REVIEWS

Faith and Understanding, Paul Helm, Edinburgh University Press 1997 God, Reason and Theistic Proofs, Stephen T. Davis, Edinburgh University Press 1997 An Introduction to Pastoral Care, Charles V. Gerkin, Abingdon Press 1997 A Preserving Grace. Protestants, Catholics and Natural Law, Michael Cromartie (ed), Ethics and Public Policy Center and Eerdmans 1997 Laughing Gods, Weeping Virgins: Laughter in the History of Religion, Ingvild S. Gilhus, Routledge 1997 Visions and Longings. Medieval Women Mystics, Monica Furlong, Mowbray/Cassell 1996 Women Confronting the Holocaust In Spite of the Horror, Jutta T. Bendremer, Edwin Mellen Press 1997 Political Christianity: A Reader, David McLellan (ed), SPCK 1997 Freedom of Religion and Belief. A world report, Kevin Boyle and Juliet Sheen (eds) Religion Without Transcendence?, D.Z. Phillips and Timothy Tessin (eds) Contemporary Philosophy of Religion, Charles Taliaferro A Feminist Philosophy of Religion: The Rationality and Myths of Religious Belief Jewish Perspectives on Christianity, Fritz A. Rothschild (ed) Allah in the West. Islamic Movements in America and Europe, Gilles Kepel Qur'ān, Liberation and Pluralism: an Islamic Perspective of Interreligious Solidarity against Oppression, Farid Esack Ambrose, Boniface Ramsey OP (The Early Church Fathers ed Carol Harrison) The Quest of the Historical Gospel: Mark, John and the Origins of the Gospel Genre, Lawrence M. Wills The Gospel of Luke, Joel B. Green (ed), (The New International Commentary on the New Testament) Moral Leadership in a Postmodern Age, Robin Gill, T.&T. Clark 1997 Ethics and the Old Testament, John Barton, SCM Press 1998     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
Rae Langton, Kantian Humility: Our Ignorance of Things in Themselves
Julia Annas, Platonic Ethics, Old and New
Cynthia A. Freeland (ed.), Feminist Interpretations of Aristotle
Christopher Williams, A Cultivated Reason: an Essay on Hume and Humeanism
John I. Jenkins, Knowledge and Faith in Thomas Aquinas
John Finnis, Aquinas: Moral, Political, and Legal Theory
Stewart Shapiro, Philosophy of Mathematics: Structure and Ontology
John Burgess and Gideon Rosen, A Subject with No Object: Strategies for Nominalistic Interpretation of Mathematics
Peter Smith, Explaining Chaos
Sahotra Sarkar, Genetics and Reductionism
Antony Duff (ed.), Philosophy and the Criminal Law: Principle and Critique
Susan Haack, Manifesto of a Passionate Moderate: Unfashionable Essays
Jean-Pierre Dupuy (ed.), Self-Deception and Paradoxes of Rationality
Peter French and Howard Wettstein (eds), Philosophy of the Emotions     

