The Review of Metaphysics back issues from September 2004:
Aristotle and the metaphyics of evolution.
Sep 01, 2004; ... Aristotle was nature's scribe, his pen dipped in mind. (1) Ancient Greek saying Linnaeus and Cuvier have been my two gods, though in very different ways, but they were mere schoolboys to old Aristotle. (2) Charles Darwin I recall that in 1951 Harold ...
Virtue and knowledge: connatural knowledge according to Thomas Aquinas.
Sep 01, 2004; ... THOMAS AQUINAS INSISTS that there are two different ways to attain correct judgment. One is by way of "perfect use of reason," and another is by way of "connaturality" (connaturalitas): <Pre>Wisdom denotes a certain rectitude of judgment according to theDivine ideas. Now ...
Adam Smith's reconstruction of practical reason.
Sep 01, 2004; ... IN THE LAST PART of the Theory of Moral Sentiments, (1) Adam Smith puts his theory in a class with those of his contemporaries Francis Hutcheson and David Hume, namely, the systems that make sentiments the principle of approbation. (2) Despite recognizing important differences with both of ...
The philosophical significance of hope.
Sep 01, 2004; ... But now that the creators of fear have been dealt with, a feeling that suits us better is overdue. (1) I ANYONE WHO DECIDES TO VENTURE FORTH AN ARGUMENT for the philosophical importance of hope owes a debt to Ernst Bloch. (2) His seminal The Principle of Hope is a ...
Philosophical blindness: between arguments and insights.
Sep 01, 2004; ... I PHILOSOPHERS MAY BE ARMED with valid and logically faultless arguments and yet remain entirely blind to meaningful possibilities whose philosophical significance is immense. Philosophical blindness may also concern physical or psychical phenomena as well as their meanings and ...
Ancii Manlii Severini Boethii. De divisione liber.(Book Review)
Sep 01, 2004; ... ANCII MANLII SEVERINI BOETHII. De divisione liber. Critical edition, translation, prolegomena, and commentary by John Magee. Philosophia Antiqua: A Series of Studies on Ancient Philosophy, vol. 77. lxxv + 224 pp. Cloth, $136.00--In this model critical edition, Professor John Magee of the ...
Clarembald of Arras. The Boethian Commentaries of Clarembald of Arras.(Book Review)
Sep 01, 2004; ... CLAREMBALD OF ARRAS. The Boethian Commentaries of Clarembald of Arras. Translated and edited by David B. George and John R. Fortin, O.S.B. Notre Dame Texts in Medieval Culture, vol. 7. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2002. xxxi + 153 pp. Cloth, $40.00--Clarembald of Arras is ...
Donskis, Leonidas. Forms of Hatred: the Troubled Imagination in Modern Philosophy and Literature.(Book Review)
Sep 01, 2004; ... DONSKIS, Leonidas. Forms of Hatred: The Troubled Imagination in Modern Philosophy and Literature. Value Inquiry Book Series, vol. 145. New York: Rodopi, 2003. xv + 281 pp. Paper, $71.00--Human societies, according to Donskis, are organized by "value-and-idea systems" that are works of ...
Dougherty, Jude P. Religion--Gesellschaft--Demokratie. Ausgewahlte Aufsaltze.(Book Review)
Sep 01, 2004; ... DOUGHERTY, Jude P. Religion--Gesellschaft--Demokratie. Ausgewahlte Aufsatze. Edited and translated by Anton Rauscher. Soziale Orientierung, vol. 16. Berlin: Duncker & Humblodt, 2003. 140 pp. Paper, 48.00 [euro]---Western Creed, Western Identity: such was the title of a volume of collected ...
Gilson, Etienne. Thomism: the Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas.(Book Review)
Sep 01, 2004; ... GILSON, Etienne. Thomism: The Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas. Translated by Laurence K. Shook and Armand Maurer. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 2002. xiv + 454 pp. Cloth, $74.95.--This book is a translation of the sixth and final edition of Etienne Gilson's Le Thomisme: ...
Hadot, Pierre. What is Ancient Philosophy?(Book Review)
Sep 01, 2004; ... HADOT, Pierre. What is Ancient Philosophy? Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002. xiv + 362 pp. Cloth, $29.95--This is an important and interesting study that elaborates (and reorganizes) the work Hadot began in Exercices spirituals et philosophie antique (Paris: Etudes Augustiniennes, ...
Heidegger, Martin. Four Seminars.(Book Review)
Sep 01, 2004; ... HEIDEGGER, Martin. Four Seminars. Translated by Andrew Mitchell and Francois Raffoul. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003. xvii + 188 pp. Cloth, $35.00--The present volume consists of the protocols of twenty seances (seminar sessions) held between 1966 and 1973 in which Heidegger ...
