AN ANTHOLOGY OF PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES VOLUME 5

Edited by Patricia Hanna

ISBN: 978-960-9549-24-0, 344 pages

First published in 2011 by ATINER

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Table of Contents

List of Contributors

1.

Introduction

Patricia Hanna

1

Part 1: History of Philosophy

Ancient: Greek and Eastern

2.

Knowing the Sophist: Encountering the Law

Hagit Aldema

7

3.

The Transvaluation of Representation

Kieran Anthony Cashell

19

4.

Euripides and Plato on Autochthony

Jaroslav Danes

35

5.

The Myth of Gyges and the Possibility of Altruism

Chrysoula Gitsoulis

47

6.

Aristotle's Theory of Responsibility and Situationism

Panos Kapetanakis

59

7.

Geometry without Space: Ancient Greek Mathematical Thought and Contemporary Consequences

Duane Lacey

71

8.

A Comparative Study of the Role of Harmony in the Thoughts of Confucius and Plato on the Nurturing of Culture through Music

Mei-Yen Lee

75

9.

On the Issue of the Word Φιλοσοφία in its Original Sense

Vasily Vasilievitch Markhinin

87

10.

Friendship and the Common Life: Aristotle's Contribution for a Modern Utilitarian Society

Philip Matthews

97

11.

Reconceiving Philosophy as Bodily Discipline: Clues from Master Zhu

John M. Thompson

107

Modern, 19th  and 20th Century

12.

Descartes, Luther, and the Fifth Lateran Council

Adermi Artis

123

13.

Schopenhauer's Critique of Kant and the Ambiguous Role of Kantian Inclinations

Ryan Beaton

133

14.

The Logic of Heidegger's Rectorship Address

Richard Hearn

145

15.

The Problem of the Censor

Elizabeth A. Murray

157

16.

An Adverbial Interpretation of Pragmatism

Carol Nicholson

173

17.

Merleau-Ponty's Doctrine of Objects

Henry Pietersma

181

18.

The Necessity of the “Necessary Connection” in Kant and Hume: Reflections on an Old Challenge to Metaphysics

Irmgard Scherer

189

19.

Rorty and the Linguistic Turn

Timo Vuorio

201

Part 2: Metaphysics, Logic and Philosophy of Language

20.

Compatibilism and the Folk Psychology of Free Will

Gregg Caruso

215

21.

Personal Identity and Stories

Gary Fuller

227

22.

Why there is 'No Such Thing as Language': Chomsky's Mistake

Patricia Hanna

239

23.

Bound Yet Free:

An Elucidation and Defense of Davidson's Principle

Michael T. Michaelakis

251

24.

Ontology that Matters: Binding Relations

Joseph Naimo

261

25.

On the Nominal Constitution of Mathematics

Donald Poochigian

273

26.

A Physicalist and Explanatory Concept of Propositional Attitudes

Krzysztof Swiatek

285

27.

Structural Norms in Light of Neuroscience

Elzbieta Szymanska-Swiatek

299

Part 3: Ethics and Value Theory

28.

The Role of Sociological Assumptions in the Construction of Ethical Theories

Marcos G. Breuer

309

29.

Thoughts by the Sea, Reflections on Happiness

Louis Colombo

321

30.

Intergenerational Rights: A Philosophical Examination

Makoto Usami

333