...Sean Sayers These are major problems for the attempt to use this sort of theory of alienation for the purposes of social criticism, as Jaeggi wishes (xx); but that is not the topic of the present book, and it would be churlish to dwell upon it here. For the book discusses the ideas that it deals...

...Christian Perring WHEN SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS BREAKS: ALIEN VOICES AND INSERTED THOUGHTS. By G. Lynn Stephens and George Graham. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2000. Pp. xii, 198 Cornell University 2001 BOOK REVIEWS not essentially world-involving. In the case...

... 2022 by Cornell University 2022 Kant categories necessity undecidability real possibility aliens luminosity humility Thus here is a case where the common saying holds, that no answer is an answer. The Critique of Pure Reason aims to explain the possibility of synthetic a priori...

..., will affect how able many of us will be to accept his conclusions. Look, for instance, at his rejection of a familiar anticosmopolitan hypothetical. A relatively impoverished alien planet suddenly appears; despite having no relationship of trade or political affiliation with Earth, the inhabitants...

... for the truth of claims like ‘there could have been one more thing than there actually is’. The real problem with the Barcan formula, then, is not that it entails the existence of possibilia. It is rather that it does not allow for the possibility of so-called “alien” individuals. That is, it is straightfor...

...-justified. But what should we say about beings in other 436 BOOK REVIEWS possible worlds with alien ways of forming beliefs that are reliable in their worlds but not in the actual world? Their beliefs seem to be justified...

... really have private property rights in myself? It is surely a necessary truth that if X owns Y, then X has a Hohfeldian power to alienate Y in its entirety. If I own my bicycle, I may give you the whole thing. Having thus alienated it, I cease to enjoy any rights over it and only you as the new owner...

... The Philosophical Review, Vol. 110, No. 4 (October 2001) WHEN SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS BREAKS: ALIEN VOICES AND INSERTED THOUGHTS. By G. LYNN STEPHENS and GEORGE GRAHAM. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2000. Pp. xii, 198 Stephens and Graham set themselves an apparently modest task, to understand why people who...

... of the vitality and depth of religious experience, without reducing that experience to concepts alien to it—alien either because they are overly prescriptive and analytic or because they reduce its religious dimension. Though Coyne does not address analytic philosophy, a project like this is, of course...

... minorities,” and “moral alienation” (20-22). He responds by arguing that utilitarians ought to adopt institutions, conceived in terms of rules, and that these rules will generally protect agents against “exploitation” by utility monsters, will pro- hibit imposed sacrifices and oppression...

... and sovereignty come together. But not always: a policy that is in some sense justifiable to me may be in line with my deep commitments, and so may not be alienating, but if it is politically enforced without my (actual) consent, it may still infringe on my sovereignty. And a paternalistic intervention may—if I...

... “alienated” from their desires.12 David Lewis, for in- stance, writes: We’d better not say that valuing something is just the same as desiring it. That may do for some of us: those who manage, by strength of will or by good luck, to desire exactly as they desire to desire...

... no one can use their alienable or inalienable wealth to dominate others. But now suppose this wealth takes the form of the subjugation of alien labor. Surely that constitutes domination, regardless of whether the said labor represents a “drudge job” (271) or not. If, in other words, P's superior wealth...

..., however, he fails to engage the substantive moral concerns behind the debate over inalienable rights. Regarding the right to life, for exam- ple, one could argue that if enough safeguards against the risk of abuse of third parties are built in, only those who genuinely wish to alienate their right...

... a proposition or fact. Instead, I will argue that the ignorance consists in a kind of “alienation” from reality, an alienation that can arise even if one knows all the propositions and facts. I try to articulate this sense of alienation in section 3. If this is correct, it shows that avoiding alienation...

..., whereas the inclinations are, from the point of view of that ego, a kind of alien effect of an external causality, tempting us to betray what we truly are by willfully rejecting our essence (G 4:454–55). Kant seems to think that we know this intimately, through our experience of reason- ing on the one...

... on the grounds that they are unnatural is the expression of . . . two interconnected fears” (75). The first is the fear of science (75–77). The second is the Romantic fear “that we are alienating ourselves from what ought to be our dwelling, from the place where we want to be at home”—in other words, from...

... that are prior to any normative judgments, and that we make judgments from which we can be alienated. Robert Stern critiques one of the arguments constructivists have made against realism, namely, that the latter can't respect our autonomy. I found his argument fairly persuasive, though I think...

... to criticisms of his two principles that he does not address in PL. For example, he responds to Karl Marx’s objection that a capitalist economy (which Rawls’s principles might permit) would have an undemocratic and alienating workplace. Rawls also replies to Susan Moller Okin’s objection that his conception...

... is understandable for parents to fear that their children may become embroiled in ways of life they regard as alien and distasteful” (102). But, of course, there are limits to what parents may do, and here is where the vagueness comes in: children must have rights to exit the ways of life their parents wish...