Kaufmann, Eric P. The Rise and Fall of Anglo-America.(Book Review)
Sep 01, 2004; ... KAUFMANN, Eric P. The Rise and Fall of Anglo-America. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004. 374 pp. Cloth, $49.95--In an erudite philosophical and sociological analysis, Kaufmann provides an extended illustration for anyone who needs to be reminded of the fact that ideas have ...
Mansini, Guy and James G. Hart, Editors. Ethics and Theological Disclosures: the Thought of Robert Sokolowski.(Book Review)
Sep 01, 2004; ... MANSINI, Guy and James G. HART, Editors. Ethics and Theological Disclosures: The Thought of Robert Sokolowski. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2003. xviii + 198 pp. Cloth, $69.95-This second festschrift for Robert Sokolowski brings together papers given in April ...
Redpath, Peter A, Editor. A Thomistic Tapestry. Essays in Memory of Etienne Gilson.(Book Review)
Sep 01, 2004; ... REDPATH, Peter A, Editor. A Thomistic Tapestry. Essays in Memory of Etienne Gilson. Value Inquiry Book Series, vol. 142. New York: Rodopi, 2003. 243 pp. Cloth, $52.00--The editor explains that special studies in philosophy honoring Etienne Gilson are long overdue. Gilson was not only one ...
Rescher, Nicholas. Fairness. Theory and Practice of Distributive Justice.(Book Review)
Sep 01, 2004; ... RESCHER, Nicholas. Fairness. Theory and Practice of Distributive Justice. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 2002. xiii + 134 pp. Cloth, $34.95--There are many ways to distribute burdens and benefits. One of them is to opt for fairness. In this book, Nicolas Rescher purports to explain ...
Rizzi, Anthony. The Science Before Science: a Guide to Thinking in the 21st Century.(Book Review)
Sep 01, 2004; ... RIZZI, Anthony. The Science Before Science: A Guide to Thinking in the 21st Century. Baton Rouge: IAP Press, 2004. xxx + 390 pp. Cloth, $24.25; paper, $16.00---Perhaps one of the most neglected fields of philosophy is the philosophy of nature, "physics" in Aristotle's sense. In The Science ...
Rouse, Joseph. How Scientific Practices Matter. Reclaiming Philosophical Naturalism.(Book Review)
Sep 01, 2004; ... ROUSE, Joseph. How Scientific Practices Matter. Reclaiming Philosophical Naturalism. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2002. iii + 383 pp. Cloth, $49.00--Rouse's masterful tome encompasses capacious domains but suffers from obscuration due to pleonasm and too many attempts to ...
Selznik, Philip. The Communitarian Persuasion.(Book Review)
Sep 01, 2004; ... SELZNIK, Philip. The Communitarian Persuasion. Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2002. xxvi + 165 pp. Cloth, $38.00; paper, $17.95--One of my friends defends liberalism but disavows knowing much about Rawls; he is more concerned with Jefferson and other traditional liberals ....
Aquinas.(Book Review)
Sep 01, 2004; ... STUMP, Eleonore. Aquinas. Arguments of the Philosophers Series. New York: Routledge, 2003. xx + 611 pp. Cloth, $100.00--Eleonore Stump provides a clear and thorough treatment of some of the main philosophical themes that characterize Aquinas's vast corpus in a way that allows his thought ...
Verene, Donald Phillip. The Art of Humane Education.(Book Review)
Sep 01, 2004; ... VERENE, Donald Phillip. The Art of Humane Education. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002. xiii + 112 pp. Cloth, $19.95--At a time when programs of "General Education" have replaced, or are masquerading as, programs of traditional "Liberal Education," Professor Donald Verene's small but ...
Warren, James. Epicurus and Democritean Ethics: An Archaeology of Ataraxia.(Book Review)
Sep 01, 2004; ... WARREN, James. Epicurus and Democritean Ethics. An Archaeology of Ataraxia. Cambridge Classical Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xiv + 241 pp. Cloth, $55.00--The objective of this study is the delineation of a philosophical tradition linking Epicurus' ethical ...
White, Nicholas. Individual and Conflict in Greek Ethics.(Book Review)
Sep 01, 2004; ... WHITE, Nicholas. Individual and Conflict in Greek Ethics. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2002. xv + 69 pp. Cloth, $ 55.00--In this elegantly written book, Nicholas White takes on the interesting and timely task of discussing and questioning the myth of "the Greek way" of thinking about ethics ...
