Robbins Library Notes

Good morning, readers!

We recently received the latest issue of Inquiry — Inquiry 51(5) October 2008.  Here is the Table of Contents:

• Naturalism and Un-Naturalism Among the Cartesian Physicians, Gideon Manning
• Descartes’ Mind-Body Composites, Psychology and Naturalism, Lili Alanen
• Spinoza and the Dictates of Reason, Donald Rutherford
• Kant and the Myth of the Given, Eric Watkins
• Kant and Naturalism Reconsidered, John H. Zammito

Also arrived: Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement: 63 — Kant and Philosophy of Science Today.

• Why There are No Ready-Made Phenomena: What Philosophers of Science Should Learn From Kant, Michela Massimi
• Reduction, Unity and the Nature of Science: Kant’s Legacy?, Margaret Morrison
• Invariance Principles as Regulative Ideals: From Wigner to Hilbert, Thomas Ryckman
• Objectivity: A Kantian Perspective, Roberto Torretti
• Einstein, Kant, and the A Priori, Michael Friedman
• Contingent Transcendental Arguments for Metaphysical Principles, Hasok Chang
• Arithmetic from Kant to Frege: Numbers, Pure Units, and the Limits of Conceptual Representation, Daniel Sutherland
• Intuition and Infinity: A Kantian Theme with Echoes in the Foundations of Mathematics, Carl Posy