The Review of Metaphysics back issues from September 2006:
Rhetoric and character in Aristotle.
Sep 01, 2006; ... IN PLATO'S SOPHIST, the competing claims made against and in behalf of sophistical instruction are examined. (1) Like the Meno, Protagoras, Philebus, and other dialogues, the Sophist undertakes a sustained examination of the nature of knowledge and of real being, the extent to which we are ...
Plato's Minos: the political and philosophical context of the problem of natural right.(Character overview)
Sep 01, 2006; ... THE BRIEF DIALOGUE ENTITLED MINOS is one of the thirty-five dialogues attributed by the tradition to Plato. It has often been regarded as a foundational document in the history of legal philosophy. (1) It has also usually been thought--despite its place in the Thrasyllian tetrologies and ...
In defense of international order: Grotius's critique of Machiavellism.(Hugo Grotius)(Critical essay)
Sep 01, 2006; ... HUGO GROTIUS (1583-1645), Huigh de Groot in Dutch, lived during turbulent times in which politics mixed with religion. The emerging sovereign and mutually independent states of Europe were incessantly fighting over territorial, dynastic, and commercial matters, as well as over differences ...
The concept of progress in Wittgenstein's thought.(Ludwig Wittgenstein)
Sep 01, 2006; ... AS A MOTTO FOR THE PHILOSOPHICAL INVESTIGATIONS, Wittgenstein chose to quote a line from Johann Nepomuk Nestroy's play Der Schutzling (The Protege'): "Anyway, the thing about progress is that it always seems greater than it really is." (1) The structure and content of the rest of this ...
Die Schuldfrage sixty years after.(Karl Jaspers)
Sep 01, 2006; ... TWO CONFLICTING VIEWS divide contemporary philosophers in reading the history of philosophy. One group reads the history of philosophy and the philosophers in it as if the latter were their own academic contemporaries, measuring their predecessors by what they themselves have to say about ...
Ethics, religion, and relativism.
Sep 01, 2006; ... I THE RECENT PUBLICATION of a collection of essays by Elizabeth Anscombe on the themes of Human Life, Action and Ethics (1) has reawakened some interest in the question of whether morality can be made sense of independently of belief in a transcendent source of obligation or ...
Aristotle de Animalibus: Michael Scot's Arabic-Latin Translation, Part Two Books XI-XIV, Parts Of Animals.(Book review)
Sep 01, 2006; ... ARISTOTLE. De animalibus: Michael Scot's Arabic-Latin Translation. Part Two: Books XI-XIV: Parts of Animals. Edited by Aafke M. I. van Oppenraaij. Aristoteles Semitico-Latinus, vol. 5. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1998. xxvi + 589 pp. Cloth, $176.00--Historian of science James G. Lennox has drawn ...
Bonjour, Lawrence and Earnest Sosa. Episteraic Justification: Internalism vs. Externalism, Foundations vs. Virtues.(Book review)
Sep 01, 2006; ... BONJOUR, Lawrence and Earnest SOSA. Episteraic Justification: Internalism vs. Externalism, Foundations vs. Virtues. Great Debates in Philosophy. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2003. Viii + 240 pp. Paper, $29.95--This book is both a lively debate between two top epistemologists and a ...
Brogan, Walter. Heidegger and Aristotle: The Twofoldness of Being.(Book review)
Sep 01, 2006; ... BROGAN, Walter. Heidegger and Aristotle: The Twofoldness of Being. SUNY Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005. xiv + 189 pp. Cloth, $60.00--Brogan provides an overview of Heidegger's Aristotle interpretation for scholars of both ...
Davidson, Donald. Truth and Predication.(Book review)
Sep 01, 2006; ... DAVIDSON, Donald. Truth and Predication. Cambridge: Bellknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005. 180 pp. Cloth, $29.95--This work was published posthumously, and its title hints at the two sorts of sources it is based on. The first is Davidson's series of John Dewey lectures on truth, ...
Davidson, Donald. Truth, Language and History.(Book review)
Sep 01, 2006; ... DAVIDSON, Donald. Truth, Language, and History. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2005. Cloth, $24.95--When Donald Davidson died in August 2003, this collection of essays (except for the introduction) was already contracted for and was ready to go to Oxford University Press. His wife, Marcia ...
Davies, Brian, and Brian Leftow. The Cambridge Companion to Anselm.(Book review)
Sep 01, 2006; ... DAVIES, Brian, and Brian LEFTOW. The Cambridge Companion to Anselm. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xiii + 323 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $29.99--Anselm is best known for his ontological argument, and yet there is much more to the man and his thought than a single argument, as ...