Book Reviews

Garrett Cullity and Berys Gaut (eds), Ethics and Practical Reason
Frank Jackson, From Metaphysics to Ethics: a Defence of Conceptual Analysis
John Martin Fischer and Mark Ravizza, Responsibility and Control: a Theory of Moral Responsibility
Ruth Chang, Incommensurability, Incomparability, and Practical Reason
Mary Warnock, An Intelligent Person's Guide to Ethics
R.A. Duff, Criminal Attempts
Derek Bolton and Jonathan Hill, Mind, Meaning and Mental Disorder: the Nature of Causal Explanation in Psychology and Psychiatry
David Archard, Sexual Consent
Matthew Kieran, Media Ethics: a Philosophical Approach
John Cottingham, Philosophy and the Good Life: Reason and the Passions in Greek, Cartesian and Psychoanalytic Ethics
Richard Swinburne, Providence and the Problem of Evil
Simon Glendinning, On Being with Others: Heidegger – Derrida – Wittgenstein     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
Richard G. Botzler and Susan J. Armstrong (eds) Environmental Ethics: Divergence and Convergence (2nd edition)
T. D. J. Chappell (ed) The Philosophy of the Environment
David E. Cooper and Joy A. Palmer (eds) The Spirit of the Environment: Religion, Value, and Environmental Concern
Owen Goldin and Patricia Kilroe (eds) Human Life and the Natural World: Readings in the History of Philosophy     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
Raymond D. Boisvert, John Dewey: Rethinking Our Time
Larry A. Hickman, ed., Reading Dewey: Interpretations for a Postmodern Generation
Jennifer Welchman, Dewey's Ethical Thought
Richard Shusterman, Practicing Philosophy: Pragmatism and the Philosophical Life
Richard E. Hart and Douglas R. Anderson, eds., Philosophy in Experience: American Philosophy in Transition
Richard Kearney, Poetics of Modernity: Toward a Hermeneutic Imagination     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Pasquale Frascolla, Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Mathematics, Routledge.
Anthony Kenny (ed), The Wittgenstein Reader.
Robert B. Brandom; Making It Explicit: Reasoning, Representing, and Discursive Commitment.
John Horton and Susan Mendus, eds., After Maclntyre, 1994.
Michael Smith. The Moral Problem
Catherine Osborne, Eros Unveiled: Plato and the God of Love.
Richard Schacht, The Future of Alienation
R. Jay Wallace, Responsibility and the Moral Sentiments
Susan Sauvé Meyer. Aristotle on Moral Responsibility: Character and Cause.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
G.E.R., Lloyd Aristotelian Explorations
Barry, Stroud The Quest for Reality
John, Greco Putting Skeptics in their Place: the Nature of Skeptical Arguments and their Role in Philosophical Inquiry
Mark, Rowlands The Body in Mind
Thomas, Hibbs and John, O'Callaghan (eds) Recovering Nature
Margaret, Morrison Unifying Scientific Theories: Physical Concepts and Mathematical Structures
David S., Oderberg Moral Theory: a Non-Consequentialist Approach
David S., Oderberg Applied Ethics: a Non-Consequentialist Approach
David, Carr and Jan, Steutel (eds) Virtue Ethics and Moral Education
Thomas F., Green Voices: the Educational Formation of Conscience
Craig, Carr On Fairness
Keith, Burgess-Jackson (ed.) A Most Detestable Crime: New Philosophical Essays on Rape
James E., Crimmins (ed.) Utilitarians and Religion
R.A., Sharpe Music and Humanism: an Essay in the Aesthetics of Music     

