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The Power of Courage in Plato's Republic Journal of the History of Philosophy Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Merrick Anderson
abstract: This paper offers a new interpretation of courage in Plato's Republic. Despite the attention that this dialogue has received in the past, scholars have been disinclined to explore the metaphysics of the virtues. I argue that courage is, by its very nature, a δύναμις of the sort described in book 5. In particular, I argue that courage is the power over reason's correct practical deliberations
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The Brethren of Purity on Justice for Animals and the Moral Demands of Rational Hierarchy Journal of the History of Philosophy Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Bligh Somma
abstract: This paper intervenes in a contemporary debate on the animal ethics of the Brethren of Purity's (Iḫwān al-Ṣafāʾ) epistle on animals. I argue that they present a case for justice for animals by rejecting the fallacious link between ontological superiority and moral superiority. Since human beings are vice-regents of God and since the rational soul is the vice-regent, the Brethren's account
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Law and Physics in Leibniz Journal of the History of Philosophy Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Hao Dong
abstract: In this paper I argue that there is a structural parallelism between law and physics in Leibniz since his early years, which has significant influence on the formation of his views. I start by examining Leibniz's early physical system and an analogy with juridical laws that he uses to explain the structure of physical laws. Then, I argue that this analogy stems from an envisioned parallelism
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The Boundaries of Existence: Mendelssohn's Proof in Light of Wolff and Boscovich Journal of the History of Philosophy Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Matteo Favaretti Camposampiero
abstract: By revisiting the Phädon's proof of the indestructibility of the soul, this paper casts light on the sources that lie in the background of Mendelssohn's dialogue. After discussing Wolff's use of the Law of Continuity against the possibility of natural annihilation as a precedent for Mendelssohn's argument, I show that the latter is also heavily indebted to Boscovich's argument against the
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Mill on Moral Rules in "Whewell on Moral Philosophy" Journal of the History of Philosophy Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Jonathan Sarnoff
abstract: Interpreters of John Stuart Mill's moral philosophy have long disagreed about whether he was an act or rule utilitarian. Though debate has often focused on Utilitarianism, this paper instead analyzes a less studied work, "Whewell on Moral Philosophy," which contains a more detailed and systematic discussion of moral rules. "Whewell," I argue, favors reading Mill as an act utilitarian: it
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Between Pluralism and Objectivism: Reconsidering Ernst Cassirer's Teleology of Culture Journal of the History of Philosophy Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Katherina Kinzel
abstract: This paper revisits debates on a tension in Cassirer's philosophy of culture. On the one hand, Cassirer describes a plurality of symbolic forms and claims that each needs to be assessed by its own internal standards of validity. On the other hand, he ranks the symbolic forms in terms of a developmental hierarchy and states that one form, mathematical natural science, constitutes the highest
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Philosophy and Religion in Plato's Dialogues by Andrea Nightingale (review) Journal of the History of Philosophy Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Marina Berzins McCoy
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Philosophy and Religion in Plato's Dialogues by Andrea Nightingale Marina Berzins McCoy Andrea Nightingale. Philosophy and Religion in Plato's Dialogues. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 308. Hardback, $39.99. Andrea Nightingale has written a scholarly work that will prove indispensable to restoring the centrality
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Aristotle on How Animals Move: The De incessu animalium. Text, Translation, and Interpretative Essays ed. by Andrea Falcon and Stasinos Stavrianeas (review) Journal of the History of Philosophy Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Pavel Gregorić
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Aristotle on How Animals Move: The De incessu animalium. Text, Translation, and Interpretative Essays ed. by Andrea Falcon and Stasinos Stavrianeas Pavel Gregorić Andrea Falcon and Stasinos Stavrianeas, editors. Aristotle on How Animals Move: The De incessu animalium. Text, Translation, and Interpretative Essays. Cambridge:
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Généalogie de la liberté by Olivier Boulnois (review) Journal of the History of Philosophy Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Kristell Trego
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Généalogie de la liberté by Olivier Boulnois Kristell Trego Olivier Boulnois. Généalogie de la liberté. Paris: Seuil, 2021. Pp. 496. Paperback, €24.00. The author starts from an apparently simple question: are we free? But such a question is not as simple as it seems. This book shows that it is neither eternal nor universally
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Women and Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Germany ed. by Corey W. Dyck (review) Journal of the History of Philosophy Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Julia Borcherding
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Women and Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Germany ed. by Corey W. Dyck Julia Borcherding Corey W. Dyck, editor. Women and Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Germany. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 272. Hardback, $85.00. In more ways than one, this volume constitutes an important contribution to ongoing efforts to
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Newton's Metaphysics: Essays by Eric Schliesser (review) Journal of the History of Philosophy Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Marius Stan
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Newton's Metaphysics: Essays by Eric Schliesser Marius Stan Eric Schliesser. Newton's Metaphysics: Essays. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 328. Hardback, $99.90. Newton owes his high regard to the quantitative science he left us, but his overall picture of the world had some robustly metaphysical threads woven in
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Kant and the Possibility of Progress: From Modern Hopes to Postmodern Anxieties ed. by Paul T. Wilford and Samuel A. Stoner (review) Journal of the History of Philosophy Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Benedikt Brunner
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Kant and the Possibility of Progress: From Modern Hopes to Postmodern Anxieties ed. by Paul T. Wilford and Samuel A. Stoner Benedikt Brunner Paul T. Wilford and Samuel A. Stoner, editors. Kant and the Possibility of Progress: From Modern Hopes to Postmodern Anxieties. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. Pp
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Pragmatism's Evolution: Organism and Environment in American Philosophy by Trevor Pearce (review) Journal of the History of Philosophy Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Alexander Klein
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Pragmatism's Evolution: Organism and Environment in American Philosophy by Trevor Pearce Alexander Klein Trevor Pearce. Pragmatism's Evolution: Organism and Environment in American Philosophy. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2020. Pp. 384. Paperback, $35.00. Pragmatist pioneers were young lions in the days of Darwin
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Husserl and Mathematics by Mirja Hartimo (review) Journal of the History of Philosophy Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Andrea Staiti
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Husserl and Mathematics by Mirja Hartimo Andrea Staiti Mirja Hartimo. Husserl and Mathematics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 214. Hardback, $99.99. Mirja Hartimo has written the first book-length study of Husserl's evolving views on mathematics that takes his intellectual context into full consideration
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Dark Matters: Pessimism and the Problem of Suffering by Mara van der Lugt (review) Journal of the History of Philosophy Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Stefano Brogi
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Dark Matters: Pessimism and the Problem of Suffering by Mara van der Lugt Stefano Brogi Mara van der Lugt. Dark Matters: Pessimism and the Problem of Suffering. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021. Pp. xi + 450. Hardback, $37.00. Mara van der Lugt's book (awarded Honorable Mention for the JHP Book Prize in 2022)
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JHP Announcements Journal of the History of Philosophy Pub Date : 2024-01-05
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: JHP Announcements JHP Summer Seminar Mindful of the challenges facing young scholars working in the history of philosophy, the Board of Directors of the Journal of the History of Philosophy has established a program of Summer Seminars in the History of Philosophy. The central idea of the program is that a senior scholar who works primarily
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Aristotle's Unified Soul: The Figure-Soul Analogy and Its Context Journal of the History of Philosophy Pub Date : 2023-10-11 Rory Hanlon
