• Acknowledgments; Introduction; From Poetic Revolution to Intimate Revolt; Intimate Revolt in Dark Times; New Forms of Revolt; Essays on Intimate Politics; Works Cited; Part I: Kristeva: Revolt and Political Action;
• 1. New Forms of Revolt; Adolescence: A Syndrome of Ideality; Motherhood Today;
• 2. Spectacle and Revolt: On the Intersection of Psychoanalysis and Social Theory in Julia Kristeva's Work; The Logic of the Imaginary; Cinema and Fantasy; Cinema and the Thought Specular; Society of the Spectacle; Aesthetic Experience; Conclusion; Works Cited

• 3. The Chiasmus of Action and Revolt: Julia Kristeva, Hannah Arendt, and Gillian RoseKristeva on Revolt; Rose on Action; Revolt and Political Risk: Premodern Worlds; Modern Worlds: The Chiasmus; Notes; Works Cited; Part II: Imagining New Intimacies: Anti-Racist, Aesthetic, and Clinical Revolts;
• 4. Revolt and the Lettered Self; The Lettered Self; Revolution in Poetic Language and the Colonial Thetic; Reinvesting Revolt; Works Cited;
• 5. Extimate Trauma, Intimate Ethics: Kristevan Revolt in the Artwork of Kara Walker; Cutting into Kara Walker's Trauma Aesthetic

• Witnessing the Extimate Trauma of the RealThe Intimate Ethics of Aesthetic Revolt; Works Cited;
• 6. Patient Interpretation: Kristeva's Model for the Caregiver; The Medical Humanities and Narrative Ethics; Kristeva's Hatred and Forgiveness; Patient Interpretation: Kristeva's Model for Patient Care; Patient Interpretation Compared; Patient Interpretation and the Space for Revolt; Conclusion; Notes; Works Cited; Part III: Language and Narrative in Kristeva;
• 7. Language as Poeisis: Linguistic Productivity and Forms of Resistance in Kristeva and Saussure

• Linguistic Objects, Poetic Subjects: Saussure and KristevaSpeaking Subjects: Saussure's Linguistics Revisited; The Poetics of Revolt; Notes; Works Cited;
• 8. Peregrine Genius and Thought-Things: Julia Kristeva and Hannah Arendt on Revolt as Salutary Estrangement; Notes; Works Cited;
• 9. Eurydicean Revolt and Metam-Orphic Writing in Arendt and Kristeva; The Human Condition and the "Backward Glance" of the Storyteller; The Invisible Life of the Mind; Femininity and the Possibility of Eurydicean Revolt; Kristeva's Desensing; Notes; Works Cited

• 10. At the Risk of Thinking: On Writing an Intellectual Biography of Julia KristevaPart 1; Part 2; Notes; Works Cited; Contributors; Index