Dicker, Georges. Kant's Theory of Knowledge: An Analytical Introduction.(Book review)
Sep 01, 2006; ... DICKER, Georges. Kant's Theory of Knowledge: An Analytical Introduction. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. xv + 262 pp. Paper, $21.95--Georges Dicker's introductory book on Kant provides a detailed analysis of the central transcendental argument of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, ...
Dillon, John. The Heirs of Plato: A Study of the Old Academy (347-274 B.C.).(Book review)
Sep 01, 2006; ... DILLON, John. The Heirs of Plato: A Study of the Old Academy (347-274 B.C.). Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2003. x + 252 pp. Cloth, $72.00; paper $35.00--John Dillon, a distinguished classical scholar, now serving as Regius Professor of Greek at Trinity College, Dublin, has provided in The ...
Falcon, Andrea. Aristotle and the Science of Nature: Unity without Uniformity.(Book review)
Sep 01, 2006; ... FALCON, Andrea. Aristotle and the Science of Nature: Unity without Uniformity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xvii + 139 pp. Cloth, $75.00--This remarkable little book provides a clear introduction to Aristotle's philosophy of science and is one that could be used in the ...
Gersh, Stephen. Reading Plato, Tracing Plato: From Ancient Commentary to Medieval Reception.(Book review)
Sep 01, 2006; ... GERSH, Stephen. Reading Plato, Tracing Plato: From Ancient Commentary to Medieval Reception. Aldershot, United Kingdom: Ashgate Press, 2005. xix + 330 pp. Cloth, $114.95--This collection examines Platonic influences on European speculation between the fourth and fourteenth centuries ....
Goldsmith, Jack L. and Eric A. Posner. The Limits of International Law.(Book review)
Sep 01, 2006; ... GOLDSMITH, Jack L. and Eric A. POSNER. The Limits of International Law. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. 262 pp. Paper, $29.95--As the United Nations, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the World Court, and other institutions seek to expand their reach, often invoking ...
Haldane, John, editor. Mind, Metaphysics, and Value in the Thomistic and Analytical Traditions.(Book review)
Sep 01, 2006; ... HALDANE, John, editor. Mind, Metaphysics, and Value in the Thomistic and Analytical Traditions. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2002. xi + 225 pp. Cloth, $45.00--In this book, John Haldane has assembled essays by various authors in the effort to bridge the divide between the ...
Hall, Jonathan M. Hellenicity. Between Ethnicity and Culture.(Book review)
Sep 01, 2006; ... HALL, Jonathan M. Hellenicity. Between Ethnicity and Culture. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2005. 312 pp. Paper, $29.00--Jonathan Hall's Hellenicity is an excellent book: thoroughly researched, cogently argued, and forcefully written. Hall lays out the scope of his study very ...
Knuuttila, Simo. Emotions in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy.(Book review)
Sep 01, 2006; ... KNUUTTILA, Simo. Emotions in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. viii + 341 pp. Cloth, $95.00; paper, $35.00--As Simo Knuuttila observes in the introduction to his new work, Emotions in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, the philosophical study of ...
Matthen, Mohan. Seeing, Doing, and Knowing: A Philosophical Theory of Sense Perception.(Book review)
Sep 01, 2006; ... MATTHEN, Mohan. Seeing, Doing, and Knowing: A Philosophical Theory of Sense Perception. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2005. xxii + 362 pp. Cloth, $74.00--In this volume, Matthen presents a "new philosophy of vision," and of sensory consciousness in general, as an alternative to the "classical" ...
McGrade, A. S. The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Philosophy.(Book review)
Sep 01, 2006; ... MCGRADE, A. S. The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xviii + 405 pp. Cloth, 45.00 [pounds sterling]; paper, 17.95 [pounds sterling]--In this excellent overview, Professor McGrade has made available a handy introduction to the study of ...
McGrath, Alister E. The Science of God: An Introduction to Scientific Theology.(Book review)
Sep 01, 2006; ... MCGRATH, Alister E. The Science of God: An Introduction to Scientific Theology. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2004. xiv + 271 pp. Paper, $25.00--Intended as an introduction to his three-volume A Scientific Theology (Eerdmans, 2001-2003), this new book from the ...
Natoli, Charles. On the Fire in the Dark: Essays on Pascal's Pensees and Provinciales.(Book review)
Sep 01, 2006; ... NATOLI, Charles. On the Fire in the Dark: Essays on Pascal's Pensees and Provinciales. Rochester Studies in Philosophy. Rochester: Rochester University Press, 2005. xxxii + 145 pp. Cloth, $75.00.--"Ich Pascal nicht lese," said Nietzsche, "sondern liebe." Yet Pascal found it hard to love ...
