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The Philosophical Review (2009) 118 (2): 153–181.
Published: 01 April 2009
...Louis deRosset A major source of latter-day skepticism about necessity is the work of David Hume. Hume is widely taken to have endorsed the Humean claim : there are no necessary connections between distinct existences. The Humean claim is defended on the grounds that necessary connections between...
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The Philosophical Review (2001) 110 (4): 611–614.
Published: 01 October 2001
... Waldron points out, the attitudes of philosophers and political the-
orists towards majority voting have ranged from indifference to hostility. Piled
on top of all this scorn for legislation comes further scorn from social choice
theorists, who insist that majority rule is useless as a means of making...
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The Philosophical Review (2004) 113 (3): 422–426.
Published: 01 July 2004
... and maintained by quite a few excellent recent books and
articles devoted to her philosophy, many of them written by some of the major
scholars gathered together as contributors to this volume.
One of the purposes of this Cambridge series, stated on the opening page,
is to provide a convenient...
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The Philosophical Review (2003) 112 (4): 570–572.
Published: 01 October 2003
..., vol. 4) has
his appendix to the letters (containing excerpts from Leibniz’s works), which
is missing from André Robinet’s French translation (1957). But Robinet’s edi-
tion—appropriately for this major Leibniz scholar—includes Leibniz’s drafts
of his letters, which are missing from the other three...
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The Philosophical Review (2004) 113 (3): 420–422.
Published: 01 July 2004
...). There is burgeoning interest in Simone de
Beauvoir, inspired and maintained by quite a few excellent recent books and
articles devoted to her philosophy, many of them written by some of the major
scholars gathered together as contributors to this volume.
One of the purposes of this Cambridge series, stated...
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The Philosophical Review (2001) 110 (4): 606–608.
Published: 01 October 2001
..., 1999. Pp. xviii, 391.
This book provides a lucid commentary on Hegel’s Philosophy of Right and on
Hegel’s other major writings on ethics and politics. Since it is the only com-
mentary in English that covers the Philosophy of Right almost section by section,
from start to finish, and it also...
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The Philosophical Review (2003) 112 (1): 100–102.
Published: 01 January 2003
... University Press. Hallie, Philip. 1968 . Sextus Empiricus, Selections from the Major Writings on Scepticism, Man, and God , ed. Philip Hallie. Middletown, Conn.; Wesleyan University Press. Long, A. A., and D. N. Sedley. 1987 . The Hellenistic Philosophers , vol. 1 . Cambridge: Cambridge University...
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The Philosophical Review (2018) 127 (2): 247–251.
Published: 01 April 2018
... of Social Reality . New York : Free Press . But these are minor quibbles. Epstein's book is a major work in the metaphysics of the social world and deserves to be read by anyone interested in the philosophy of the social world or the foundations of social science. Let us step back and consider...
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The Philosophical Review (2001) 110 (4): 603–606.
Published: 01 October 2001
... is an occasionalist is discussed, Malebranche himself is still confined
to the footnotes; in this volume he is not allowed to take his rightful place at the
table of the major Rationalists. Yet in other ways the volume is more represen-
tative of current work. Few of the contributors use these great, dead philoso...
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The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (1): 119–122.
Published: 01 January 2002
..., AND HEIDEGGER. By
MICHAEL FRIEDMAN. Chicago: Open Court, 2000. Pp. xv, 175.
The divide between the analytic and the continental philosophical traditions
has been a major preoccupation of philosophers and historians of philosophy
in the past few decades. Many attempts have been made to bridge the gap...
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The Philosophical Review (2010) 119 (4): 449–495.
Published: 01 October 2010
.... They render this plural
noun as “the major premise” (Guyer 2005, 236), thereby giving the false impression that
Kant once supposed that the major premise alone constituted the “matter” of a syllogistic
inference. Kant, however, always supposed that both premises constituted the matter of
the argument...
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The Philosophical Review (2019) 128 (1): 107–111.
Published: 01 January 2019
... argues, persuasively, that the problem, under one scenario, rather “lies in the transition from the major and the minor premise” to an invalid conclusion, which “sneaks into the use of the concept of substance the supposition of an underlying schema of permanence that has been absent from both the major...
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The Philosophical Review (2003) 112 (4): 567–570.
Published: 01 October 2003
...-
notes) extends to roughly eighty pages and provides a critical introduction to
most of the major issues that will puzzle or particularly challenge readers of the
NE. The commentary itself, also Broadie’s work, is relatively brief, fewer than
200 pages of discussion on Aristotle’s text, which...
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The Philosophical Review (2000) 109 (4): 545–581.
Published: 01 October 2000
...)
This passage certainly suggests that voting by the citizens-a ma-
jority vote, in fact (4.2.7)-determines the content of the general
will. In that case, however, there are only two ways in which the
over-simple account can be reconciled with this passage. Either the
majority, in voting, always intends...
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The Philosophical Review (2019) 128 (4): 532–536.
Published: 01 October 2019
...; and with that, Rawls had intellectually condoned for many theorists the very thing critical race scholars had struggled to establish—white Americans' propensity to conveniently forget the past and to deny any ongoing culpability for wrongs done in the name of their very own identity politics. Mills's major...
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The Philosophical Review (2014) 123 (2): 238–241.
Published: 01 April 2014
..., as I see it, is that Leiter's definition of religion is inaccurate. Leaving aside the concern that religion is not susceptible to definition by necessary and sufficient conditions, there are three main reasons for this. Like Leiter, I am an atheist who believes that there is much in most major...
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The Philosophical Review (2015) 124 (2): 289–292.
Published: 01 April 2015
... are not a fluke: being a category mistake projects just as being a presupposition failure does. So, her proposal is that the vast majority of natural language predicates are presupposition triggers: the semantic content of ‘is a prime’ is the property of being a prime, and its presuppositional content...
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The Philosophical Review (2014) 123 (2): 205–229.
Published: 01 April 2014
... in which the effect of the trumper is the same as the effect of the trumped. For example, the major and the sergeant both order an advance, but the major's order trumps the sergeant's, so that it is the major's order, not the sergeant's, that causes the soldiers' advance. This kind of trumping can...
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The Philosophical Review (2013) 122 (4): 664–667.
Published: 01 October 2013
... in reaching the end. Agree with him or not on the substance, in Fairness in Practice James has done us the major service of clearing space for an empirically informed, morally sophisticated conversation about a matter of major moral importance. This is a book that richly rewards close, and deserves wide...
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The Philosophical Review (2001) 110 (3): 446–448.
Published: 01 July 2001
... interactions, they might be transformed into a play of freedom, equality and reciprocity (192). O Hagan makes powerful use of this conception throughout his major discussions, and shows amply how much of Rousseau s thought, both in its general structure and approach but also in the detail of the argument...
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