...Kok-Chor Tan © 2012 by Cornell University 2012 Talbott William J. , Human Rights and Human Well-Being . New York : Oxford University Press , 2010 . xi + 410 pp . BOOK REVIEWS Huw Price, Naturalism Without Mirrors. New York: Oxford University...

...William J. Talbott Carol C. Gould, Globalizing Democracy and Human Rights. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xi + 276 pp. Cornell University 2007 BOOK REVIEWS Allan Gibbard, Thinking How to Live. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003. ix...

... superior to inclusivism, but still deficient, I will present and defend a dualistic account of happiness in which two different types of happiness, one divine and one human, are present in Nicomachean Ethics . When Aristotle commends contemplation as a happiness that humans can attain, he is careful...

..., it favors what might be called a divine epistemology over a human one. An important function of the divine epistemology for this kind of interpretation is securing the coveted objectivity and realism for Spinoza's metaphysics. Commentators, thus, have been reluctant to place the human mind at the center...

...Matthias Michel [email protected] Carruthers Peter , Human and Animal Minds: The Consciousness Questions Laid to Rest . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2019 220 pp. © 2021 by Cornell University 2021 Peter Carruthers has a new book. Yes, you guessed...

... a foray into the literature critical of interventionism. Second, you may have noticed the shift from talk of “our concept” of causation to talk of “human causal cognition.” Here I am following Woodward’s lead: he argues persuasively that focusing exclusively on what is part of, or involved in, “our...

...James W. Nickel © 2012 by Cornell University 2012 Griffin James , On Human Rights . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2008 . 360 pp . BOOK REVIEWS Paul Bartha, By Parallel Reasoning: The Construction and Evaluation of Analogical Arguments...

...Carl Ginet Cornell University 2000 THE WORKS OF AGENCY: ON HUMAN ACTION, WILL, AND FREEDOM. By Hugh J. McCann. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998. Pp. x, 238. BOOK REVIEWS because of the way we are. This is somehow true even for DOORKNOB...

...Louis C. Charland STRONG FEELINGS: EMOTION, ADDICTION AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR. By Jon Elster. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 252. Cornell University 2001 BOOK REVIEWS The PhilosophiculReviau, Vol. 110, No. 1 (January 2001) STRONG FEELINGS...

...Rachana Kamtekar Martha Nussbaum, Sex and Social Justice. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. ix, 476. Martha Nussbaum, Women and Human Development: The Capabilities Approach. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xxi, 312. Cornell University 2002 BOOK REVIEWS 262...

...Bonnie Kent Robert Pasnau, Thomas Aquinas on Human Nature: A Philosophical Study of Summa Theologia 1a 75-89. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xi, 500. Cornell University 2003 BOOK REVIEWS The Philosophical Review, Vol. 112...

...William F. Bracken Pierre Keller, Husserl and Heidegger on Human Experience. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. v, 261. Cornell University 2004 BOOK REVIEWS would face severe challenges in doing so. 4 Self-motion must be understood...

...Kok-Chor Tan Thomas Pogge, World Poverty and Human Rights. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2002. Pp. vii, 284. Cornell University 2004 BOOK REVIEWS required in order for the fetus to survive. As Scott, to her credit, discusses in some detail, the fact...

...Chrisoula Andreou G. F. Schueler, Reasons and Purposes: Human Rationality and the Teleological Explanation of Action. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 174. Cornell University 2005 BOOK REVIEWS The Philosophical Review, Vol. 114, No. 3...

...Martin Lin Cornell University 2006 Teleology and Human Action in Spinoza Martin Lin University of Toronto Spinoza enjoys a widespread reputation as the early modern philosopher who makes the most thoroughgoing and principled...

...Michael Bukoski In The Sources of Normativity and elsewhere, Korsgaard defends a Kantian ethical theory by arguing that valuing anything commits one to valuing humanity as the source of all value. I reconstruct Korsgaard's influential argument to show how she can resist many of the objections...

...Sydney Shoemaker Cassam Quassim , Self-Knowledge for Humans . Oxford: Oxford University Press , 2014 . xi + 238 pp . © 2016 by Cornell University 2016 The phrase “for humans” in Quassim Cassam's title signals a central concern of the book. We are, he emphasizes, Homo sapiens...

... animal and human might be both porous and permeable; at the same time, Harris maintains that animals in this period were seen of interest primarily for what they could teach us about human nature. What’s particularly significant about Harris’s claim is that he argues it holds true in secular as well...

...Adam Cureton [email protected] Buss Sarah Theunissen L. Nandi and Rethinking the Value of Humanity . New York : Oxford University Press , 2023 . 447 pp. © 2024 by Cornell University 2024 The idea of an aristocracy of all has been enormously influential...