...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...

...R.W. Sharples G. R. Boys-Stones, Post-Hellenistic Philosophy: A Study of Its Development from the Stoics to Origen. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. x, 241. Cornell University 2002 BOOK REVIEWS The Philosophical Review, Vol. 111...

...Daniel W. Harris Still, by an important standard, Lepore and Stone's book is a highly successful piece of philosophy. A decade ago, debates about the semantics-pragmatics interface were murky, frequently terminological, and not well grounded in a shared understanding of their subject matter...

... to withdraw into inconspicuousness in our ordinary experience of things. Stone, wood, paint, sound, words all get “used up” in their ordinary transparent functions, but they stand out and “shine” forth in sculpture, painting, music, and poetry. Second, again, Heideg- ger insists that earth is essentially...

... from a clear case of straightforward falsehood to a paradigm example of a category mistake: ‘Englishmen/squirrels/bacteria/stones/electrons/quadratic equations like coffee better than tea’ (152). Ungrammaticality, meaninglessness, and lack of truth-value don't permit this sort of gradation...

... know you are a stone, therefore you do not know you are a stone" (because stones are not knowers), and "Only a father exists, therefore not only a father exists" (because fathers must have sons). I have emphasized the above discussion because a claim often made about Burley is that he fully...

... minds and bodies can’t causally interact.26 If explanations of the sort “She raised her hand to defl ect the stone” are understood to mean that an idea that represents not being hit by a stone as a good thing and an idea that represents hand raising as a way of bringing that about jointly cause...

... explicitly states or endorses it (56). One might well wonder whether SMP has the philosophical virtues Stone- ham claims for it. The obvious problem is that taking perception as an unana- lyzable “pure relation” between a mind and a perceivable quality tells us essentially nothing about perception...

..., Joshua Armstrong, Elizabeth Camp, Samuel Cumming, Chip Greenberg, Patrick Grosz, John Kulvicki, Kevin Lande, Carlotta Pavese, Pritty Patel-Grosz, Philippe Schlenker, W. Starr, Matthew Stone, participants in a University of California Los Angeles seminar on nonlinguistic representation, and audiences...

..., e.g., uses the phrase “various bits of matter,” Aristotle: the Desire to Understand, 17.) For a further treatment of this problem, cf. H. Lang, Aristotle’s Physics and Its iMedievaZ Varieties, 23-34. (256, n. 65) Could Aristotle really have thought that an artist, piling stones...

... that a In the categorical judgment The stone is hard,thestone is used as subject, and hard as predicate, in such a way that the understanding is still free to exchange the log- ical function of these concepts, and to say that something hard is a stone. (4:475, continuation of note Here when Kant says...

... used as “stepping stones” to “an unhypothetical first prin- ciple” (511b) concerning the Form of the good (508d–509b, 511b, 517b–c, 532b). Mathematicians treat their hypotheses as first princi- ples (510c–d). The dialecticians, recognizing that they have not yet dis- covered the first principle...

... Oidipus bis Faust. By Rudolf Boehm. Würzberg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2001. Pp. 151. Post-Hellenistic Philosophy: A Study of its Development from the Stoics to Origen. By G. R. Boys-Stones. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. x, 241. Aesthetic Concepts: Essays after Sibley. By Emily Brady...

... a different feel from most philosophy books. With 114 small pages of text, it is very short, and with twenty-three chapters, the average chapter is just 5 pages long. These chapters have such engaging titles as “The Right that No Stone Be Left Unturned” and “Why Do Homosexuals Want Children?” Typically...

... points out that if this theory were true, in order to think about a stone, the mind would itself have to become a stone. (Aquinas takes this example from Aristotle’s discussion in De anima 3.8, 431b30.) 204 Aquinas on Mental Representation...

... motives. As Stone (2011, vii) puts it: a lottery is needed “when, and to the extent that, it is important that bad reasons be kept out of the decision. Lotteries can perform this task because they make decisions on the basis of no reasons.” Stone, following Kornhauser and Sager (2011 [1988...

... and giving a framework for understanding utterance force that is functional, and not conventional). Roberts, Mitchell Green, and Ernie Lepore and Matthew Stone also offer applications of their theories to the semantics and pragmatics of imperatives. What most of these contributions share is the conclusion...

...) version of the argument from potentiality, she does not discuss, or even refer to, the far more powerful versions of the potentiality-based argument developed by such philosophers as Don Marquis, Jim Stone, and Patrick Lee. To the extent that Scott fails to take on the strongest arguments...

... and correct choice”, but that he “fails to abide” by it ( ouk emmenei , 7.9, 1151a34–35). Further, it implausibly suggests that avoiding sweets on occasion is specifically demanded of temperate agents (rather as we tell those who live in glass houses not to throw stones). That the temperate do not eat...

... envy so freely admitted to. It was intermingled with deep discomfort and an urge to condemn the envier, of course, but let the one who has never envied throw the first stone. “I couldn’t stand those books,” my friend Elena said with great vehemence; “all the characters were just horrible...