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Comparisons with Homonymous Predicates in Aristotle Journal of the History of Philosophy (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-07-13 Ronja Hildebrandt
abstract: Aristotle claims that cross-sense comparisons—that is, comparisons with respect to homonymous predicates—are impossible. At the same time, he uses such comparisons in arguments that are fundamental to his philosophical project, such as when he claims that happiness is better than instrumental goods. In this paper, I discuss how this tension arises, and I explain why the cross-sense comparisons
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Nonperceptual Kataleptic Impressions in Stoicism Journal of the History of Philosophy (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-07-13 Whitney Schwab
abstract: The kataleptic impression—an impression that is, in some special way, “true and such as could not be false”—is at the core of Stoic epistemology. Since Gisela Striker’s groundbreaking work on the criterion of truth, the dominant view among scholars is that the Stoics restricted kataleptic impressions to certain perceptual impressions. I argue that the Stoics in fact countenanced nonperceptual
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Leibniz and the Metaphysics of Powers Journal of the History of Philosophy (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-07-13 Peter Myrdal
abstract: The notion of force is at the heart of Leibniz’s metaphysics. One of his central theses is that powers are to be reconceived as forces. Connectedly, he maintains that force is essential to the very account of substance. The paper contends that these claims have not been well understood due to an inadequate understanding of the notion of force itself. Against a common reading, I argue that
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Kant's Offer to the Skeptical Empiricist Journal of the History of Philosophy (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-07-13 Charles Goldhaber
abstract: There is little consensus about whether Kant intends his Critique of Pure Reason to change the mind of a skeptical empiricist such as Hume. I challenge a common assumption made by both sides of the debate. This is the thought that Kant can convince skeptics only if he does not beg the question against them. Surprisingly, I argue, that is not how Kant sees things. On Kant’s view, skeptical
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"The Season of Exaggerated Hopes": Richard T. Greener in the Reconstruction University Journal of the History of Philosophy (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-07-13 Kevin J. Harrelson
abstract: Richard T. Greener was the first Black graduate of Harvard College in 1870, and he served briefly as a professor of philosophy at the University of South Carolina from 1873 to 1877. Historians and biographers have uncovered many of the facts of his unusual life, but to date his philosophy has remained unappreciated. This essay reconstructs his philosophy from published and archival sources
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Constance Naden's Metaphysics: Hylo-Idealism's Ideal Known World and Unknown Matter Journal of the History of Philosophy (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-07-13 Emily Thomas
abstract: In 1880s Britain, Constance Naden defended “hylo-idealism,” a theory aiming to unify materialism with idealism. This paper offers the first sustained study of Naden’s metaphysical system. On this new reading of Naden’s hylo-idealism, her materialism is carefully qualified; and her idealism is distinctively Kantian, her construal of the external cosmos as Unknown placing her within the Victorian
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Aristotle on Sexual Difference: Metaphysics, Biology, Politics by Marguerite Deslauriers (review) Journal of the History of Philosophy (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-07-13 Rosemary Twomey
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Aristotle on Sexual Difference: Metaphysics, Biology, Politics by Marguerite Deslauriers Rosemary Twomey Marguerite Deslauriers. Aristotle on Sexual Difference: Metaphysics, Biology, Politics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. 376. Hardback, $110.00. Aristotle on Sexual Difference is the latest addition to a growing
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The Formation of Post-Classical Philosophy in Islam by Frank Griffel (review) Journal of the History of Philosophy (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-07-13 Rosabel Ansari
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Formation of Post-Classical Philosophy in Islam by Frank Griffel Rosabel Ansari Frank Griffel. The Formation of Post-Classical Philosophy in Islam. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. x + 651. Hardback, $135.00. In this monumental work, Frank Griffel provides a wide-ranging and methodologically diverse investigation
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Gott—Mensch—Natur: Der Personenbegriff in der philosophischen Anthropologie Heinrichs von Gent by Julian E. Joachim (review) Journal of the History of Philosophy (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-07-13 Martin Pickavé
