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... is even in part morally responsible for what one does. This argument, the Direct Argument, has drawn various critics, who have attempted to produce counterexamples to its core inference principle. This article considers two notable efforts, one by John Martin Fischer and Mark Ravizza and another by David...

...Michael Jacovides David Johnson, Hume, Holism, and Miracles . Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2002. ix + 106 pp. John Earman, Hume's Abject Failure: The Argument against Miracles . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. xi + 217 pp. Robert J. Fogelin, A Defense of Hume...

...Richard Kraut Scott Dominic , Levels of Argument: A Comparative Study of Plato's “Republic” and Aristotle's “Nicomachean Ethics.” Oxford: Oxford University Press , 2015 . vi + 235 pp . © 2016 by Cornell University 2016 This marvelous comparative study of Plato's Republic...

... for present actions are grounded in present or future desires. Futurist subjectivism promises to answer Parfit's Agony Argument , and it is motivated by natural extensions of some of the considerations that support subjectivism in general. However, it faces a problem: because which desires one will have...

...Michael Huemer Cornell University 2000 The Philosophical Review, Vol. 109, No. 4 (October 2000) Van Inwagen’s Consequence Argument Michael Huemer Peter van Inwagen has presented a compelling argument for the incompatibility of free...

...Patrick Todd The most promising way of responding to arguments for the incompatibility of divine foreknowledge and human freedom (in one way or another) invokes a claim about the order of explanation: God knew (or believed) that you would perform a given action because you would, in fact, perform...

... this description allows the question as to whether the God of the Abrahamic faiths is identical to the Anselmian being to be a meaningful question, and it has other uses as well, as will be seen.) The arguments given here are purely philosophical in nature. After having established (to his satisfaction...

...Chris Swoyer THE NEW DIALECTIC: CONVERSATIONAL CONTEXTS OF ARGUMENT. By Douglas Walton. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998. Pp. vii, 304 AD HOMINEM ARGUMENTS . By Douglas Walton. Tuscaloosa and London: University of Alabama Press, 1998. Pp. vii, 315. Cornell University 2001...

...Helen Beebee Cornell University 2002 Fischer, J. M. 1994 . The Metaphysics of Free Will . Oxford: Blackwell. Huemer, M. 2000 . “Van Inwagen's Consequence Argument.” Philosophical Review 109 : 525 -44. Lewis, D. K. 1979 . “Counterfactual Dependence and Time's Arrow.” Noûs...

...Ernesto V. Garcia Paul Franks, All or Nothing: Systematicity, Transcendental Arguments, and Skepticism in German Idealism . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005. viii + 440 pp. Cornell University 2008 BOOK REVIEWS Paul Franks, All or Nothing...

...Stephen Kearns Ishtiyaque Haji, Incompatibilism's Allure: Principal Arguments for Incompatibilism. Peterborough, Ont.: Broadview Press, 2009. 224 pp. © 2010 by Cornell University 2010 BOOK REVIEWS David Pears, Paradox and Platitude in Wittgenstein’s...

...Anna Mahtani The Reflection Principle can be defended with a Diachronic Dutch Book Argument (DBA), but it is also defeated by numerous compelling counter-examples. It seems then that Diachronic DBAs can lead us astray. Should we reject them en masse—including Lewis’s Diachronic DBA...

...Joseph E. Earley Bartha Paul , By Parallel Reasoning: The Construction and Evaluation of Analogical Arguments . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2010 . x + 356 pp . © 2012 by Cornell University 2012 BOOK REVIEWS Paul Bartha, By Parallel...

...Michael Bukoski In The Sources of Normativity and elsewhere, Korsgaard defends a Kantian ethical theory by arguing that valuing anything commits one to valuing humanity as the source of all value. I reconstruct Korsgaard's influential argument to show how she can resist many of the objections...

...Bob Fischer Chignell Andrew , Cuneo Terence , and Halteman Matthew C. . Philosophy Comes to Dinner: Arguments about the Ethics of Eating . New York: Routledge , 2016 . x + 299 pp . © 2017 by Cornell University 2017 It's a good time to be in animal and food ethics...

...N. J. H. Dent ROUSSEAU:THE ARGUMENTS OF THE PHILOSOPHERS. By Timothy O'Hagan. London and New York: Routledge, 1999. Pp.xii, 320. Cornell University 2001 BOOK REVLEWS humanity, and the purview of humanity is more expansive than that ofjustice (136). The traditional Kantian will need...

...Ted A. Warfield PUTTING SKEPTICS IN THEIR PLACE: THE NATURE OF SKEPTICAL ARGUMENTS AND THEIR ROLE IN PHILOSOPHICAL INQUIRY. By John Greco. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xvi, 264. Cornell University 2001 BOOK REVIEWS...