Robbins Library Notes

Good morning, readers!

Today, I’m writing to let you know about the contents of the newly-arrived issues of The Monist – Monist 91(1) January 2008 — and Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (PPR) — Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 77(2) September 2008. You can read the respective Tables of Contents for each issue by clicking on the links — please note that you’ll need your Harvard ID and PIN to access the Table of Contents for PPR

To access full-text of the articles, go to The Monist or to PPR.  You’ll need a Harvard ID and PIN to access the articles.  There appears to be a bit of a delay in getting articles from the Monist posted, so the current issue’s contents are not appearing at the moment.  I’m not sure when they will be posted, so you may want to keep checking back periodically to see if they have.

Good morning, readers, on this rainy Friday!

Just arrived in Robbins: the latest issues of American Philosophical Quarterly and Erkenntnis.  A list of the Tables of Contents follows below.

American Philosophical Quarterly 45(2) October 2008 (This is not currently available electronically.)

• Orthogonality of Phenomenality and Content, Gottfried Vosgerau, Tobias Schlicht, and Albert Newen, 309-328
• Agent-Based Virtue Ethics and the Fundamentality of Virtue, Daniel C. Russell, 329-348
• “Designer Babies” and Harm to Supernumerary Embryos, Mark Walker, 348-364
• A Unified Pyrrhonian Resolution of the Toxin Problem, the Surprise Examination, and Newcomb’s Puzzle, Laurence Goldstein and Peter Cave, 365-376
• Response-Dependence of Concepts Is Not for Properties, Eyja M. Brynjarsdóttir, 377-386
• Personal Identity Un-Locke-ed, Andrew Naylor, 387-396

Erkenntnis 69(2) September 2008 (You will need your Harvard ID and PIN to access this issue.)

• Sortals for Dummies, John E. Sarnecki, 145-164
• Must Differences in Cognitive Value be Transparent?, Sanford Goldberg, 165-187
• Contrastivism Rather than Something Else? On the Limits of Epistemic Contrastivism, Peter Baumann, 189-200
• The Causal Chain Problem, Michael Baumgartner, 201-226
• The Logical Structure of International Trade Theory, Frieder Lempp, 227-242
• Is There a Simple Argument for Higher-Order Representation Theories of Awareness Consciousness?, Mikkel Gerken, 243-259
• Too Naturalist and Not Naturalist Enough: Reply to Horsten, Luca Incurvati, 261-274
• Review of Heather Dyke, Metaphysics and the Representational Fallacy, Kevin Dewan, 275-277

Good morning, readers, and happy Friday!

Yesterday, we received the latest issue of Philosophical Review and Ethics.  Here are the Tables of Contents for both journals:

Philosophical Review 117(3) July 2008

• The Egg and I: Conception, Identity, and Abortion, Eugene Mills
• Saying Good-bye to the Direct Argument the Right Way, Michael McKenna
• On Specifying Truth-Conditions, Agustín Rayo

Ethics 118(3) April 2008 — Symposium on Agency

• Introduction, Christian B. Miller
• Practical Knowledge, Kieran Setiya
• A Theory of Value, J. David Velleman
• Why Be Disposed to Be Coherent?, Niko Kolodny
• A Defense of the Traditional War Convention, Yitzhak Benbaji
• Is Goodness a Homeostatic Property Cluster?, Michael Rubin

Discussion

• Hare on De Dicto Betterness and Prospective Parents, David Wasserman

Please note that the Philosophical Review issue is not currently available electronically.

Enjoy your weekend!

While looking over Bookforum.com, I came across a link to Disputatio, a free online philosophy journal.  According to the masthead:

Disputatio aims at publishing first-rate articles and discussion notes on all aspects of analytical philosophy, but especially those dealing with current issues in the philosophies of language, logic, and mind, and also in epistemology and metaphysics, written in English or Portuguese.

The latest issue — Vol. II, no. 23 (November 2007) — is a special issue on normativity and rationality.  The list of articles includes:

• Introduction (Teresa Marques)
• Is Rationality Normative? (John Broome)
• Belief and Normativity (Pascal Engel)
• Intentionality, Knowledge and Formal Objects (Kevin Mulligan)
• Acting Without Reasons (Josep L. Prades)
• What is Normativity? (John Skorupski)

Looking at the archives, there is a lot of good stuff in this journal that my readers might want to considering reading.  (Much of the older materials are in Portuguese, though they seem to have moved over to a mostly English-language format in recent years.)