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Gott—Mensch—Natur: Der Personenbegriff in der philosophischen Anthropologie Heinrichs von Gent by Julian E. Joachim Martin Pickavé Julian E. Joachim. Gott—Mensch—Natur: Der Personenbegriff in der philosophischen Anthropologie Heinrichs von Gent. Beiträge zur Geschichte der Philosophie und Theologie des Mittelalters, Neue Folge
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Philosophy and the Language of the People: The Claims of Common Speech from Petrarch to Locke by Lodi Nauta (review) Journal of the History of Philosophy (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-07-13 Patrick Rysiew
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Philosophy and the Language of the People: The Claims of Common Speech from Petrarch to Locke by Lodi Nauta Patrick Rysiew Lodi Nauta. Philosophy and the Language of the People: The Claims of Common Speech from Petrarch to Locke. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 275. Hardback, $39.99. What type of language
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Materialism from Hobbes to Locke by Stewart Duncan (review) Journal of the History of Philosophy (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-07-13 Thomas Holden
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Materialism from Hobbes to Locke by Stewart Duncan Thomas Holden Stewart Duncan. Materialism from Hobbes to Locke. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. 248. Hardback, $80.00. Stewart Duncan’s Materialism from Hobbes to Locke presents a tightly focused study of the seventeenth-century English debate over materialism in
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Kant's Critique of Taste: The Feeling of Life by Katalin Makkai (review) Journal of the History of Philosophy (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-07-13 Yoon Choi
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Kant’s Critique of Taste: The Feeling of Life by Katalin Makkai Yoon Choi Katalin Makkai. Kant’s Critique of Taste: The Feeling of Life. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. viii + 209. Hardback, $99.99. Paperback, $29.99. This monograph offers a bold and original interpretation of Kant’s theory of reflective judgment
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Kant's Worldview: How Judgment Shapes Human Comprehension by Rudolf A. Makkreel (review) Journal of the History of Philosophy (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-07-13 Riccardo Pozzo
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Kant’s Worldview: How Judgment Shapes Human Comprehension by Rudolf A. Makkreel Riccardo Pozzo Rudolf A. Makkreel. Kant’s Worldview: How Judgment Shapes Human Comprehension. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2021. Pp. 284. Hardback, $99.95. Paperback, $34.95. This is the last book Rudolf Makkreel published before
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Kierkegaard on Self, Ethics, and Religion: Purity or Despair by Roe Fremstedal (review) Journal of the History of Philosophy (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-07-13 Vanessa Rumble
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Kierkegaard on Self, Ethics, and Religion: Purity or Despair by Roe Fremstedal Vanessa Rumble Roe Fremstedal. Kierkegaard on Self, Ethics, and Religion: Purity or Despair. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. xiv + 280. Hardback, $99.99. Paperback, $32.99. Fremstedal’s impressive synthesis of the anthropological
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Cassirer and Heidegger in Davos: The Philosophical Arguments by Simon Truwant (review) Journal of the History of Philosophy (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-07-13 Tobias Endres
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Cassirer and Heidegger in Davos: The Philosophical Arguments by Simon Truwant Tobias Endres Simon Truwant. Cassirer and Heidegger in Davos: The Philosophical Arguments. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. viii + 266. Hardback, $99.99. Simon Truwant has written a very well-researched study of Cassirer’s and Heidegger’s
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Sextus, Montaigne, Hume: Pyrrhonizers by Brian C. Ribeiro (review) Journal of the History of Philosophy (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-07-13 Donald C. Ainslie
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Sextus, Montaigne, Hume: Pyrrhonizers by Brian C. Ribeiro Donald C. Ainslie Brian C. Ribeiro. Sextus, Montaigne, Hume: Pyrrhonizers. Brill: Leiden, 2021. Pp. 165. Hardback, $154.00. Brian C. Ribeiro’s Sextus, Montaigne, Hume: Pyrrhonizers is a charming and quirky investigation of his three titular skeptics. It is perhaps best
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Environmental Determinism in Aristotle Journal of the History of Philosophy (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-25 Jorge Torres