abstract: I provide a novel interpretation of Aristotle's account of the unity of soul, treating it as resolving the apparent incompatibility of the existence of psychic parts and the soul's status as a unifying form. This incompatibility, I contend, rests on a problematic assumption: mereological actualism, or the claim that parts are actually distinct and prior to the whole. Aristotle successfully
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"Every Perception Is Accompanied by Pain!": Theophrastus's Criticism of Anaxagoras Journal of the History of Philosophy Pub Date : 2023-10-11 Wei Cheng
abstract: Anaxagoras is notorious for his view that every perception is accompanied by pain but that not all concurrent pains are distinctly felt by the perceiving subject. This thesis is reported and criticized by Aristotle's heir Theophrastus in his De Sensibus. Traditionally, scholars believe that Theophrastus rejects Anaxagoras's thesis of the ubiquity of pain as counterintuitive, with the appeal
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Descartes on What We Can Hardly Do Journal of the History of Philosophy Pub Date : 2023-10-11 Thomas M. Lennon
abstract: Descartes makes apparently contradictory claims about what we are able to do in response to clear and distinct perception of truth or goodness. An altogether novel interpretation of his concept of moral possibility has recently been advanced, aimed at resolving the contradiction. The argument here is that the basic text from which the interpretation is launched involves a serious mistranslation
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Spinoza, Emanation, and Formal Causation Journal of the History of Philosophy Pub Date : 2023-10-11 Stephen Zylstra
abstract: Some recent scholars have argued that Spinoza's conception of causation should be understood in terms of the Aristotelian notion of a formal cause. I argue that while they are right to identify causation in Spinoza as a relation of entailment from an essence, they are mistaken about its philosophical pedigree. I examine three suggested lines of influence: (a) the late scholastic conception
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Mary Wollstonecraft and Adam Smith on Gender and Self-Control Journal of the History of Philosophy Pub Date : 2023-10-11 Lauren Kopajtic
abstract: Mary Wollstonecraft is an early and important critic of Adam Smith, engaging with his Theory of Moral Sentiments in her Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Given Wollstonecraft's arguments against moralists who "give a sex to virtue," what did she make of Smith's use of gender-coded language and the oft-cited passage where he claims that "humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity of a
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Fichte's Perfectionist Solution to the Problem of Autonomy Journal of the History of Philosophy Pub Date : 2023-10-11 Karin Nisenbaum
abstract: This paper has two related aims. The first is to argue that Fichte's concept of freedom is perfectionist. By 'perfectionism,' I mean a moral theory according to which our good, ultimately, is realizing our true nature; Fichte also holds a perfectionist view of freedom, according to which we achieve freedom only to the extent that we succeed in making ourselves good or realizing our true nature
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"Consciousness Is the Property of Dialectic": What Hegel Taught Merleau-Ponty about Intentionality Journal of the History of Philosophy Pub Date : 2023-10-11 Dimitris Apostolopoulos
abstract: I argue that Merleau-Ponty's reading of Hegel's account of experience exerts a significant and hitherto overlooked influence on his attempt to recast Phénoménologie de la perception's account of intentionality. This reading informs two important claims of his later projects: that intentional relations are more fundamental than their relata, and that a metaphysical condition irreducible to
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Aristotle on Thought and Feeling by Paula Gottlieb (review) Journal of the History of Philosophy Pub Date : 2023-10-11 Corinne Gartner
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Aristotle on Thought and Feeling by Paula Gottlieb Corinne Gartner Paula Gottlieb. Aristotle on Thought and Feeling. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 173. Hardback, $99.99. Paula Gottlieb's recent book is an illuminating, synoptic study of Aristotle's theory of human motivation, according to which his innovative
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Boethii Daci Aliorumque Sophismata by Boethius of Dacia (review) Journal of the History of Philosophy Pub Date : 2023-10-11 Julie Brumberg-Chaumont
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Boethii Daci Aliorumque Sophismata by Boethius of Dacia Julie Brumberg-Chaumont Boethius of Dacia. Boethii Daci Aliorumque Sophismata. Edited by Sten Ebbesen and Irène Rosier-Catach. Corpus Philosophorum Danicorum Medii Aevi, 9. Odense: University Press of Southern Denmark, 2021. Pp. 624. Hardback, 400.00 DKK. This volume
