Some Recent Work in Epistemology

A Priori Justification . By Albert Casullo.
Epistemic Justification: Internalism vs Externalism, Foundations vs Virtues . By Laurence BonJour and Ernest Sosa.
New Essays on Semantic Externalism and Self-Knowledge . Edited by Susana Nuccetelli.
Pathways to Knowledge: Private and Public . By Alvin I. Goldman.
The Sceptics: Contemporary Essays . Edited by Steven Luper.
Thinking about Knowing . By Jay F. Rosenberg.     

Recent Work in Moral Anthropology

This special focus issue brings to the Journal of Religious Ethics fresh considerations of moral anthropology as practiced by four emergent voices within the field. Each of these essays, in varying ways, seeks not only to advance an understanding of ethics in a particular time, place, and context, but to draw our attention to shared aspects of the human condition: its discontinuities and fractures, its practices of perception and attention, its interplays of emotion, intuition, and reason, and its thoroughly intersubjective nature. To learn something of Thai Buddhist life‐worlds, contemporary Russian modes of being, or the experience of immorality in today's China, each essay argues in turn, is to gain new insight into ourselves.     

Recent work in the Philosophy of Mind

Peter Carruthers, Language, Thought and Consciousness
David J. Chalmers, The Conscious Mind
Fred Dretske, Naturalizing the Mind
Steven W. Horst, Symbols, Computation and Intentionality
Jaegwon Kim, Philosophy of Mind
Michael Tye, Ten Problems of Consciousness     

Introduction: Recent Currents in Marxist Philosophy

Introduction: Recent Currents in Marxist Philosophy     

Comments on Ofelia Schutte's Work in Feminist Philosophy

This paper on Ofelia Schutte's work discusses five main themes: gender oppression in the context of Latin American theories of social liberation; normative heterosexuality in Beauvoir and Irigaray; Schutte's analysis of women and capitalist globalization processes; her work on cultural identities; and the possibility of feminist transnational identities. 1 conclude with a comment on her postcolonial epistemological method in addressing cultural incommensurability and the possibility of a common agenda for transnational feminism.     

Kant and Kantian Themes in Recent Analytic Philosophy

This article notes six advances in recent analytic Kant research: (1) Strawson's interpretation, which, together with work by Bennett, Sellars, and others, brought renewed attention to Kant through its account of space, time, objects, and the Transcendental Deduction and its sharp criticisms of Kant on causality and idealism; (2) the subsequent investigations of Kantian topics ranging from cognitive science and philosophy of science to mathematics; (3) the detailed work, by a number of scholars, on the Transcendental Deduction; (4) the clearer understanding of transcendental idealism sparked by reactions to Allison's epistemic account; (5) the resulting need—prompted also by new studies of the thing in itself—to face up to the old question of the philosophical defensibility of such idealism; and (6) the active engagement with Kant's ethics and political philosophy that derives from Rawls's and others' work.     

Philosophy as Anti-Religion in the Work of Alain Badiou

The Heideggerian rupture in the history of philosophy in the name of a phenomenological and poetic ontology has provided an opening which many of the key figures in twentieth century continental thought have exploited. However, this opening was marked by Heidegger himself as an ambiguous one, insofar as metaphysics was perhaps integrally ‘onto-theology,’ that is, ultimately continuous with the world-historical capture of the thought of being. This piece argues that the philosophy of Alain Badiou, which departs from the recognition that Heidegger is the ‘last universally recognised philosopher’, provides the means for a radical reconsideration of the philosophy-theology relationship in its specifically Heideggerian form, involving as it does further questions of science and technology, the status of the poem, and the nature of ontological thought as such. We argue that, through the deployment of mathematics as ontology, the Gordian knot of onto-theology and its legion of consequences can be cut, and a new assemblage of many of the key Heideggerian motifs can be put into play: the poem, history, and philosophy itself.

当代中国的法哲学研究

引　　言中国法哲学① 研究还存在着什么问题 ?这是当代中国法哲学界的许多学者都在认真思考的问题。探讨该问题的存在方式及其解决办法 ,是推进中国法哲学发展的一个重要途径。法哲学思考着政治、法律、社会根本制度的普遍性问题和社会生活中涉及人们切身利益的根本性问题 ,如     

中医科学与中医文化有关问题的思考

对中医文化属性与科学属性的片面认识及相关内容归属的混乱,导致了一些重大中医科研项目的选题错误。预设附着于传统文化外衣下的专业概念、专业理论的科学真理性所进行的实证研究不可能获得预期结果。中医学的文化研究应当梳理出其核心价值体系,中医学的现代化研究应当与这一核心价值体系相统一。     

近期文化哲学研究回溯

世纪之交,中国文化哲学已经成为哲学研究中的显学。近年来,这一领域的研究得到了进一步的推进。本文首先从文化哲学总体认识的深化、马克思主义与文化哲学的关系、全球化背景下的文化冲突与文化转型等三个方面对这一进展进行回顾,并在此基础上对中国文化哲学的研究提出了前瞻。     

Reality and Philosophy: Reflections on Cora Diamond's Work

The publication of Cora Diamond's important 2002 “The Difficulty of Reality and the Difficulty of Philosophy” (in Philosophy and Animal Life) stimulated the writing of this essay. “The Difficulty of Reality and the Difficulty of Philosophy” attempted to show that there are experiences of reality (recounted especially in literature like John Coetzee's novels and Ted Hughes' poetry) in relation to which philosophical concepts and words encounter difficulty. The experiences resist conceptualization. By examining several of Diamond's earlier writings, I try to show that the difficulty of philosophical conceptualization of reality is due to the fact that reality does not exist external to experience. Reality being internal to experience means that reality contains an unfixed set of possibilities. Being experiential, reality is historical. The historical dimension of reality – such as the reality of animal life suffering – makes the words through we describe this reality too weak, i.e. they are not powerful enough to capture reality, hence the difficulty. Consequently, as I argue, for Diamond, the weakness of words means that words are never complete concepts. The meaning of them seems always still to come since reality seems always to have a surplus of possibilities. I suggest that because of this always still “to come” aspect of the meaning of words, we might characterise Diamond's thought as a messianism.     

A Note on Issues in Recent Work on One-Hand Catching

Whiting’s (1986) comments on the necessity of viewing the hand in one-hand catching are acknowledged, and several empirical issues are raised for consideration. These issues revolve around (a) the two components of one-hand catching, (b) lack of independence of position and grasp errors, and (c) specificity of skill.     

近年来中国文化哲学研究的新进展

关于文化的哲学思考过去 2 0年一直是中国哲学研究的热点之一。但是 ,由于文化在人的生存和社会活动领域中的内在性特征 ,关于文化哲学的研究一直散见于哲学的不同研究领域中 ,以至于人们常常不知如何为文化哲学定位与归类。但有一点可以肯定的是 ,世纪转换年文化哲学研究的最大特点是越来越明确地走向自觉。一、关于文化哲学本身的自觉反思2 0 0 0年一系列直接以文化哲学为题的研究成果对于文化哲学的定位、形态、研究状况等问题进行了自觉的探讨与反思。(一 )文化哲学的重新定位　很多学者倾向于把文化哲学界定为一种新的哲学范式。衣俊卿…