abstract: The present article reassesses Aristotle's views on the relationship between ethical character and the natural environment. The standard reading, to the effect that Aristotle endorsed environmental determinism, is rejected. The discussion invites a more careful examination of Aristotelian texts commonly adduced to support the orthodox reading, while also providing a clear account of what
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Ibn Khaldūn's Method of History and Aristotelian Natural Philosophy Journal of the History of Philosophy (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-25 Peter Adamson
abstract: The historian Ibn Khaldūn (d. 1406) is most often treated by historians of philosophy as part of the story of political philosophy in the Islamic world. While this is perfectly legitimate, it may be misleading when it comes to the question of the method he proposes for the historian. This paper argues that that method is in fact based on a different branch of (Aristotelian) science: natural
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Regis's Sweeping and Costly Anti-Spinozism Journal of the History of Philosophy (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-25 Samuel Newlands
abstract: Pierre-Sylvain Regis, once a well-known defender of Cartesianism, offers an unusually rich and innovative refutation of Spinoza. While many of his early modern contemporaries raised narrower objections to particular claims in Spinoza's Ethics, Regis develops a broader anti-Spinozistic position, one that threatens the very core of Spinoza's metaphysical ambitions and offers a philosophically
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Perceiving Design? Reid's Design Discourse Journal of the History of Philosophy (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-25 Esther Engels Kroeker
abstract: Thomas Reid, I argue in this paper, holds that the belief that the works of nature are the effects of an intelligent cause is an instinctive or natural belief that may also be rational. After presenting the details of Reid's design argument, I turn to his account of human perception of the inner states of other human beings. I argue that perceptual beliefs of inner states, and hence beliefs
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Harm to What Others? J. S. Mill's Ambivalence Regarding Third-Party Harm Journal of the History of Philosophy (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-25 Ben Saunders
abstract: John Stuart Mill's harm principle holds that an individual's freedom can only be restricted to prevent harm to others. However, there is an important ambiguity between a strong version, which limits legitimate interference to self-defense and therefore prohibits society from protecting third parties (those who are not its members), and a narrow version, which grants any society universal
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Perfect Freedom: T. H. Green's Kantian Conception Journal of the History of Philosophy (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-25 David O. Brink
abstract: This essay explores different conceptions of freedom in Kant, Green, and their critics. Kant introduces three kinds of freedom—negative freedom, positive freedom or autonomy, and transcendental freedom. Sidgwick objects that Kant's conception of positive freedom is unable to explain how someone might be free and responsible for the wrong choices. Though Green rejects transcendental freedom
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The Historiography of Philosophy by Michael Frede (review) Journal of the History of Philosophy (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-25 Claude Panaccio
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Historiography of Philosophy by Michael Frede Claude Panaccio Michael Frede. The Historiography of Philosophy. Edited by Katerina Ierodiakonou, with a postface by Jonathan Barnes. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. 256. Hardback, $80.00. From the 1970s until his tragic death in 2007, Michael Frede was one of the
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Aristotle's On the Soul: A Critical Guide ed. by Caleb M. Cohoe (review) Journal of the History of Philosophy (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-25 Attila Hangai
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Aristotle's On the Soul: A Critical Guide ed. by Caleb M. Cohoe Attila Hangai Caleb M. Cohoe, editor. Aristotle's On the Soul: A Critical Guide. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Hardback, $99.99. Guiding readers through Aristotle's science of the soul, this volume covers many major topics of De Anima (DA) and addresses
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Classical Islamic Philosophy: A Thematic Introduction by Luis Xavier López-Farjeat (review) Journal of the History of Philosophy (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-25 Thérèse-Anne Druart
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Classical Islamic Philosophy: A Thematic Introduction by Luis Xavier López-Farjeat Thérèse-Anne Druart Luis Xavier López-Farjeat. Classical Islamic Philosophy: A Thematic Introduction. New York: Routledge, 2022. Pp. 368. Paperback, $34.36. Interest in classical Islamic philosophy has grown and recently given rise to several