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Constituer le Réel. Noétique et Métaphysique chez Dietrich de Freiberg by Véronique Decaix (review) Journal of the History of Philosophy Pub Date : 2023-10-11 Brian Francis Conolly
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Constituer le Réel. Noétique et Métaphysique chez Dietrich de Freiberg by Véronique Decaix Brian Francis Conolly Véronique Decaix. Constituer le Réel. Noétique et Métaphysique chez Dietrich de Freiberg. Paris: Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, 2021. Pp. 336. Paperback, $48.00. Dietrich of Freiberg's theory of the constitutive
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Think Least of Death: Spinoza on How to Live and How to Die by Steven Nadler (review) Journal of the History of Philosophy Pub Date : 2023-10-11 John Grey
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Think Least of Death: Spinoza on How to Live and How to Die by Steven Nadler John Grey Steven Nadler. Think Least of Death: Spinoza on How to Live and How to Die. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2020. Pp. x + 234. Hardback, $39.95. Think Least of Death is not just an interpretation of Spinoza, but a defense of his
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Spinoza's Religion: A New Reading of the Ethics by Clare Carlisle (review) Journal of the History of Philosophy Pub Date : 2023-10-11 Hasana Sharp
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Spinoza's Religion: A New Reading of the Ethics by Clare Carlisle Hasana Sharp Clare Carlisle. Spinoza's Religion: A New Reading of the Ethics. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021. Pp. 288. Hardcover, $29.95. Despite its contemplative, earnest, and, at times, disarmingly conversational tone, Spinoza's Religion
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Baumgarten's Aesthetics: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives ed. by J. Colin McQuillan (review) Journal of the History of Philosophy Pub Date : 2023-10-11 Emine Hande Tuna
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Baumgarten's Aesthetics: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives ed. by J. Colin McQuillan Emine Hande Tuna J. Colin McQuillan, editor. Baumgarten's Aesthetics: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2021. Pp. viii + 364. Hardcover, $130.00. Contemporary philosophers have often overlooked
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Kant's Mathematical World: Mathematics, Cognition, and Experience by Daniel Sutherland (review) Journal of the History of Philosophy Pub Date : 2023-10-11 David Hyder
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Kant's Mathematical World: Mathematics, Cognition, and Experience by Daniel Sutherland David Hyder Daniel Sutherland. Kant's Mathematical World: Mathematics, Cognition, and Experience. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 300. Hardcover, $99.99. In this lengthy book, Daniel Sutherland proposes to rectify our long
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Being and Freedom: On Late Modern Ethics in Europe by John Skorupski (review) Journal of the History of Philosophy Pub Date : 2023-10-11 J. P. Messina
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Being and Freedom: On Late Modern Ethics in Europe by John Skorupski J. P. Messina John Skorupski. Being and Freedom: On Late Modern Ethics in Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 560. Hardcover, $130.00. John Skorupski's Being and Freedom traces the development of modern ethics in France, Germany, and England
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The Bounds of Self: An Essay on Heidegger's by R. Matthew Shockey (review) Journal of the History of Philosophy Pub Date : 2023-10-11 Nicolai Knudsen
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Bounds of Self: An Essay on Heidegger's by R. Matthew Shockey Nicolai Knudsen R. Matthew Shockey. The Bounds of Self: An Essay on Heidegger's Being and Time. New York: Routledge, 2021. Pp. 224. Hardcover, $160.00. In this rich and ambitious book, R. Matthew Shockey controversially claims that Heidegger's Being and Time
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Books of Interest Journal of the History of Philosophy Pub Date : 2023-10-11
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Books of Interest antiquity and late antiquity Aristotle. De Motu Animalium. A New Critical Edition of the Greek Text by Oliver Primavesi, with an English Translation by Benjamin Morrison, and an Introduction by Christoph Rapp and Oliver Primavesi. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. 256. Hardback, $70.00. Billings, Joshua, and
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Editorial Consultants Journal of the History of Philosophy Pub Date : 2023-10-11
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Editorial Consultants The following scholars have served as editorial consultants for the Journal during the period of July 2022 through June 2023 Peter Adamson Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München; King's College London Mark Alznauer Northwestern University Maria Rosa Antognazza King's College London Delphine Antoine-Mahut École Normale
