Robbins Library Notes

Good morning, readers!

Here are the November 2008 reviews from Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.  Are any worth acquiring for Robbins?

Dean Moyar, Michael Quante (eds.), Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit: A Critical Guide
Reviewed by Jeffrey Church, Duke University

Nathan Widder, Reflections on Time and Politics
Reviewed by Dorothea Olkowski, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs

Heather Dyke, Metaphysics and the Representational Fallacy
Reviewed by Matti Eklund, Cornell University

Hans Bernhard Schmid, Katinka Schulte-Ostermann, Nikos Psarros (eds.), Concepts of Sharedness: Essays on Collective Intentionality
Reviewed by Peter Tramel, USMA, West Point

W.J. Waluchow, A Common Law Theory of Judicial Review: The Living Tree
Reviewed by Jeffrey Brand-Ballard, George Washington University

Douglas Walton, Witness Testimony Evidence: Argumentation, Artificial Intelligence, and Law
Reviewed by Michael S. Pardo, University of Alabama

Lewis R. Gordon, An Introduction to Africana Philosophy
Reviewed by Jacoby Adeshei Carter, CUNY: John Jay College

James Griffin, On Human Rights
Reviewed by William J. Talbott, University of Washington

Michael Allen Gillespie, The Theological Origins of Modernity
Reviewed by David Burrell, C.S.C., University of Notre Dame/Uganda Martyrs University, Nkozi

Stewart Goetz, Charles Taliaferro, Naturalism
Reviewed by Paul Draper, Purdue University

Robert Audi, Moral Value and Human Diversity
Reviewed by Diane Jeske, University of Iowa

Maria Cristina Amoretti, Nicla Vassallo (eds.), Knowledge, Language, and Interpretation: On the Philosophy of Donald Davidson
Reviewed by Daniel Laurier, University of Montreal

Hanno Birken-Bertsch, Subreption und Dialektik bei Kant: Der Begriff des Fehlers der Erschleichung in der Philosophie des 18. Jahrhunderts
Reviewed by Riccardo Pozzo, Universitä di Verona

Larry May (ed.). War: Essays in Political Philosophy
Reviewed by Helen Frowe, University of Sheffield

Diane Jeske, Rationality and Moral Theory: How Intimacy Generates Reasons
Reviewed by Simon Keller, University of Melbourne

Paul Weingartner, Omniscience: From a Logical Point of View
Reviewed by Daniel J. Hill, University of Liverpool

John T. Lysaker, Emerson and Self-Culture
Reviewed by Corey McCall, Elmira College

Michele Marsonet, Idealism and Praxis: The Philosophy of Nicholas Rescher
Reviewed by Don Ihde, Stony Brook University

Good morning, readers!

We’ve just received the latest issue of The Monist — Monist 91(2), April 2008 — and the general topic for this issue is “Intentionality and Phenomenal Consciousness.”

Here is the Table of Contents:

• Amie L. Thomasson, Phenomenal Consciousness and the Phenomenal World
• Joseph Levine, Secondary Qualities: Where Consciousness and Intentionality Meet
• Colin McGinn, Consciousness as Knowingness
• Adam Pautz, The Interdependence of Phenomenology and Intentionality
• Katalin Farkas, Phenomenal Intentionality Without Compromise
• Itay Shani, Against Consciousness Chauvinism
• James Tartaglia, Intentionality, Consciousness, and the Mark of the Mental: Rorty’s Challenge
• Terry Horgan & Uriah Kriegel, Phenomenal Intentionality Meets the Extended Mind

The issue should be available electronically at some point in the near future, but is not, at the moment.  (You’ll need your Harvard PIN and ID to login.)

Good morning, readers!

Here are the July reviews from Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.  Are any of these books candidates for inclusion in the Robbins collection?