Additionally, I’ll add the journal to the blogroll, and a link on the Electronic Resources section of the Links page on the Department of Philosophy Web site.

Happy Monday, readers!

Just arrived in Robbins last Friday: the latest issues of Inquiry and Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.  Here are the Tables of Contents for the respective journals:

Inquiry 51(3) June 2008

• “Wittgenstein, Ethics and Basic Moral Certainty,” Nigel Pleasants
• “Fichte’s Fictions Revisited,” Benjamin D. Crowe
• “Personal Identity as a Task,” Sophia Vasalou
• “The Myth of the Metaphysical Circle: An Analysis of the Contemporary Crisis of the Critique of Metaphysics,” Herbert De Vriese

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 77(1) July 2008

Articles

• “The Virtue of Practical Rationality,” Sigrún Svavarsdóttir
• “Internalist Foundationalism and the Problem of the Epistemic Regress,” José L. Zalabardo
• “A Functionalist Theory of Properties,” Ann Whittle
• “Is Locke’s Theory of Knowledge Inconsistent?,” Samuel C. Rickless
• “Why Be an Anti-Individualist?,” Laura Schroeter

Discussions

• “A Hard-line Reply to Pereboom’s Four-Case Manipulation Argument,” Michael McKenna
• “A Hard-line Reply to the Multiple-Case Manipulation Argument,” Derk Pereboom

• “Comments on Woodward, Making Things Happen,” Michael Strevens
• “Response to Strevens,” Jim Woodward

Book Symposium
The Evolution of Morality

• “Preçis of The Evolution of Morality,” Richard Joyce
• “Acquired Moral Truths,” Jesse Prinz
• “Some Questions About The Evolution of Morality,” Stephen Stich
• “Evolution and the Possibility of Moral Realism,” Peter Carruthers, Scott M. James
• “Replies,” Richard Joyce

Review Essay

• “Review Essay on Sami Pihlström’s Solipsism: History, Critique, and Relevance,” Richard Schantz

Critical Notices

• Epistemic Luck, reviewed by Jonathan Kvanvig
• The Affirmation of Life: Nietzsche On Overcoming Nihilism, reviewed by Robert Pippin
• Against Coherence: Truth, Probability, and Justification, reviewed by Tomoji Shogenji

Good morning, all!

Today’s post highlights the latest issue of The Review of Metaphysics – Review of Metaphysics 61(4) June 2008.  The table of contents for this issues includes:

• David Roochnik, “Aristotle’s Defense of the Theoretical Life: Comments on Politics 7″
• John K. O’Connor, “Precedents in Aristotle and Brentano for Husserl’s Concern with Metabasis“
• Matthew J. Kisner, “Spinoza’s Virtuous Passions”
• Ronald E. Santoni, “Camus on Sartre’s Freedom — Another ‘Misunderstanding’”
• Alexander S. Jensen, “The Influence of Schleiermacher’s Second Speech on Religion on Heidegger’s Concept of Ereignis“

The journal is available electronically, but only up to volume 59 (2006).  If you are interested in looking at any of these articles, please let me know, as I will be sending this issue off to be bound in the next week or so.

Good morning, readers, and happy Tuesday!

Yesterday, we received the latest issues of the journal, Philosophical Topics. (Please note that these issues are not currently available in electronic format. When they do become available, you will be able to access them here, in the database, POIESIS, with your Harvard ID and PIN.)

