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Advisory Editor: Bruce Vermazen
Rex Martin
Collingwood’s Claim that Metaphysics
Is a Historical Discipline
James Somerville
Collingwood’s Logic of Question and Answer
Lorraine Code
Collingwood’s Epistemological Individualism
Elazar Weinryb
Re-enactment in Retrospect
Ted Cohen
Reflections on One Idea of Collingwood’s Aesthetics
Advisory Editor: Henry E. Allison
Christine M. Korsgaard
Kant’s Analysis of Obligation:
The Argument of Foundations I
Onora O’Neill
Universal Laws and Ends-In-Themselves
Thomas E. Hill, Jr.
Kant’s Theory of Practical Reason
Andrews Reath
The Categorical Imperative
and Kant’s Conception of Practical Rationality
Barbara Herman
Murder and Mayhem: Violence and Kantian Casuistry
Kenneth Baynes
Kant on Property Rights and the Social Contract
Allen W. Wood
The Emptiness of the Moral Will
Advisory Editor: Henry E. Allison
Paul Guyer
The Unity of Reason: Pure Reason as Practical Reason
in Kant’s Early Concept of the Transcendental Dialectic
Manley Thompson
Unity, Plurality, and Totality as Kantian Categories
Henry E. Allison
Kant’s Refutation of Materialism
Richard Aquila
Imagination as a “Medium” in the Critique of Pure Reason
Guenther Zoeller
From Innate to A Priori: Kant’s Radical
Transformation of a Cartesian-Leibnizian Legacy
Michael Friedman
Kant on Space, the Understanding, and
the Law of Gravitation: Prolegomena §38
Eckart Förster
Kant’s Notion of Philosophy
Advisory Editor: Dallas Willard
Jaakko Hintikka
The Role of Logic in Argumentation
Gary Iseminger
The Asymmetry Thesis
Richard Warner
Why is Logic A Priori?
Barry Smith
Logic and the Sachverhalt
Gian-Carlo Rota
Fundierung as a Logical Concept
Philip L. Peterson
Logic Knowledge
Dallas Willard
Space, Color, Sense Perception
and the Epistemology of Logic
Advisory Editor: Marjorie Grene
Daniel Garber
Descartes, the Aristotelians,
and the Revolution that Did Not Happen in 1637
Frederick P. Van De Pitte
Some of Descartes’ Debts to Eustachius a Sancto Paulo
Lynn Sumida Joy
The Conflict of Mechanisms and Its Empiricist Outcome
Tom Sorell
Descartes, Hobbes and the Body of Natural Science
Dennis L. Sepper
Imagination, Phantasms, and the
Making of Hobbesian and Cartesian Science
Sara F. García-Gómez
Arnauld’s Theory of Ideative Knowledge:
A Proto-Phenomenological Account
Russell Wahl
The Arnauld-Malebranche Controversy and Descartes’ Ideas
Steven Nadler
Cartesianism and Port Royal
Richard Glauser
John Sergeant’s Argument Against Descartes
and the Way of Ideas
Charles J. McCracken
Berkeley’s Cartesian Concept of Mind:
The Return Through Malebranche and Locke to Descartes
Advisory Editor: Wallace I Matson
Renford Bambrough
Articulation and Justification
John Kekes
Some Requirements of a Theory of Rationality
Gonzalo Munevar
Evolution and Justification
Mark Bernstein
Justification and Determinism: An Exchange
I. Involutional Determinism
George Myro
Justification and Determinism: An Exchange
II. Are There Black Holes in Logic?
C.G. Prado
Imagination and Justification
Earl Conee
The Basic Nature of Epistemic Justification
Richard Feldman
Subjective and Objective Justification
in Ethics and Epistemology
Fred D’Agostino
Relativism and Reflective Equilibrium
Joseph Mendola
On Rawls’s Basic Structure: Forms of Justification
and the Subject Matter of Social Philosophy
Ben-Ami Scharfstein
On the Transparency and Opacity of Philosophers
Advisory Editor: Anita Silvers
Anita Silvers
Introduction
Noël Carroll
Art, Practice, and Narrative
Julius M. Moravcsik
Art and Its Diachronic Dimensions
S.J. Wilsmore
Paradigms and Masterpieces: Rationality in Art and Science
Richard Shusterman
Essence, History, and Narrative:
T.S. Eliot on the Definition of Poetry and Criticism
David Carrier
Gavin Hamilton’s Oath of Brutus
and David’s Oath of the Horatii:
The Revisionist Interpretation of Neo-Classical Art
Alexander Nehamas
Plato and the Mass Media
Paul Woodruff
Engaging Emotion in Theater:
A Brechtian Model in Theater History
Stan Godlovitch
Authentic Performance
Peter Kivy
On the Concept of the “Historically Authentic” Performance
Ted Cohen
What’s Special about Photography?
Advisory Editor: John Ahrens
Donald Scherer
A Disentropic Ethic
Bonnie Steinbock
Progress and the Value of Space: Two Views
Anthony J. Graybosch
The Ethics of Space-Based Ballistic Missile Defense
Laurence Thomas
Moral Behavior and Rational Creatures of the Universe
Arnold Berleant & Sarah B. Fowler
Space by Design: Aesthetic and Moral
Issues in Planning Space Communities
Anthony Weston
Radio Astronomy as Epistemology: Some
Philosophical Reflections on the Contemporary
Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
Del Ratzsch
Space Travel and Challenges to Religion
Fredric C. Young
Labor Relations in Space:
An Essay in Extraterrestrial Business Ethics
Advisory Editor: William P. Alston
Keith Lehrer
Beyond Impressions and Ideas:
Hume vs. Reid
Nicholas Wolterstorff
Hume and Reid
James Somerville
Reid’s Conception of Common Sense
William R. Rowe
Reid’s Conception of Human Freedom
A.D. Woozley
Reid on Moral Liberty
Robert Stecker
Thomas Reid on the Moral Sense
Theodore A. Gracyk
The Failure of Thomas Reid’s Aesthetics
Joan McGregor
Reid on Justice as a Natural Virtue
Alan Wade Davenport
Reid’s Indebtedness to Bacon
Fred S. Michael & Emily Michael
Reid’s Hume: Remarks on Hume
in Some Early Logic Lectures of Reid
Advisory Editor: James Sterba
Douglas P. Lackey
The Moral Irrelevance of the
Counterforce/Countervalue Distinction
Kenneth W. Kemp
Nuclear Deterrence and the Morality of Intentions
Gregory S. Kavka
Nuclear Weapons and World Government
John W. Lango
Is It Wrong to Intend to Do
That Which It Is Wrong to Do?
Jonathan Schonsheck
Wrongful Threats, Wrongful Intentions,
and Moral Judgements about Nuclear Weapons Policies
Richard Werner
Nuclear Deterrence and the Limits of Moral Theory
Advisory Editor: Ruth Barcan Marcus
Henry E. Kyburg, Jr.
The Hobgoblin
Adolf Grünbaum
Psychoanalysis and Theism
Isaac Levi
The Demons of Decision
Ermanno Bencivenga
Theories and Practices
Richard Jeffrey
Risk and Human Rationality
Joseph Kupfer
Pragmatic Contradiction as Irrational Speech
Advisory Editor: Thomas Regan
Peter Singer
Animal Liberation or Animal Rights?
