...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...

...Laurie Shrage Chambers Clare , Against Marriage: An Egalitarian Defence of the Marriage-Free State . Oxford: Oxford University Press , 2017 . xi + 226 pp . © 2019 by Cornell University 2019 Against Marriage appeals to liberal feminist principles to expose the injustices...

...Kevin E. Dodson WELFARE IN THE KANTIAN STATE. By Alexander Kaufman. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. Xii, 179. Cornell University 2001 BOOK REVIEWS (Incidentally, it is unfortunate that Curley and Walski perpetuate the strange mistranslation...

...Stephanie Collins Pasternak Avia , Responsible Citizens, Irresponsible States: Should Citizens Pay for Their State’s Wrongdoings? : Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2021 . 249 pp. © 2023 by Cornell University 2023 Anyone who has lived abroad knows the frustration...

... theses: (A) Only desires or similar conative states provide impulses to act. (B) Beliefs alone cannot initiate action, nor cause affective states that in turn move us to act; they can only influence action by directing already-present desires. (C) Necessarily, all moral evaluations are motives. (D...

... requirement to recognize the equality of political opponents and the moral directive to pursue and promote political justice” (4). This state of mind means allowing injustice to win for a time. If citizens do not allow injustice to rule, they must reject the political equality of their opponents. Our...

...). The next chapter (“Parsimony in Evolutionary Biology”) is an extended reflection on the use of parsimony arguments in evolutionary biology, especially with respect to phylogenetic inference (figuring out how particular populations are related to one another, and what the ancestral state of previous...

... unsuccessful. Korsgaard's Argument relies on a conception of rational agency with three important features. The first is the reflective structure of human consciousness . Unlike other animals, Korsgaard argues, humans are conscious of their own mental states and, as a result, face the question of whether...

... this, let us start with the Appendix. After stating that distinct perceptions “form a whole only by being connected together,” Hume continues: “But no connexions among distinct existences are ever discoverable by human understanding” (T App 20; SBN 635). This recalls his earlier claim that we do not observe...

... and Epistemology is a broad, impressive, and interesting collection of essays on the nature of implicit bias. It presents various views on the kind of cognitive states that underlie implicit bias; how to interpret the results of methodological tools that purport to measure implicit bias; the relation...

... should reject this view, but I am unpersuaded: see Rieder 2016 and Sobel 2016a : chap. 15. 17. Of course, an objectivist who thinks that pleasure is good and that I have reason to promote valuable states of affairs would agree that I have reason to try the dish. But this doesn't show that only...

... to the philosophers of Massachusetts Institute of Technology; the Moral Psychology Research Group; Ohio State University; the Ohio Philosophical Association; the Society for the Theory of Ethics and Politics; State University of New York, Albany; University of California, Davis; and the Workshop on Moral Expertise...

... of mental systems that stand at the border of perception and belief, and has been extensively studied in developmental psychology. Core cognition's borderline states do not fit neatly into the traditional epistemic picture. What is the epistemic role of these states? Focusing on the core object system...

...Martin Jay Stone; Rafeeq Hasan Kant maintains that while claims to property are morally possible in a state of nature, such claims are merely “provisional”; they become “conclusive” only in a civil condition involving political institutions. Kant’s commentators find this thesis puzzling, since...