...Desmond Hogan A central doctrine of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason holds that the content of human experience is rooted in an affection of sensibility by unknowable things in themselves. This famous and puzzling affection doctrine raises two seemingly intractable old problems, which can be termed...

...Harvey Lederman This article presents a new interpretation of the great Ming dynasty philosopher Wang Yangming’s (1472–1529) celebrated doctrine of the “unity of knowledge and action” (知行合一). Wang held that action was not unified with all knowledge, but only with an elevated form of knowledge...

... it is easy to appreciate Leibniz's reasons for embracing this view, it has proven difficult to see how his doctrine of incompossibility might be reconciled with the broader commitments of his larger philosophical system. This essay develops, in four sections, a novel solution to the “puzzle...

... of the soul; second, the identification of the relevant fallacies. This essay examines Kant's account in the First Paralogism of how these two elements combine to produce the doctrine that the soul is a substance. It is argued that Kant has a novel, ingenious—and even somewhat plausible—account of how...

... in the mode of doctrinal Belief ( doktrinaler Glaube ) (chaps. 7.8–7.9, 16.9–16.10). 2 Proops thinks that the gold nugget holds greater philosophical value, but the silver nugget has some exegetical luster because “the topic of doctrinal Belief has, until recently, been largely neglected by scholars” (4...

... devotes one chapter to each of the virtues of character, since each chapter may weave together discussion of several virtues and allow different doctrines to emerge, comprising what Curzer calls “Aristotle's architectonic.” The most important doctrines, according to Curzer, are the doctrine of disjoint...

..., in PoM, Russell accepts the doctrine of the unrestricted variable: if we replace a logical subject of a proposition by a variable to yield a propositional function, the range of that variable includes absolutely every entity. For absolutely any entity can be taken as a value of that variable...

... as “a new interpretation and defence of Kant’s doctrine of things in themselves.” This is an extremely engag- ing and thought-provoking book. I am pleased to recommend it. Its focus is Kant’s doctrine that we can have no knowledge of things in them- selves. Langton labels this doctrine “Humility...

... or experience” (89). Pereboom devotes two chapters to articulating these core doctrines and to examining their epistemological credentials. His goal is to provide physicalists with a second strategy for defending their position in case the strategy outlined in section 1 does not work out. Of course...

... of an empirical set up, and we can thus read off important facts about the empirical set up from the mathematics” (Bueno and Colyvan 2011 : 345). Such doctrines are predicated upon a “warehouse” conception of mathematical activity; left to their own devices, mathematicians build up a large fund...

.... Pp. xxii, 377. Over the past decade, scholarship on Kant’s practical philosophy has developed from a one-dimensional focus on his objective normative doctrines toward a more richly textured engagement with his views of character, virtue, and subjective moral consciousness. A significant...

... of the theory (sec- tion 4), and then evaluating the extent to which substantial forms can be seen to have survived in the work of Descartes, Boyle, and Locke. Contrary to some recent suggestions, Descartes accepts virtually noth- ing of the doctrine (section 5). Boyle and especially Locke, however, can...

..., according to which we are all members of one big family, and thus hard to square with Aristotelian doctrine? Does moral discourse make for a coherent language, or is it a quilt made up from different threads? Irwin argues strongly for a coherent, evolving language that starts with Aristotelian naturalism...

...R. Lanier Anderson Allais Lucy , Manifest Reality: Kant's Idealism and His Realism . Oxford: Oxford University Press , 2015 . vii + 329 pp . © 2017 by Cornell University 2017 There is no doctrine more central to Kant's philosophy, nor one more confusing in its fundamental...

... between these three doctrines? Boghos- sian does not explicitly say. Nevertheless, it is natural to understand epistemic relationalism as the fundamental doctrine with epistemic plu- ralism and the denial of absolutism as consequences of epistemic rela- tionalism. So consider the case of color...

... gets the title of his book, Locke recommends not publishing on these questions because of the social consequences of heterodoxy. This is more textual support than we usually get for doubting the sincerity of philosophers. If Jolley can convince us that Locke's other doctrines commit him...

... will. Provisional acquisition is acquisition plain and simple, but it is partial or incomplete. A repeated figure in the Doctrine of Right makes this idea vivid. Kant glosses provisional acquisition as acquisition “in anticipation,” “in view of,” “with a view to,” “in preparation for,” “leading...

... of important texts and doctrines that, if not always convincing, is fresh, nuanced, and provocative. Miles writes with several targets in mind—standard readings of Cartesian doctrines—against which his own views are presented as “heretical.” He thinks that some of the more dubious positions attributed...

... mistakenly tend to blend these two parallelisms, but Melamed argues that Spinoza is careful to keep them separate: they have distinct sources in the text and different implications. For example, the ideas-things parallelism entails the doctrine that for each idea there is an idea of that idea (while...

... are my own, but I hope fair): (1) Both Pla- tonists and Christians from the end of the first century A.D. onwards grounded the authority of a doctrine in its antiquity. Christian writers claimed that Chris- tianity is the expression of an ancient wisdom from which both Judaism and pagan philosophy...