Paul W. Taylor
Inherent Value and Moral Rights
Jan Narveson
On a Case for Animal Rights
R.G. Frey
Autonomy and the Value of Animal Life
H.J. McCloskey
The Moral Case for Experimentation on Animals
Robert Elliot
Moral Autonomy, Self-Determination, and Animal Rights
James Rachels
Darwin, Species, and Morality
Stephen R.L. Clark
Animals, Ecosystems, and the Liberal Ethic
Advisory Editor: Joseph Margolis
Roderick M. Chisholm
Presence in Absence
J.N. Mohanty
Levels of Understanding ‘Intentionality’
David Carr
Cogitamus Ergo Sumus:
The Intentionality of the First-Person Plural
Izchak Miller
Husserl and Sartre on the Self
Joseph Margolis
Intentionality, Institutions, and Human Nature
Giacomo Rinaldi
Intentionality and Dialectical Reason
William S. Robinson
Ascription, Intentionality and Understanding
Dale Jacquette
Intentionality and Intensionality:
Quotation Contexts and the Modal Wedge
Richard Lind
The Priority of Attention: Intentionality for Automata
Jane Duran
Intentionality and Epistemology
Advisory Editor: Joseph Owens
Thomas M. Robinson
Heraclitus on Soul
Kevin Robb
Psyche and Logos in the Fragments of Heraclitus:
The Origins of the Concept of Soul
L.P. Gerson
Platonic Dualism
H.J. Blumenthal
Body and Soul in Philoponus
Michael Marmura
Avicenna’s “Flying Man” in Context
Kenneth L. Schmitz
Purity of Soul and Immortality
Anthony Preus
Aristotle on Healthy and Sick Souls
Aaron Ben-Zeev
Making Mental Properties More Natural
James Robb
The Unity of Adequate Knowing in St. Thomas Aquinas
Edwin McCann
Cartesian Selves and Lockean Substances
James Van Cleve
Kant’s First and Second Paralogisms
Advisory Editor: Richard M. Martin
John Bacon
The Reality of Logic
Rolf A. Eberle
Is Philosophy a Branch of Logic?
Michael Pendlebury
Facts as Truthmakers
Charles J. Kelly
Aquinas’ third Way from the
Standpoint of the Aristotelian Syllogistic
J.M. Bochenski
The Concept of the Free Society
Bowman L. Clarke
Qualia, Extension and Abstraction
Phillip L. Peterson
Real Logic in Philosophy
Robert Hanna
On the Sublimity of Logic:
A Heideggerian Analysis
Stephen Theron
Does Realism Make a Difference
Albert Menne
Logic and Reality
Advisory Editor: Richard Rorty
Samuel C. Wheeler, III
The Extension of Deconstruction
Richard Shusterman
Analytic Aesthetics, Literary Theory,
and Deconstruction
David Novitz
The Rage for Deconstruction
Alan Montefiore
Philosophy, Literature
and the Restatement of a Few Banalities
Newton Garver
Structuralism and the Challenge of Metaphor
Genevieve Lloyd
Texts, Metaphors and the
Pretensions of Philosophy
Jeffrey Stout
The Relativity of Interpretation
Suresh Raval
Philosophy and the Crisis of
Contemporary Literary Theory
Colin Falck
Saussurian Theory and the
Abolition of Reality
Advisory Editor: John E. Smith
Maurice Natanson
Illusion and Irreality: The Enlargement of Experience
Lewis S. Ford
The Ramifications of
Whitehead’s Theory of Experience
Beth J. Singer
Experience and Meaning
Joseph C. Flay
Experience, Nature, and Place
A. Mac C. Armstrong
Lessons from Experience
Austen Clark
A Physicalist Theory of Qualia
John T. Sanders
Experience, Memory and Intelligence
C.F. Delaney
Pragmatism and the Meaning of “Truth”
John E. Smith
Experience in Peirce, James and Dewey
Advisory Editor: Richard Wasserestrom
Joseph Raz
Authority, Law and Morality
David Lyons
Derivability, Defensibility,
and the Justification of Judicial Decisions
Charles Silver
Negative Positivism and the Hard Facts of Life
David O. Brink
Legal Positivism and Natural Law Reconsidered
Robert J. Yanal
Hart, Dworkin, Judges, and New Law
Russell Hardin
Sanction and Obligation
Advisory Editor: William P. Alston
Richard Feldman
Reliability and Justification
Carl Ginet
Contra Reliabilism
Richard Foley
What’s Wrong with Reliabilism?
Steven Luper-Foy
The Reliabilist Theory
of Rational Belief
Ernest Sosa
Knowledge and Intellectual Virtue
Kent Bach
A Rationale for Reliabilism
Hilary Kornblith
Ever Since Descartes
Tomis Kapitan
Reliability and Indirect Justification
Advisory Editor: William P. Alston
R.B. Brandt
The Concept of Rational Belief
Peter Forrest
An Indubitability Analysis of Knowledge
Oswald Hanfling
A Structural Account of Knowledge
William P. Alston
Concepts of Epistemic Justification
James Van Cleve
Epistemic Supervenience
And the Rule of Belief
Peter Klein
The Virtues of Inconsistency
Andrew Naylor
In Defense of a
Nontraditional Theory of Memory
Advisory Editor: Anita Silvers
Annette C. Baier
Some Thoughts on How We
Moral Philosophers Live Now
Alasdair Macintyre
Does Applied Ethics Rest on a Mistake?
