The Review of Metaphysics back issues from September 2005:
Metaphysical foundations of the history of philosophy: Hegel's 1820 introduction to the Lectures on the History of Philosophy.
Sep 01, 2005; ... HEGEL EXPLICATES HIS THEORY of the history of philosophic thinking in several introductions to the various cycles of Lectures on the History of Philosophy held in Jena, Heidelberg, and Berlin. Only the introductions to the first cycle of Heidelberg lectures (1816) and to the second cycle ...
Ethical criticism in Heidegger's early Freiburg lectures.(Martin Heidegger)
Sep 01, 2005; ... I HISTORY, PHILOSOPHY, CRITICISM. Philosophy has a history because human life is historical. This truism assumes a deeper, more puzzling, and unsettling significance in the programmatic section 6 of Sein und Zeit, which promises nothing less than a Destruktion of the history of ...
Esoteric versus latent teaching.
Sep 01, 2005; ... ONE OF THE IDEAS TO WHICH LEO STRAUSS drew the attention of many readers in the last century is that of a difference between exoteric and esoteric philosophical writing. These terms can refer to different kinds of philosophical teaching, one kind intended for a general and the other kind ...
Wrongs and faults.
Sep 01, 2005; ... I THE ELEMENTARY MORAL DISTINCTION. The ultimate objects of moral assessment are people and their lives. I will call this the "elementary moral distinction." Many today seem to have lost sight of it. How often are we told that we should show respect for other people, only to ...
The common good.(metaphysical papers)
Sep 01, 2005; ... NATURAL LAW ARGUMENTS CONCERNING the political order characteristically appeal, at some point or other, to the common good of the political community. To take the clearest example: Aquinas, perhaps the paradigmatic natural law theorist, appeals to the common good in his accounts of the ...
Bambach, Charles. Heidegger's Roots: Nietzsche, National Socialism, and the Greeks.(Book Review)
Sep 01, 2005; ... BAMBACH, Charles. Heidegger's Roots: Nietzsche, National Socialism, and the Greeks. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003. 384 pp. Cloth, $45.00--Another "reckoning" with Heidegger! Bambach's main thesis is that "authochthonic rootedness" (bodenstaendige Verwurzelung) is a "never ...
Bennett, Jonathan. A Philosophical Guide to Conditionals.(Book Review)
Sep 01, 2005; ... BENNETT, Jonathan. A Philosophical Guide to Conditionals. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. viii + 387 pp. Paper, $24.95--"If" and "then," wrapped around enough content to form at least two propositions that seem to be conditionally assertible together as antecedent and consequent, ...
D'Oro, Guiseppina. Collingwood and the Metaphysics of Experience.(Book Review)
Sep 01, 2005; ... D'ORO, Guiseppina. Collingwood and the Metaphysics of Experience. New York: Routledge, 2002. Cloth, $80.00--In Collingwood and the Metaphysics of Experience, Guiseppina D'Oro gives a compelling case for the position that Collingwood's philosophical project is a form of descriptive ...
Elster, Jon. Closing the Books: Transitional Justice in Historical Perspectives.(Book Review)
Sep 01, 2005; ... ELSTER, Jon. Closing the Books: Transitional Justice in Historical Perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. iv + 271 pp. Paper, $21.64--When an autocratic regime is replaced by a democratic or constitutional one, a burning question arises: how shall the state deal with ...
Gale, Richard M. The Philosophy of William James: An Introduction.(Book Review)
Sep 01, 2005; ... GALE, Richard M. The Philosophy of William James: An Introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. x + 246 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $23.99--Philosophy and philosophies are personal--motivating their practitioners and shaping their lives--and impersonal--appealing to general ...
Gerson, Lloyd P. Aristotle and Other Platonists.(Book Review)
Sep 01, 2005; ... GERSON, Lloyd P. Aristotle and Other Platonists. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005. xi + 335 pp. Cloth, $49.95--Aristotle and Other Platonists is a remarkable work in terms of what is established and how its arguments are developed. Gerson's meticulous and sensitive examinations of ...
Gert, Bernard. Common Morality: Deciding What to Do.(Book Review)
Sep 01, 2005; ... GERT, Bernard. Common Morality: Deciding What to Do. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. xxiv + 179 pp. Cloth, $25.00--This short book divides equally into two parts. In the first half, Gert describes what he calls "common morality"--"the moral system that thoughtful people use, ...
Gorman, Michael and Jonathan J. Sanford, Editors. Categories: Historical and Systematic Essays.(Book Review)
Sep 01, 2005; ... GORMAN, Michael and Jonathan J. SANFORD, Editors. Categories: Historical and Systematic Essays. Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy, vol. 41. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2004. xvii + 309 pp. Cloth, $55.00--Like many collections of essays, ...
