Book reviews

John Herman Randall, Jr. Plato: Dramatist of the Life of Reason. New York: Columbia University Press, 1970. Pp. xiv, 274. Indexed. $7.50.

Gottfried Martin. General Metaphysics: Its Problems and Method. Translated by Daniel O'Connor. London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1968. Pp. 1–368. Indexed. $8.50.

Nicholas Rescher. Essays in Philosophical Analysis. Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1969. Pp. viii, 430. Indexed. $14.95.

Rollo Handy. Value Theory and the Behavioral Sciences. Springfield, Ill.: Charles C. Thomas, 1969. Pp. vii, 198. Indexed. $8.00.

Morris Lazerowitz. Philosophy and Illusion. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1968. Pp. 1–262. Indexed. $7.25.

K. T. Fann, Ed. Symposium on J. L. Austin. New York: Humanities Press, 1969. Pp. 486. Indexed. $11.00.

Robert E. Butts. William Whewell's Theory of Scientific Method. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1968. Pp. 1–352. Indexed. $8.50.

Robert J. Fogelin. Experience and Meaning: Studies in Analytical Philosophy. New York: Humanities Press, 1967. Pp. xi, 187. Indexed. $6.50.

Harry G. Frankfurt. Demons, Dreamers, and Madmen: The Defence of Reason in Descartes's Meditations. Indianapolis: Bobbs‐Merrill, 1970. Pp. 1–193. Indexed. $7.95.

Maurice Merleau‐Ponty. The Visible and the Invisible. Followed by Working Notes, edited by Claude Lefort. Translated by Alphonso Lingis. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1968. Pp. 1–275. Indexed. $9.50.     

From Autocracy to Empowerment: Teams with Shared Leadership Perceive their Coaches to be Better Leaders

Sports coaches often fear that empowering the players in their team would undermine their own leadership status. To investigate the legitimacy of this perception, we mapped the leadership structure within 64 sports teams (N = 840). The results highlight that the perceived leadership quality of the coaches is positively related to the density of their team's leadership networks (i.e., the average leadership qualities of all players). This finding held for task, motivational, social, and external leadership. The best coaches are thus the ones who adopt a shared leadership approach and who strengthen the leadership quality of their players.

Lay Summary

Sports coaches often feel that empowering the players in their teams undermines their own leadership status. This study investigates the legitimacy of this perception within 64 sports teams. Our findings provide evidence for the opposite view; by creating and developing leaders in their teams, coaches are perceived as better leaders themselves.     

Category-specific impairments? No. A critique of Sartori et al.

In this paper we examine the claim by Sartori, Miozzo, and Job (this issue) that their patient Michelangelo exhibits a category-specific deficit in naming living things. We conclude that their data are flawed in many respects and offer no reasonable basis for the conclusions they wish to draw. In addition their further claim that the data reported by Stewart, Parkin, and Hunkin (1992) are artefactual is not supported in any substantial way by examination of the findings.