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Free Will and Moral Responsibility (Midwest Studies in Philosophy 29) (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 2005.
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19Forward-looking collective responsibility (edited book)Wiley Periodicals. 2014.• Explores various aspects of the concept of forward-looking collective responsibility and its application • Presents fifteen articles written by leading philosophers from around the world • Extends the philosophical discussion of collective responsibility and collective morality towards future collective action.
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15Social and Political Philosophy (edited book)Univ of Minnesota Press. 1982.Rich with historical and cultural value, these works are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.
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24Philosophy and the Empirical (edited book)Blackwell. 2007.This collection of essays focuses on a current issue of central important in contemporary philosophy, the relationship between philosophy and empirical studies. Explores in detail a range of examples which demonstrate how the older paradigm – philosophy as conceptual analysis – is giving way to a more varied set of models of philosophical work Each of the featured papers is a previously unpublished contribution by a major scholar
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68Against theodicyPhilosophia 30 (1-4): 131-142. 2003.It has long been urged against traditional theism, very long indeed, that God’s perfections—specifically in the domains of goodness, knowledge and power—are logically incompatible with the existence of unwarranted human suffering. It has almost equally long been urged that the problem is illusory—or at least surmountable; the tradition of theodicy must be only moments younger than the problem. The debate is a philosophical classic, with many ingenious moves on both sides, and epicycles galore. B…Read more
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8The New Atheism and Its CriticsWiley-Blackwell. 2013.This volume of the classic series is devoted to the claims, arguments, and perspectives of the New Atheists. The volume collects original work on these topics of leading thinkers in the philosophy of religion, epistemology, and metaphysics, and philosophy of science. These studies are punctuated by an original short story by a leading novelist.
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5Midwest Studies in Philosophy, Truth and its Deformities (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 2008.Truth and Its Deformities is the 32nd volume in the Midwest Studies in Philosophy series. It contains major new contributions on a range of topics related to the general theme of the volume by some of the most important philosophers writing on truth in recent years.
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7The Wittgenstein LegacyUniversity of Notre Dame Press. 1992.This addition to the Midwest Studies in Philosophy series comprises the most recent volume on the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein to date. Here 16 philosophers explore both the challenges Wittgenstein presented to philosophy as well as the responses to those challenges from such noted thinkers as Kripke. By addressing various questions raised by Wittgenstein's work, these original essays aim to illuminate in one way or another the impact Wittgenstein's legacy has had on 20th-century philosophy…Read more
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56Précis of The Magic Prism (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 74 (3): 720-722. 2007.
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31Contemporary Perspectives in the Philosophy of Language (edited book)University of Minnesota Press. 1979.This volume, an expanded edition of the philosophy of language issue of the journal Midwest Studies in Philosophy (1977), includes essays by some of the ...
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69Has semantics rested on a mistake?: and other essaysStanford University Press. 1991.The nature of reference, or the relation of a word to the object to which it refers, has been perhaps the dominant concern of twentieth-century analytic philosophy. Extremely influential arguments by Gottlob Frege around the turn of the century convinced the large majority of philosophers that the meaning of a word must be distinguished from its referent, the former only providing some kind of direction for reaching the latter. In the last twenty years, this Fregean orthodoxy has been vigorously…Read more
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23Studies in metaphysics (edited book)University of Minnesota Press. 1979.Rich with historical and cultural value, these works are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.
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7Philosophical NaturalismUniversity of Notre Dame Press. 1994.The 21 essays collected in this volume of Midwest Studies in Philosophy question and debate the primary assumptions of science. These are its conception of an orderly universe; its ability to define; and its ability to explain. The contributors approach these topics from varying perspectives, including the historic development of our understanding of the scientific enterprise; the controversy of opposing paradigms; and the challenges raised by quantum mechanics.
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1Contemporary Perspectives in the Philosophy of Language Edited by Peter A. French, Theodore E. Uehling, Jr., Howard K. Wettstein. -- (review)University of Minnesota Press. 1979.