Khlentozos, Drew. Naturalistic Realism and the Antirealist Challenge.(Book Review)
Sep 01, 2005; ... KHLENTOZOS, Drew. Naturalistic Realism and the Antirealist Challenge. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2005. 408 pp. Paper, $20.00--Drew Khlentozos's Naturalistic Realism and the Antirealist Challenge is a meticulous introduction and roadmap to the core arguments of the contemporary ...
Mace, Caroline and Gerd van Riel, Editors. Platonic Ideas and Concept Formation in Ancient and Medieval Thought.(Book Review)
Sep 01, 2005; ... MACE, Caroline and Gerd VAN RIEL, Editors. Platonic Ideas and Concept Formation in Ancient and Medieval Thought. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2004. xvi + 259 pp. Cloth, $54.00--This tribute to Carlos Steel, director of the De Wulf-Mansion Centre and former Dean of Philosophy at Leuven ...
McGinn, Colin. Consciousness and its Objects.(Book Review)
Sep 01, 2005; ... MCGINN, Colin. Consciousness and its Objects. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. 256 pp. Cloth, $35.00--Intended as a sequel to The Problem of Consciousness, McGinn's new book is largely devoted to developing his mysterian position. The first seven chapters deal with the problematic ...
Mueller, Ian, Translator. Simplicius: On Aristotle's "On the Heavens" 2.1-9.(Book Review)
Sep 01, 2005; ... MUELLER, Ian, Translator. Simplicius: On Aristotle's "On the Heavens" 2.1-9. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004. ix + 264 pp. Cloth, $75.00--Utilizing the 1894 edition of Simplicius's commentary by J. L. Heiberg in the Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca, and P. Moraux's 1965 edition of ...
Niederbacher, Bruno. Glaube als Tugend bei Thomas von Aquin: Erkenntnistheoretische und religionsphilosophische Interpretationen.(Book Review)
Sep 01, 2005; ... NIEDERBACHER, Bruno. Glaube als Tugend bei Thomas von Aquin: Erkenntnistheoretische und religionsphilosophische Interpretationen. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 2004. 194 pp. Cloth, $36.00--Echoing much of the neo-Thomistic revival of the twentieth century, Fides et Ratio [section] 76 sketches the ...
Priest, Stephen. Merleau-Ponty.(Book Review)
Sep 01, 2005; ... PRIEST, Stephen. Merleau-Ponty. New York: Routledge, 2003. xiii + 308 pp. Paper, $27.95--This book originally appeared in 1998 and recently has been reissued in paperback form. It appears in the Arguments of the Philosophers series at Routledge. Owing in part to the wide-ranging ...
Ray, Matthew Alun. Subjectivity and Irreligion: Atheism and Agnosticism in Kant, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche.(Book Review)
Sep 01, 2005; ... RAY, Matthew Alun. Subjectivity and Irreligion: Atheism and Agnosticism in Kant, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche. Burlington: Ashgate Press, 2003. xii + 121 pp. Cloth, $69.95--This book presents a rather interesting thesis: that post-Kantian philosophy of religion is substantially flawed in its ...
Rockmore, Tom. On Foundationalism: A Strategy for Metaphysical Realism.(Book Review)
Sep 01, 2005; ... ROCKMORE, Tom. On Foundationalism: A Strategy for Metaphysical Realism. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2004. 145 pp. Cloth, $59.00--Metaphysical realism, as Rockmore defines it, is the claim that "under the proper conditions it is possible to know independent objects and the world as it ...
Sallis, John. Platonic Legacies.(Book Review)
Sep 01, 2005; ... SALLIS, John. Platonic Legacies. SUNY Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2004. 164 pp. Cloth, $40.00--Viewable as either a development or an introduction to Dr. Sallis's earlier work, Chorology: On Beginning in Plato's Timaues ...
Salwen, Hakan. Hume's Law: An Essay on Moral Reasoning.(Book Review)
Sep 01, 2005; ... SALWEN, Hakan. Hume's Law: An Essay on Moral Reasoning. Stockholm: Almqvist and Wiksell International, 2003. 154 pp. Paper, $62.50--Hume's law, that is, that moral claims cannot be inferred from exclusively nonmoral claims, is widely accepted by recent and contemporary philosophers, some ...
Schindler, D. C. Hans Urs von Balthasar and the Dramatic Structure of Truth: A Philosophical Investigation.(Book Review)
Sep 01, 2005; ... SCHINDLER, D. C. Hans Urs von Balthasar and the Dramatic Structure of Truth: A Philosophical Investigation. Perspectives in Continental Philosophy Series, No. 34. New York: Fordham University Press, 2004. xiv + 455 pp. Cloth, $65.00--In Hans Urs von Balthasar's 1947 Wahrheit, later ...