Tom L. Beauchamp
On Eliminating the Distinction Between
Applied Ethics and Ethical Theory
Bernard Gert
Moral Theory and Applied Ethics
Alan Gewirth
Practical Philosophy, Civil Liberties, and Poverty
Margaret Pabst Battin
Applied Professional Ethics and Institutional
Religion: The Methodological Issues
Anthony Weston
Drawing Lines: The Abortion Perplex and the
Presuppositions of Applied Ethics
Virginia Held
Violence, Terrorism, and Moral Inquiry
Advisory Editor: Joseph Margolis
W.V. Quine
Relativism and Absolutism
R.B. Brandt
Relativism Refuted?
Joseph Margolis
Historicism, Universalism,
and the Threat of Relativism
C. Behan McCullagh
The Intelligibility of Cognitive Relativism
Mark B. Okrent
Relativism, Context, and Truth
Harvey Siegel
Goodmanian Relativism
Friedel Weinert
Contra Res Sempiternas
Michael Krausz
Relativism and Foundationalism
Philip E. Devine
Relativism
D.C. Phillips
Was William James Telling
the Truth After All?
Bruce Russell
Moral Relativism and Moral Realism
William F. Vallicella
Relativism, Truth and the Symmetry Thesis
Michael Bradie
Rationality and the Objectivity of Values
Advisory Editor: Wallace I. Matson
Arthur L. Caplan
Sociobiology as a Strategy in Science
Carla E. Kary
Sociobiology and the
Redemption of Normative Ethics
Michael Ruse
The Morality of the Gene
Mary Midgley
De-Dramatizing Darwinism
Bernard Gert
Rationality and Sociobiology
Elizabeth Wolgast
The Invisible Paw
Michael Levin
Why Homosexuality Is Abnormal
Advisory Editor: Dagfinn Føllesdal
Mary Tiles
Mathematics: The Language of Science?
Hao Wang
Wittgenstin’s and
Other Mathematical Philosophies
Richard W. Lind
Microphenomenology and Numerical Relations
Penelope Maddy
Mathematical Epistemology:
What Is the Question?
Daniel Bonevac
Mathematics and Metalogic
G. Kreisel
Frege’s Foundations and Intuitionistic Logic
Christopher Menzel
Cantor and the Burali-Forti Paradox
Hugh Lehman
Mathematical Proofs, Gaps and Postulationism
Carl J. Posy
Kant’s Mathematical Realism
Advisory Editor: None
Richard Taylor
The Basis of Political Authority
Craig L. Carr
The Problem of Political Authority
Harry Beran
What Is the Basis of Political Authority?
Tibor Machan
Individualism and Authority
Jeffrey Paul
Substantive Social Contracts
Ellen Frankel Paul
On Three “Inherent Powers of Government”
John T. Sanders
Political Authority
Robert L. Simon
Justice and the Authority of States
Advisory Editor: Monroe C. Beardsley
Charles Hartshorne
Categories and Creative Experiencing
Manley Thompson
Philosophical Approaches to Categories
Stephen Korner
Thinking, Thought, and Categories
Donald W. Sherburne
Completion of the Copernican Revolution
Robert Brandom
Heidegger’s Categories
Laurence Goldstein
Pure Categorial Principles
Robert Hanna
What Categories Are Not
Carl G. Vaught
Categories and the Real Order
Advisory Editor: Mary Mothersill
Paul Guyer
Autonomy and Integrity in Kant’s Aesthetics
Richard Kuhns
Poetic Taint
David Carrier
Interpreting Musical Performances
Thomas E. Hill, Jr.