Philosophy of Language

Frederik Stjernfelt
Diagrammatology: An Investigation on the Borderlines of Phenomenology, Ontology and Semiotics
Reviewed by Valeria Giardino, Institut Jean Nicod (CNRS-EHESS-ENS), Paris

François Recanati
Perspectival Thought: A Plea for (Moderate) Relativism
Reviewed by Kepa Korta, University of the Basque Country

 Epistemology

Mark Okrent
Rational Animals: The Teleological Roots of Intentionality
Reviewed by Matthew Ratcliffe, Durham University

Michael N. Forster
Kant and Skepticism
Reviewed by Anthony Brueckner, University of California, Santa Barbara

Zenon W. Pylyshyn
Things and Places: How the Mind Connects with the World
Reviewed by Christopher S. Hill, Brown University

Jennifer Lackey
Learning from Words: Testimony as a Source of Knowledge
Reviewed by Aaron Z. Zimmerman, University of California, Santa Barbara

Philosophy of Religion

Alvin Plantinga, Michael Tooley
Knowledge of God
Reviewed by William L. Rowe, Purdue University

J. L. Schellenberg
The Wisdom to Doubt: A Justification of Religious Skepticism
Reviewed by Stephen Wykstra, Calvin College and Timothy Perrine, Calvin College

Erik J. Wielenberg
God and the Reach of Reason: C.S. Lewis, David Hume, and Bertrand Russell
Reviewed by Bruce Russell, Wayne State University

Metaphysics

Robin Le Poidevin
The Images of Time: An Essay on Temporal Representation
Reviewed by Craig Callender, University of California, San Diego

John Leslie
Immortality Defended
Reviewed by Charles Taliaferro, St. Olaf College

Max Kistler, Bruno Gnassounou (eds.)
Dispositions and Causal Powers
Reviewed by Jennifer McKitrick, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

Lynne Rudder Baker
The Metaphysics of Everyday Life: An Essay in Practical Realism
Reviewed by Charlotte Witt, University of New Hampshire

History of Philosophy

Terence Irwin
The Development of Ethics: A Historical and Critical Study; Volume I: From Socrates to the Reformation
Reviewed by Dimitrios Dentsoras, University of Manitoba

Iain Macdonald, Krzysztof Ziarek (eds.)
Adorno and Heidegger: Philosophical Questions
Reviewed by David Pettigrew, Southern Connecticut State University

Larry A. Hickman
Pragmatism as Post-Postmodernism: Lessons from John Dewey
Reviewed by Dennis M. Senchuk, Indiana University

P. J. E. Kail
Projection and Realism in Hume’s Philosophy
Reviewed by Angela Coventry, Portland State University

Christopher Shields
Aristotle
Reviewed by Barbara Sattler, Yale University

Andrew Haas
The Irony of Heidegger
Reviewed by Richard Polt, Xavier University

Quentin Skinner
Hobbes and Republican Liberty
Reviewed by Bernard Gert, Dartmouth College

Paul Russell
The Riddle of Hume’s Treatise: Skepticism, Naturalism, and Irreligion
Reviewed by Rico Vitz, University of North Florida

Charlie Huenemann (ed.)
Interpreting Spinoza: Critical Essays
Reviewed by Steven Barbone, San Diego State University

Philosophical Practice

Rupert Read, Laura Cook (ed.)
Applying Wittgenstein
Reviewed by Colin Johnston, Institute of Philosophy, University of London

Steve Fuller
The Knowledge Book: Key Concepts in Philosophy
Reviewed by Val Dusek, University of New Hampshire

Ethics/Moral Philosophy/Political Philosophy

Jerome Neu
Sticks and Stones: The Philosophy of Insults
Reviewed by Macalester Bell, Columbia University

J. McKenzie Alexander
The Structural Evolution of Morality
Reviewed by Herbert Gintis, University of Massachusetts

Francisco J. Benzoni
Ecological Ethics and the Human Soul: Aquinas, Whitehead, and the Metaphysics of Value
Reviewed by Christopher M. Brown, University of Tennessee at Martin

Aesthetics

Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei
The Ecstatic Quotidian: Phenomenological Sightings in Modern Art and Literature
Reviewed by K. Gover, Bennington College

Elisabeth Schellekens
Aesthetics and Morality
Reviewed by James Harold, Mount Holyoke College

Jane Kneller
Kant and the Power of Imagination
Reviewed by James Schmidt, Boston University

James O. Young
Cultural Appropriation and the Arts
Reviewed by John Rapko, San Francisco Art Institute

Stephen Davies
Philosophical Perspectives on Art
Reviewed by Christian Helmut Wenzel, National Chi Nan University, Taiwan

Philosophy of Mathematics

Marcus Giaquinto
Visual Thinking in Mathematics: An Epistemological Study
Reviewed by Sun-Joo Shin, Yale University