Popkin, Jeremy D. History, Historians, & Autobiography.(Book review)
Sep 01, 2006; ... POPKIN, Jeremy D. History, Historians, & Autobiography. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2005. x + 339 pp. Cloth, $35.00--Historian Jeremy D. Popkin takes a busman's holiday in this study of the relation ship between autobiographical writing by historians and the discipline of ...
Reisch, George A. How the Cold War Transformed Philosophy of Science: To the Icy Slopes of Logic.(Book review)
Sep 01, 2006; ... REISCH, George A. How the Cold War Transformed Philosophy of Science: To the Icy Slopes of Logic. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xiv + 418 pp. Cloth, $70.00; paper, $26.99--A certain narrative dissonance attends the history of logical positivism. That history begins in the ...
Richardson, John. Nietzsche's New Darwinism.(Book review)
Sep 01, 2006; ... Richardson, John. Nietzsche's New Darwinism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. xxii + 288 pp. Cloth, $60.00--The title of John Richardson's second book on Nietzsche neatly summarizes its thesis: Nietzsche's philosophy is Darwinian, but Nietzsche takes Darwinian explanatory ...
Rossi, Philip J. The Social Authority of Reason: Kant's Critique, Radical Evil, and the Destiny of Humankind.(Book review)
Sep 01, 2006; ... ROSSI, Philip J. The Social Authority of Reason: Kant's Critique, Radical Evil, and the Destiny of Humankind. Albany: State University of New York Press. xiii + 204 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $19.95---Rossi's book offers us an interesting and novel attempt to work out the larger social/ ...
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. Letter to D'Alembert and Writings for the Theater.(The Collected Writings of Rousseau, vol. 10)(Book review)
Sep 01, 2006; ... ROUSSEAU, Jean-Jacques. Letter to D'Alembert and Writings for the Theater. The Collected Writings of Rousseau, Vol. 10. Edited and translated by Allan Bloom, Charles Butterworth, and Christopher Kelly. Hanover: Dartmouth College Press, 2004. xxviii + 406 pp. Cloth $70.00--This volume is ...
Scoti, Ioannis Duns. Opera Philosophica, Vol. II.(Book review)
Sep 01, 2006; ... SCOTI, Ioannis Duns. Opera Philosophica, Vol. II. Edited by Girard J. Etzkorn, Romuald Green, and Timothy B. Noone. St. Bonaventure, N.Y.: The Franciscan Institute, 2004. 768 pp. Cloth, $125.00--Volume 2 in the Opera Philosophica of Blessed John Duns Scotus contains three works: (1) the ...
Stern, David G. Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations: An Introduction.(Book review)
Sep 01, 2006; ... STERN, David G. Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations: An Introduction. Cambridge Introductions to Key Philosophical Texts. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xv + 208 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $23.99--Stern's introduction to Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations is ...
Strauss, Leo. Leo Strauss: The Early Writings (1921-1932).(Book review)
Sep 01, 2006; ... STRAUSS, Leo. Leo Strauss: The Early Writings (1921-1932). Translated and edited by Michael Zank. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002. vii + 238 pp. Cloth, $68.50; paper, $22.92--This is a welcome collection of short writings of Leo Strauss (1899-1973) originally appearing in ...
van der Eijk, Philip. Medicine and Philosophy in Classical Antiquity: Doctors and Philosophers on Nature, Soul, Health, and Disease.(Book review)
Sep 01, 2006; ... VAN DER EIJK, Philip. Medicine and Philosophy in Classical Antiquity: Doctors and Philosophers on Nature, Soul, Health, and Disease. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 404 pp. Cloth, $95.00--Philip J. van der Eijk, a professor of Greek at the University of Newcastle on Tyne, has ...
Vaught, Carl. Access to God in Augustine's Confessions: Books X-XIII.(Book review)
Sep 01, 2006; ... VAUGHT, Carl. Access to God in Augustine's Confessions: Books X-XIII. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005. xi + 280 pp. Cloth, $65.00--Having already treated books 1-6 (SUNY Press, 2003) and 7-9 (SUNY Press, 2004), Baylor University's Carl Vaught opens this volume by asking ...
American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly Vol. 80, No. 1, Winter 2006.(PHILOSOPHICAL ABSTRACTS)
Sep 01, 2006 ... Radical Orthodoxy's Poiesis: Ideological Historiography and Anti-Modern Polemic, WAYNE J. HANKEY For Radical Orthodoxy participatory poiesis is the only form of authentic postmodern theology and determines its dependence upon, as well as the character of, its narrative of the ...