Moral Purity and the Lesser Evil
Barbara Herman
Integrity and Impartiality
Lawrence M. Hinman
On the Purity of Our Moral Motives: A Critique
of Kant’s Account of the Emotions and Acting
for the Sake of Duty
Lorraine Code
Father and Son: A Case Study in Epistemic Responsibility
Frances Myrna
Purity in Morals
Sarah Conly
Utilitarianism and Integrity
Advisory Editor: Joseph Owens
William K. Frankena
The Ethics of Right Reason
D.S. Theron
Morality as Right Reason
J.M. Rist
An Early Dispute About Right Reason
Henry Veatch
Variations, Good and Bad, on the
Theme of Right Reason in Ethics
Vernon J. Bourke
The Synderesis Rule and Right Reason
Roger J. Sullivan
The Kantian Model of Moral-Practical Reason
D.P. Dryer
Aristotle’s Conception of Orthos Logos
Gregory S. Kavka
Right Reason and Natural Law in Hobbes’s Ethics
Stephen D. Hudson
Right Reason and Moral Gods
S.F. Sapontzis
Moral Value and Reason
Advisory Editor: Richard M. Martin
Albert Menne
Concerning the Logical Analysis of “Existence”
Nicholas J. Moutafakis
Aristotle’s “Metaphysics” (Book Lambda)
and the Logic of Events
Amihud Gilead
The Relationships Between Formal and
Transcendental-Metaphysical Logic According to Kant
Philip L. Quinn
Metaphysical Necessity and Modal Logics
Peter Forrest
Occam’s Razor and Possible Worlds
Joseph Agassi
Presuppositions for Logic
Augustin Riska
A Logical Theory of Objects
Charles Parsons
Objects and Logic
Bowman L. Clarke
Logic and Whitehead’s Criteria
for Speculative Philosophy
Richard M. Martin
On Universal Algebra
and the Whiteheadian Cosmology
Advisory Editor: None
L. Jonathan Cohen
Intuition, Induction, and the Middle Way
J.J.C. Smart
Sellars on Process
Jay F. Rosenberg
The Place of Color in the Scheme of Things:
A Roadmap to Sellars’s Carus Lectures
Gary Gutting
Scientific Realism vs. Constructive Empiricism: A Dialogue
Romane Clark
Sensibility and Understanding:
The Given of Wilfrid Sellars
Mark Pastin
Straight Freedom
Laurence Goldstein
The Adverbial Theory of Conceptual Thought
Sydney Pressman
Sellars’s Via Media
Advisory Editor: None
Max H. Fisch
The Range of Peirce’s Relevance (Part II)
E.F. Kaelin
Reflections on Peirce’s Aesthetics
Susan Haack
Descartes, Peirce and the
Cognitive Community
Risto Hilpinen
On C.S. Peirce’s Theory of the Proposition:
Peirce as a Precursor of Game-Theoretical Semantics
David Gruender
Pragmatism, Science, and Metaphysics
J. Jay Zeman
Peirce on Abstraction
Sandra B. Rosenthal
Meaning as Habit: Some Systematic
Implications of Peirce’s Pragmatism
Christian J.W. Kloesel
Bibliography of Charles Peirce, 1976 through 1980
Advisory Editor: Ruth Barcan Marcus
Jules Vuillemin
Comparative Philosophy as Applied to the
Concept of Natural Law
Paul Gochet
Five Tents of Quine
Rudolf Haller
New Light on the Vienna Circle
Paul Weingartner
On the Demarcation Between Logic and Mathematics
Jacques Bouveresse
Frege, Logic, and Inner Experience
Friedel Weinert
Tradition and Argument
Wilhelm K. Essler
Fundamentals of a Semi-Kantian
Metaphysics of Knowledge
Advisory Editor: Richard Rorty
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Heidegger und die Geschichte der Philosophie
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Heidegger and the History of Philosophy
(Translated by Karen Campbell)
Bernd Magnus
Heidegger’s Metahistory of Philosophy Revisited
David Farrell Krell
Results
David A. Kolb
Hegel and Heidegger as Critics
Mark B. Okrent
The Truth of Being and the
History of Philosophy
David A. White
On Historicism and Heidegger’s
