Blackburn and the war on error

Book Information World Without Design: The Ontological Consequences of Naturalism. World Without Design: The Ontological Consequences of Naturalism Michael Rea, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2002, pp. viii + 245, US$35.00 (cloth). By Michael Rea. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Pp. viii + 245. US$35.00 (cloth:),     

The Moral and Political Status of Children

Book Information The Moral and Political Status of Children. The Moral and Political Status of Children David Archard, Colin M. Macleod, eds., Oxford and New York : Oxford University Press, 2002, viii + 296, US$60 (cloth). Edited by David Archard;, Colin M. Macleod;, eds.. Oxford University Press. Oxford and New York. Pp. viii + 296. US$60 (cloth).,     

Moral Realism: A Defence

Book Information Moral Realism: A Defence. Moral Realism: A Defence Russ Shafer-Landau, Oxford : Clarendon Press, 2003, x + 322, £35 (cloth) By Russ Shafer-Landau. Clarendon Press. Oxford. Pp. x + 322. £35 (cloth:),     

Travels in Four Dimensions: The Enigmas of Space and Time

Book Information Travels in Four Dimensions: The Enigmas of Space and Time. Travels in Four Dimensions: The Enigmas of Space and Time Robin Le Poidevin, Oxford : Clarendon Press, 2003, xvii + 275, £14.99 (cloth); £8.99 (paper) By Robin Le Poidevin. Clarendon Press. Oxford. Pp. xvii + 275. £14.99 (cloth:); £8.99 (paper:),     

Time and Memory: Issues in Philosophy and Psychology

Book Information Time and Memory: Issues in Philosophy and Psychology. Time and Memory: Issues in Philosophy and Psychology Christoph Hoerl and McCormack Teresa, eds., Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2001, xiii + 419, £45 (cloth), £17.99 (paper) Edited by Christoph Hoerl; and McCormack Teresa. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Pp. xiii + 419. £45 (cloth:), £17.99 (paper:),     

The principle of recombination and the principle of distinctness: A puzzle for Armstrong's theory of modality

Book Information Agency and Responsibility: A Common-Sense Moral Psychology. Agency and Responsibility: A Common-Sense Moral Psychology Jeanette Kennett New York Oxford University Press 2001 viii + 229 Hardback US$45 By Jeanette Kennett. Oxford University Press. New York. Pp. viii + 229. Hardback:US$45,     

The Limits of Abstraction

Book Information The Limits of Abstraction. The Limits of Abstraction Kit Fine, Oxford : Clarendon Press, 2002, x + 203, £18.99 (cloth). By Kit Fine. Clarendon Press. Oxford. Pp. x + 203. £18.99 (cloth).,     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed:
stecker, robert . Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art . Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005, viii + 253 pp., $75.00 cloth, $24.95 paper.
leaman, oliver . Islamic Aesthetics: An Introduction . University of Notre Dame Press, 2004, vii + 211 pp., $50.00 cloth, $25.00 paper.
banes, sally , ed. Reinventing Dance in the 1960s: Everything Was Possible . University of Wisconsin Press, 2003, 200 pp., 17 b&w illus., $55.00 cloth, $19.95 paper.
meskimmon, marsha . Women Making Art: History, Subjectivity, Aesthetics . London/New York: Routledge, 2003, xiv + 225 pp., $99.95 cloth, $29.95 paper.
brand peg and mary devereaux , eds. Hypatia . Special Issue on Feminism and Aesthetics, Volume 18, 2003. Indiana University Press, xx + 305 pp., $12.00 paper.
jenkyns, richard . A Fine Brush on Ivory: An Appreciation of Jane Austen . Oxford University Press, 2004, ix + 215 pp., $25.00 cloth.
miller, d. a.   Jane Austen, or the Secret of Style . Princeton University Press, 2003, 108 pp., $29.95 cloth, $12.95 paper.
katz, mark . Capturing Sound: How Technology Has Changed Music . University of California Press, 2004, xiii + 276 pp., 2 b&w illus., CD, $49.95 cloth, $19.95 paper.
philip robert . Performing Music in the Age of Recording . Yale University Press, 2004, vii + 252 pp., $35.00 cloth.
symes, colin . Setting the Record Straight: A Material History of Classical Recordings . Wesleyan University Press, 2004, xiii + 313 pp., 41 illus., $39.95 cloth.
cox, christoph and daniel warner , eds. Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music . New York: Continuum Press, 2004, xvii + 454 pp., $100.00 cloth, $19.95 paper.
ginsberg, robert . The Aesthetics of Ruins . Amsterdam/New York: Ropodi, 2004, xx + 538 pp., 103 b&w illus., $144.00 cloth.     