Here are the table of contents:

Philosophical Topics 33 (2), Fall 2005: Nietzsche

• Nietzsche on Language: Before and After Wittgenstein, Maria Alvarez and Aaron Ridley
• Perspectivism as Ephexis in Interpretation, Jessica N. Berry
• Nietzsche, the Greeks, and Happiness (with Special Reference to Aristotle and Epicurus), Richard Bett
• Our Virtues, Robert Guay
• Nietzschean Equality, Randall Havas
• Nietzsche’s Theory of the Will, Brian Leiter
• On Failing to be Agents: Freedom, Servitude, and the Concept of “the Weak” in Nietzsche’s Practical Philosophy, David Owen
• Nietzsche on Pleasure and Power, Bernard, Reginster
• Nietzsche and the Perspectival, Richard Schacht
• Philosophy and the Politics of Cultural Revolution, Tracy B. Strong

Philosophical Topics 34 (1&2), Spring & Fall 2006: Analytic Kantianism

• Kantian Lessons about Mind, Meaning, and Rationality, Robert Brandom
• Meaning and Aesthetics Judgment in Kant, Eli Friedlander
• Carnap and Quine: Twentieth-Century Echoes of Kant and Hume, Michael Friedman
• Kant and the Problem of Experience, Hannah Ginsborg
• Kant on Beauty and the Normative Force of Feeling, Arata Hamawaki
• Spontaneity and Receptivity in Kant’s Theory of Knowledge, Andrea Kern
• Logicist Responses to Kant: (Early) Frege and (Early) Russell, Michael Kremer
• Kant’s Spontaneity Thesis, Thomas Land
• Prolegomena to a Proper Treatment of Mathematics in the Critique of Pure Reason, Thomas Lockhart.
• Self-Consciousness and Consciousness of One’s Own Body: Variations on a Kantian Theme, Béatrice Longuenesse
• Sensory Consciousness in Kant and Sellars, John McDowell
• The Bounds of Sense, A.W. Moore
• Logical Form as a Relation to the Object, Sebastian Rödl
• Kant on the Nature of Logical Laws, Clinton Tolley

Hello, readers!

The latest issue of Inquiry has arrived — Inquiry 51(2) April 2008 — and the issue may be of interest to many:

• “Distributive Justice and Welfarism in Utilitarianism,” Jörg Schroth (University of Göttingen)
• “Gödel, Kant, and the Path of a Science,” Srećko Kovaĉ (Institute of Philosophy, Zagreb, Croatia)
• “Hegel’s Account of Rule-Following,” David Landry (University of North Carolina)
• “Husserl, Phenomenology, and Foundationalism,” Walter Hopp (Boston University)

Click on the link above to access the electronic version of the journal, using your Harvard ID and PIN. Make sure to choose the “Informaworld Journals” link to view it, as you won’t be able to access it via Academic Search Premier or Business Source Complete until May 2009.

Hello, readers, and happy Friday!

Yesterday, we received the latest issue of Philosophy and Phenomenological Research — Vol. 76 (3) May 2008.

For those interested in epistemology, psychology, philosophy of mind, and perception, this issue may catch your fancy. Articles include:

• Erik J. Olsson, “Klein on the Unity of Cartesian and Contemporary Skepticism”
• Henry E. Allison, “‘Whatever Begins to Exist Must Have a Cause of Existence’: Hume’s Analysis and Kant’s Response”
• David Enoch and Joshua Schechter, “How are Basic Belief-Forming Methods Justified?”
• Peter Baumann, “Contextualism and the Factivity Problem”
• Todd Buras, “Three Grades of Immediate Perception: Thomas Reid’s Distinctions
• Adina L. Roskies, “A New Argument for Nonconceptual Content”

Additionally, there are two book symposia.

• The first covers Alva Noë’s Action in Perception, with responses by John Campbell, M.G.F. Martin, and Sean Kelly, and a reply by Noë.
• The second covers Jesse Prinz’s Gut Reactions, with responses by Justin D’Arms and David Hills, and a reply by Prinz.

The issue is not currently available in electronic format, but will likely be so at some point. You will be able to find it via the database, Synergy. (For information on how to use Synergy, please see my earlier post.) You’ll need your PIN and ID to access the journal.

Good afternoon! For those interested in Kant’s moral theory, there is a book symposium on Andrews Reath’s Agency and Autonomy in Kant’s Moral Theory which may interest you.

This issue contains short commentaries by Thomas Hill, Samuel J. Kerstein, and Jens Timmerman on Reath’s book, with a response by Reath.

You can find this symposium in Philosophical Books 49 (2), April 2008 — as always, you’ll need your Harvard PIN and ID to access this journal.