Notion of Ontological Difference
Thomas Sheehan
On Movement and the Destruction of Ontology
Donald Algeo
Abortion, Personhood, and Moral Rights
Advisory Editor: None
R.B. Brandt
W.K. Frankena and Ethics of Virtue
Alan Donagan
W.K. Frankena and G.E. Moore’s Metaethics
Philippa Foot
William Frankena’s Carus Lectures
Paul W. Taylor
Frankena on Environmental Ethics
Kurt Baier
Defining Morality Without Prejudice
Annette Baier
Frankena and Hume on Points of View
B.J. Diggs
Morality and Self-Government
Ronald D. Milo
Moral Indifference
Robert L. Holmes
Frankena on ‘Ought’ and ‘Is’
George W. Harris
Frankena and the Utility of Practical Reason
Advisory Editor: Maurice Mandelbaum
Maurice Mandelbaum
A Note on Nineteenth-Century Philosophy Today
Patrick Gardiner
German Philosophy and the Rise of Relativism
Richard Rorty
Nineteenth-Century Idealism and
Twentieth-Century Textualism
Michael Ermarth
The Transformation of Hermeneutics: 19th Century Ancients
and 20th Century Moderns
Marjorie Grene
Changing Concepts of Darwinian Evolution
Joelle Proust
Bolzano’s Analytic Revisited
Richard Schacht
Nietzsche’s Second Thoughts About Art
J. Hillis Miller
The Disarticulation of the Self in Nietzsche
Advisory Editor: None
Wilfrid Sellars
Lecture I, The Lever of Archimedes
Lecture II, Naturalism and Process
Lecture III, Is Consciousness Physical?
Roderick Firth
A Reply
Daniel Dennett
Wondering Where the Yellow Went
Robert J. Fogelin
When I Look at a Tomato
There Is Much I Cannot See
Advisory Editor: William A. Earle
Donald Henze
The Style of Philosophy
Lee B. Brown
Philosophy, Rhetoric, and Style
Berel Lang
Towards a Poetics of Philosophical Discourse
Erich Heller
The Poet in the Age of Prose: Reflections on
Hegel’s Aesthetics and Rilke’s Duino Elegies
Peter Kivy
Melville’s Billy and the Secular
Problem of Evil: The Worm in the Bud
David Wood
Style and Strategy at the Limits of Philosophy:
Heidegger and Derrida
Lawrence M. Hinman
Philosophy and Style
Charles Griswold
Style and Philosophy: The Case of Plato’s Dialogues
Edward G. Lawry
Literature as Philosophy: The Moviegoer
Advisory Editor: John E. Smith
Max H. Fisch
The Range of Peirce’s Relevance
Charles Hartshorne
A Revision of Perice’s Categories
John Boler
Peirce, Ockham and Scholastic Realism
Jaakko Hintikka
C.S. Peirce’s “First Real Discovery”
and Its Contemporary Relevance
T.L. Short
Peirce and the Incommensurability of Theories
James F. Harris & Kevin Hoover
Abduction and the New Riddle of Induction
William J. Gavin
Peirce and “The Will to Believe”
Mihai Nadin
The Logic of Vagueness
and the Category of Synechism
Charles J. Dougherty
Peirce’s Phenomenological Defense of Deduction
Bertrand P. Helm
The Nature and Modes of Time
Karl-Otto Apel
C.S. Peirce and Post-Tarskian Truth
Advisory Editor: Richard Wasserstrom
George P. Fletcher
The Right to Life
Jeffrie G. Murphy
Blackmail: A Preliminary Inquiry
Edmund Pincoffs
Virtue, the Quality of Life, and Punishment
George Schedler
Can Retributivists Support Legan Punishment?
Lawrence Alexander
The Doomsday Machine:
Proportionality, Punishment and Prevention
Barbara Baum Levenbook
“That Makes It Worse”
James B. Brady
Punishing Attempts
Advisory Editor: None
William Frankena
Lecture I, Must Morality Have an Object?
Lecture II, Is Morality a System of Ordinary Oughts?
Lecture III, Has Morality an Independent Bottom?
Alan Gewirth
Limitations of the Moral Point of View
G.J. Warnock
Comments on Frankena’s Three Questions
Harald Ofstad
Was Paradise Better?
William K. Frankena
Reply to My Three Critics