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Contents for Volume LXI (2023) Journal of the History of Philosophy Pub Date : 2023-10-11
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Contents for Volume LXI (2023) Articles The Metaphysics of Appearance in Republic X (596a5–598d7) lee franklin 1 Malebranche on General Volitions: Putting Criticisms of the General Content Interpretation to Rest timothy d. miller 25 Ambition, désir d'être despote, amour du pouvoir: Un aspect de la théorie helvétienne des passions entre
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Plato on False Judgment in the Theaetetus Journal of the History of Philosophy Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Axel Barceló-Aspeitia, Edgar González-Varela
abstract: Under what conditions would it be paradoxical to consider the possibility of false judgment? Here we claim that in the initial puzzle of Theaetetus 187e5–188c9, where Plato investigates the question of what could psychologically cause a false judgment, the paradoxical nature of this question derives from certain constraints and restrictions about causal explanation, in particular, from the
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Anselm and the Problem of Ostending God Journal of the History of Philosophy Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Chad Engelland
abstract: Kripke raises the question concerning how the reference to God might be fixed, and Augustine makes it the leading question of the Confessions: How can I call upon God and not someone else instead? In this paper, I argue that this question is the central concern of Anselm's Proslogion, which explicitly adopts the dialogical form of Augustine's Confessions. Anselm does not define God but instead
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La substance comme "point métaphysique" et le corps étendu. Éclairage de la géométrie sur un problème de métaphysique dans la doctrine leibnizienne du milieu des années 1690 Journal of the History of Philosophy Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Valérie Debuiche
abstract: La question de la relation entre le point et l'étendue en géométrie résonne, dans la pensée de Leibniz, avec celle du lien entre la substance simple avec le corps matériel dont elle est l'élément constitutif d'un point de vue métaphysique. En effet, comment ce qui est indivisible et sans dimension pourrait-il être le principe de ce qui se présente, au contraire, comme toujours divisé et étendu
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"Marrying Her Husband's Son": Locke, the Politics of Sexual Morality, and the Case of Incest at the Church at Corinth Journal of the History of Philosophy Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Brian Smith
abstract: This paper explores the tension between the role the magistrate plays in Locke's letters on toleration and the theory of sexual morality he develops in his analysis of the case of incest at the church at Corinth in his "Paraphrases" on Paul's Epistles. A son had married his father's ex-wife, a practice decried as "heinous" by seventeenth-century commentators. Contrary to the political uses
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Émilie du Châtelet's Theory of Happiness: Passions and Character Journal of the History of Philosophy Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Marcy P. Lascano
abstract: The Discourse on Happiness is Émilie du Châtelet's most translated work, but there is no systematic interpretation of her account of the nature and means to happiness in the secondary literature. I argue that the key to understanding her account lies in interpreting the various roles of the "great machines of happiness." I show that Du Châtelet provides a sophisticated hedonistic account
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Hegel's End of Art and the Artwork as an Internally Purposive Whole Journal of the History of Philosophy Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Gerad Gentry
abstract: Hegel's end-of-art thesis is arguably the most notorious assertion in aesthetics. I outline traditional interpretive strategies before offering an original alternative to these. I develop a conception of art that facilitates a reading of Hegel on which he is able to embrace three seemingly contradictory theses about art, namely, (i) the end-of-art thesis, (ii) the continued significance of
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Husserl and Disjunctivism: Reply to Bower Journal of the History of Philosophy Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Søren Overgaard
abstract: In a recent issue of the Journal of the History of Philosophy, Matt Bower argues forcefully against A. D. Smith's interpretation of Husserl as a disjunctivist. But I argue in this discussion note that the disjunctive reading of Husserl remains plausible. For it seems Husserl was committed to the idea that perceptions essentially have singular contents, while hallucinations do not.
