An Anthology of Philosophical Studies

Edited by Patricia Hanna, Adrianne McEvoy & Penelope Voutsina

ISBN: 978-960-6672-11-8, 480 pages, Hardback

First published in 2006 by ATINER

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Table of Contents

 

 

 

 

List of Contributors

      i

 

 

 

 

Introduction

Voutsina, P.

 

1

 

PART I

EPISTEMOLOGY

 

 

1.

Imagination in Descartes’ Skepticism

Scholl, A.

 

7

2.

Descartes on Sensations and Ideas of Sensations

Cunning, D.

 

17

3.

The Myth of Hume’s Compatibilism

Morris, E.W.

 

33

4.

From Contextualism to Skepticism

Wilburn, R.

 

43

5.

The Puzzle of Self-Knowledge

Voutsina, P.

 

51

6.

Unconfined Rationality: A Normative yet Realistic Model of Inference

Morado, R. and Savion, L.

 

59

 

PART II

METAPHYSICS AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

 

 

7.

Language as Community Property: What’s Wrong with Chomsky’s Individualism?

Hanna, P.

 

75

8.

What do Concepts Consist of? The Role of Geometric and Proprioceptive Information in Categorization

Dellantonio, S. and Pastore, L.

 

93

9.

Personal Identity and Survival

Ward, A.

 

105

10.

 

Emergence, Mind, Identity, Composition

Vision, G.

 

 

 

119

11.

On the Plausibility of Higher-Level Causation

Marras, A.

 

137

 

12.

 

The Other Explanatory Gap

Yoo, J.

 

155

13.

A Hylomorphic Solution to the Problem of Mental Causation

Jaworski, W.

 

171

14.

Transcendental and Realist Philosophy

Pietersma, H.

 

189

15.

How to be a Scientific Realist

Doppelt, G.

 

199

 

PART III

ETHICS

 

 

16.

Morality without Metaphysics: Another Look at Hume’s Sentimentalism

Brown, C.

 

209

17.

Moral Philosophy & Religious Ethics

Blizek, L.W.

 

221

18.

Courage, Self-Trust and Self-Defence

Burrow, S.

 

235

19.

Virtues Required by the Socially Reproductive Beings

Schuller, M.P.

 

247

20.

A Human System Approach to Environmental Ethics

Choi, M.K. & Dixon, H. M.

 

265

 

PART IV

CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY AND PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION

 

 

21.

Would Existentialism Exist if Hegel had been Correctly Critiqued? Hegel, Kierkergaard and Philosophy of God

Murphy, W.D.

 

283

22.

The Audible Geometry of Cézanne: Merleau - Ponty’s Musical Philosophy

Wiskus, J.

 

299

23.

History and Love in Nietzsche: How Circe keeps us in her Grip

Burch, R.

 

309

24.

Philosophy and Its Vicissitudes: A Psychiatric Approach to Philosophical Historiography

De Vleminck, J.

 

323

25.

The Therapeutic Nature of Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Method

Gitsoulis, C.

 

339

26.

A Philosophical View of the Clash of Civilizations

Nicholson, C.

 

349

27.

The Contradiction Approach to Resolving Problems about Omnipotence

Wreen, M.

 

357

28.

Boethius and the Problem of Evil

Weed, H.J.

 

367

29.

God and God’s Form: On the Metaphysical Foundation of Theology

Kim, C.T.

 

379

 

PART V

POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

 

 

30.

Temptation, Public Policy, and the Impairment of Personal Autonomy

Hughes, M.P.

 

393

31.

Libertarianism and the Dichotomy between Positive and Negative Rights

Etieyibo, E.

 

403

32.

Can there be a Nonconscequentialist Rights-Based Moral Justification of Terrorism?

Shanahan, T.  

 

421

33.

Globalization, Human Rights and Cultural Diversity: Humanism and the Question of Difference

Stivachtis, A.Y.

 

433

34.

The Priority of Courts in the General Theory of Law

Sheinman, H.

457