...George Rudebusch Benson Hugh , Clitophon's Challenge: Dialectic in Plato's “Meno,” “Phaedo,” and “Republic” . New York: Oxford University Press , 2015 . x + 318 pp . © 2018 by Cornell University 2018 While anyone's highest priority must be to live well as a human being...

...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...

...Fred Rush Brian O'Connor, Adorno's Negative Dialectic: Philosophy and the Possibility of Critical Rationality . Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2004. xviii + 199 pp. Cornell University 2007 BOOK REVIEWS Gary Iseminger, The Aesthetic Function of Art. Ithaca, NY...

...Christopher Benzenberg; Andrew Chignell [email protected] [email protected] Proops Ian , The Fiery Test of Critique: A Reading of Kant’s Dialectic . New York : Oxford , 2021 . xiv + 486 pp © 2024 by Cornell University 2024 The Fiery Test of Critique...

... preliminaries concerning the proper formulation of the epistemic consequentialism/nonconsequentialism divide, explains where Epistemic Kantianism falls in the dialectical landscape, and shows how it can capture what seems attractive about epistemic consequentialism while yielding predictions that are harder...

... the existence of a distinctive sort of primitive concept and that it can be used to reconstruct a version of an analytic/synthetic distinction, where both are characterized in dialectical terms alone. © 2011 by Cornell University 2011 Thanks to audiences at ANU, Beijing, Bristol, Buffalo, Copenhagen...

... of the dialectical context with the compatibilist . Hence, it is not the compatibilists' burden to produce counterexamples to it. Rather, it is van Inwagen's burden to produce relevant confirming instances of it. Cornell University 2008 Ayer, A. J. 1954 . “Freedom and Necessity.” In Philosophical Essays...

... moral psychology. In chapter 1, “Doctrine and Dialectic in Plato's Dialogues,” Kamtekar tackles the vexing question of how to determine Plato's own commitments, given that he writes philosophical dialogues in which he never appears as a character. Kamtekar is sanguine about the possibility of getting...

.... English translation of selected passages in Eric Watkins, Kant's “Critique of Pure Reason”: Background Source Materials . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Bennett, Jonathan. 1966 . Kant's Analytic . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ———. 1974 . Kant's Dialectic . Cambridge...

... of reason; and the interaction of epistemology and moral psychology as driving forces of the history of moral philosophy (3-13). These four themes are unfolded through a four-part dialectical structure. Schneewind begins with an ac- count of seventeenth-centur y voluntarist natural law-Sugrez...

..., is the attempt to understand more generally the deeper dynamics leading us into symbol-mak- BOOK REVIEWS 448 ing activity. Bayer explains that, according to Cassirer s early notes, symbolic forms emerge from a dialectic between two principals, Life and Spirit. Roughly, this is how the story goes. Life...

... focus on the dialectical and antithetical aspects of ancient Greek philosophy, in other respects their relation to the position and methodology set out in the introduction is not always clear. Consequently, the reader has some work to do in terms of relating an overview that might be regarded...

... of the commentators' dialectical exchanges with opponents, which often result in innovative solutions to objections and thought-provoking new readings of the arguments. The commentators have interesting disagreements among themselves about how to understand each argument's structure and how much each proves...

... is best understood as the ongoing dialectic between life and cognition” (279). In my judgment, this leads Ng to misrepresent not just that method, but also specific arguments in the Logic . Hegel insists that his logic is strictly immanent—that it simply unfolds the “dialectic” inherent...

... disappearance from the Sophist and Statesman, supposedly signals Plato’s reconciliation of these new elements with the conversational method of dialectic in a way that responds to the three crit- icisms by promoting the view that the true dialectician’s knowledge uniquely represents the true order...

... in philosophy as the unconditioned. In developing his positive account of the absolutely unconditioned, Kreines argues that Hegel takes his lessons primarily from Kant's Transcendental Dialectic, and not from Spinoza or even Aristotle, as is usually assumed by metaphysical readings of Hegel. Kreines's...

.... Rawls, John. 1971 . A Theory of Justice. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Robinson, Richard. 1953 . Plato's Earlier Dialectic . 2d ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Clarendon Press. Rose, Lynn. 1966 . “The Deuteros Plous in Plato's Phaedo.” The Monist 50 : 464 -73. Ross, W. D...

...). Insofar as causal determinism’s threat to alternative possibilities is, if not decisive, at least significant, Frankfurt’s suggestion that we reject PAP would appear to help us make philosoph- ical progress. More precisely, it would seem to allow us to avoid getting entangled in dialectical stalemates...

... no different from those of general metaphysics, and the solutions the same, then there would have been little reason for Kant to pen the Dialectic (which makes up the bulk of the Critique ) in the first place. However, Kant is clear that the idea of the soul, as the idea of something that cannot be given...

... dialectical style. Moss has the gift of anticipating objections just when readers familiar with the contours of the debate are likely to be raising them for themselves. Plato’s Epistemology is sure to spark further debate about Plato’s epistemology. There is no reason why one should seek to impose...