Shafer-Landau, Russ. Moral Realism: A Defence.(Book Review)
Sep 01, 2005; ... SHAFER-LANDAU, Russ. Moral Realism: A Defence. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2003. vii + 322 pp. Cloth, $76.50; paper, $32.50--Shafer-Landau's Moral Realism provides a carefully developed defense of a nonnaturalistic moral realism. Shafer-Landau covers a wide range of material, presenting an ...
Vaught, Carl. Encounters with God in Augustine's Confessions: Books VII-IX.(Book Review)
Sep 01, 2005; ... VAUGHT, Carl. Encounters with God in Augustine's Confessions: Books VII-IX. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2004. xii + 175 pp. Cloth, $35.00--This volume picks up where Vaught's Journey toward God in Augustine's Confessions: Books I-VI (2003) concluded. The three chapters of ...
WATKINS, Eric. Kant and the Metaphysics of Causality.(Book Review)
Sep 01, 2005; ... WATKINS, Eric. Kant and the Metaphysics of Causality. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xi + 451 pp. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $32.99--In Kant and the Metaphysics of Causality Eric Watkins embarks upon a revision of the standard anti-Humean interpretation of Kant's theory of ...
Wirth, Jason M. The Conspiracy of Life: Meditations on Schelling and His Time.(Book Review)
Sep 01, 2005; ... WIRTH, Jason M. The Conspiracy of Life: Meditations on Schelling and His Time. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2003. 290 pp. Cloth, $71.50; paper, $23.95--Jason Wirth aims to resurrect interest in Schelling's philosophy in order to effect a transformation of our relationship to ...
American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly Vol. 79, No. 1, Winter 2005.(PHILOSOPHICAL ABSTRACTS)(metaphysical papers)
Sep 01, 2005 ... CURRENT PERIODICAL ARTICLES * On the Rehabilitation of Virtue, MAX SCHELER Max Scheler's essay on virtue, first published under a pseudonym in 1913, begins with some reflection upon the decline in his era of a concern for virtue. Its central theme is a ...
American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly Vol. 79, No. 2, Spring 2005.(PHILOSOPHICAL ABSTRACTS)(metaphysical papers)
Sep 01, 2005 ... Storytelling and Philosophy in Plato's "Republic," JACOB HOWLAND Scholarly convention holds that in Plato's mind logos and muthos are fundamentally opposed, the former being the medium of philosophy and the latter of poetry. The author of this article argues that muthos in the ...
Australasian Journal of Philosophy Vol. 83, No. 2, June 2005.(PHILOSOPHICAL ABSTRACTS)(metaphysical papers)
Sep 01, 2005 ... Vagueness as Closeness, NICHOLAS J. J. SMITH This paper presents and defends a definition of vagueness, compares it favorably with alternative definitions, and draws out some consequences of accepting this definition for the project of offering a substantive theory of vagueness ....
European Journal of Philosophy Vol. 13, No. 2, August 2005.(PHILOSOPHICAL ABSTRACTS)(metaphysical papers)
Sep 01, 2005 ... Nietzsche on Truth, Illusion, and Redemption, R. LANIER ANDERSON Nietzsche's views on truth have provoked controversy: some commentators emphasize texts attacking the possibility and/or desirability of truth, while others highlight Nietzsche's praise for honesty, truth, and ...
International Philosophical Quarterly Vol. 45, No. 3, September 2005.(PHILOSOPHICAL ABSTRACTS)(metaphysical papers)
Sep 01, 2005 ... Modernity and Postmodernity: A False Dichotomy, AVERY FOUTS This article is the third in a series. In the first, the author argues that existence is a property. In the second, based on the fact that existence is a property, he contends that Descartes's dream and malicious demon ...
Journal Of Philosophy Vol. 102, No. 2, February 2005.(PHILOSOPHICAL ABSTRACTS)(metaphysical papers)
Sep 01, 2005 ... Evaluating Social Reasons: Hobbes vs. Hegel, ANTHONY SIMON LADEN The paper develops a Hegelian approach to the evaluation of social reasons, reasons whose authority derives from norms of a plural subject. The Hegelian approach is contrasted along two dimensions with a Hobbesian ...
Journal of the History of Philosophy Vol. 43, No. 4, October 2005.(PHILOSOPHICAL ABSTRACTS)(metaphysical papers)
Sep 01, 2005 ... Peculiar Perfection: Peter Abelard on Propositional Attitudes, MARTIN LENZ In the course of the debates on Priscian's notion of the perfect sentence, the philosopher Peter Abelard developed a theory that closely resembles modern accounts of propositional attitudes and that goes ...