Wilshire, Bruce. Fashionable Nihilism: a Critique of Analytic Philosophy.(Book Review)
Sep 01, 2004; ... WILSHIRE, Bruce. Fashionable Nihilism: A Critique of Analytic Philosophy. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002. xv + 156 pp. Cloth, $57.50; paper, $18.95--Professor Wilshire, in his latest book, gives us a collection of essays which constitutes an oblique critique of what is ...
Zammito, John H. Kant, Herder, and the Birth of Anthropology.(Book Review)
Sep 01, 2004; ... ZAMMITO, John H. Kant, Herder, and the Birth of Anthropology. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2002. 576 pp. Cloth, $68.00; paper, $29.00--Rather than as a philosopher, Zammito writes as a historian dedicated to contextual intellectual history. The book has nonetheless a ...
American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly.(Philosophical Abstracts)(Book Review)
Sep 01, 2004 ... Vol. 88, No. 1, Winter 2004 Is Dualism Religiously and Morally Pernicious? GORDON BARNES In a recent address to the American Catholic Philosophical Association, Alfred Freddoso has claimed that dualism is both religiously and morally pernicious. He contends that ...
American Philosophical Quarterly.(Philosophical Abstracts)(Book Review)
Sep 01, 2004 ... Vol. 41, No. 4, October 2004 Creatures of Fiction, Myth, and Imagination, BEN CAPLAN Nowadays, many philosophers are creationists about creatures of fiction, but only a few are creationists about creatures of myth. Even fewer are creationists about creatures of ...
Australasian Journal of Philosophy.(Philosophical Abstracts)(Book Review)
Sep 01, 2004 ... Vol. 82, No. 2, June 2004. A Note on Scientific Essentialism, Laws of Nature, and Counterfactual Conditionals, MARC LANGE Scientific essentialism aims to account for the natural laws' special capacity to support counterfactuals. The author argues that scientific ...
European Journal of Philosophy.(Philosophical Abstracts)(Book Review)
Sep 01, 2004 ... Vol. 12, No. 2, August 2004 Weakness of Will and Divisions of the Mind, EDMUND HENDEN It is often thought that, in order to give an account of weakness of the will, we must assume that the mind is divisible into parts. First, two different arguments for this claim are ...
Journal of the History of Philosophy.(Philosophical Abstracts)(Book Review)
Sep 01, 2004 ... Vol. 42, No. 4, October 2004 Lucretius on the Gates of Horn and Ivory: A Psychophysical Challenge to Prophecy by Dreams, M. ANDREW HOLOWCHAK Lucretius' Epicurean account of dreams in Book IV of De Rerum Natura indicates that they are wholly void of prophetic ...
Journal of Philosophy.(Philosophical Abstracts)(Book Review)
Sep 01, 2004
Journal of Philosophy.(Book Review)
Sep 01, 2004 ... Vol. 101, No. 5, May 2004 Likelihood, Model Selection, and the Duhem-Quine Problem, ELLIOTT SOBER When the conjunction of a hypothesis ([H.sub.1]) and a set of auxiliary assumptions ([A.sub.1]) generates an observational prediction that fails to come true, how does ...
Journal of Philosophy: vol. 101, No. 6, June 2004.(Philosophical Abstracts)(Book Review)
Sep 01, 2004 ... The Ubiquitous Problem of Empty Names, STUART BROCK It is often suggested that sentences containing an empty name are not well accounted for by direct reference theorists, whereas descriptive theorists can handle them with ease. In this paper it is argued, to the contrary, that ...
Mind.(Philosophical Abstracts)(Book Review)
Sep 01, 2004 ... Vol. 113, No. 450, April 2004 Vexing Expectations, HARRIS NOVER and ALAN HAJEK The authors introduce a St. Petersburg-like game, which we call the "Pasadena game," in which they toss a coin until it lands on heads for the first time. Your pay-offs grow without bound ...
Mind.(Book Review)
Sep 01, 2004 ... Vol. 113, No. 451, July 2004 The One Fatal Flaw in Anselm's Argument, PETER MILLICAN Anselm's Ontological Argument falls, but not for any one of the various reasons commonly adduced. In particular, its failure has nothing to do with violating deep Kantian principles ...
The Monist.(Philosophical Abstracts)(Book Review)
Sep 01, 2004
The Philosophical Quarterly.(Philosophical Abstracts)(Book Review)
Sep 01, 2004 ... Vol. 54, No. 215, April 2004 The Generality Constraint and Categorial Restrictions, ELISABETH CAMP We should not admit categorial restrictions on the significance of syntactically well-formed strings. Syntactically well-formed but semantically absurd strings, such as ...
The Philosophical Quarterly.(Book Review)
Sep 01, 2004 ... Vol. 54, No. 216, July 2004 The Attractions and Delights of Goodness, JYL GENTZLER What makes something good for me? Most contemporary philosophers argue that something cannot count as good for me unless I am in some way attracted to it or take delight in it. However, ...