• Notes on Contributors ix Acknowledgements xvii Introduction 1Laura Hengehold Part I Re reading The Second Sex 13 A. Reception and scholarship 13
• 1 Beauvoir s Transdisciplinarity: From Philosophy to Gender Theory 15Stella Sandford
• 2 The Intellectual and Social Context of The Second Sex 28Sandra Reineke
• 3 The Limits of the Abject. The Reception of Le Deuxieme Sexe in 1949 37Ingrid Galster
• 4 Simone de Beauvoir and the Race/Gender Analogy in The Second Sex Revisited 47Kathryn T. Gines
• 5 Two English Translations of Simone de Beauvoir s The Second Sex 59Emily R. Grosholz B. Central Themes 71
• 6 Beauvoir and the Biological Body 73Ruth Groenhout
• 7 Becoming Bodies 87Emily Anne Parker
• 8 The Drama of Independence: Narcissism, Childhood, and the Family Complexes 99Emily Zakin
• 9 The Second Sexuality: Training in the Work of Simone de Beauvoir and Michel Foucault 111Mary Beth Mader
• 10 Beauvoir and the Ambiguities of Motherhood 122Alison Stone
• 11 Laboring with Beauvoir: In Search of the Embodied Subject in Childbirth 134Sara Cohen Shabot
• 12 Simone de Beauvoir on Motherhood and Destiny 146Nancy Bauer
• 13 Love According to Simone de Beauvoir 160Tove Pettersen
• 14 Why is Woman the Other? 174Tanella Boni Part II Beauvoir s Intellectual Engagements 185
• 15 Beauvoir and Hegel 187Kimberly Hutchings
• 16 Simone de Beauvoir s Relation to Hegel s Absolute 198Zeynep Direk
• 17 Beauvoir and Merleau ]Ponty 211Jennifer McWeeny
• 18 Beauvoir and Merleau ]Ponty on Freedom and Authenticity 224William Wilkerson
• 19 Beauvoir and the Marxism Question 236Sonia Kruks
• 20 Beauvoir Between Structuralism and Aleatory Materialism 249Eva D. Bahovec
• 21 Unweaving the Threads of Influence: Beauvoir and Sartre 260Christine Daigle Part III Beyond The Second Sex 271 A. Beauvoir s Ethics and Political Philosophy 271
• 22 Pyrrhus and Cineas : The Conditions of a Meaningful Life 273Kristana Arp
• 23 Separation and Queer Connection in The Ethics of Ambiguity 286Laura Hengehold
• 24 Simone de Beauvoir on Violence and Politics 299Lori J. Marso
• 25 Why Rape? Lessons from The Second Sex 311Debra Bergoffen
• 26 Simone de Beauvoir, Women s Oppression and Existential Freedom 325Patricia Hill Collins B. Beauvoir and the Art of Philosophical Fiction 339
• 27 Beauvoir as Literary Writer 341Meryl Altman
• 28 Simone de Beauvoir and the Dialectic of Desire in L invitee 356Anne van Leeuwen
• 29 The Failure of Female Identity in Simone de Beauvoir s Fiction 367Shannon M. Mussett
• 30 The Power of Literature: Simone de Beauvoir s Les Mandarins and the Metaphysical Novel 379Sally J. Scholz C. Beauvoir s Scope: Memory, History, and Age 391
• 31 Beauvoir, Philosophy, and Autobiography 393Margaret A. Simons
• 32 Witnessing Self, Witnessing Other in Beauvoir s Life Writings 406Ursula Tidd
• 33 Simone de Beauvoir: Women and Philosophy of History 418Michel Kail
• 34 The Postwar World According to Beauvoir 429William McBride
• 35 Afterlives: Beauvoir s Old Age and the Intersections of The Second Sex 438Penelope Deutscher Part IV Beauvoir and Contemporary Feminism 449
• 36 Race after Beauvoir 451Shannon Sullivan
• 37 Who Is the Subject of The Second Sex? Life, Science, and Transmasculine Embodiment in Beauvoir s Chapter on Biology 463A. Alexander Antonopoulos
• 38 Misunderstanding in Paris 478Karen Vintges
• 39 Beauvoir s Legacy to the Quartiers: The Changing Face of French Feminism 489Diane Perpich
• 40 Second Languaging The Second Sex, Its Conceptual Genius: A Translingual Contemporization of On ne nait pas femme: on le devient. 500Kyoo Lee Index 514.
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The work of Simone de Beauvoir has endured and flowered in the last two decades, thanks primarily to the lasting influence of The Second Sex on the rise of academic discussions of gender, sexuality, and old age. Now, in this new Companion dedicated to her life and writings, an international assembly of prominent scholars, essayists, and leading interpreters reflect upon the range of Beauvoir s contribution to philosophy as one of the great authors, thinkers, and public intellectuals of the twentieth century. The Companion examines Beauvoir s rich intellectual life from a variety of angles including literary, historical, and anthropological perspectives and situates her in relation to her forbears and contemporaries in the philosophical canon. Essays in each of four thematic sections reveal the breadth and acuity of her insight, from the significance of The Second Sex and her work on the metaphysics of gender to her plentiful contributions in ethics and political philosophy. Later chapters trace the relationship between Beauvoir s philosophical and literary work and open up her scholarship to global issues, questions of race, and the legacy of colonialism and sexism. The volume concludes by considering her impact on contemporary feminist thought writ large, and features pioneering work from a new generation of Beauvoir scholars. Ambitious and unprecedented in scope, A Companion to Simone de Beauvoir is an accessible and interdisciplinary resource for students, teachers, and researchers across the humanities and social sciences.
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• Introduction A Croce Reader Aesthetics Philosophy History Literary Criticism The Baroque Bibliography.
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Benedetto Croce was a historian, humanist, political figure, and the foremost Italian philosopher of the early twentieth-century. A Croce Reader brings together the author's most important works across the fields of aesthetics, philosophy, history, literary criticism, and the Baroque and presents the "other" Croce that has been erased by scholarly tradition, including by Croce himself. Massimo Verdicchio traces the progress of Croce as a thinker, focusing on his philosophy of absolute historicism and its aesthetic implications. Unlike other anthologies, A Croce Reader includes essays from the Aesthetics of 1902 and key studies on Vico, Hegel, and Pirandello. Verdicchio's masterful translation of the source material welcomes specialists and non-specialists alike to discover the "other" Croce for themselves.
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• The Foucault-Derrida Debate on the Argument Concerning Madness and Dreams / Pierre Macherey
• Looking Back at History of Madness / Lynne Huffer
• Violence and Hyperbole: From "Cogito and the History of Madness" to The Death Penalty / Michael Naas
• Must Philosophy Be Obligatory?: History versus Metaphysics in Foucault and Derrida / Colin Koopman
• "The Common Root of Meaning and Nonmeaning": Derrida, Foucault, and the Transformation of the Transcendental Question / Thomas Khurana
• Philosophies of Immanence and Transcendence: Reading History of Madness with Derrida and Habermas / Amy Allen
• Foucault, Derrida: The Effects of Critique / Judith Revel
• A Petty Pedagogy? Teaching Philosophy in Derrida's "Cogito and the History of Madness" / Samir Haddad
• Power and the "Drive for Mastery": Derrida's Freud and the Debate with Foucault / Robert Trumbull
• "This Death Which Is Not One": Reproductive Biopolitics and the Woman as Exception in The Death Penalty, Volume 1 / Penelope Deutscher
• From Reprisal to Reprise / Olivia Custer
• The Truth About Parrhesia: Philosophy, Rhetoric, and Politics in Late Foucault / Geoffrey Bennington.