Book Reviews

R. Hursthouse, G. Lawrence and W. Quinn (eds) Virtues and Reasons: Philippa Foot and Moral Theory
Gilbert Harman and Judith Jarvis Thomson Moral Relativism and Moral Objectivity
Deal W. Hudson Happiness and the Limits of Satisfaction
Jean Hampton Political Philosophy
Philippe van Parijs Real Freedom for All: What (If Anything) Can Justify Capitalism
David Miller and Michael Walzer (eds) Pluralism, Justice, and Equality
Norman Daniels Justice and Justification: Reflective Equilibrium in Theory and Practice
Dennis Patterson (ed.) A Companion to Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory
Brian Bix Law, Language and Legal Determinacy
Mark Kaplan Decision Theory as Philosophy
Susan Haack Evidence and Enquiry
Ellery Eells and Brian Skyrms (eds) Probabilities and Conditionals
John Bacon Universals and Property Instances: the Alphabet of Being
Nicholas Jolley (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Leibniz
Barry Smith and David Woodruff Smith (eds) The Cambridge Companion to Husserl
Brian McGuinness and G.H. von Wright (eds) Ludwig Wittgenstein: Cambridge Letters     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Victor H. Matthews, Bernard M. Levinson and Tikva Frymer‐Kensky (eds), Gender and Law in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East Neil Asher Silberman and David B. Small, The Archaeology of Israel: Constructing the Past, Interpreting the Present Erich S. Gruen, Heritage and Hellenism: The Reinvention of Jewish Tradition Brenda Deen Schildgen, Power and Prejudice: The Reception of the Gospel of Mark David C. Sim, The Gospel of Matthew and Christian Judaism: The History and Social Setting of the Matthean Community Allan D. Fitzgerald (ed), Augustine Through the Ages: An Encyclopedia Lionel R. Wickham, Hilary of Poitiers: Conflicts of Conscience and Law in the Fourth‐Century Church Aidan Nichols, The Word Has Been Abroad: A Guide Through Balthasar's Aesthetics Aidan Nichols, No Bloodless Myth: A Guide Through Balthasar's Dramatics Paul Avis, God and the Creative Imagination: Metaphor, Symbol and Myth in Religion and Theology Garrett Green, Imagining God: Theology and the Religious Imagination L. William Countryman, The Poetic Imagination: An Anglican Spiritual Tradition Raphael Gallagher and Seán Cannon (eds), Seán O'Riordan, A Theologian of Development: Selected Essays James Alison, The Joy of Being Wrong: Original Sin Through Easter Eyes Peter Byrne, The Moral Interpretation of Religion Brian Davies (ed), Philosophy of Religion: A Guide to the Subject Grace M. Jantzen, Becoming Divine: Towards a Feminist Philosophy of Religion Keith E. Yandell, Philosophy of Religion: A Contemporary Introduction Louis Dupré, Religious Mystery and Rational Reflection: Excursions in the Phenomenology and Philosophy of Religion Michael E. Allsopp (ed), Ethics and the Catechism of the Catholic Church Charles E. Curran, The Catholic Moral Tradition Today: A Synthesis Bernard Hoose (ed), Christian Ethics: An Introduction Paul Goodliff, Care in a Confused Climate: Pastoral Care and Postmodern Culture Souzy Dracopoulou (ed), Ethics and Values in Health Care Management Michael Parker, Ethics and Community in the Health Care Professions Hans Küng and Walter Jens, A Dignified Dying: A Plea for Personal Responsibility Robin Gill (ed), Euthanasia and the Churches Gerald Dworkin, R. G. Frey and Sissela Bok, Euthanasia and Physician‐Assisted Suicide Caroline Dunn, Ethical Issues in Mental Illness David Smith, Life and Morality: Contemporary Medico‐Moral Issues Gilbert C. Meilaender, Body, Soul and Bioethics David E. Cooper and Joy A. Palmer (eds), Spirit of the Environment J. Milburn Thompson, Justice and Peace: A Christian Primer Maura M. Ryan and Todd David Whitmore(eds), The Challenge of Global Stewardship: Roman Catholic Responses Celia Deane‐Drummond, Theology and Biotechnology: Implications for a New Science John O'Neill, The Market: Ethics, Knowledge and Politics Erika Rummel, The Humanist–Scholastic Debate in the Renaissance and the Reformation Inger Ekrem, Minna Skafte Jensen and Egil Kraggerud (eds), Reformation and Latin Literature in Northern Europe M. C. Questier (ed), Newsletters from the Archpresbyterate of George Birkhead Jeffrey von Arx (ed), Varieties of Ultramontanism Frank J. Coppa(ed), Controversial Concordats: The Vatican's Relations with Napoleon, Mussolini and Hitler A. J. Hoover, God, Britain and Hitler in World War II: The View of the British Clergy, 1939–;1945 Pierre Blet, Pius XII and the Second World War according to the Archives of the Vatican Peter Harrison, The Bible, Protestantism and the Rise of Natural Science Michael P. Hornsby‐Smith (ed), Catholics in England, 1950–2000: Historical and Sociological Perspectives Carol K. Coburn and Martha Smith, Spirited Lives: How Nuns Shaped Catholic Culture and American Life, 1836–1920 Robert E. Burns, Being Catholic, Being American: The Notre Dame Story, 1842–1934 Paul C. Gutjahr, An American Bible: A History of the Good Book in the United States, 1777–1880 Harriet A. Harris, Fundamentalism and Evangelicals Jeffrey Richards, Scott Wilson and Linda Woodhead (eds),Diana: The Making of a Media Saint     