Australasian Journal of Philosophy Vol. 84, No. 2, June 2006.(PHILOSOPHICAL ABSTRACTS)
Sep 01, 2006 ... The Scope and Limits of Human Knowledge, D. M. ARMSTRONG This paper argues that the foundations of our knowledge are the bedrock certainties of ordinary life, what may be called the Moorean truths. Beyond that are the well established results within the empirical sciences, and ...
European Journal of Philosophy Vol. 14, No. 2, August 2006.(PHILOSOPHICAL ABSTRACTS)
Sep 01, 2006 ... Perception and Content, BILL BREWER It is close to current orthodoxy that the most basic and theoretically fruitful characterization of perceptual experience is given by its representational content. Thus, perception is provisionally assimilated to thought. Although proponents ...
Journal of the History of Philosophy Vol. 44, No. 4, October 2006.(PHILOSOPHICAL ABSTRACTS)
Sep 01, 2006 ... Kant's Immediatism, Pre-Critique, JULIAN WUERTH The recent spate of literature on Kant's account of the self considers only a small percentage of Kant's recorded views on the self, limiting itself almost exclusively to the Critique. Because Kant there rejects the positive ...
Mind Vol. 115, No. 458, April 2006.(PHILOSOPHICAL ABSTRACTS)
Sep 01, 2006 ... Possible-Worlds Semantics Without Possible Worlds: The Agnostic Approach, JOHN DIVERS If a possible-worlds semantic theory for modal logics is pure, then the assertion of the theory, taken at face value, can bring no commitment to the existence of a plurality of possible worlds ...
Mind Vol. 115, No. 459, July 2006.(PHILOSOPHICAL ABSTRACTS)
Sep 01, 2006 ... Zif is If, DAVID BERNETT A conditional takes the form "If A, then C." On the truth-conditional view of conditionals, conditional statements state things with truth-conditions. On the suppositional view, conditional statements involve the expression of a supposition. The author ...
The Monist Vol. 89, No. 4, October 2006.(PHILOSOPHICAL ABSTRACTS)
Sep 01, 2006 ... Genetics Engineering, Moral Autonomy, and Equal Treatment, STEPHANE COURTOIS Autonomy, Full Information, and Genetic Ignorance in Reproductive Medicine, THOMAS MAY and RYAN SPELLECY Choosing Disability: 'Screening In' and the Welfare of the Child, EVE GARRARD and ...
The Philosophical Quarterly Vol. 56, No. 224, July 2006.(PHILOSOPHICAL ABSTRACTS)
Sep 01, 2006 ... Intentionalism and the Imaginability of the Inverted Spectrum, ERIC MARCUS Various thought-experiments have been offered as independent support for the possibility of intentionalism-defeating spectrum inversion, but they do not succeed. The author refutes what he takes to be ...
Phronesis Vol. 51, No. 2, May 2006.(PHILOSOPHICAL ABSTRACTS)
Sep 01, 2006 ... Reading the [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII]: Theaetetus 170c-171c, T. D. J. CHAPPELL Two readings of the much-discussed [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] argument of Theaetetus 170c-171c have dominated the literature. One the author calls the relativity reading. On this reading, ...
Ratio Vol. 19, No. 2, June 2006.(PHILOSOPHICAL ABSTRACTS)
Sep 01, 2006 ... Maxims and Thick Ethical Concepts, A. W. MOORE The article begins with Kant's notion of a maxim and considers the role which this notion plays in Kant's formulations of the fundamental categorical imperative. This raises the question of what a maxim is, and why there is not the ...
Doctoral dissertations 2005-2006 *.
Sep 01, 2006 ... University of Alberta (39) (36) (15) VLADAN DJORDJEVIC, "Counterfactuals." Adviser: Bernard Linsky. ANNA KESSLER, "Rational Hope in Kant's Moral Religion." Adviser: Robert Burch. LI LI, "The Problem of Exportation for Dynamically Holistic ...
Visiting professors from abroad, 2006-2007.
Sep 01, 2006 ... Arun Balasubramaniam National University of Singapore University of Toronto 2006-2007 Gabor Betegh Central European University Cornell University Spring 2007 Jochen Bojanowski ...
North American professors abroad, 2006-2007.
Sep 01, 2006 ... Barry Allen McMaster University East China Normal University Fall 2006 Radu Bogdan Tulane University Bilkent University, Turkey 2006-2007 Jeff Brower Purdue University Thomas ...
Professors entering retirement in 2006.(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2006 ... Ed Allaire University of Texas, Austin June 2006 Kathleen E. Bohstedt University of Tennessee December 2006 David Burrell University of Notre Dame May 2006 Robert Causey ...