...Christy Mag Uidhir Cornell University 2009 Alexander Nehamas, Only a Promise of Happiness: The Place of Beauty in a World of Art . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. xi + 186 pp. BOOK REVIEWS Lynne Rudder Baker, The Metaphysics of Everyday Life...

... into five sections. In section 1, it generalizes the one-half and one-third solutions to the Sleeping Beauty problem. In section 2, it argues that while the Generalized Halfer Principle is compatible with Countable Additivity (CA), the Generalized Thirder Principle (GTP) is not. In section 3, it argues...

...Bradley Murray Glenn Parsons and Allen Carlson, Functional Beauty. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. iv + 255 pp. © 2010 by Cornell University 2010 BOOK REVIEWS David Pears, Paradox and Platitude in Wittgenstein’s Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford...

... framework for modeling stories involving context-sensitive claims. The key innovations are a revised conditionalization rule and a principle relating models of the same story with different modeling languages. The essay then applies the modeling framework to the Sleeping Beauty Problem, showing that when...

...Darren Bradley This article defends the Doomsday Argument, the Halfer Position in Sleeping Beauty, the Fine-Tuning Argument, and the applicability of Bayesian confirmation theory to the Everett interpretation of quantum mechanics. It will argue that all four problems have the same structure...

... of Happiness: The Place of Beauty in a World of Art. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. xi + 186 pp. Most contemporary philosophical accounts of beauty have a decidedly Kantian flavor and can therefore often be overly clinical and frustratingly aloof, beautyas divorced from rather than entwined...

... of Happiness: The Place of Beauty in a World of Art. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. xi + 186 pp. Most contemporary philosophical accounts of beauty have a decidedly Kantian flavor and can therefore often be overly clinical and frustratingly aloof, beautyas divorced from rather than entwined...

... of Happiness: The Place of Beauty in a World of Art. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. xi + 186 pp. Most contemporary philosophical accounts of beauty have a decidedly Kantian flavor and can therefore often be overly clinical and frustratingly aloof, beautyas divorced from rather than entwined...

... of Happiness: The Place of Beauty in a World of Art. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. xi + 186 pp. Most contemporary philosophical accounts of beauty have a decidedly Kantian flavor and can therefore often be overly clinical and frustratingly aloof, beautyas divorced from rather than entwined...

... and Autonomy in Kant’s Moral Theory. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Carla Bagnoli University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee Philosophical Review, Vol. 118, No. 4, 2009 DOI 10.1215/00318108-2009-018 Alexander Nehamas, Only a Promise of Happiness: The Place of Beauty in a World of Art. Princeton: Princeton...

... of Happiness: The Place of Beauty in a World of Art. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. xi + 186 pp. Most contemporary philosophical accounts of beauty have a decidedly Kantian flavor and can therefore often be overly clinical and frustratingly aloof, beautyas divorced from rather than entwined...

... who wants to get clearer about them. He then applied the Geach distinction to the problems of aesthetics in papers 13 and 14. These papers are especially rich. “Aesthetic Judgements: Pebbles, Faces, and Fields of Litter” (paper 13) argues that some judgments of beauty are attribu- tive...

...Ofra Magidor Robert Stalnaker, Our Knowledge of the Internal World . New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. vii + 148 pp. © 2010 by Cornell University 2010 Elga, Adam. 2000 . “Self-Locating Belief and the Sleeping Beauty Problem.” Analysis 60 : 143 –47. Dorr, Cian. 2002...

... the last decades including Sleeping Beauty, Lewis’s Two Gods, Kripke’s Pierre, and Jackson’s Mary. The book is no easy read. The discussion is often very dense, material that appears later in the book helps shed light on earlier parts, and a good famil- iarity with Stalnaker’s previous work...

... that have con- cerned philosophers in these fields over the last decades including Sleeping Beauty, Lewis’s Two Gods, Kripke’s Pierre, and Jackson’s Mary. The book is no easy read. The discussion is often very dense, material that appears later in the book helps shed light on earlier parts...

... the last decades including Sleeping Beauty, Lewis’s Two Gods, Kripke’s Pierre, and Jackson’s Mary. The book is no easy read. The discussion is often very dense, material that appears later in the book helps shed light on earlier parts, and a good famil- iarity with Stalnaker’s previous work...

... conceived “Greek par- adigm,” which Young thinks needlessly constrained and distorted the argu- ment of “Origin,” toward a broader, more embracing view of art as disclosing a kind of divine radiance over and beyond the “strife” of earth and world; the glowing light of the beautiful, not just...

...: 37–38) notes the problem: The more general the values the less appealing appears the thesis of their social dependence…. We doubt whether there are practices sustaining [general values such as beauty], for their very generality challenges our common expectations of what practices are like…. We...

...—in the first instance, vision, touch, hearing—each of which has a distinct mode of functioning and characteristic objects, a distinctive form of flourishing,” and each is grounded “in the given character of the sense organs and their physical relations to material objects” (85–86). An “object is beautiful...

... Ephraim Lessing. Aesthetic rationalism is summed up by the five propositions that the “central concept, and subject matter, of aesthetics is beauty”; “Beauty consists in the perception of perfection”; “Perfection consists in harmony, which is unity in variety”; “Aesthetic criticism and [artistic] pro...