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Death and Immortality in Ancient Philosophy by Alex G. Long, and: Immortality in Ancient Philosophy ed. by Alex G. Long (review) Journal of the History of Philosophy Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Caleb Cohoe
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Death and Immortality in Ancient Philosophy by Alex G. Long, and: Immortality in Ancient Philosophy ed. by Alex G. Long Caleb Cohoe Alex G. Long. Death and Immortality in Ancient Philosophy. Key Themes in Ancient Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. 240. Hardback, $99.99. Alex G. Long, editor. Immortality
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Islamic Disputation Theory: The Uses & Rules of Argument in Medieval Islam by Larry Benjamin Miller (review) Journal of the History of Philosophy Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Khaled El-Rouayheb
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Islamic Disputation Theory: The Uses & Rules of Argument in Medieval Islam by Larry Benjamin Miller Khaled El-Rouayheb Larry Benjamin Miller. Islamic Disputation Theory: The Uses & Rules of Argument in Medieval Islam. Logic, Argumentation and Reasoning 21. Cham: Springer 2020. Pp. xviii + 143. Hardback, €77.99. Very few unpublished
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Abaelards Logik by Wolfgang Lenzen (review) Journal of the History of Philosophy Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Sten Ebbesen
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Abaelards Logik by Wolfgang Lenzen Sten Ebbesen Wolfgang Lenzen. Abaelards Logik. Paderborn: Brill | mentis, 2021. Pp. 206. Hardback, €59.00. According to its author, this book aims at reconstructing key parts of Abelard's logic while denying him a role as a hero of connexive logic or more generally as one of history's greatest
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Elisabeth of Bohemia (1618–1680): A Philosopher in Her Historical Context ed. by Sabrina Ebbersmeyer and Sarah Hutton (review) Journal of the History of Philosophy Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Allauren Samantha Forbes
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Elisabeth of Bohemia (1618–1680): A Philosopher in Her Historical Context ed. by Sabrina Ebbersmeyer and Sarah Hutton Allauren Samantha Forbes Sabrina Ebbersmeyer and Sarah Hutton, editors. Elisabeth of Bohemia (1618–1680): A Philosopher in Her Historical Context. Women in the History of Philosophy and Sciences 9. Cham: Springer
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Spinoza and the Freedom of Philosophizing by Mogens Lærke (review) Journal of the History of Philosophy Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Julie R. Klein
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Spinoza and the Freedom of Philosophizing by Mogens Lærke Julie R. Klein Mogens Lærke. Spinoza and the Freedom of Philosophizing. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. xviii + 387. Hardback, $115.00. Spinoza's political philosophy, always a subject of attention in Francophone scholarship, has been coming into sharper
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The Fiery Test of Critique: A Reading of Kant's Dialectic by Ian Proops (review) Journal of the History of Philosophy Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Stephen Howard
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Fiery Test of Critique: A Reading of Kant's Dialectic by Ian Proops Stephen Howard Ian Proops. The Fiery Test of Critique: A Reading of Kant's Dialectic. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 512. Hardback, $105.00. Ian Proops's book is a substantial contribution to the thriving field of Anglophone scholarship on
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Hegel's Concept of Life: Self-Consciousness, Freedom, Logic by Karen Ng (review) Journal of the History of Philosophy Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Marina F. Bykova
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Hegel's Concept of Life: Self-Consciousness, Freedom, Logic by Karen Ng Marina F. Bykova Karen Ng. Hegel's Concept of Life: Self-Consciousness, Freedom, Logic. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. iii + 319. Hardback, $85.00. In her insightful book, Karen Ng defends the fundamental significance of Hegel's concept of
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Schopenhauer and the Nature of Philosophy by Jonathan Head (review) Journal of the History of Philosophy Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Judith Norman
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Schopenhauer and the Nature of Philosophy by Jonathan Head Judith Norman Jonathan Head. Schopenhauer and the Nature of Philosophy. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2021. Pp. xviii + 183. Hardback, $95.00. It is a bit strange to read an overview of Schopenhauer's philosophy that does not center on the obvious and attention-grabbing
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Reconstructing Pragmatism: Richard Rorty and the Classical Pragmatists by Chris Voparil (review) Journal of the History of Philosophy Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Richard Kenneth Atkins
