... to the notion of evidence, according to which E is evidence for H just in case pðH j EÞ . pðH Þ. This notion of evidence is sometimes referred to (after Salmon 1975) as “relevance confirmation” or as “incremental con- firmation”; I will use the word “confirms” to refer to justified credence raising...

...” and explains its significance for Aristotle's ethics and philosophy of action. That practical truth should play a central role in Aristotle's argument in the Nicomachean Ethics may seem surprising: “ alêtheia praktikê ” appears exactly once in Aristotle's corpus, at Nic. Eth. VI 2, 1139a26–27, 1...

... for A, bðA j Cch ^ EÞ¼chðAÞ providing bðCch ^ EÞ . 0. Lewis never gave a mathematically precise account of the admissibility condition. But in this article, I seek a mathematically precise justification of chance-credence norms, so I require equally precise formulations of those norms...

... us what is right and wrong. The authors of From Chance to Choice have written a book that does not directly answer this question, but their book does show the potential bioethics has for the democracies of the world as they grapple with the complicated eth- ical questions that emerge...

... criticizes Rawls for overlooking it. In Höffe’s view, Rawls’s views on autonomy are still eth- ical instead of juridical. Within second moral philosophy, Höffe identifies a third level of categorical validity in which he places particular categorical principles, such as the prohi- bition against...

... (July 2000) MAKING A hECESSITY OF VIRTUE: ARISTOTLE AND KANT ON VIRTUE. By NANCYSHERMAN. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xvii, 387. There is a tradition of contrasting Greek and Kantian conceptions of eth- ics. Whereas Greek ethics is an ethics of virtue, Kantian...

... identifies “the grand traditional project of synoptic eth- ics” (28) as an attempt to define the essential features of a good human life within a rational understanding of the world, and of man’s place within it. That the project now seems dated he explains in two ways. First, he notes the recent...

... THE PASSIONS IN GREEK, CARTESIAN AND PSYCHOANALYTIC ETHICS. By JOHN COT- TINGHAM. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xiii, 230. John Cottingham identifies the grand traditional project of synoptic eth- ics (28) as an attempt to define the essential features of a good human life within...

... and sculpture in mid to late twenti- eth-century New York, but it would make little sense to talk about an artworld in early eighteenth-century England even if one localized it to London and lim- ited it to one category of art, for example, literature. At the time there was a set of very complex...

... is supposed to be partly intended would find it hard to understand why Spinoza’s masterpiece is entitled The Eth- ics. Despite its somewhat inappropriate classification, Garrett’s contribution, “Teleology in Spinoza and Early Modern Rationalism,” is perhaps the outstand- ing essay in the collection...

... sleep (421). The connection between this nonconscious process and conscious actions taken as a result of it appears to come from the animal s conscious awareness of its perceptions of external objects (Hierocles, St. Eth. col. 6) . 3Long takes Epictetus s views on the use of impressions in Diss. 1.6...

... that compassion is an eth- ically important “test case” (29), does not make the problem go away. (2) The second premise, which Doris takes to be a “highly plausible specu- lation” (38), is not clearly supported by the experimental results (which do not always concern situations “typically experienced...

... BOOK REVIEWS My remarks have focused on small but foundational parts of Byrne’s book. The book also includes extensive discussions of several applications of the author’s position on the moral standing of the mentally handicapped: the eth- ics of euthanasia and abortion, and the requirements...

... SHERMAN. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xvii, 387. There is a tradition of contrasting Greek and Kantian conceptions of eth- ics. Whereas Greek ethics is an ethics of virtue, Kantian ethics is an ethics of duty. Greek virtue ethics does not distinguish sharply between moral and nonmoral...

... Philosophy. Edited by Antonio S. Cua. New York: Rout- ledge, 2003. Pp. xxii, 1020. Meaning, Expression, and Thought. By Wayne A. Davis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xvii, 654. The Ethics of Information Technology and Business. Foundations of Business Eth- ics. By Richard T. De...

.... Mellor. Routledge Studes in Twenti- eth-Century Philosophy. Edited by Hallvard Lillehammer and Gonzalo Rod- riguez-Pereyra. New York: Routledge, 2003. Pp. viii, 248. Selected Correspondence. By John Locke. Edited by Mark Goldie, from the Clar- endon Edition by E. S. de Beer. New York: Oxford...

... derivable from ethical fi rst principles (268). And he spends much time antici- pating and answering objections to reliabilism in general and as applied to eth- ics. But he does not appear to explain why reliabilism would be plausible given the nature of moral facts as he conceives them. The turn...

... derivable from ethical fi rst principles (268). And he spends much time antici- pating and answering objections to reliabilism in general and as applied to eth- ics. But he does not appear to explain why reliabilism would be plausible given the nature of moral facts as he conceives them. The turn...

... derivable from ethical fi rst principles (268). And he spends much time antici- pating and answering objections to reliabilism in general and as applied to eth- ics. But he does not appear to explain why reliabilism would be plausible given the nature of moral facts as he conceives them. The turn...

... derivable from ethical fi rst principles (268). And he spends much time antici- pating and answering objections to reliabilism in general and as applied to eth- ics. But he does not appear to explain why reliabilism would be plausible given the nature of moral facts as he conceives them. The turn...