BOOK REVIEWS

HANDBOOK OF RELIGION AND SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS. Edited by Helen Rose Ebaugh. New York: Springer, 2005. xxii + 439 pp. $199.00 cloth, $69.95 paper.
A CHURCH OF OUR OWN: DISESTABLISHMENT AND DIVERSITY IN AMERICAN RELIGION. By R. Stephen Warner. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2005. ix + 307 pp. $65.00 cloth, $24.95 paper.
SACRED CIRCLES, PUBLIC SQUARES: THE MULTICENTERING OF AMERICAN RELIGION, by Arthur E. Farnsley II, N. J. Demerath III, Etan Diamond, Mary Mapes, and Elfriede Wedam. Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2004. 272 pp. $45.00 cloth.
SAVING SOULS, SERVING SOCIETY: UNDERSTANDING THE FAITH FACTOR IN CHURCH-BASED SOCIAL MINISTRY. By Heidi Rolland Unruh and Ronald J. Sider. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. 323 pp. $35.00 cloth.
POLITICS AND RELIGION IN THE WHITE SOUTH. Edited by Glenn Feldman. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2005. xiii + 386 pp. $55.00 cloth.
AGAINST ALL ODDS: THE STRUGGLE FOR RACIAL INTEGRATION IN RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS. By Brad Christerson, Korie L. Edwards, and Michael O. Emerson. New York: New York University Press, 2005. ix + 197 pp. $55.00 cloth; $19.00 paper.
A MOSAIC OF BELIEVERS: DIVERSITY AND INNOVATION IN A MULTIETHNIC CHURCH. By Gerardo Marti. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2005. ix + 239 pp. $39.95 cloth.
T. D. JAKES: AMERICA'S NEWEST PREACHER. By Shayne Lee. New York: New York University Press, 2005. x+201 pp. $27.95 cloth.
QUOTING GOD: HOW MEDIA SHAPE IDEAS ABOUT RELIGION AND CULTURE. Edited by Claire Hoertz Badaracco. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2005. xv + 307 pp. $$29.95 paper.
THERE'S NEVER BEEN A SHOW LIKE VEGGIE TALES: SACRED MESSAGES IN A SECULAR MARKET. By Hillary Warren. Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press. 2005. $55.00 cloth, $19.95 paper.
SCHOLARSHIP AND CHRISTIAN FAITH: ENLARGING THE CONVERSATION. By Douglas Jacobsen and Rhonda Hustedt Jacobsen. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. viii–190 pp. $35.00 cloth.     

BOLZANO'S GESAMTAUSGABE

William Of Ockham Quodlibetal Questions Vols. 1 and 2 translated by Alfred J. Freddoso and Francis E. Kelley, Yale University Press 1991. ISBN 0–300–04832–7 (set)

The Philosophical Writings of Descartes Vol. III: The Correspondence trans. by J. Cottingham, R. Stoothoff, D. Murdoch and A. Kenny Cambridge University Press, 1991, xviii + 412 pp

Cartesian Method and the Problem of Reduction by Emily R. Grosholz, Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1991. viii + 161 pp

Cartesian Logic: An Essay on Descartes's Conception of Inference by Stephen Gaukroger, Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1989. viii + 145 pp

La philosophie d'Antoine Arnauld by A. R. Ndiaye, Paris: J. Vrin, 1991. 376 pp

Stuart Brown, ed. Nicolas Malebranche: His Philosophical Critics and Successors Assen: Van Gorcum, 1991, 173 pp

The Equality of the Sexes by François Poulain de la Barre, Classics of Philosophy and Science, translated with an introduction and notes by Desmond M. Clarke, Manchester University Press: Manchester and New York, 1990, pp. 149, £35.00

Expérience et Raison: les Fondements de la Morale selon Locke by J. M. Vienne, Paris, Vrin, 1991, 298 pp

Rezension der Schrift: ‘Britische Gassendi‐Rezeption am Beispiel John Lockes’ von Rolf W. Puster, (Quaestiones. Themen und Gestalten der Philosophie 3), Friedrich Frommann Verlag. Stuttgart‐Bad Cannstatt 1991 (168 Seiten)

The Light of the Soul Theories of Ideas in Leibniz, Malebranche and Descartes by Nicholas Jolley, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1990. pp. x + 209

