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- Kantian autonomy and the moral self
- KANT'S ACCOUNT OF AUTONOMY is not designed to solve the traditional problem of free will. It is a response to the problem of heteronomy rather than the problem of determinism. And the former pertains to concerns about the structure of practical reason rather than the scope of nature's causal laws....
- Research articles 2008-12-01
- Books received
- Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals: A Commentary. By Jens Timmermann. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xxxi + 192. Cloth, $85.00 After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory. By Aasdair MacIntyre. Third Edition. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007. Pp. xix + 286....
- Research articles 2007-10-01
- Recent titles in philosophy
- ABOULAFIA, MITCHELL. The Cosmopolitan Self: George Herbert Mead and Continental Philosophy. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2006. 169 pp. Cloth, $29.95; paper, $20.00. ABRAHAM, WILLIAM J. Crossing the Threshold of Divine Revelation. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2006. 212 pp. Paper, $20.00. ADAMS, NICHOLAS. Habermas and...
- Research articles 2007-06-01
- Kant: let us compare
- Every thing in this world is judg'd of by comparison. (1) It is impossible to continue in the practice of contemplating any order of beauty, without being frequently obliged to form comparisons between the several species and degrees of ...
- Research articles 2005-06-01
- Burnyeat, Myles. A Map of Metaphysics Zeta
- Pittsburgh: Mathesis Publications, 2001. x + 176 pp. Paper, n. p.--Burnyeat calls this book a "map" because, he explains, he intends to set up signposts for readers of one of the most difficult texts in philosophy to use in their own explorations (p. 3). The "map" consists of an Introduction...
- Research articles 2003-03-01
- Theory-Change And The Logic Of Enquiry: New Bearings In Philosophy Of Science
- ANGLO-AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE has tended to define itself squarely against the kinds of so-called metaphysical approaches that have characterized so-called continental philosophy in the line of descent from Husserl. Indeed, Husserl's project of phenomenological enquiry was the target of criticism by Frege--and later by Gilbert Ryle--which pretty much set...
- Research articles 1999-09-01
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- The Possibility of Metaphysics: Substance, Identity, and Time
- LOWE, E. J. The Possibility of Metaphysics: Substance, Identity, and Time. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. viii + 275 pp. Cloth, $65.00--Metaphysics is enjoying an increasing popularity among contemporary analytic philosophers. A flue contribution to this literature is E. J. Lowe's The Possibility of Metaphysics. Lowe's title calls to mind...
- Research articles 2000-09-01
- A program for "naturalizing" metaphysics, with application to the ontology of events
- 1. Metaphysics and Cognitive Science I wish to advance a certain program for doing metaphysics, a program in which cognitive science would play an important role. (1) This proposed ingredient is absent from most contemporary metaphysics. There are one or two local parts of metaphysics where a role for...
- Research articles 2007-07-01
- The relation between logic and ontology in the Metaphysics
- THE QUESTION CONCERNING THE RELATION between logic and ontology in Aristotle's thought has recently attracted renewed attention, as several scholars have found reason to reconsider the argumentative structure of the seventh book of the Metaphysics. What initially provoked discussion was Myles Burnyeat's study A Map of Metaphysics Zeta and its...
- Research articles 2007-03-01
- Earthly treasures; material culture and metaphysics in the Heptameron and evangelical narrative
- Earthly treasures; material culture and metaphysics in the Heptameron and evangelical narrative. Randall, Catharine. Purdue University Press 2007 354 pages $43.95 Paperback Purdue studies in Romance literatures; v.40 PQ1631 A scholar specializing in Protestantism, Randall (Fordham U.) argues that Marguerite de...
- Research articles 2007-08-01
- An Introduction to Bradley's Metaphysics
- Mander, W. J. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994. viii + 175 pp. $39.95--Mander's book is a welcomed addition to the recent interest in Francis Herbert Bradley's philosophy, especially his metaphysics. The formation of the new Bradleian Society and the soon to be published proceedings of papers written by contemporary philosophers...
- Research articles 1995-12-01
- Bradshaw, David. Aristotle East and West: Metaphysics and the Division of Christendom
- BRADSHAW, David. Aristotle East and West. Metaphysics and the Division of Christendom. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xiv + 279 pp. Cloth, $75.00--Under a wide-ranging title, Professor Bradshaw examines the history of the metaphysical concept of energeia, in an attempt to trace the development of theology in Byzantine Christianity and...
- Research articles 2005-12-01
- Auden and Christianity
- Auden and Christianity (Yale, 207 pp., $30), by University of Virginia professor emeritus Arthur Kirsch, is a helpful exposition of how a great poet's faith animated his work. "Art is not metaphysics," Auden once said, "and the artist is usually unwise to insist too directly in his art upon his...
- Research articles 2005-10-10
- STMicroelectronics: The Metaphysics of a Metanational Pioneer
- From a two-country merger to a 27-nation powerhouse, the semiconductor company is a paradigm of the borderless entrepreneurial giant. This case study narrate the example of the marriage of two money losing state-owned companies might seem an unlikely preface to a global success story. Yet in the past decade, Geneva,...
- Case studies 2002-07-01
- Books received.(Bibliography)
- Values, Violence, and Our Future. Value Inquiry Book Series. By Gary J. Acquaviva. Atlantic Highlands: Rodopi, 2000. Pp. ix, 208. Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (1959). By Theodor W. Adorno. Ed. Rolf Tiedemann. Trans. Rodney Livingstone. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. Pp. xi, 300....
- Research articles 2001-10-01
- BOOKS RECEIVED.(Bibliography)
- Illocutionary Acts and Sentence Meaning. By William P. Alston. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000. Pp. xv, 327. Nicomachean Ethics. Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy. By Aristotle. Ed. Roger Crisp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xlii, 213. Metaphysics Book...
- Research articles 2000-10-01
- Books received.
- At the Eleventh Hour: The Biography of Swami Rama. By Pandit Rajmani Tigunait, Ph.D. Honesdale, Pennsylvania: Himalayan Institute Press, 2002. Pp. 427. Hardcover $18.95. Awakening and Insight: Zen Buddhism and Psychotherapy. Edited by Polly Young-Eisendrath and Shoji Muramoto. Hove, England: Brunner-Routledge,...
- Research articles 2003-07-01
- A Preface to Theology
- A Preface to Theology. By W. Clark Gilpin. Chicago: University of Chicago, 211 pp., n.p. paper. This book, which seeks to provide a foundation and methodology for theology, is remarkable for several reasons. First, it uses W. Lippmann's A Preface to Morals (1929) as a model for reflection upon the...
- Research articles 1998-12-01
- Thomas and Whitehead: Perspectives of convergence1
- There are, at the very least, two ontological perspectives within which the metaphysics of Saint Thomas Aquinas and Alfred North Whitehead can be seen as converging, and in the preceding essay, Lewis Ford has mentioned both of them. In what follows I should like further to develop this convergence -...
- Research articles 2002-10-01
- Honing her craft.(Q & A: Stephanie Adams)(Interview)
- Since becoming Playboy's Miss November 1992, Stephanie Adams has been exposing herself in a whole new way. The founder of the online lesbian community Sapphica.com and the spirituality site Goddessy.com, she is the author of seven metaphysics books (with four new titles coming out in 2005)....
- Research articles 2005-04-01
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