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Abstract: In 1895, the mathematician Charles L. Dodgson—better known today as Lewis Carroll, the author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass— submitted a curious, brief article on logical inference to the mainstay philosophical journal Mind. Unlike the book on Symbolic Logic he had published earlier, Dodgson’s article, “What the Tortoise Said to Achilles,” was submitted under his literary pen name, perhaps because it was written in the form of whimsical dialogue, a style far removed from the formal tenor of his primary writings on logic and much closer by comparison to the surrealism of his children’s novels. In that idiosyncratic paper, the two characters from Zeno’s ancient footrace paradox ... Read More PubDate: 2025-03-02T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Arthur Schopenhauer, one of the major classics of nineteenth-century German idealism, is known as the philosopher of pessimism. It is thus hardly surprising that Mara van der Lugt’s magisterial study of early modern pessimism, Dark Matters (2021), culminates in a long chapter on Schopenhauer. Apart from a few brief references, van der Lugt does not deal with William James, and it might seem far-fetched to include James, among all philosophers, even in the margins of the philosophical tradition of pessimism which Schopenhauer arguably founded but whose origins can be traced back to earlier centuries in the history of modern philosophy. As is well known, James was neither a pessimist nor an optimist but a meliorist. ... Read More PubDate: 2025-03-02T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: If the United States may claim any philosophical movements as its own progeny, personalism and pragmatism are the best candidates. Both movements had their heyday in the so-called Golden Age of American Philosophy, and both saw their fortunes rapidly dwindle with the passing of their creators. But both have also retained a following across the generations and have had their cheerleaders and revivers. On the whole, pragmatism has had the greater afterlife with more, and better known, boosters and critics. Personalism has not been similarly favored.Personalism’s unpopularity was already a subject of concern for its preeminent “second generation” representative, Edgar Sheffield Brightman, who wrote two articles ... Read More PubDate: 2025-03-02T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: There is much to admire in On Trade Justice, including its valorization of pluralism, its situatedness in both the history of philosophy and contemporary politics, and its nuanced notion of exploitation. Unfortunately, and in a way that recalls many great philosophical predecessors, Risse and Wollner’s philosophy rests on small cluster of terms that are situated precariously in a zone of indeterminacy between metaphors and concepts. Or, in the terms of George Lakoff and Mark Johnson’s classic study, On Metaphor, they are “metaphorical concepts.”1 Before turning directly to On Trade Justice, I will briefly summarize Lakoff and Johnson’s view.To clarify their theory, it is helpful to contrast it with the standard ... Read More PubDate: 2025-03-02T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: One of the themes that Dewey continued to return to throughout his career is the question of philosophic method, which begins from his earliest “Kant and Philosophic Method” (1884) and extends to, say, his most mature years in the 1940s during which he refers to “the proper method of philosophy” (LW14, 147). Dewey’s questioning into method implies an audacious claim that the “history of thought sufficiently manifests the need for a method of procedure” beyond “ratio-cination” (LW1, 373), which is a part of his attempt to make explicit a conception of philosophy that still awaits to be tried (LW1, 326). If this is plausible, and there is an alternative way to practice philosophy, then there is a need to examine ... Read More PubDate: 2025-03-02T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: In a late 1960s interview Sidney Hook reflected on the host of antagonists and detractors he had acquired over the years and observed that what united them all was either a will to misunderstand or a persistent incapacity to understand him. He acknowledged that, over time, this tendency impacted the expression of his ideas, seeing as though they seemed to be ignoring his ideas and the actual texts of his voluminous works. As a result, he grew increasingly concerned with covering his flanks against critics as he navigated the vast terrain that was the 20th Century American intellectual and political landscape.1While Hook did not name names, his antagonists and detractors are the subject of the political scientist ... Read More PubDate: 2025-03-02T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: On March 12 and 13 of the year 2022 a tribute to Susan Haack was arranged at the School of Law of the University of Girona, Spain, on the occasion of her receiving the “I Premio Internacional de la Cátedra de Cultura Jurídica” [First International Award of Legal Culture] awarded to her in 2020. On those days the nightmare of the Covid disease was spreading rapidly across Europe, yet professor Haack remained undeterred by the risks. As editor Diego Dei Vecchi notes in the opening lines of the volume: “A week before the event, concern levels were considerably high. But none of this daunted Professor Haack, who remained steadfast in her willingness to travel to Girona, her friendly impetus for inexhaustible ... Read More PubDate: 2025-03-02T00:00:00-05:00
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