...Colin Chamberlain Consider the distinctive qualitative property grass visually appears to have when it visually appears to be green. This property is an example of what I call sensuous color . Whereas early modern mechanists typically argue that bodies are not sensuously colored, Margaret Cavendish...

... Darwall’s, on which the key historical shift was the invention of self-interest—or if “invention” connotes success, the confabulation of self-interest in modern moral philosophy. References Anscombe G. E. M. 1958 . “ Modern Moral Philosophy .” Philosophy 33 , 1 – 19 . Irwin T...

...Lawrence Nolan INSIGHT AND INFERENCE: DESCARTES'S FOUNDING PRINCIPLE AND MODERN PHILOSOPHY. By Murray Miles. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999. Pp. xviii, 564. Cornell University 2002 BOOK REVIEWS S are not P” should rather have been “S does...

...Andrew Botterell Andrew Melnyk, A Physicalist Manifesto: Thoroughly Modern Materialism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 327. Cornell University 2005 BOOK REVIEWS erties and governed by a few laws of motion” (18), and gives...

...A. John Simmons AN ESSAY ON THE MODERN STATE. By Christopher W. Morris. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. x, 305. Cornell University 2000 BOOK REVlEWS The Philosophical him,Vol. 109, No. 2 (April 2000) ANESSAY ON THE MODERN...

...Larry M. Jorgensen Antonia LoLordo, Pierre Gassendi and the Birth of Early Modern Philosophy . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. x + 283 pp. © 2008 by Cornell University 2008 xxx prjuly2008-04 October 21, 2008 11:39 BOOK REVIEWS...

...Samuel J. Kerstein BOOK REVIEWS The Philosophical Review, Vol. 111, No. 3 (July 2002) Katrin Flikschuh, Kant and Modern Political Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. x, 216. In Kant and Modern Political Philosophy, Katrin...

... and the Transformation of Early-Modern Philos- ophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xii, 249. In 1949, Benjamin Farrington published his book Francis Bacon, Philosopher of Industrial Science. It was a Marxist take on Bacon and his significance, and, despite a degree of single-mindedness in its...

...Ian Hunter THE INVENTION OF AUTONOMY: A HISTORY OF MODERN MORAL PHILOSOPHY By J. B. Schneewind. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xxii, 624. Cornell University 2000 B 00K REVE WS prime purpose of justifylng the practice not of wisdom...

...Thomas McCarthy PRAGMATIC LIBERALISM AND THE CRITIQUE OF MODERNITY. By Gary Gutting. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 198. Cornell University 2001 BOOK REWEWS The Philosophical him,Vol. 110, No. 1 (‘January 2001...

...Faviola Rivera Otfried Höffe, Categorical Principles of Law: A Counterpoint to Modernity. University Park: Penn State University Press, 2002. Pp. xxx, 311. Cornell University 2005 BOOK REVIEWS my opinion, not worth reading, though if you tend toward...

... to both problems, setting out from the continuity between Kant's early and mature views on sensibility and mind-world relations. Kant's early writings subscribe to an interactionist cosmology opposed to both Leibniz's preestablished harmony and Malebranche's occasionalism. The modern debate on mind-world...

... in the intellect of God. Although other early moderns agreed that modal truths are in some way dependent on God, there were sharp disagreements surrounding two distinct questions: (1) On what in God do modal truths and modal truth-makers depend? (2) What is the manner(s) of dependence by which modal truths...

... opponents to the effect that this thesis would entail that our actions are not “up to us” (eph’ hêmin). In both their determinism and their compati- bilism, the Stoics strike readers today as extremely modern in their philosoph- ical orientation, and their concerns seem continuous with those expressed...

...) A hEW STOZCZSM. By LAWRENCEC. BECKER.Princeton: Princeton Univer- sity Press, 1998. Pp. viii, 216. The aim of Becker’s book is to bring stoicism up to date and to defend a contemporary stoic ethical theory against the prejudices of the skeptical modern reader. Becker imagines what would...

..., No. 2 (April 2002) Dennis Des Chene, Life’s Form: Late Aristotelian Conceptions of the Soul. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. Pp. viii, 220. Perhaps the most lively area of historical research in philosophy today concerns the scholastic antecedents of modern philosophy. As studies of modern...

...Sydney Penner Some years ago Robert Pasnau (2002) began a book review in this journal by noting that “perhaps the most lively area of historical research in philosophy today concerns the scholastic antecedents of modern philosophy” (308). He went on to say, however, that “inasmuch...

...Jeffrey Collins In any case, resolving that dispute is not the real payoff of this excellent book. Alongside a cogent, integrated reading of Hobbes’s philosophy of religion, we are given a real sense of where to place it within the sweep of modern philosophy and social science. Bayle and Hume...

... ethical theory against the prejudices of the skeptical modern reader. Becker imagines what would have happened if stoicism had had a continuous history from ancient times to the present. Since the stoics are thoroughgoing naturalists, according to Becker, they would have incorporated...

.... A more adequate understanding of ancient Neoplatonism has been hin- dered by various tendencies in modern scholarship, among which are a doxo- graphic approach that treats ancient texts as material from which doctrinal systems are to be extracted, and the belief that, with Iamblichus, Neoplatonists...