Heidegger on Luther on Paul

Abstract : When it comes to how Heidegger understands theology, Martin Luther was instrumental in his early formulations. Heidegger's interpretation of Luther leads him to descry theology as a discipline best left unfettered by metaphysics and this attitude is carried right through Heidegger's career. By explicating Luther's influence upon Heidegger's early Freiburg lectures from 1919‐1923, we can raise important questions about the nuanced way Heidegger construes Luther's theology in the hopes of inspiring key insights for Luther's appropriation in current post‐Heideggerian theology.     

Ray on Tarski on Logical Consequence

In Logical consequence: A defense of Tarski (Journal of Philosophical Logic, vol. 25, 1996, pp. 617–677), Greg Ray defends Tarski"s account of logical consequence against the criticisms of John Etchemendy. While Ray"s defense of Tarski is largely successful, his attempt to give a general proof that Tarskian consequence preserves truth fails. Analysis of this failure shows that de facto truth preservation is a very weak criterion of adequacy for a theory of logical consequence and should be replaced by a stronger absence-of-counterexamples criterion. It is argued that the latter criterion reflects the modal character of our intuitive concept of logical consequence, and it is shown that Tarskian consequence can be proved to satisfy this criterion for certain choices of logical constants. Finally, an apparent inconsistency in Ray"s interpretation of Tarski"s position on the modal status of the consequence relation is noted.     

On Quine on Carnap on Ontology

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惟有自觉才能崇高--评《走向自觉-道德心理论》

钱焕琦教授主编的《走向自觉—道德心理论》一书 (以下简称《走向自觉》) ,于 2 0 0 3年 1 2月由人民出版社出版。它是南京师范大学国家“2 1 1”重点建设项目和江苏省哲学社会科学“十五”规划项目的研究成果 ,由钱教授和她的同事及学生们共同协作完成。该书从广义的角度研究道德范畴 ,列举了 1 8个与个体德性成长和德性彰显最密切相关的概念 ,如良心、责任、孝、知耻、宽恕、快乐等 ,并对所选概念作了历史的考察与澄清 ,通过实证调查与个案分析 ,论述了它们在现代人生活中的实际表现 ,并对其产生的心理机制分别进行了深入的研究 ,进而论证…     

Report on a Panel Discussion on Interpretation

A case is presented where the patient's early experiences of violence and neglect have resulted in a defensive organization that has protected him against intolerable anxiety, at the cost of development and growth. In the analytic setting, the patient withdrew into his perverse fantasy world, an area of relative peace where he had omnipotent control, whenever contact with the analyst within a “room for relatedness” was experienced as threatening or frustrating. His avoidance of contact with the analyst was also an avoidance of reality, and proved to be a strong obstacle to progress in the treatment. During the terminal phase, he was forced to face reality and it seemed then that some widening of his psychic reality took place.