Mind Vol. 114, No. 455, July 2005.(PHILOSOPHICAL ABSTRACTS)(metaphysical papers)
Sep 01, 2005 ... Noise and Perceptual Indiscriminability, BENJ HELLIE Perception represents colors inexactly. This inexactness results from phenomenally manifest noise and results in apparent violations of the transitivity of perceptual indiscriminability. Whether these violations are genuine ...
The Monist Vol. 88, No. 4, October 2005.(PHILOSOPHICAL ABSTRACTS)(metaphysical papers)
Sep 01, 2005 ... Qualitative Unity and the Bundle Theory, DAVID ROBB This is an articulation and defense of a trope-bundle theory of material objects. The paper answers a charge frequently made against the bundle theory, namely, that it commits a conceptual error in saying that properties are ...
The Monist Vol. 89, No. 1, January 2006.(PHILOSOPHICAL ABSTRACTS)(metaphysical papers)
Sep 01, 2005 ... Semantic Regularity and the Liar Paradox, NICHOLAS J. J. SMITH This paper argues that the Liar paradox forces us to abandon the principle of Semantic Regularity, which says that there are perfectly reliable, principled relationships between our behavior, mental states, and ...
Philosophical Quarterly Vol. 55, No. 219, April 2005.(PHILOSOPHICAL ABSTRACTS)(metaphysical papers)
Sep 01, 2005 ... Epistemological Contextualism: Problems and Prospects, MICHAEL BRADY and DUNCAN PRITCHARD Epistemological contextualism has become one of the most important and widely discussed new proposals in the theory of knowledge. This special issue contributes to the debate by bringing ...
Philosophical Quarterly Vol. 55, No. 220, July 2005.(maetaphysical papers)
Sep 01, 2005 ... Poverty and Rights, JAMES W. NICKEL The author of this paper defends economic and social rights as human rights and as a feasible approach to addressing world poverty. He proposes a modest conception of economic and social rights that includes rights to subsistence, basic health ...
Philosophy Vol. 80, No. 2, April 2005.(metaphysical papers)
Sep 01, 2005 ... Thought and Action: A Tribute to Stuart Hampshire, P. M. S. HACKER The paper is a tribute to the late Stuart Hampshire's investigations of the ramifying role of intention in our conceptual scheme. It surveys the central argument of Thought and Action and the third chapter of ...
Phronesis Vol. 50, No. 2, April 2005.(metaphysical papers)
Sep 01, 2005 ... Logic and Music in Plato's Phaedo, D. T. J. BAILEY Aristotle on the Best Good: Is Nicomachean Ethics 1094a18-22 Fallacious? PETER B. M. VRANAS The first sentence of Nicomachean Ethics 1.2 has roughly the form: "If A [there is a universal end] and B (because, if not-B, ...
Ratio Vol. 18, No. 2, June 2005.(metaphysical papers)
Sep 01, 2005 ... Life and Meaning, DAVID E. COOPER This paper addresses an apparent tension between a familiar claim about meaning in general, to the effect that the meaning of anything owes to its place, ultimately, within a "form of life," and a claim, also familiar, about the meaning of human ...
Doctoral dissertations 2004-2005 *.
Sep 01, 2005 ... University at Albany (29) (25) (9) JAMES WALKER, "Hegel's Response to Meta-Critical Skepticism in the Phenomenology of Spirit." Adviser: Robert Howell. University of Alberta (37) (32) (15) University of Arizona (42) (42) (20) JOSHUA COWLEY, "The ...
Visiting professors from abroad, 2005-2006.
Sep 01, 2005 ... <Pre> Arun Balasubramaniam University of Toronto National University of Fall 2005-Spring 2006 Singapore Lian Chang University of Notre Dame Beijing University Fall 2005-Spring 2006 P'aat'a ChkheidzeThe ...
North American professors abroad, 2005-2006.
Sep 01, 2005 ... <Pre> Roger T. AmesWu Han University, China University of Hawaii Spring 2006 C. Anthony Anderson Wu Han University, China University of California,Spring 2006 Santa Barbara Katalin BalogBudapest Yale ...
Professors entering retirement in 2005.
Sep 01, 2005 ... <Pre> Barbara Abbott August 2005 Michigan State University Robert M. Addams December 2003 Yale University Henry AllisonAugust 2004 Boston University E. Jennifer Ashworth June 2005 University of Waterloo ...
Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005).(IN MEMORIAM)(Biography)
Sep 01, 2005; ... 27 February 1913, in Valence, France, Paul Ricoeur was inscribed into the spatial, temporal, and social register by his birth certificate, son of Jules and Florentine (Favre) Ricoeur. In several of his works, Ricoeur reflects on our birth certificates and says that our births and deaths ...