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77Turning the tables on Frege or how is it that "Hesperus is Hesperus" is trivial?Philosophical Perspectives 3 317-339. 1989.
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9Midwest Studies in Philosophy, Renaissance and Early Modern Philosophy (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 2002.In this volume leading contemporary philosophical historians of the Renaissance and Early Modern periods examine the works of important figures of the fifteenth through the eighteenth century. While Midwest Studies in Philosophy has produced other volumes devoted to historical periods in philosophy, this is the first to offer such extensive and focused original materials on specific crucial figures as this volume. Original papers by twenty contemporary philosophers writing about the works of the…Read more
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41A father of the revolutionPhilosophical Perspectives 13 443-457. 1999.When I was a graduate student in the late 60’s, Wittgenstein was very fashionable. Remarks like “meaning is use” rolled off one’s tongue as easily as “Hell no, we won’t go,” or “It’s not the case that necessarily the number of planets is greater than seven.” I vowed to avoid the Philosophical Investigations , and I was true to my vow until some years later when a friend commented that my approach to indexicals..
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48Terra FirmaThe Monist 78 (4): 425-446. 1995.I have long felt that graduate education in philosophy, when successful, produces in its beneficiaries a strong antipathy, almost an allergic reaction, to “ism” words. “Naturalism,” nevertheless, is not one that is easy to eschew. This is not because of anything like a widely shared or especially intuitive doctrine associated with the term. The numerous doctrines offered by way of characterization often seem either suspicious because of their strength, or else platitudinous, too easy and not suf…Read more
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7Moral Concepts. 1996.This work presents 26 essays that address the issue of moral concepts. Many of the essays contain examples that should make this volume suitable for teaching moral concepts in a college or university.
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6Midwest Studies in Philosophy, the American Philosophers (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 2004.The American Philosophers contains papers by current leading philosophers and political theorists that explore the work of the major American philosophers from the colonial period to the present, from Jonathan Edwards to David Kaplan. Contains a philosophically and historically broad exploration of the major schools of American philosophy Examines both the pragmatists and the later Twentieth Century analytic philosophers, as well as such shapers of the political and philosophical American scene …Read more
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52Frege‐Russell Semantics?Dialectica 44 (1‐2): 113-135. 1990.Contemporary semantical discussions make mention of the traditional approach to semantics represented by Frege and/or Russell--even sometimes by Frege-Russell. Is there a Frege-Russell view in the philosophy of language? How much of a common semantical perspective did Frege and Russell share? The matter bears exploration. I begin with Frege and Russell on propositions.
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24Studies in epistemology (edited book)University of Minnesota Press. 1980.This is Volume V in the series Midwest Studies in Philosophy In 1979 the University of Minnesota Press assumed publication of the annual Midwest Studies in ...
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38DoctrineFaith and Philosophy 14 (4): 423-443. 1997.I argue that theological doctrine, the output of philosophical theology, is not a natural tool for thinking about biblical/rabbinic Judaism. Fundamental to my argument is the claim that there is a tension between constellations of theological doctrine of medieval vintage and the primary religious literature---the Hebrew Bible as understood through, and supplemented by, the Rabbis of the Talmud. This tension is a product of the genesis of philosophical theology, the application of Greek philosoph…Read more
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8Philosophical Naturalism. 1994.In recent years naturalism has become a focal point in the discussions of many contemporary philosophers. Philosophical Naturalism in the series Midwest Studies in Philosophy offers a broad sampling of previously unpublished essays that represent the current status of discussions of naturalism.
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2Against theologyIn Charles Harry Manekin & Robert Eisen (eds.), Philosophers and the Jewish Bible, University Press of Maryland. 2008.project. Their voices, though, have been dimmed by current theological orthodoxy--I don’t mean denominational Orthodoxy but rather the standard modes of theological thought bequeathed by the medievals. Developments in philosophy—like the work of Wittgenstein—suggest that the time may be ripe for another pass through the terrain.
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