...Gary Varner Cass R. Sunstein and Martha C. Nussbaum, eds., Animal Rights: Current Debates and New Directions . New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. xi + 338 pp. Cornell University 2007 Allen, Colin, and Marc Bekoff. 1997 . “Intentionality, Social Play, and Communication...

...Wayne Proudfoot Andrew Dole and Andrew Chignell, eds., God and the Ethics of Belief: New Essays in the Philosophy of Religion . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xii + 282 pp. Cornell University 2008 xxx pr08-004 June 10, 2008 10:56...

... to suppose that the fact that God held the given beliefs must be held fixed when evaluating what we can do. And proponents of the argument have for various reasons not been convinced. In this essay, I aim to shift the debate to new terrain. I believe that substantial progress can be made if we focus...

...Jonathan Waskan John Preston and Mark Bishop, editors, Views into the Chinese Room: New Essays on Searle and Artificial Intelligence. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. xx, 300. Cornell University 2005 Schank, Roger. C., and Robert Abelson. 1977 . Scripts, Plans, Goals...

...Nathaniel Bulthuis Cameron Margaret and Stainton Robert J. , eds., Linguistic Content: New Essays on the History of Philosophy of Language . Oxford: Oxford University Press , 2015 . 272 pp . © 2017 by Cornell University 2017 Cameron and Stainton's edited volume...

... in addressing that distinction. Fogal Daniel Harris Daniel W. Moss Matt , New Work on Speech Acts . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2018 . viii + 437 pp . © 2021 by Cornell University, 2021 New Work on Speech Acts impresses both in scope and content. The ‘new work’ not only...

...Paula Gottlieb Cornell University 2000 A NEW STOICISM. By Lawrence C. Becker. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. Pp. viii, 216. BOOK REVlEWS acquainted with these texts, this book has plenty to offer. Johansen’s work on Aristotle’s neglected...

...Sherrilyn Roush THE COMPREHENSIBILITY OF THE UNIVERSE: A NEW CONCEPTION OF SCIENCE. By Nicholas Maxwell. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Clarendon Press, 1998. Pp. ix, 316. Cornell University 2001 BOOK REVIEWS ThPhilosophical Rmiew, Vol. 110...

...Rachel Barney PLATONIC ETHICS, OLD AND NEW. By Julia Annas. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1999. Pp. viii, 196. Cornell University 2001 BOOK REVIEWS The Philosophical him,Vol. 110, No. 1 (January 2001) PLATONIC ETHICS, OLD...

...Chris Swoyer THE NEW DIALECTIC: CONVERSATIONAL CONTEXTS OF ARGUMENT. By Douglas Walton. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998. Pp. vii, 304 AD HOMINEM ARGUMENTS . By Douglas Walton. Tuscaloosa and London: University of Alabama Press, 1998. Pp. vii, 315. Cornell University 2001...

...Nicholas Jolley NEW ESSAYS ON THE RATIONALISTS. Rocco J. Gennaro and Charles Huenemann, Eds. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp. xviii, 391. Cornell University 2001 BOOK REVIEWS The Philosophical Review, Vol. 110, No. 4 (October 2001...

...Lee McIntyre Nalini Bhushan and Stuart Rosenfeld, eds., Of Minds and Molecules: New Philosophical Perspectives on Chemistry. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. xvi, 299. J. Van Brakel, Philosophy of Chemistry. Belgium: Leuven University Press, 2000. Pp.xiv, 246. Cornell...

... Place: Formal Constraints on Rational Belief . New York: Oxford University Press. ____. Forthcoming. “Does Murphy's Law Apply in Epistemology? Self-Doubt and Rational Ideals.” Oxford Studies in Epistemology 2 . Oxford: Oxford University Press. Elga, Adam. 2005 . “On Overrating Oneself...

... ( Seymour 2008 ). While consistent with some themes from that work, his new book is far more than a translation of his previous work. Seymour has been working on collective rights for many years now, and he now puts forth what he considers a definitive argument for them. In some ways, this argument both...

..., translations are my own. CP Confessio Philosophi: Papers Concerning the Problem of Evil, 1671-1678 , trans. and ed. by Robert C. Sleigh Jr. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005). DSR De Summa Rerum , trans. by G.H.R. Parkinson (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992). GP Die philosophischen...

... empiricist theory of ideas (namely Locke's) that allows one to achieve a conception of mind-independent objects by an abstrac- tion from ideas of mind-dependent objects. Abstraction yields a general concep- tion of previously cognized objects, not a conception of wholly new objects.4 According...

.... Among the strengths of Broughton’s treatment is her in-depth anal- ysis of super-indubitability. In itself, the idea of targeting some privi- leged truths is not new—the cogito has long been admired and discussed for its unique certainty. On three counts, however, Brough- ton’s development...

... or expressed on different occasions when the sentence is used. It would not be absurd to think that the considerations that make for semantic plasticity always also make for context sensitivity. For those who think that this is the case, a new strategy opens up for vindicating cross-modal (and cross-temporal...

...Don Garrett Griffin Michael V. , Leibniz, God, and Necessity . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2013 . xi +195 pp. © 2014 by Cornell University 2014 “Metaphysics,” Leibniz declared, “is natural theology.” In his illuminating new book, Michael Griffin builds...