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Every two years since 1989, an international colloquium on cognitive science is held in Donostia - San Sebastian, attracting the most important researchers in that field.

A collection of essays pursuing further the topics of punishment and retribution that were explored in the author's previous book "Retribution, Justice and Therapy". The current volume discusses these themes in the context of political philosophy as well as moral philosophy.

We restricted the contributors to former students of Chisholm as a special tribute to his acknowledged as a teacher of philosophy. It is, we think, appropriate that his students should reserve for themselves the privilege of honoring Chisholm in this way as his 60th birthday draws near.

Contains essays that discuss Plato's attempt to deal with the problem of false belief about identities. This work also provides an evaluation of Russell's early theory of denoting phrases. It contains criticism of an argument that is based on the simplicity of our belief in material objects and other minds.

Papers deriving from and related to a Workshop on the Philosophy of Wilfrid Sellars held at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1976

My interest in gathering together a collection of this sort was generated by a fortuitous combination of historical studies under Professor Keith Lehrer and studies in cognitive science under Professor R. 617 from the University Research Council, Youngstown State University.

Aristotle's Idea of the Soul considers the nature of the soul within Aristotle's psychology and natural philosophy. It is argued that Aristotle comes by this idea of the soul because his hylomorphism casts the soul as a property and his causal doctrine presents it as a causal agent and thereby as a thing.

What kind of properties are moral qualities, such as rightness, badness, etc? These "moral error theorists" argue that the world simply does not contain the kind of properties or objects necessary to render our moral judgments true.

Our world is full of composite objects that persist through time: dogs, persons, chairs and rocks. But in virtue of what do a bunch of little objects get to compose some bigger object, and how does that bigger object persist through time?

When we ask whether something exists, we expect a yes or no answer, not a further query about what kind of existence, how much of it, whether we mean existence for you or existence for me, or whether we are asking about some property which it might have.

The author develops an account of what moral principles are sound, how we can apply them to complex situations, and what makes it reasonable to treat individuals in accordance with particular moral principles. Most such authors state some general principles, but say little about why these principles should be accepted.

Philosophical theories of emotions, and to an extent some theories of scientific psychology, represent attempts to capture the essence of emotions basically as they are conceived in common sense psychology. It is incumbent on a theory of emotions to provide an account of two salient facts about emotions as conceived in common sense psychology.

This volume addresses the complex interplay between the conditions of an agent's personal autonomy and the constitution of itself. It includes an instructive confrontation between subjective and intersubjective approaches to personal autonomy.

Dealing with analytic philosophy, this work contains a collection of twenty essays by some of the modern analytic philosophers.

This Festschrift seeks to honor three highly distinguished scholars in the Department of Philosophy, University of Michigan: William K.

Emotion in Aesthetics is the first book on aesthetics to provide an extensive theory of emotion; a well-developed naturalistic theory of ethics as applied to aesthetics and emotion. As a result there is still much confusion in aesthetics about aesthetic emotion and related concepts, such as the expression theory of emotion.

Faunce Professor of Philosophy at Brown University, Professor of Philosophy (Graduate Faculties) at Columbia University, and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Rochester.

This book is meant to serve as an introduction to the philosophy of Thomas Reid by way of a study of certain themes central to that philosophy as we find it expounded in his extensive and influential published writings.

Marshall Swain's and Alvin Goldman's papers were originally presented at a symposium on BonJour's The Structure of Empirical Knowledge at the annual meeting of the Central Division of the American Philosophical Association, Chicago, Illinois, in April, 1987.

With one exception, all of the papers in this volume were originally presented at a conference held in April, 1978, at The Ohio State University. The excep tion is the paper by Wilfrid Sellars, which is a revised version of a paper he originally published in the Journal of Philosophy, 1973.

It goes on to offer a new way to group the dialogues, based on important facts in the lives and philosophical practices of Socrates - the main speaker in most of Plato's dialogues - and of Plato himself.

Hegel's views were formed in consideration of Classical Skepticism and Modern epistemology, and he frequently presupposes great familiarity with other views and the difficulties they face.

I agreed that I would not have believed such testimony, but did not think this had much to do with Hume's argument against belief in miracles. This explains Hume's argument against justified belief in miracles and shows how it follows from, and is intrinsically connected with, his more general metaphysics.

'" Another, an oratio obliqua or indirect speech report, consists in the response 'He said that he wants us to write a paper reconciling . Since 'says' is construable in these various ways, it is at best unhelpful to write something like 'Alice said "Your paper is two days late", thereby saying that Tom's paper was two days late.

My interest in gathering together a collection of this sort was generated by a fortuitous combination of historical studies under Professor Keith Lehrer and studies in cognitive science under Professor R. 617 from the University Research Council, Youngstown State University.

When I entered the graduate program in philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh in 1961, Nicholas Rescher had just joined the department of philosophy' to begin, with Adolf Grunbaum, the building of what is now a philosophy center of worldwide renown. Very soon his exceptional energy and versatility were in evidence, as he founded the American Philosophical Quarterly, generated a constantly rising stack of preprints, pursued impor­ tant scholarly research in Arabic logic, taught a staggering diversity of histori­ cal and thematic courses, and obtained, in cooperation with Kurt Baier, a major grant for work in value theory. That is all part of the record. What may come as a surprise is that none of it was accomplished at the expense of his students. Papers were returned in a matter of days, often the next class meet­ ing. And so easily accessible was he for philosophical discussion that, since (inevitably) we shared many philosophical interests, I asked him to serve as my dissertation advisor. My work in connection with this project led to a couple of journal articles while his, characteristically, led to a book. Our dis­ cussions certainly helped me, and while they may also have had some small influence on him, in the end our views were quite distinct. I was not only allowed complete independence, but was positively encouraged to think of my own ideas and to develop them independently. The length and breadth of Rescher's bibliography defy belief.

The final chapters explore in detail the implications of Moore's theory for individual moral conduct -- in particular, his denial of self-evident moral rules; and his account of what moral agents should do in situations where such rules apply and in situations where they do not.

This book is a discussion of some of the major philosophical problems centering around the topic of sense perception and the foundations of human knowledge.

The fathers of analytic philosophy - Moore and Russell - were in no doubt that ontology or metaphysics as well as the topics oflanguage, truth and logic constituted the core subject-matter of their "analytic realism", 1 for the task of metaphysics as they conceived things was the description of 2 the world.