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L'autorité d'un canon philosophique. Le cas Descartes by Delphine Antoine-Mahut (review) Journal of the History of Philosophy (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-25 Fred Ablondi
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: L'autorité d'un canon philosophique. Le cas Descartes by Delphine Antoine-Mahut Fred Ablondi Delphine Antoine-Mahut. L'autorité d'un canon philosophique. Le cas Descartes. Paris: Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, 2021. Pp. 356. Paperback, €13.00. Henri Gouhier once asked, "Après le mort de Descartes, qu'est-ce que le cartésianisme
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Adam Smith Reconsidered: History, Liberty, and the Foundations of Modern Politics by Paul Sagar (review) Journal of the History of Philosophy (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-25 James A. Harris
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Adam Smith Reconsidered: History, Liberty, and the Foundations of Modern Politics by Paul Sagar James A. Harris Paul Sagar. Adam Smith Reconsidered: History, Liberty, and the Foundations of Modern Politics. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2022. Pp. xii + 229. Hardback, $37.00. Paul Sagar's invigorating book is a
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The Philosophers and the Bible: The Debate on Sacred Scripture in Early Modern Thought ed. by Antonella Del Prete, Anna Lisa Schino, and Pina Totaro (review) Journal of the History of Philosophy (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-25 Piet Steenbakkers
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Philosophers and the Bible: The Debate on Sacred Scripture in Early Modern Thought ed. by Antonella Del Prete, Anna Lisa Schino, and Pina Totaro Piet Steenbakkers Antonella Del Prete, Anna Lisa Schino, and Pina Totaro, editors. The Philosophers and the Bible: The Debate on Sacred Scripture in Early Modern Thought. Brill's
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Hegel's Value: Justice as the Living Good by Dean Moyar (review) Journal of the History of Philosophy (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-25 Thimo Heisenberg
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Hegel's Value: Justice as the Living Good by Dean Moyar Thimo Heisenberg Dean Moyar. Hegel's Value: Justice as the Living Good. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 384. Hardback, $110.00. Hegel's Philosophy of Right is one of those texts that make it easy to miss the forest for the trees. On the argumentative journey
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Bergsonism and the History of Analytic Philosophy by Andreas Vrahimis (review) Journal of the History of Philosophy (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-25 Leonard Lawlor
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Bergsonism and the History of Analytic Philosophy by Andreas Vrahimis Leonard Lawlor Andreas Vrahimis. Bergsonism and the History of Analytic Philosophy. History of Analytic Philosophy. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. Pp. xix + 395. Hardback, $139.99. Bergsonism and the History of Analytic Philosophy is a great achievement
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The Power of Courage in Plato's Republic Journal of the History of Philosophy (IF 0.7) 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 (IF 0.7) 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 (IF 0.7) 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 (IF 0.7) 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 (IF 0.7) 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 (IF 0.7) 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 (IF 0.7) 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 (IF 0.7) 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 (IF 0.7) 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 (IF 0.7) 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 (IF 0.7) 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 (IF 0.7) 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 (IF 0.7) 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 (IF 0.7) 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 (IF 0.7) 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 (IF 0.7) 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 (IF 0.7) 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 (IF 0.7) 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 (IF 0.7) 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 (IF 0.7) 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 (IF 0.7) 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 (IF 0.7) 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 (IF 0.7) 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 (IF 0.7) 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 (IF 0.7) 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 (IF 0.7) 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 (IF 0.7) 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 (IF 0.7) 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 (IF 0.7) 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 (IF 0.7) 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