Philosophical Abstracts)(Critical Essay)
Jun 01, 2004 ... On the Systematicity of Language and Thought, KENT JOHNSON The last twenty years or so have seen a lot of discussion about systematicity. Almost all discussions of systematicity assume that natural languages and thought are systematic, and that it is clear what systematicity is ....
The monist: vol. 87, no. 3, July 2004.(Philosophical Abstracts)(Critical Essay)
Jun 01, 2004 ... Classes, Worlds, and Hypergunk, DANIEL NOLAN Hypergunk, ALLEN HAZEN Chopping Up Gunk, JOHN HAWTHORNE and BRIAN WEATHERSON Grit or Gunk: Implications of the Banach-Tarski Paradox, PETER FORREST In this paper, the author uses intuitions about the ...
Philosophy: vol. 79, no. 1, January 2004.(Philosophical Abstracts)(Critical Essay)
Jun 01, 2004 ... Religious Tolerance--The Pacemaker for Cultural Rights, JURGEN HABERMAS Religious toleration first became legally enshrined in Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Religious toleration led to the practice of more general intersubjective recognition of members of ...
Philosophy and phenomenological research. vol. 67, no. 2, September 2003.(Philosophical Abstracts)(Critical Essay)
Jun 01, 2004 ... Concepts and Conceptual Analysis, STEPHEN LAURENCE and ERIC MARGOLIS Conceptual analysis is undergoing a revival in philosophy, and much of the credit goes to Frank Jackson. Jackson argues that conceptual analysis is needed as an integral component of so-called serious ...
Philosophy and phenomenological research: vol. 67, no. 3, November 2003.(Philosophical Abstracts)(Critical Essay)
Jun 01, 2004 ... Perceptual Entitlement, TYLER BURGE This paper develops a conception of epistemic warrant as applied to perceptual belief, called "entitlement," that does not require the warranted individual to be capable of understanding the warrant. The conception is situated within an ...
Ratio: vol. 17, no. 1, March 2004.(Philosophical Abstracts)(Critical Essay)
Jun 01, 2004 ... Loar's Defense of Physicalism, STEPHEN LAW Brian Loar believes he has refuted all those antiphysicalist arguments that take as their point of departure observations about what is or is not conceivable. The author argues that there remains an important, popular, and ...
Announcements.(Brief Article)
Jun 01, 2004 ... InteLex has recently released The Correspondence of Thomas Hobbes in its Past Masters English Letters collection of electronic texts. The English Letters feature correspondence, journals, and notebooks from important figures from 1100-1950. The Correspondence of Thomas Hobbes (from the ...