Robbins Library Notes

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.

The latest issue of Inquiry — Inquiry 51(1) February 2008 — has just arrived, and there are several articles on Schiller which may interest those who study aesthetics, Romanticism, and post-Kantian German philosophy:

• Pleasure, Freedom and Grace: Schiller’s “Completion” of Kant’s Ethics, Anne Margaret Baxley
• Schiller, Scots and Germans: Freedom and Diversity in The Aesthetic Education of Man, Douglas Moggach
• Schiller and the Dance of Beauty, Stephen Houlgate
• How Shall We Read Schiller Today?, Violetta L. Waibel
• Schiller as Philosopher: A Reply to My Critics, Frederick Beiser

There is also an article on John McDowell and idealism:

• McDowell and Idealism, Adrian Haddock
  

As well as one questioning whether there is a hermeneutics of suspicion in Being and Time:

• Is There a Hermeneutics of Suspicion in Being and Time?, Matheson Russell
  

You may access the journal here by using your Harvard ID and PIN.

Good morning! I received in my e-mail inbox this morning an advertisement for the Polish Journal of Philosophy:

We are pleased to present the second issue of the Polish Journal of Philosophy – a peer-reviewed periodical publishing valuable contributions on any aspect of philosophy (the attachment is a table of content of the current issue). The Journal is published and edited at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, while the Editorial and Advisory Boards consist of eminent philosophers from major academic institutions. Our principal goal is twofold: to promote the best of the Polish tradition – the Lvov-Warsaw logical and analytical philosophy and the phenomenological school of Roman Ingarden – and, in doing so, to attempt to throw a bridge between the two main actors of the contemporary philosophical scene: the continental and analytical philosophies.

We would like to offer you a yearly subscription of Polish Journal of Philosophy at the price of $100 (75EUR/55GBP), all postage costs included. Although our Journal is intended as a quarterly, currently it is being published on a half-yearly basis. For any further details, kindly visit our website: www.pjp.edu.pl. You are welcome to address any additional questions addressed to us at editor@pjp.edu.pl

Because of space limitations here in Robbins, I don’t think we’ll be starting a subscription to this journal. However, if my readers think that acquiring a subscription is a good idea, I’m happy to pass this information along to my HCL colleagues who are responsible for collection development, to see if they would be interested in doing so.

Good morning, all! I’m back from the Christmas holiday, and ready to begin blogging today.

The first post of the annus mirabilis 2008 is to let you know about the current issue of Ethics – Ethics 118 (1) October 2007 — which contains a symposium on Stephen Darwall’s book, The Second‐Person Standpoint. Here is the table of contents:

• “Autonomy and the Second Person Within: A Commentary on Stephen Darwall’s The Second‐Person Standpoint,” Christine M. Korsgaard
• “Reasons, Relations, and Commands: Reflections on Darwall,” R. Jay Wallace
• “Morality as Equal Accountability: Comments on Stephen Darwall’s The Second‐Person Standpoint,” Gary Watson
• “Reply to Korsgaard, Wallace, and Watson,” Stephen Darwall

For those interested in moral philosophy and ethics, the article, “Particular Reasons,” by Selim Berker, might also pique your interest.

You can access the journal via the link above with your Harvard ID and PIN.

Good afternoon! We’ve just received Inquiry 50 (5) October 2007, and there are several articles on Kant’s moral philosophy that may be of interest to many.

Paul Guyer leads off with “Naturalistic and Transcendental Moments in Kant’s Moral Philosophy.” There are comments by Allen Wood, Henry Allison, and Sebastian Rödl, and a response from Guyer.

A hard copy is available in Robbins, and an electronic version is available as well (Harvard ID and PIN required for access — make sure to link to the journal via the Informaworld Journals link, to get this issue.)