In its comprehensive overview of Alain Locke's pragmatist philosophy this book captures the radical implications of Locke's approach within pragmatism, the critical temper embedded in Locke's works, the central role of power and empowerment of the oppressed and the concept of broad democracy Locke employed.

This interreligious dialogue--in which alternating chapters present each woman's thoughts, with a response by the other--grew out of a workshop Gross and Ruether presented in Loveland, Ohio, in 1999. Their conversations range across themes including: What is most problematic about my tradition? What is most liberating about my tradition? What is most inspiring for me about the other tradition? And, finally, religious feminism and the future of the planet. The two feminist thinkers and writers present widely diverging life histories and (...) faiths, but they reach agreement on the issue at hand--what Buddhism and Christianity can offer the struggle to create ecological sustainability. The work has no subject index. c. Book News Inc. (shrink)

Provability, Computability and Reflection.

In this paper we study the systemsP andP * (see Arruda and da Costa,O paradoxo de Curry-Moh Shaw-Kwei, Boletim da Sociedade Matemtica de São Paulo 18 (1966)) and some related systems. In the last section, we prove that certain set theories havingP andP * as their underlying logics are non-trivial.

This is a competent book about a rich and tantalizing topic, the nature and status of the emotions aroused by fictional characters and events. The problem, simply stated, is how a person--say, a member of a theater audience--can be emotionally moved by a scene which he or she fully knows to be play-acted, the suffering on stage merely feigned. The underlying assumption, of course, is that emotions have certain cognitive presuppositions, one of which, presumably, is the actual existence of the (...) facts or states of affairs that provoke them. This suggests what the author calls "a paradox of belief" according to which one must both believe and not believe in the reality of a certain state of affairs, and the book is devoted to the resolution of this seeming paradox. He pursues a number of suggestions, beginning with what he considers the origin of the paradox in a 1975 article by Colin Radford, who argued that such emotions involve us in incoherence and inconsistency, through a number of suggestions ranging from the "reformist" to the "radical", all of which he argues to be inadequate. Boruah's own solution--which he calls "conservative"--is to distinguish what he calls the "evaluative" from the "existential" beliefs involved in emotion, insisting that essential evaluative beliefs are common to both real-life as well as fictional examples even if the latter do not satisfy existential requirements. In such cases, it is the imagination, coupled with belief, that explains the legitimacy of what the author awkwardly calls "fictional emotions.". (shrink)

C A Wringe; Pupils’ Rights, Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 7, Issue 1, 30 May 2006, Pages 103–115, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9752.1973.tb00475.

Our trust in the word of others is often dismissed as unworthy, because the illusory ideal of "autonomous knowledge" has prevailed in the debate about the nature of knowledge. Yet we are profoundly dependent on others for a vast amount of what any of us claim to know. Coady explores the nature of testimony in order to show how it might be justified as a source of knowledge, and uses the insights that he has developed to challenge certain widespread assumptions (...) in the areas of history, law, mathematics, and psychology. (shrink)

Book reviewed in this article:F.H. Bradley, Collected Works Volumes 1–5.

Open peer commentary on the target article “From Objects to Processes: A Proposal to Rewrite Radical Constructivism” by Siegfried J. Schmidt. Upshot: Siegfried J. Schmidt’s process-oriented constructivism, with which he proposes to dissolve the debate about realism, offers myriad intellectual challenges to constructivists from numerous different disciplines. While “From Objects to Processes” seems to represent a review of Schmidt’s work rather than a new addition to the debate, it derives in a convincing fashion the importance of a process- and action-based (...) unending constructivism from a combination of Schmidt’s own previous positions and a number of central epistemological questions. (shrink)