...Todd Buras Gideon Yaffe, Manifest Activity: Thomas Reid's Theory of Action . New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. x + 167 pp. Cornell University 2007 BOOK REVIEWS Gary Iseminger, The Aesthetic Function of Art. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2004. x...

...Thomas Crowther There has been relatively little discussion, in contemporary philosophy of mind, of the active aspects of perceptual processes. This essay presents and offers some preliminary development of a view about what it is for an agent to watch a particular material object throughout...

...Stephen S. Bush Nicomachean Ethics presents a puzzle as to whether Aristotle views morally virtuous activity as happiness, as book 1 seems to indicate, or philosophical contemplation as happiness, as book 10 seems to indicate. The most influential attempts to resolve this issue have been either...

...Nomy Arpaly; Timothy Schroeder Theoretical and practical deliberation are voluntary activities, and like all voluntary activities, they are performed for reasons. To hold that all voluntary activities are performed for reasons in virtue of their relations to past, present, or even merely possible...

...Andy Clark How should we characterize the functional role of conscious visual experience? In particular, how do the conscious contents of visual experience guide, bear upon, or otherwise inform our ongoing motor activities? According to an intuitive and (I shall argue) philosophically influential...

... of the experience of pursuing them. Game play shows that our agency is significantly more modular and more fluid than we might have thought. It also demonstrates our capacity to take on an inverted motivational structure. Sometimes we can take on an end for the sake of the activity of pursuing that end. Thinking...

..., the authors draw on an analogy with a similar distinction between types of reasons for actions in the context of activities. This motivates a two-level account of the structure of normativity. The account relies upon a further distinction between normative reasons and authoritatively normative reasons. Only...

... that a satisfactory reconstruction of the concept ought to explain. 2 The most fundamental, definitive characteristic of alienated labor is that it is an activity that does not “belong” to the worker. That is to say, it is not fully or without qualification her own activity—or, to put the same point another...

...Christopher Isaac Noble 2. Coope contrasts this view with Plotinus’s, but for some evidence that Plotinus too may hold that soul’s have a self-constituting part, see Enn . 3.9.1.26–37 and 4.8.3.22–27. 1. Coope thinks the Neoplatonic sage can at best enjoy this free activity...

... for the general phenomenon of covert exercitives. Even though it seems uncontroversial that conversational contributions enact conversational permissibility facts and changes to the conversational score, McGowan holds that our utterances can also constitute contributions to activities other than conversation...

...Robert Howton  1. Aristotle's commitment to the identity of the formal and final cause of natural changes seems to require that Johansen see the actual , rather than potential, object of the relevant capacity as the formal cause of the change, since Aristotle takes the object in activity...

...Abraham Sesshu Roth Cornell University 2004 Anscombe, G. E. M. 1963 . Intention . 2d ed. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. Bratman, Michael. 1987 . Intention, Plans, and Practical Reason . Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ____. 1992 . Shared Cooperative Activity...

... do together” (16). Fully appreciating this fact, Laden argues, requires us to abandon a set of assumptions about reasons and reasoning that he calls the “standard picture.” Thus Reasoning pursues two distinct projects. The first is to investigate the nature and norms of the activity of reasoning...

... living organisms possess only useful parts and functions, which is to say, parts and functions that guide and direct the self-maintenance of perishable organisms, allowing them to approximate the eternal persistence and activity of Aristotle’s god, the Prime Mover. The deeper interpretive puzzle Walker...

... of thinking, as the source of that activity (as “self-active,” to use Kant’s term). In order to understand ourselves as self-active in the sense required by relating to ourselves as thinkers or judgers, we must understand ourselves as the source of the fundamental norms governing this activity (see...

.... Conative self-knowledge is comparatively underdiscussed in the philosophical literature on self-knowledge (the few examples include Fernández 2007; Lawlor 2009; Ashwell 2013; Peterson 2019; Byrne 2018). Of what there is, there is little discussion specifically of ‘active’ or ‘occurrent’ motivational...

... that the later Kant himself encouraged, the reality is much more complicated. For starters, there was in fact a relatively large group of active professional philoso- phers in eighteenth-century Germany—many of them comfortable, 1. Kant’s own pre-Critical works are an important exception: most...

... of how God’s causal power relates to the natural causal activity of creatures, Leibniz held that both God and the creature are directly involved in the occurrence of these effects. A divine concurrentist, in general, intends to satisfy two theses that were held by the vast majority of theologians...

... by thoughts and implicit expectations regarding possible futures. The interaction of these two deep features turns out to have a rich variety of consequences for decision-making, meaning in life, the value of commitment, and attitudes like boredom and contentment. For Calhoun, actively leading a life...

... of the paralogisms—is that the fact that no properties of the entity ‘I’ can be deduced from the mere concept of ‘I’ does not imply that the ‘I’, for any instantiation of it, does not “refer to an entity at all” (25–26). Understanding the Fundamental Reference Rule for ‘I’ and “being engaged in the activity...