...Lorraine Besser-Jones Sobel Jordan Howard , Walls and Vaults: A Natural Science of Morals (Virtue Ethics according to David Hume) . Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley and Sons , 2009 . xiii + 414 pp . © 2012 by Cornell University 2012 BOOK REVIEWS Huw...

...John Christman LIBERALISM, PERFECTIONISM, AND RESTRAINT. By Steven Wall. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xi, 244. Cornell University 2000 BOOK REVIEWS to a positive alternative. In fact, Macleod says very little concerning what might...

... a white wall or taste sweet honey. The Cyrenaics have a distinctive way of talking about these matters, as emerges in (for example) Sextus Empiricus, Adversus mathematicos 7.191–92 (translation Tsouna’s, from page 155; she makes repeated reference to this text): It is possible, they say...

...)information supplied to her by e is available to her when she later enjoys @.I7 “Notable dissenters are (probably) Peacocke and Chalmers. According to Peacocke, there are actual cases of sudden changes in phenomenal character with no change in content (see the discussion of his “two walls...

... that might be thought to help here, which is that caring for another requires that this desire to promote the other’s welfare 580 BOOK REVIEWS be motivated out of regard for the person herself (68–69). And might not Dar- wall suggest...

... microscope, the fertilization of an egg. You see an unfertilized oocyte—the one-celled human egg. A sperm approaches and, after traversing the corona radiata and zona pellucida, contacts the egg’s cell wall. The sperm breaches that wall, enters, and dissolves, dis...

... by William E. Mann 302 Schellenberg, J. L., The Will to Imagine: A Justification of Skeptical Religion reviewed by Paul Draper 291 Shapiro, Scott, Legality reviewed by Gideon Yaffe 457 Shoemaker, Sydney, Physical Realization reviewed by Eric Hiddleston 467 Sobel, Jordan Howard, Walls and Vaults...

... white as lit to such and such a degree in this portion of the wall and to such and such a degree in this other portion of the wall … On the weaker interpretation, to say that color is situation-dependent in these two ways is to say that the con- tents of our perceptions always include some...

... are attributed to the object. We expect a ball arcing through the air to not only continue the smooth motion of that arc but also to bounce off a wall, to not spontaneously divide, and to eventually fall to the floor. The result of the application of the constraints is an output that attributes...

... to each that they do? But then it is automat- ically necessary that a is F, so long as the individual a and the property Fness (which intersect in the trope of a’s Fness) both exist. We can carry this further into something like the flower-in-the-crannied-wall motif: if a had not been F...

... is described by J. R. Lucas, whom Angell quotes as fol- lows: Let the reader look up at the four corners of the ceiling of his room, and judge what the apparent angle at each corner is; that is, at what angle the two lines where the walls meet the ceiling appear to him to intersect each...

... that unites the terms. Russell had earlier compared the items to be unified in a fact to the bricks in a wall, that which unifies them to the cement. Framed in terms of this image, Russell's view in 1913 is that every fact must feature some brick that (nonintrinsically) plays this cementing role...

...: Doctors and Philosophers on Nature, Soul, Health and Disease. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. xiv + 404 pp. Villers, Jürgen. 2005. Das Paradigma des Alphabets: Platon und die Schriftbedingtheit der Philosophie. Würzberg: Königshausen and Neumann. 497 pp. Wall, John. 2005. Moral...

... (or even many) cleverly disguised mules in my vicinity (and regardless of whether I know that there are). If my analysis of ZEBRA* is correct, then it must be similarly impos- sible for the DRAGGING CONDITION to be satisfied in RED: RED E: It seems to me that there is a red wall in front...

... Howard Sobel, Walls and Vaults: A Natural Science of Morals (Virtue Ethics according to David Hume). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons, 2009. xiii þ 414 pp. In Walls and Vaults, Jordan Howard Sobel engages in a comprehensive analysis of the central themes of Hume’s moral philosophy. The overriding...

... Philosophical Review, Vol. 121, No. 4, 2012 DOI 10.1215/00318108-1630894 2. J. S. Mill, “On Liberty,” in On Liberty and Other Essays (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), 15. 633 BOOK REVIEWS Jordan Howard Sobel, Walls and Vaults...

... Philosophical Review, Vol. 121, No. 4, 2012 DOI 10.1215/00318108-1630894 2. J. S. Mill, “On Liberty,” in On Liberty and Other Essays (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), 15. 633 BOOK REVIEWS Jordan Howard Sobel, Walls and Vaults...