Book Reviews

Robinson, Howard Perception
Macnamara, John and Reyes, Gonzalo E. (eds) The Logical Foundations of Cognition
Michael, M. and O'Leary-Hawthorne, J. (eds) Philosophy in Mind
McCulloch, Gregory The Mind and its World
Wilson, Robert A. Cartesian Psychology and Physical Minds
Harris, Henry (ed.), Identity
Landman, Janet Regret: the Persistence of the Possible
Miller, David Critical Rationalism: a Restatement and Defence
Stevenson, Leslie and Byerly, Henry The Many Faces of Science
Fogelin, Robert J. Pyrrhonian Reflections on Knowledge and Justification
Sessions, William Lad The Concept of Faith: a Philosophical Investigation
Copp, David Morality, Normativity and Society
Kane, Robert Through the Moral Maze: Searching for Absolute Values in a Pluralistic World
Gellner, Ernest Encounters with Nationalism
Hadot, Pierre Philosophy as a Way of Life; Spiritual Exercises from Socrates to Foucault
Grayling, A.C. (ed.), Philosophy: a Guide Through the Subject
Bunning, Nicholas and Tsui-James, E.P. (eds) The Blackwell Companion to Philosophy     

Book Reviews

Knowing Persons: a Study in Plato. By Lloyd Gerson.
Cognition of Value in Aristotle's Ethics: Promise of Enrichment, Threat of Destruction. By Deborah Achtenberg.
Aristotle: Political Philosophy. By Richard Kraut.
Mind, Metaphysics and Value in the Thomistic and Analytical Traditions. Edited By John Haldane.
Thomas Aquinas: Approaches to Truth. Edited By James Mcevoy and Michael Dunne
After Aquinas: Versions of Thomism. By Fergus Kerr
Aquinas. By Brian Davies
Thomas Aquinas on Human Nature. By Robert Pasnau
A Companion to Early Modern Philosophy. Edited By Steven Nadler
Kant: a Biography. by Manfred Kuehn
Knowledge and its Place in Nature. by Hilary Kornblith
Belief's Own Ethics. By Jonathan E. Adler
Intellectual Trust in Oneself and Others. by Richard Foley
Impartiality in Moral and Political Philosophy. by Susan Mendus
The Culture of Toleration in Diverse Societies. Edited by Catriona Mckinnon and Dario Castiglione
The Moral and Political Status of Children. Edited by David Archard and Colin Macleod     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Rethinking Democracy: freedom and social cooperation in politics, economy and society . Carol C. Gould
Thinking about Nature: an investigation of nature, value and ecology . Andrew Brennan
Feminist Theory and the Philosophies of Man . Andrea Nye
Feminist Perspectives in Philosophy . Morwenna Griffiths & Margaret Whitford
Ethics in Nursing Practice . F. J. Fitzpatrick
Ethics, Technology and Medicine . David Braine & Harry Lesser
Cost and Choice in Health Care . Albert Weale (Ed.)
Politics, Innocence, and the Limits of Goodness . Peter Johnson     

Book Reviews

Scruton, Roger Modern Philosophy: An Introduction and Survey
Fraser, Nancy and Bartky, Sandra Lee (eds) Revaluing French Feminisms: Critical Essays on Difference, Agency and Culture
Friedman, Marilyn What are Friends For? Feminist Perspectives on Personal Relationships and Moral Theory     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
Jeffrey A. Barrett, The Quantum Mechanics of Minds and Worlds
Timothy O'Hagan, Rousseau
Gail Fine (ed), Plato 1: Metaphysics and Epistemology
Gail Fine (ed), Plato 2; Ethics, Politics, Religion and the Soul
Fiona Cowie, What's Within: Nativism Reconsidered
Peter Dews, Habermas: A Critical Reader
Richard Wollheim, On the Emotions
Pierre Keller, Husserl and Heidegger on Human Experience
James Van Cleve, Problems from Kant
Arthur Collins, Possible Experience
Rae Langton, Kantian Humility: Our Ignorance of Things in Themselves
Miranda Fricker and Jennifer Hornsby (eds), Feminism in Philosophy     

Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Philosophical Explanations, by Robert Nozick
Wittgenstein: Language and World, by John V. Canfield
Wittgenstein and his Times, edited by Brian McGuinness
Through a Darkening Glass by D. Z. Phillips
Rights, Killing, and Suffering: Moral Vegetarianism and Applied Ethics, by R. G. Frey.
The Expanding Circle: Ethics and Sociobiology, by Peter Singer
G. Stuart Watts, The Revolution of Ideas: Philosophy, Religion and Some "Ultimate Questions" (Sydney, Hale & Iremonger; 1982)     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Mark Munn, The School of History: Athens in the Age of Socrates Kathryn Morgan, Myth and Philosophy from the Presocratics to Plato Mary Margaret McCabe, Plato and his Predecessors: The Dramatization of Reason Johannes M. van Ophuijsen (ed), Plato and Platonism(Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy, volume 33). Nicholas D. Smith and Paul B. Woodruff (eds), Reason and Religion in Socratic Philosophy Andrew Gregory, Plato's Philosophy of Science Hugh H. Benson, Socratic Wisdom: The Model of Knowledge in Plato's Early Dialogues Angela Hobbs, Plato and the Hero: Courage, Manliness and the Impersonal Good Melissa Lane, Plato's Progeny: How Plato and Socrates still Captivate the Modern Mind Alan G. Gross and Arthur E. Walzer (eds), Rereading Aristotle's Rhetoric Edward Grant, God and Reason in the Middle Ages John Marenbon and Giovanni Orlandi (eds), Peter Abelard’s Collationes (Oxford Medieval Texts). Terence Penelhum, Themes in Hume: The Self, the Will, Religion Stephan R. Palmquist, Kant's Critical Religion John Lippitt, Humour and Irony in Kierkegaard's Thought David B. Allison, Reading the New Nietzsche: The Birth of Tragedy, The Gay Science, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, On the Genealogy of Morals Maurice Blondel, The Idealist Illusion and Other Essays Daniel O. Dahlstrom, Heidegger's Concept of Truth Lawrence J. Hatab, Ethics and Finitude: Heideggerian Contributions to Moral Philosophy Michel Foucault, L’Herméneutique du sujet: Cours au Collège de France (1981–1982) W. W. Meissner, Freud and Psychoanalysis Scott Sturgeon, Matters of Mind: Consciousness, Reason and Nature David Jopling, Self–Knowledge and the Self Douglas C. Langston, Conscience and Other Virtues: From Bonaventure to MacIntyre Martin Rhonheimer, Natural Law and Practical Reason: A Thomist View of Moral Autonomy Philippa Foot, Natural Goodness John Leslie, Infinite Minds. A Philosophical Cosmology Berys Gaut and Dominic McIver Lopes (eds), The Routledge Companion to Aesthetics Paul Kurtz, Embracing the Power of Humanism John Gray, Two Faces of Liberalism Donald A. Hay and Alan Kreider (eds), Christianity and the Culture of Economics (Religion, Culture and Society). Marcia Bunge (ed), The Child in Christian Thought Dean Hoge, Willian Dinges, Mary Johnson and Juan Gonzales, Young Adult Catholics Stephan C. Barton, Life Together: Family, Sexuality and Community in the New Testament and Today Colin E. Gunton, Stephen R. Holmes and Murray A. Rae (eds), The Practice of Theology: A Reader David Jobling, Tina Pippin and Ronald Schleifer (eds), The Postmodern Bible Reader Thomas L. Martin (ed), Reading the Classics with C. S. Lewis     

Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Ethics Without Philosophy: Wittgenstein and the Moral Life, James C. Edwards, Tampa, University of South Florida,1982,
T. Penelhum, God and Skepticism, D Reidel Publishing     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
R. A. Duff, Punishment, Communication, and Community
Mark D. Jordan, The Ethics of Sex
Julia Driver, Uneasy Virtue
Philip Pettit, A Theory of Freedom
Maria Dimova–Cookson, T.H. Green's Moral and Political Philosophy: A Phenomological Perspective
Bernard Bosanquet, The Philosophical Theory of the State, and Related Essays     

REVIEWS

The Bible and the Modern World, D.J.A. Clines, Sheffield Academic Press 1997 Introduction to Biblical Studies, Steve Moyise, Cassell 1998 The Book of Hiding. Gender, Ethnicity, Annihilation and Esther, Timothy K. Beal Listening In. A Multicultural Reading of the Psalms, S. B. Reid The Acts of the Apostles: A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary, Ben Witherington III The Moral Vision of the New Testament: Community, Cross, New Creation. A Contemporary Introduction to New Testament Ethics, Richard B. Hays, T. & T. Clark 1997 The Nations that Know Thee Not. Ancient Jewish Attitudes towards Other Religions, R. Goldenberg Western Scholarship and the History of Palestine, Michael Prior (ed) Theodicy, Dan Cohn-Sherbok (ed) The Intellectual Foundations of Christian and Jewish Discourse: the Philosophy of Religious Argument, J. Neusner and B. Chilton, Routledge 1997 The Jewish-Christian Controversy: From the Earliest Times to 1789, Volume 1 - History, Samuel Krauss and William Horbury (eds), JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) 1997 Defenders of Reason in Islam. Mu'tazilism from Medieval School to Modern Symbol, Richard C. Martin and Mark R. Woodward with Dwi S. Atmaja, Oneworld 1997 Religious Renunciation of a Pastoral People, Vinay Kumar Srivastava, Oxford University Press, Delhi 1997 Providential Accidents. An Autobiography, Geza Vermes, SCM Press 1998 Care in a Confused Climate: Pastoral Care and Postmodern Culture, Paul Goodliff, Darton, Longman and Todd 1998 The Jubilee Challenge: Utopia or Possibility? Hans Ucko (ed) Thinking Things Through 4. Why Evil and Suffering?, C.S. Rodd The Fascination of Evil, Concilium 1998/1, David Tracy and Hermann Haring (eds) A Love and its Sounding. Explorations of T. S. Eliot, Christopher Southgate, with a Foreword by Anne Stevenson, University of Salzburg 1997 Art, Modernity and Faith. Restoring the Image, George Pattison, SCM Press, 2nd edn 1998 Makers of Christian Theology in America, Mark G. Toulouse and James O. Duke (eds) To Speak of God in the Twilight Towards a Theology of Mission in the Postmodern World, Tiziano Tosolini, Gracewing 1997 Who Comes in the Name of the Lord?: Jesus at the Margins, Harold J. Recinos Beyond All Reason - The Limits of Post-Modern Theology, John Reader, Aureus 1997 Millennium, Messiahs and Mayhem. Contemporary Apocalyptic Movements, Thomas Robbins and Susan J. Palmer (eds), Routledge 1997 Post-Secular Philosophy: Between Philosophy and Theology, Phillip Blond (ed) Kierkegaard: A Critical Reader, Jonathan Ree and Jane Chamberlain (eds) Tentmaking. Perspectives on Self-Supporting Ministry, James M. M. Francis and Leslie J. Francis (eds) The Mystery of Baptism in the Anglican Tradition, Kenneth Stevenson, John Henry Newman: Universal Revelation, Francis McGrath, Burns and Oates 1997     

Book Reviews

Books Reviews in this Article Wisdom, Information and Wonder. What is Knowledge For? Epistemic Responsibility Marx and Ethics Moral Powers: normative necessity in language and history Karl Marx and the Philosophy of Praxis Pornography in a Free Society State Punishment; political principles and community values The Oppositional Imagination: feminism, critique and political theory A Theory of Determinism: The Mind, Neuroscience and Life-hopes