Philosophical Review.(Philosophical Abstracts)(Book Review)
Sep 01, 2004 ... Vol. 112, No. 1, January 2003 Waging War on Pascal's Wager, ALAN HAJEK Virtually all of the critics of Pascal's Wager have attacked its premises. Other authors have rallied to its defense, buttressing those premises. The author argues that they are fighting a lost ...
Philosophical Review.(Book Review)
Sep 01, 2004 ... Vol. 112, No. 2, April 2003 Prudence and Authenticity: Intrapersonal Conflicts of Value, DAVID O. BRINK Prudence is temporally neutral. It attaches no intrinsic significance to the temporal location of benefits or harms within the agent's life; the prudent agent ...
Philosophical Review: vol. 112, No. 3, July 2003.(Philosophical Abstracts)(Book Review)
Sep 01, 2004 ... Memory and Persons, TYLER BURGE Nelkin on the Lottery Paradox, IGOR DOUVEN Nelkin argues that BonJour's and Ryan's solutions to the Lottery Paradox are hardly more than reformulations of our intuitions about lottery situations and that therefore they are incapable of ...
Philosophy.(Philosophical Abstracts)(Book Review)
Sep 01, 2004 ... Vol. 79, No. 2, April 2004 Time in Human Experience, JONATHAN BENNETT This is a set of eight mini-discourses. (1) The conceivability of the physical world's running in the opposite temporal direction. (2) Augustine's reason for thinking this is not conceivable for the ...
Philosophy.
Sep 01, 2004 ... Vol. 79, No. 3, July 2004 Wittgenstein on Ethics and the Riddle of Life, DAVID WIGGINS The paper seeks to interpret and then to criticize Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, paragraph 6.4 to 7 (the end), connecting this so-called mystical section with the ...
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.(Philosophical Abstracts)(Book Review)
Sep 01, 2004 ... vol. 68, No. 1, January 2004 Aristotle on the Homonymy of Being, FRANK A. LEWIS Sympathy, Discernment, and Reasons, GARRETT CULLITY According to "the argument from discernment," sympathetic motivation is morally faulty because it is morally ...
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.
Sep 01, 2004 ... Vol. 68, No. 2, March 2004 Open Questions and the Manifest Image, MARK ELI KALDERON This essay argues that, on their usual metalinguistic reconstructions, the open question argument and Frege's puzzle are variants of the same argument. Each is an argument to a ...
Philosophy and Phenomenogical Research.(Philosophical Abstracts)(Book Review)
Sep 01, 2004 ... Vol. 68, No. 3, May 2004 Global Supervenience and Dependence, KAREN BENNETT Two versions of global supervenience have recently been distinguished from each other. The author introduces a third version, which is more likely what people had in mind all along. However, ...
Phronesis.(Philosophical Abstracts)(Book Review)
Sep 01, 2004 ... Vol. 49, No. 1, February 2004 Phaedo of Elis and Plato on the Soul, GEORGE BOYS-STONES Phaedo of Elis was well known as a writer of Socratic dialogues, and it seems inconceivable that Plato could have been innocent of intertextuality when, excusing himself on the ...
Ratio.(Philosophical Abstracts)
Sep 01, 2004 ... Vol. 17, No. 2, June 2004 Reasons, Practical Reason, and Practical Reasoning, ROBERT AUDI The concepts of reasons as supporting elements, of practical reason as a capacity and of practical reasoning as a process, are central in the theory of action. This paper ...
Doctoral dissertations 2003-2004 *.
Sep 01, 2004 ... DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS 2003-2004 * University of Alberta (34) (27) (15) DAVID R. HAMPTON, "Defining Science for the Law of Evidence: A Comprehensive Examination of the Philosophy and Law Pertaining to Scientific Testimony in Canadian Courts." Advisers: Alexander ...
Visiting professors from abroad, 2004-2005.
Sep 01, 2004 ... <Pre> Keimpe Algra Yale University University of Utrecht Fall 2004 David Armstrong City University of New York University of Sydney March 2005-May 2005 Arun Balasubramaniam National University of ...
North American professors abroad, 2004-2005.
Sep 01, 2004 ... <Pre> Babette BabichHumbolt University of Berlin Fordham UniversityFall 2004 Chung-Ying Cheng Beijing University of Hawaii Fall 2004-Spring 2005 Thomas Christiano Oxford University ...
Professors entering retirement in 2004.
Sep 01, 2004 ... <Pre> William R. Abbot August 2004 University of Waterloo Laird Addis May 2004 University of Iowa Richard AllenJuly 2003 Northwestern University Brenda M. Baker ...