...Ian Proops In the chapter of the Critique of Pure Reason entitled “The Paralogisms of Pure Reason” Kant seeks to explain how rationalist philosophers, including thinkers of the caliber of Descartes and Leibniz, could have arrived at what he considers to be certain erroneous, “dogmatic” conclusions...

... and foregrounded holism about models and his claims in chapter 8 about realism. That is quite mild, as critical remarks go, and most of the book is full of detailed examples and other discussions that don’t require a further discussion of truth. There is a lot covered in this book, much of which Rice has...

.... To the contrary, it is the definitional independence of these capacities that allows us to view these phenomena as complex operations of a minimal set of basic psychological capacities. The final chapter (chapter 14) considers the modularity of the basic psychological capacities from the “holistic...

... perceptual parts, and (3) viewing multimodal aspects of visual experience as exceptional rather than expected. An additional theme, addressed in chapter 6, concerns the audition of speech sounds and argues that meanings are not among the properties of speech that can be heard. In my view this chapter stands...

... pursue one issue here, after sketching the project of each substantial chapter. (i) Chapter 2 supports moral theory construction over particularism. The latter is argued to have the disadvantage of entailing that we lack epistemic justification for our moral beliefs. Chapter 3...

... has evidently gone into producing this volume, and the result is a book that makes a significant contribution to research in this area and that most certainly delivers on its goal of helping us to see the Phaedo through late Neoplatonic spectacles. The book's seven chapters track the order...

... chapter, Marion mounts an impressive attack on one of the standard interpretations of Wittgenstein’s philosophy of mathemat- ics-most notably proposed by Dummett-which equates Wittgenstein’s position with strict finitism. In particular, Marion shows that Wittgenstein was hostile to the argument...

... to inspire. The book's seven chapters fall naturally into three groups, each with its own distinctive central topic. These are the ontological argument and the necessity of God's being (chapters 1 and 2); the necessity of everything actual and the actuality of everything possible (chapters 3 and 4...

... many efforts to defend a naturalistic approach to epistemology. He defends the view that knowledge is itself a natural phenomenon and, indeed, a natural kind and should be inves- tigated by epistemologists accordingly. That view is interestingly developed over six chapters. Chapter 1...

... accordingly. That view is interestingly developed over six chapters. Chapter 1 is devoted to broadly methodological issues. Kornblith argues that epistemology (and philosophy more generally) should be seen as continuous with natural science and that epistemologists should (largely) reject...

... many efforts to defend a naturalistic approach to epistemology. He defends the view that knowledge is itself a natural phenomenon and, indeed, a natural kind and should be inves- tigated by epistemologists accordingly. That view is interestingly developed over six chapters. Chapter 1...

... accordingly. That view is interestingly developed over six chapters. Chapter 1 is devoted to broadly methodological issues. Kornblith argues that epistemology (and philosophy more generally) should be seen as continuous with natural science and that epistemologists should (largely) reject...

... accordingly. That view is interestingly developed over six chapters. Chapter 1 is devoted to broadly methodological issues. Kornblith argues that epistemology (and philosophy more generally) should be seen as continuous with natural science and that epistemologists should (largely) reject...

... accordingly. That view is interestingly developed over six chapters. Chapter 1 is devoted to broadly methodological issues. Kornblith argues that epistemology (and philosophy more generally) should be seen as continuous with natural science and that epistemologists should (largely) reject...

... introduction (‘Proem’), the first chapter is an analysis of the historical Parmenides’s argument, interpreting it through the lens of the PSR. This chapter, in itself, is something that will interest anyone concerned with pre-Socratic philosophy. The next two chapters concern the notion of substance. The first...

...Ned Hall Still, some perspective: while the problems in chapter 2 create a kind of barrier to entry, they in no way undermine the impressive case Woodward makes for his functionalist approach. My own view, to put it bluntly, is that philosophers working on causation should just stop doing...

...? And who would deny that? After introducing soft Parmenideanism in chapter 1, the rest of the book is concerned with showing that negative entities are not, in fact, indispensable and irreducible components of the best theories. In chapter 2 Mumford discusses negative properties. Should we believe...

... philosophy’s past (ix), and, on the other, betrays the self-image of philosophy’s present. The book has six chapters. Chapters 1 and 2 set the stage by investigating, respectively, pre-Socratic “typologies” in antiquity and modernity. Chapter 3 examines “the meaning of ‘philosophy’”; chapter 4...

... issues that I found to be particularly fascinating, and touching on one point of critique. Chapters 1–5 address Kant’s views in his stages of development prior to the first Critique , with a focus on various forms of compatibilism which Allison reads Kant as endorsing at those points. Chapter 1...

.... It is aimed at advanced specialists in normative theory and metaethics. However, I was pleased to see that some of the chapters are accessible to students. In particular, Chapter 5, in which Swanton explains and defends the basic features of target-centered virtue ethics, can (and should!) be incorporated...