An Anthology of Philosophical Studies

Volume 3

Edited by Patricia Hanna

ISBN: 978-960-6672-48-4, 346 pages, Hardback

First published in 2009 by ATINER

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Table of Contents

 

1.

Introduction

HANNA, PATRICIA

1

Part 1: History of Philosophy

Ancient and Medieval

2.

John Duns Scotus on Matter

BOLYARD, CHARLES

7

3.

'More Familiar to Us' vs. 'More Familiar Simpliciter'

HUSSAIN, HAMMAD A.

17

4.

Thrasymachus and the Relational Conception of Authority

LONG, RODERICK T.

27

5.

Matter and Form, Number and Nows: 

An Analogy for Understanding Aristotle’s Account of Time

PETERSON, ANNE

37

6.

Is Machiavelli a Tragic Philosopher?

PETERSON, URSULA NIKLAS

49

Modern and 19th Century

7.

The Problems of Hobbes’s Concept of the Sovereign

HUANG, HSUAN

57

8.

Towards a Kantian Anthropology: The Question of Human Being in Kant’s Groundwork and Second Critique

McLUCKIE, ALAN

71

9.

Hegel’s Dialectic as Bridge between Analytic and Continental Philosophy

PONZER, HOWARD

81

10.

The Social Nature of Beauty: Kant’s Response to Burke

VANDENABEELE, BART

93

11.

Kant on Political and Ethical Communities with Regard to Perpetual Peace

VAN IMPE, STIJN

105

20th Century

12.

Foucault: The Cost of Truth and the Price of Transgression

DIAZ, JULIO CESAR

119

13.

Craig and His Concept of Eternity:

A Critique from the Standpoint of the Kālām

ERDEM, ENGIN

131

14.

Remarks on the Poetic Quality of Wittgenstein’s Philosophy

GITSOULIS, CHRYSOULA

139

15.

Collingwood and Rorty on the Role of Philosophy

NICHOLSON, CAROL

147

16.

An Examination of Richard Rorty's Neo-Pragmatist Educational Views

NOAPARAST, KHOSROW BAGHERI

159

17.

Reasons and Causes for an Aesthetic Response

WARD, ANDREW

169

Part 2: Metaphysics, Epistemology and Philosophy of Language

18.

Logically Unknowable Propositions: A Criticism of Tennant’s Three-Partition of Anti-Cartesian Propositions

CARRARA, MASSIMILIANO & FASSIO, DAVIDE

181

19.

The Chomskyan Revolution: A Category Mistake?

HANNA, PATRICIA

195

20.

Gödel, Mathematical Knowledge and Skepticism

McEVOY, MARK

207

21.

Naturalizing Qualia

PLATCHIAS, DIMITRIS

215

22.

Abstraction and the Interpretation of Quality

POOCHIGIAN, DONALD V.

227

23.

Hegel’s Early Response to Pyrrhonian Skepticism

TRISOKKAS, IOANNIS

241

24.

Grounding Semantic Contextualism on Epistemological Contextualism

VASSALLO, NICLA & BIANCHI, CLAUDIA

253

Part 3: Ethics and Political Philosophy

25.

Can Political Liberalism Deliver Equality in the Social-Bases of Self-Respect?

DOPPELT, GERALD

267

26.

Human Rights, Needs, and Autonomy

HASSOUN, NICOLE

277

27.

Plato, Moore and Ethical Nonnaturalism

KYRIACOU, CHRISTOS

289

28.

Socio and Politico – Philosophical Ideas in Theories of Central Asian Thinkers

LEVINSKAYA, VICTORIA O.

299

29.

The Abolition of War: A Philosophical Imperative

OBERST, JOACHIM L.

309

30.

Apologies and Moral Harm

SAVELLOS, ELIAS E.

321

31.

Blackburn’s Supervenience Argument against Moral Realism

SUZUKI, MAKOTO

331