The New Art of Autobiography: An Essay On the Life of Giambattista Vico Written by Himself by Donald Phillip Verene, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991. pp. xi + 263. Price £30.00

The Metaphysics of Morals by Immanuel Kant, trans. Mary Gregor, Cambridge University Press, 1992, £30.00 h/b, £10.95 pb

Kant and his Influence ed. by G. MacDonald Ross and T. McWalter, Bristol: Thoemmes, 1990. pp. xv + 374. £40.00

Menachem Fisch William Whewell: Philosopher of Science Oxford: Clarendon Press (Oxford University Press), 1991. pp. xiv + 220. £30. ISBN 0 19 824240 9

Bradley: A Research Bibliography by Richard Ingardia. Bowling Green, Ohio: Philosophy Documentation Center, 1991. pp. 195. US$35. ISBN 0–912632–88–7

Russell's Idealist Apprenticeship by Nicholas Griffin, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991. pp. xiv + 410. Price £45.00     

Reviews

Reviewed
Susan Neiman, Evil in Modern Thought , 2002, Princeton: Princeton University Press, pp. xxii + 358.
Matt Cavanagh, Against Equality of Opportunity , 2002, Oxford, Oxford University Press, pp. viii +223, £25.
Herbert McCabe OP, God Still Matters , ed Brian Davies OP, 2002, London, New York: Continuum, pp. xiv + 250, £16.99 pb.
Evelyn Fox Keller, Making Sense of Life; Explaining Biological Development With Models, Metaphors and Machines , 2002, Harvard University Press, pp. xii + 302, £19.95 cloth.
John H. Whittaker, ed., The Possibilities of Sense , 2002, Palgrave, pp. 303, £52.50, $68.00.     

Willing,Wanting, Waiting

Book Information Culture and Equality. Culture and Equality Brian Barry, Cambridge: Polity Press, 2001, xi + 399, US$19.95 (paper) By Brian Barry. Cambridge: Polity Press. Pp. xi + 399. US$19.95 (paper:),     

Two Ways to Smoke a Cigarette

In the early part of the paper, I attempt to explain a dispute between two parties who endorse the compositionality of language but disagree about its implications: Paul Horwich, and Jerry Fodor and Ernest Lepore. In the remainder of the paper, I challenge the thesis on which they are agreed, that compositionality can be taken for granted. I suggest that it is not clear what compositionality involves nor whether it obtains. I consider some kinds of apparent counterexamples, and compositionalist responses to them in terms of covert indexicality and unspecific meanings. I argue that the last option is the best for most of the cases I consider. I conclude by stressing, as against Horwich and Fodor and Lepore, that the appropriate question concerns the extent to which compositionality obtains in a natural language, rather than whether it obtains or not, so that the answer is essentially messy, requiring detailed consideration of a wide range of examples.     

Reasoning,Meaning, and Mind

Book Information Reasoning, Meaning, and Mind. By Gilbert Harman. Clarendon Press. Oxford. 1999. Pp. viii + 291. Hardback, $120.00.     

The Liberal Archipelago: A Theory of Diversity and Freedom

Book Information The Liberal Archipelago: A Theory of Diversity and Freedom. The Liberal Archipelago: A Theory of Diversity and Freedom Chandran Kukathas, Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2003, xii + 292, £25.00 (cloth), US $45.00 (cloth) By Chandran Kukathas. Oxford University Press. Oxford. Pp. xii + 292. £25.00 (cloth:), US $45.00 (cloth:),     

Doing What Comes Naturally: Recent Work on Thomas Aquinas and the New Natural Law Theory

John Finnis, Aquinas: Moral, Political, and Legal Theory. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1998, xxi+385 pp., $55.00 (hardback) ISBN 0 19 87808 42, $18.95 (paperback) ISBN 0 19 878085 0.

Robert P. George, In Defense of Natural Law. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1999, 343 pp., $65.00 (hardback) ISBN 0 19 82677 11, $19.95 (paperback) ISBN 0 19 92429 92     

Book reviews

Perspectives on Quantum Reality: Non‐Relativistic, Relativistic, and Field‐Theoretic, Rob Clifton, Ed., 1996. Dordrecht, The Netherlands Kluwer Academic Publishers, xi + 243, US$112.00, ISBN 0–7923–3812‐X

Reconstruction of Scientific Theory Change (Russian title: Rekonstrukcija Processa Smeni Fundamentalnih Nauchnih Teorii), Rinat M. Nugayev, 1989. Kazan, Kazan University Press, 208 pp., ISBN: 5–7464–0240–0

The Beat of a Different Drum: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman, Jagdish Mehra, 1994. Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp. xxxii + 630, US$19.95 (Pbk), ISBN 0 19 853948 (Hbk), ISBN 0 19 851887 0 (Pbk)     

Book Reviews

LOGIC AND SCIENCE

W. KNORR, The ancient tradition of geometric problems. Boston, Basel, Stuttgart:Birkhauser, 1986. ix+411 pp., 9 plts. SFr 128.