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Reconstructing Pragmatism: Richard Rorty and the Classical Pragmatists by Chris Voparil Richard Kenneth Atkins Chris Voparil. Reconstructing Pragmatism: Richard Rorty and the Classical Pragmatists. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. xiv + 377. Hardback, $74.00. A house divided cannot stand, or so Jesus tells us. As
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In Memoriam Journal of the History of Philosophy Pub Date : 2023-04-21 Steven Nadler
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: In Memoriam Steven Nadler, President It is with deep sadness that the Board of Directors of the Journal of the History of Philosophy, Inc., mourn the passing of Gerald Press, who died suddenly on December 26, 2022, at the age of seventy-seven. Jerry was a longtime member of the JHP Board. He was book review editor for the Journal from
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Diodorus Cronus on Present and Past Change Journal of the History of Philosophy Pub Date : 2023-04-21 Matthew Duncombe
abstract: Diodorus Cronus reportedly denied that there are truths about present kinēsis (change or movement) but affirmed that there are truths about past kinēsis. Although scholars have argued that Diodorus's atomism about bodies, place, and time supports his rejection of present spatial movement of simple bodies, I argue that Diodorus rejected a broader range of present changes, including qualitative
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Moral Legislation behind a Veil of Ignorance: Cardinal Sforza Pallavicino (1607–67) on the Procedure of Natural Law Journal of the History of Philosophy Pub Date : 2023-04-21 Rudolf Schuessler
abstract: Cardinal Sforza Pallavicino, SJ (1607–67), conceived a procedure for determining natural moral laws by voting under a veil of ignorance. Behind this veil, imagined possible people who are ignorant of their social position, personal characteristics, nation, and the historical period in which they live vote as equals. These possible people are asked to establish a moral law in pursuit of their
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The Meaning of Philo's Reversal Journal of the History of Philosophy Pub Date : 2023-04-21 Thomas Holden
abstract: There are two ways of hearing Philo's unexpected endorsement of a version of the design hypothesis in the final part of Hume's Dialogues. We might register it in accordance with Cleanthes's descriptivist approach to religious speech, taking Philo to be reasoning with Cleanthes in Cleanthes's own way. Or we might hear Philo's words in accordance with his own expressivist account of religious
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Moses Mendelssohn's Original Modal Proof for the Existence of God Journal of the History of Philosophy Pub Date : 2023-04-21 Noam Hoffer
abstract: In Morning Hours (1785), Moses Mendelssohn presents a proof for the existence of God from the grounding of possibility. Although Mendelssohn claims that this proof is original, it has not received much attention in the secondary literature. In this paper, I analyze this proof and present its historical context. I show that although it resembles Leibniz's proof from eternal truths and Kant's
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Nancy Kingsbury Wollstonecraft and the Logic of Freedom as Independence Journal of the History of Philosophy Pub Date : 2023-04-21 Alan Coffee
abstract: When the writings of Nancy Kingsbury Wollstonecraft surfaced in 2019, having been almost wholly neglected by scholars since their publication in the 1820s, they invited an inevitable and tantalizing comparison with her far more famous sister-in-law, Mary Wollstonecraft, especially since Kingsbury had written an article on "The Natural Rights of Woman." Irrespective of the Wollstonecraft connection
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Nietzsche comme Bouddha de l'Europe, ou De l'Affinité des "Contraires" Journal of the History of Philosophy Pub Date : 2023-04-21 Antoine Panaïoti
abstract: According to a common caricature, Nietzsche cuts the figure of an anti-Buddha who advocates a type of life affirmation that is the contrary of Buddhist or Schopenhauerian life negation. In this paper, I seek to demonstrate, through a rigorous study of some of his later works—most notably Beyond Good and Evil (1886), The Antichrist (1905[1888]), and Ecce Homo (1908[1888])—that Nietzsche does
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The Role of Temperament in Philosophical Inquiry: A Pragmatic Approach Journal of the History of Philosophy Pub Date : 2023-04-21 Neil W. Williams
abstract: In his Pragmatism lectures, William James argued that philosophers' temperaments partially determine the theories that they find satisfying, and that their influence explains persistent disagreement within the history of philosophy. Crucially, James was not only making a descriptive claim, but also a normative one: temperaments, he thought, could play a legitimate epistemic role in our philosophical
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La seconda polis: Introduzione alle Leggi di Platone by Bruno Centrone (review) Journal of the History of Philosophy Pub Date : 2023-04-21 Rafael Ferber
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: La seconda polis: Introduzione alle Leggi di Platone by Bruno Centrone Rafael Ferber Bruno Centrone. La seconda polis: Introduzione alle Leggi di Platone. Rome: Carocci Editore, 2021. Pp. 348. Paperback, €32.30. After the death of some of the great Italian scholars who devoted a considerable part of their lifetimes to the