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...Fred D. Miller, JR S. Sara Monoson, Plato's Democratic Entanglements: Athenian Politics and the Practice of Philosophy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. Pp. xi, 252. Cornell University 2003 BOOK REVIEWS The Philosophical Review...

... aesthetic value in a way that centers these social forms of aesthetic engagement. To this end, the article argues that there is a social practice of aesthetic valuing, characterized as a participatory practice governed by the value of aesthetic community, which engages us in the social development of our...

...Nina Emery The foregoing remarks may sound critical, but I don’t think they should be read that way. The key thing to take away from all this is that a metaphysics of scientific practice, by which I mean a metaphysics that relies crucially on Hüttemann’s Practice to Metaphysics Schema, can...

...Helena de Bres James Aaron , Fairness in Practice: A Social Contract for a Global Economy . New York : Oxford University Press , 2012 . xiii+366 pp. © 2013 by Cornell University 2013 For the past decade, in a series of interconnected papers, Aaron James has been developing...

...Allen Coates Peter Baumann and Monika Betzler, eds., Practical Conflicts . Cambridge University Press, 2004. vii + 344 pp. Cornell University 2007 book reviews Joseph L. Camp Jr., Confusion: A Study in the Theory of Knowledge. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University...

...-quoted rule-following remark, Philosophical Investigations No. 185, in which a pupil, following instructions for adding two successively, goes on from 1,000 to 1,004, 1,008, and so on. Similar to the wood-sellers example, it seems that such a practice may...

...Margaret Gilbert Keith Graham, Practical Reasoning in a Social World: How We Act Together. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xi, 202. Cornell University 2004 BOOK REVIEWS The Philosophical Review, Vol. 113, No. 1 (January 2004...

...Kieran Setiya Sarah Stroud and Christine Tappolet, eds. Weakness of Will and Practical Irrationality. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. x, 317. Cornell University 2005 BOOK REVIEWS Notes 1 In the preface...

...Michael E. Bratman RULING PASSIONS: A THEORY OF PRACTICAL REASONING. By Simon Blackburn. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, Clarendon Press, 1998. Pp. vii, 334. Cornell University 2000 BOOK REVEWS entails the existence of final causes...

...” and, more importantly, the “social-practice meaning” of the artistic objects or performances under scrutiny. Maker meaning has to do with “what [an art object's] maker was trying to do in making the object and [the] reason he was trying to do that” (111). “Social-practice meaning”—toward which Wolterstorff...

...Eric Campbell Lenman James Shemmer Yonatan eds., Constructivism in Practical Philosophy . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2012 . 261 pp. © 2014 by Cornell University 2014 Constructivists aim to account for the semantics or metaphysics of (part or all of) normativity...

...Karen Margrethe Nielsen Olfert C. M. M. , Aristotle on Practical Truth . Oxford: Oxford University Press , 2017 . xxiii + 260 pp . © 2019 by Cornell University 2019 In this bold and engaging book, Christiana Olfert defends a novel account of the notion of “practical truth...

... dispositions to avowal in moral discussion” (53). Third, the view that moral practice has the distinctive function as a coordination device that enables “ human beings to work towards, test, refine, and sustain mutually beneficial patterns of action and reaction ” (38). The third commitment, thereby...

... on that of others; for I will be worse and not better off if I conform while most others do not (108), and if too many others defect, again, the practice will collapse. In light of these beliefs, it seems, I form a further, instrumental desire that everyone receive from others what is due them according...

..., 2012 q 2012 by Cornell University 285 BOOK REVIEWS really assigned a very large role to rules in their practice of art and criticism. But Beiser’s description of the figures he discusses is conducted...

.... It would be perfectly correct for another participant in the practice—one's manager, or another employee, for instance—to criticize you for your action. It may even be that compliance was supported by very weighty practical reasons that just happened to be outweighed by even weightier ones. Nothing we have...

...Daniela Dover It is widely believed that we ought not to criticize others for wrongs that we ourselves have committed. The author draws out and challenges some of the background assumptions about the practice of criticism that underlie our attraction to this claim, such as the tendency to think...

... of Chicago Press . Lehrer K. 1968 . “ Cans without Ifs .” Analysis 29 , no. 1 : 29 – 32 . Lehrer K. 1976 . “ ‘Can’ in Theory and Practice: A Possible Worlds Analysis .” In Action Theory , ed. Brand M. and Walton D. , 241 – 70 . Dordrecht : D. Reidel...

... the practice of friendship; instead, it merely observes that a good friend, unlike others, is willing for your sake to overcome their squeamishness at handling dead bodies. 3 As a result, the joke loses much of its intuitive force, as it no longer reveals a surprising and uncomfortable truth about...

... Widerker. It shows that neither is sufficient to reject the Direct Argument. The article then proceeds to challenge the argument in a novel fashion. Van Inwagen has not given us good reason to think that the principle in question has an adequate anchor in our inferential practices, especially in light...