...Travis Butler Lloyd P. Gerson, Knowing Persons: A Study in Plato. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. x, 308. Cornell University 2005 BOOK REVIEWS The Philosophical Review, Vol. 114, No. 1 (January 2005) Lloyd P. Gerson, Knowing...

...Travis Butler David Charles, Aristotle on Meaning and Essence. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000. Pp. ix, 410. Cornell University 2002 BOOK REVIEWS the epistemology of the later dialogues might properly described as “holistic” (though not in precisely...

... and instead Hutcheson's account of the moral sense commits him to subjectivism. This is important for Irwin's discussion of Hume, but there should be more argument, given that there are other ways of interpreting the moral sense. Irwin also claims that the later Hutcheson was strongly influenced by Butler...

...- mentary on “second wave” feminism in France in the 1970s. Three essays by Moira Gatens, Judith Butler, and Debra B. Berghoffen deal with feminist inter- pretations of Beauvoir on the sex/gender distinction, social constructionist views, and Beauvoir’s discussion of sexuality. There is an essay...

..., expressed in the various human virtues.” Aquinas is the hero, locating obligation, conscience, and moral law in an Aristotelian framework. But Irwin finds Aristotelian naturalism at work in later figures from Grotius to Joseph Butler. Enter Stephen Darwall, who has been thinking about these issues...

... persists in thinking that further investigation is required to settle the matter. 1 Rash detective. Inspector Lestrade is trying to figure out who committed the murder. There are two possible suspects, the butler and the maid, and so far Lestrade has just one piece of evidence relevant...

... the relation between the two. It also becomes hard to explain the incoherence of conjunctions such as “Sherlock’s belief that the butler did it is rational, but it’s not rational for Sherlock to believe the butler did it.” This is a simple and elegant way of modeling degrees of rationality. But it faces...

... the following two cases: Case C We have decent evidence that the murder was an inside job, and we assign a probability of .50 to H2 ¼ “Someone on the mansion staff did it.” There are five equally suspicious members of the mansion staff, in- cluding the butler, so we assign...

... Butler's (1726) Fifteen Sermons . The rich scholarly literature interpreting Butler can be read as largely a debate over what, precisely, must be given up in forgiveness. On a standard reading of Butler, forgiving involves giving up one's resentment and revenge. But this may be too strong. Garcia (2011...

... of the book is a quick critical canter through some of the writers who Sidgwick claimed supported rational egoism, including Samuel and John Clarke, Butler, Reid, Kant, Paley, and Bentham. I suspect that the point of view position has more going for it than Shaver allows. First, Sidgwick himself...

... as irrational, with a certain disapprobation; they would thus implicitly assent to Butler’s statement that ‘interest, one’s own happiness, is a manifest obligation (2) A defender of commonsense morality might modify (iii): we have obligations to ourselves, but there is usually no point...

... appealing accounts of Aristotle’s views, it is a ravishing success. TRAVIS BUTLER Iowa State University The Philosophical Review, Vol. 111, No. 2 (April 2002) Sara Rappe, Reading Neoplatonism: Nondiscursive Thinking in the Texts...

... of the Rights of Woman .” In The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft , edited by Todd Janet and Butler Marilyn 7 vols . London : Pickering . ...

... . New York: Cambridge University Press. Blackburn, Simon. 1997 . “Has Kant Refuted Parfit?” In Reading Parfit , ed. Jonathan Dancy, 180 -201. Oxford: Blackwell. Butler, Joseph. 1736 . Of Personal Identity . First appendix to The Analogy of Religion. Reprinted in Perry 1975. Chalmers, David...

.... The Ontological Argument from Descartes to Hegel.JHP Book Series. New York: Humanity Books. 253 pp. Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, Transcribed by Karl Hegel. 2008. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Lectures on Logic: Berlin, 1831. Translated by Clark Butler. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. xxiii...

... second thoughts concern his psychological claim from “Of personal identity” include Ainslie (2001, 2008) , Baier (2008) , Butler (2015) , Ellis (2006) , McIntyre (2009) , Penelhum (2000) , Pitson (2002, chap. 4) , Roth (2000) , Thiel (2011, chap. 12) , Winkler (2000) , and Wright (2009, 163–66...

...: Epistemology, Human Person, the Transcendant. Value Inquiry Book Series. Amsterdam: Rodopi. xix + 187 pp. Thiem, Annika. 2008. Unbecoming Subjects: Judith Butler, Moral Philosophy, and Critical Responsibility. New York: Fordham University Press. x + 310 pp. Thompson, Michael. 2008. Life...

.... xi + 300 pp. Laverty, Megan. 2007. Iris Murdoch’s Ethics: A Consideration of Her Romantic Vision. Continuum Studies in British Philosophy. London: Continuum. xii + 134 pp. Lloyd, Moya. 2007. Judith Butler: From Norms to Politics. Cambridge: Polity...

... in Continental Philosophy. London: Continuum. xiii + 179 pp. Honneth, Axel, and Martin Jay, eds. 2008. Reification: A New Look at an Old Idea. Commentaries by Judith Butler, Raymond Guess, and Jonathan Lear. Berkeley Tanner Lectures. Oxford: Oxford...

... and the Persistent Quest for Human Nature. By David J. Buller. Cambridge: MIT Press, Bradford Books, 2005. Pp. xi, 550. Slavoj Zizek: Live Theory. By Rex Butler. New York: Continuum, 2005. Pp. viii, 165. Insensitive Semantics: A Defense of Semantic Minimalism and Speech Act Pluralism. By Herman...