...Paul Guyer Wilfrid Sellars, Kant and Pre-Kantian Themes: Lectures by Wilfrid Sellars. Edited by Pedro Amaral. Atascadero, Calif.: Ridgeview Publishing Company, 2002. Pp. xv, 293. Wilfrid Sellars, Kant's Transcendental Metaphysics: Sellars' Cassirer Lecture Notes and Other Essays. Edited...

...Jonathan E. Adler Cornell University 2000 IN DEFENSE OF RADICAL EMPIRICISM: ESSAYS AND LECTURES. By Roderick Firth. Edited by John Troyer. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 1998. Pp. vii, 439. BOOK REV7EWS The book is poorly edited. Chisholm’s...

...James Kreines Dieter Henrich, Between Kant and Hegel: Lectures on German Idealism , edited by David Pacini. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003. liv + 341 pp. Cornell University 2006 BOOK REVIEWS Peter Railton, Facts, Values, and Norms. Cambridge...

...Francesco Ademollo Cornell University 2009 Jonathan Barnes, Truth, etc.: Six Lectures on Ancient Logic . Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. x + 551 pp. BOOK REVIEWS Lynne Rudder Baker, The Metaphysics of Everyday Life. Cambridge: Cambridge...

...Daniel Garber The idea of an idealized epistemology provides the philosophical scaffolding for Pasnau's project. But as the title of the book suggests, the central concern is certainty. Though he traces the demand for certainty back to St. Thomas, and especially to Buridan, in lecture 2...

... The question of how communities may author their own laws, thereby manifesting autonomy (“self-legislation”), arises throughout the history of political thought. In Democratic Law , her Berkeley Tanner Lectures, Seana Valentine Shiffrin offers a distinguished contribution to this long inquiry: she argues...

... in Heidegger's engagement, specifically, with the work of Augustine, on whom the philosopher lectured in 1921, and to whom he returned briefly in 1930. The first chapter seeks to uncover the groundwork for Heidegger's reading of Augustine in his lectures, a semester earlier, on Paul's Letters...

..., containing the book’s main project, develops an account of the characteristic history of an emotion from its origins in a satisfied or frustrated desire (Lecture l),to the formation of an attitude that lies at the core of an emotion (Lecture 2), and finally to the fantasized critic in moral emotions...

.... Is philosophy itself a science, or not? According to the picture just sketched, philosophy is clearly not a positive science. However, in striving for conceptual clarity and consistency, philosophy is scientific. As Glazebrook points out, Heidegger makes both claims. In his 1927 Basic Problems lecture...

... of Proof for a Demonstration of God’s Existence ( Beweisgrund , 1763), and Herder’s notes on Kant’s Metaphysics lectures (1762–64). Here I found Allison’s discussion of Kant’s application of the concept of real opposition to moral motivation in Negative Magnitudes particularly helpful. Allison comments...

... in response to the de- mands of shifting historical perspectives. Alexander Nehamas s intriguing book (based on his 1993 Sather Lectures) combines discussion of this on- going process, specifically of responses to Socrates by Montaigne, Nie- tzsche, and Foucault, with exemplification of it via his own...

..., and not just his professional philosophical works but also popular lectures and notes that Kant wrote to himself that have come to be called Reflexionen . The massive and extremely informative overview that results raises three important exegetical questions: (1) Wuerth argues for more continuity...

... of a few infelicities, the translators who produced this volume have been able to do that. Two of the essays-“What Is Metaphysics?” and “The Essence of Ground”-first appeared in 1929 and dealt with closely related themes. In “What Is Metaphysicsthe inaugural lecture Heidegger gave on assum...

...: Conversations on the Improviser’s Art.Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. xxv + 284 pp. 2007. Aesthetics and Music. London: Continuum. vii + 246 pp. Harman, Gilbert, and Sanjeev Kulkarni. 2007. Reliable Reasoning: Induction and Statistical Learning Theory. Jean Nicod Lectures. Cambridge, MA...

... psychology and especially his views during the ‘silent decade’, on the basis of lecture notes and reflections. Dyck argues for the continuity of Kant's conception of the soul as a ‘concept of experience’ given in the inner sense, and even makes the case for the ‘radicalization’ of the dependence of rational...

...Joyce L. Jenkins Cornell University 2000 ARISTOTLE'S CRITICISM OF PLATO'S REPUBLIC. By Robert Mayhew, Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 1997. Pp. xii, 162. BOOK REVIEWS summary of the lectures (as yet unpublished) on Apology, Crito, Phaedo, and Laches...

... Press. Wittgenstein, Ludwig. 1933 . Tractatus Loco-Philosophicus . Translated by C.K. Ogden. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. Cited by numbered proposition. ___. 1982 . Wittgenstein's Lectures: Cambridge, 1930-1932 . Edited by D. Lee. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ___. 1984...

... Algebra der Logik” (“A Critical Elucidation of some Points in E. Schröder, Lectures on the Algebra of Logic”). Archiv für systematische Philosophie 1 : 433 -56. Trans. Peter Geach in Frege 1984, 210-28. ____. 1897 . “Über die Begriffsschrift des Herrn Peano und meine eigene” (“On Mr. Peano's...

.... Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. x, 331. Divine Irony. By Glenn S. Holland. Cranbury: Susquehanna University Press, 2000. Pp. 179. Suffering from Indeterminacy: An Attempt at a Reactualization of Hegel’s Philoso- phy of Right. Spinoza Lectures. By Axel Honneth. Assen: Van Gorcum...

... Hand. Cambridge: MIT Press, Bradford Books, 2001. Pp. mi, 191. A Sensible Metaphysical Realism. The Aquinas Lecture, 2001. By William P. Alston. Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 2001. Pp. 61. Machiavelli and Us. By Louis Althusser. Ed. Francois Matheron. Trans. Gregory...