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68Bullshit and Philosophy Gary L. Hardcastle and George Reisch, editors Popular Culture and Philosophy Chicago: Open Court, 2006, xxxiii + 272 pp., $17.95 (review)Dialogue 47 (1): 189-. 2008.
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56Thomas Reid and the Story of Epistemology (review)Dialogue 41 (4): 819-822. 2002.After over a century of total neglect, the philosophy of Thomas Reid has attracted increasing interest over the past several decades. A new scholarly edition of Reid’s works is underway, with two volumes already available. Even more important than such scholarship is the fact that contemporary philosophers too numerous to list are finding in Reid’s philosophy substantial material useful for their own work in epistemology, philosophy of mind, ethics, and action theory. This book is a welcome addi…Read more
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52The Aesthetic Point of View: Selected Essays of Monroe C. BeardsleyMichael J. Wreen and Donald M. Callen, editors Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1982. Pp. 385. $34.50, $19.95 paper - Essays on Aesthetics: Perspectives on the Work of Monroe C. BeardsleyJohn Fisher, editor Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1983. Pp. xiii, 309. $24.95 (review)Dialogue 23 (4): 745-750. 1984.
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52Plantinga and the Naturalized Epistemology of Thomas Reid (review)Dialogue 35 (1): 93-108. 1996.These two books are Volumes 1 and 2 of a three-volume work; the projected third volume, Warranted Christian Belief, has yet to be published. In the first volume, Warrant: The Current Debate, Plantinga surveys the current chaos in epistemology stemming from the breakdown of classical foundationalism and examines critically the efforts of several contemporary philosophers to introduce some order into the field, most particularly Roderick Chisholm, William Alston, John Pollock, Laurence BonJour and…Read more
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43No Place Else: Explorations in Utopian and Dystopian Fiction (review)Philosophy and Literature 8 (2): 309-310. 1984.
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42The Fontana Dictionary of Modern Thought Allan Bullock and Oliver Stallybrass, editors London: Fontana/Collins, 1978. Pp. xix, 684. $12.95 C.F (review)Dialogue 23 (4): 738-740. 1984.
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38Varieties of Relativism Ron Harré and Michael Krausz Oxford and Cambridge: Blackwell, 1996, viii + 237 pp (review)Dialogue 37 (1): 163-. 1998.
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37Analysis and Metaphysics: An Introduction to Philosophy P. F. Strawson Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992, viii + 144 pp. C$21.50 (review)Dialogue 34 (2): 423. 1995.
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33The Oxford Companion to PhilosophyThe Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy (review)Dialogue 37 (1): 182-185. 1998.The impulse to speculate about this phenomenon—the sudden eruption of dictionaries of philosophy in our own fin de siècle—is difficult to resist, particularly since a similar eruption of dictionaries is occurring in other intellectual disciplines as well. My own speculation is that we are witnessing the Owl of Minerva in full and somewhat frantic flight. As old hands in the trade know—but perhaps not many undergraduates, graduate students, or laymen—definitions in philosophy, unless they are pur…Read more
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32The New Criterion Reader: The First Five Years (review)Philosophy and Literature 13 (1): 194-195. 1989.
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32Ideals and Idols: Essays on Values in History and in Art E. H. Gombrich Oxford: Phaidon, 1979. Pp. 224Dialogue 21 (2): 381-384. 1982.
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30Thomas Reid: Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man Thomas Reid Critical Edition. Edited by Derek R. Brookes with Annotations by Derek R. Brookes and Knud Haakonssen and Introduction by Knud Haakonssen The Edinburgh Edition of Thomas Reid University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002. xiv + 651 pp., $95.00 (review)Dialogue 43 (2): 393-. 2004.
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29An Inquiry into Thomas ReidDialogue 39 (2): 381-. 2000.This book is the second volume of a critical edition of the writings of Thomas Reid, an edition that will include many of his manuscript remains as well as his previously published works. These volumes are intended to displace the heretofore standard 8th edition of Reid’s works edited by Sir William Hamilton. Hamilton’s edition is marred by his numerous, often intrusive, and obtuse footnotes. Reid’s spelling and punctuation were also sometimes “corrected” by Hamilton, so his edition does not pre…Read more
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28Moore: G.E. Moore and the Cambridge Apostles. By Paul Levy. London. Wiedenfeld and Nicolson, 1979. Pp. xv, 335Dialogue 20 (4): 822-824. 1981.
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26Metaphysics and Common Sense. By A. J. Ayer. London. Macmillan & Co. Ltd., 1969. Pp. xi, 267. $8.95 (review)Dialogue 9 (2): 258-261. 1970.
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26Perception and Identity: Essays Presented to A. J. Ayer with His Replies to Them G. F. Macdonald, editor London: Macmillan, 1979. Pp. vii, 358 (review)Dialogue 21 (3): 578-583. 1982.
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26Common Sense Lynd Forguson London and New York: Routledge, 1989. vi + 193 p., $42.00 (review)Dialogue 31 (1): 165-. 1992.
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26Thomas Reid on the Animate Creation (review)Dialogue 37 (1): 205-209. 1998.The present volume is an important and highly useful contribution to Reid studies that adds considerably to our knowledge of his work. The book is well made, and I noticed only one misprint. It contains three sets of manuscripts, one dealing with natural history, another on physiology, and a third, much the largest, on Reid’s work on materialism. It also contains a statement by Paul Wood of very sensible editorial principles, seventy-four pages of introductions to the manuscript material, some e…Read more
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25The Subjective View: Secondary Qualities and Indexical Thoughts Colin McGinn Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983. Pp. 164. $16.95 paper (review)Dialogue 25 (3): 586-. 1986.
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23Toward a Speech Act Theory of Literary Discourse (review)Philosophy and Literature 2 (2): 269-271. 1978.
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22The Arrogance of Humanism, by David Ehrenfeld. New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press. 1978. Pp viii, 286Dialogue 20 (3): 620-624. 1981.
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