D. PEARCE, Roads to commensurability. Dordrecht, Boston, Lancaster, and Tokyo: D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1987. xi + 253 pp. £46/$59.

RAFFAELLA SIMILI [ed.], Logica, metodo e scienze in Gran Bretagna (1860-1930). Turin: Loescher, 1986. 272 pp. 16 000 Lire.

LOGIC AND SCIENCE

SEPPO SAJAMA and MATTI KAMPPINEN. A historical introduction to phenomenology. London, New York, Sydney: Croom Helm, 1987. vii + 131 pp. £22.50 (hardback)/£8.95 (paperback).

GRAHAM MACDONALD and CRISPIN WRIGHT (eds.), Fact, science and morality: Essays on A. J. Ayer's Language, truth and logic. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1986. 314 pp. £27.50.

BARRY GOWER (ed.). Logical positivism in perspective: Essays on Language, truth and logic. London Croom Helm, 1987. viii + 129 pp. £20.00.

CHRISTOPHER CHERNIAK, Minimal rationality. Cambridge, Mass.: Bradford and MIT Press, 1986. x+ 161 pp. £19.95.

RADU J. BOGDAN (ed.) Jaakko Hintikka. (Projiles, volume 8.) Dordrecht: D. Reidel, 1987. 382 pp. US$89.

LOGIC AND SCIENCE

E. J. REULAND and A. G. B. TER MEULEN (eds.), The representation of (in) definiteness.Cambridge, (Mass.) and London: M.I.T. Press, 1987. xiv+ 344 pp. £27.50.

E. F. KITTAY, Metaphor: its cognitive force and linguistic structure. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987. x + 358 pp. £35.00.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article:
CULTS, RELIGION, AND VIOLENCE. Edited by David G. Bromley and J. Gordon Melton. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 270 pp. $60.00 cloth; $22.00 paper.
THE DESTRUCTIVE POWER OF RELIGION: VIOLENCE IN JUDAISM, CHRISTIANITY, AND ISLAM. Edited by J. Harold Ellens. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2004. 4 volumes. $300.00 cloth.
SACRED FURY: UNDERSTANDING RELIGIOUS VIOLENCE. By Charles Selengut. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, 2003. viii + 269 pp. $69.00 cloth, $24.95 paper.
ETHNORELIGIOUS CONFLICT IN THE LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY: A GENERAL THEORY. By Jonathan Fox. New York: Lexington Books, 2002. ix + 253pp. $70.00 cloth.
COMPETITIVE SPIRITS: LATIN AMERICA'S NEW RELIGIOUS ECONOMY. By R. Andrew Chesnut. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. xvi +189 pp. $35.00 cloth.
NEW DAY BEGUN: AFRICAN AMERICAN CHURCHES AND CIVIC CULTURE IN POST-CIVIL RIGHTS AMERICA. Edited by R. Drew Smith. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003. x + 310 pp. $29.95 cloth.
FAITH, MORALITY, AND CIVIL SOCIETY. Edited by Dale McConkey and Peter Augustine Lawler. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2003. xvii + 232 pp. $70.00 cloth; $24.95 paper.
RELIGION AS SOCIAL CAPITAL: PRODUCING THE COMMON GOOD. Edited by Corwin Smidt. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2003. vii + 266 pp. $34.95 paper.
THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT IN AMERICAN POLITICS: MARCHING TO THE MILLENNIUM. Edited by John C. Green, Mark J. Rozell, and Clyde Wilcox. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2003. viii + 296 pp. $44.95 cloth; $24.95 paper.
THE PROPHETIC PULPIT: CLERGY, CHURCHES, AND COMMUNITIES IN AMERICAN POLITICS. By Paul A. Djupe and Christopher P. Gilbert. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2003. xi + 257 pp. $80.00 cloth; $28.95 paper.
BLACK MAGIC: RELIGION AND THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CONJURING TRADITION. By Yvonne P. Chireau. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2003. ix + 222 pp. $34.95, cloth.