...Mark Wilson Scott Soames, Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century . 2 vols. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003. xix + 411 pp.; xxii + 479 pp. Cornell University 2006 BOOK REVIEWS Scott Soames, Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century...

...Benjamin Vilhauer [email protected] Allison Henry , Kant’s Conception of Freedom: A Developmental and Critical Analysis . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2019 xxiii + 531 pp. © 2022 by Cornell University 2022 This extensive text (517 pages of full...

...D. Gene Witmer Cornell University 2000 FROM METAPHYSICS TO ETHICS: A DEFENCE OF CONCEPTUAL ANALYSIS. By Frank Jackson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. ix, 174. BOOK REvlEWS necessarily and so our beliefs about them cannot counterfactually depend...

... Analysis, Dualism, and the Explanatory Gap.” Philosophical Review 108 :l- 46 . Byrne, A. 1999 . “Cosmic Hermeneutics.” Philosophical Perspectives 13. Chalmers, D. J. 1996 . The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory. New York: Oxford University Press. ____. 1999. “Materialism...

...Matthew Mandelkern; Ginger Schultheis; David Boylan This essay proposes a new theory of agentive modals : ability modals and their duals, compulsion modals. After criticizing existing approaches—the existential quantificational analysis, the universal quantificational analysis, and the conditional...

... and as binding a variable within the scope of the attitude verb. This essay is interested in addressing the question what the semantic analysis of this kind of reading should look like from a Fregean perspective—a perspective according to which attitude states are generally relations to structured Fregean...

...Samuel Levey The article is a critical notice of Daniel Garber, Leibniz: Body, Substance, Monad . Garber presents a developmental reading of Leibniz's metaphysics that focuses on Leibniz's evolving analysis of body and force as the key to his account of substance. Garber claims that Leibniz shifts...

... characterize verbal disputes, spell out a method for isolating and resolving them, and draw out conclusions for philosophical methodology. I then use the framework to draw out consequences in first-order philosophy. In particular, I argue that the analysis of verbal disputes can be used to support...

... account of vagueness. According to this account, vagueness, while often accompanied by context sensitivity, does not depend essentially on context sensitivity. And while vagueness is, on this view, a semantic phenomenon, unlike standard semantic analyses, Raffman's semantic analysis of vagueness...

... illocutionary act type. This potential is itself explained in terms of illocu- tionary rules (I-rules), normative rules governing the acceptable use of sentences. The account of sentence meaning is set out in part 2 of the book. Part 1 pro- vides the foundation for this account: Alston’s own analysis...

... analysis of names, owing to Mill ([1843] 1973) but popularized by Kripke (1980) , has a wide array of significant upshots, but one in particular is generally agreed to be especially important, namely, that names are rigid designators . Rigid designation is defined as follows. RIGID DESIGNATION...

... appropriately or translates correctly into his own tongue. This project of conditional analysis of dispositions faces considerable dif- fi culties in refi ning the rather crude conditional connections that fi rst come to mind.2 A more recent line of discussion, however, has suggested 1. Rudolf...

..., Epistemology, Metaphysics , ed. Feit A. Capone N. . Palo Alto, CA : Center for the Study of Language and Information . Bradley Darren Fitelson Branden . 2003 . “ Monty Hall, Doomsday and Confirmation .” Analysis 63 : 23 – 31 . Carter B. 1974 . “ Large Number...

... the perspective of Descartes’s so-called founding principle, cogito ergo sum. The book is organized around the three parts of this famous dictum, though its scope is much more encompassing. Part 1 offers a careful analysis of the “formal structure” of Cartesian thought, in an effort to identify what...

... and is not usually counted among Aristotle's significant conceptual innovations. Olfert argues that the notion of practical truth in fact underpins one of Aristotle's most famous distinctions: between theoretical and practical reason. If her analysis is correct, this division presupposes the existence...

... objection against normative imperialists. Still—in spite of their common but hesitant emphasis on contingency— there are important differences between the essentially rationalist neo-Lock- eanism of Rovane, whose analysis of personal identity emphasizes rational rela...

... puts constraints on its satisfactory analysis. For example, consider a prima facie plausible explanation of quantitative gradability that, however, has the disadvantage of being nonuniform. Certain kinds of knowledge, such as knowledge by acquaintance, can hold to different extents: for example, one...

... aspects of the world around us). (3) We need a kind of empirical-cum-normative analysis of how and why different features of causal cognition contribute to achieving the goals described in (2). (4) In pursuit of (3), we need an account—again, at the right level of abstraction and generality...

... concepts. They have no analysis” (104–5). Three of the chapters—on identity, existence, and necessity—are largely devoted to polemics against quantificational analyses of these concepts. (A sub- 462 BOOK REVIEWS sidiary aim...

..., the key issues for climate policy should be efficiency and enabling Pareto optimal outcomes. Foundations invokes swamping to sweep aside much contemporary work in climate justice. For example, I have criticized the prisoner’s dilemma analysis (which Heath endorses) for ignoring morally salient...