Early in their careers, Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida argued over madness, reason, and history in an exchange that profoundly influenced continental philosophy and critical theory. In this collection, Amy Allen, Geoffrey Bennington, Lynne Huffer, Colin Koopman, Pierre Macherey, Michael Naas, and Judith Revel, among others, trace this exchange in debates over the possibilities of genealogy and deconstruction, immanent and transcendent approaches to philosophy, and the practical and theoretical role of the archive.
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• List of Contributors vii Foreword ix Alvin I. Goldman Preface x Part I Reliabilism, Internalism, and Externalism 1
• 1 Internalism, Reliabilism, and Deontology 3 Michael Williams Reply to Michael Williams
• 2 Goldman against Internalism 22 Laurence BonJour Reply to BonJour
• 3 Historical versus Current Time Slice Theories in Epistemology 43 Thomas Kelly Reply to Kelly
• 4 The Justification of Memory Beliefs: Evidentialism, Reliabilism, Conservatism 69 Matthew McGrath Reply to McGrath
• 5 Unreliable Testimony 88 Elizabeth Fricker Reply to Fricker Part II Epistemological Trouble-Shooting and Social Epistemology 125
• 6 Process Reliabilism and Virtue Epistemology 127 Ernest Sosa Reply to Sosa
• 7 Goldman on Evidence and Reliability 149 Jack C. Lyons Reply to Lyons
• 8 A Naturalistic Approach to the Generality Problem 178 Erik J. Olsson Reply to Olsson
• 9 Veritism and Epistemic Value 200 Duncan Pritchard Reply to Pritchard
• 10 The Condorcet Jury Theorem and Voter -Specific Truth 219 Christian List and Kai Spiekermann Reply to List and Spiekermann Part III Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Mind, and Metaphysics 235
• 11 Knowledge and Reliability 237 Jennifer Nagel Reply to Nagel
• 12 Goldman on Knowledge of Mind 259 Christopher S. Hill Reply to Hill
• 13 Under Influence: Is Altercentric Bias Compatible with Simulation Theory? 280 Frederique de Vignemont and Hugo Mercier Reply to Vignemont and Mercier
• 14 Finding the Body in the Brain: From Simulation Theory to Embodied Simulation 297 Vittorio Gallese Reply to Gallese
• 15 Embodiment in Perception: Will We Know It When We See It? 318 Chaz Firestone Reply to Firestone
• 16 Cognitive Science and Metaphysics: Partners in Debunking 337 Jonathan Schaffer Reply to Schaffer Appendix: Alvin Goldman s Publications 369 Index 379.
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Goldman and His Critics presents a series of original essays contributed by influential philosophers who critically examine Alvin Goldman s work, followed by Goldman s responses to each essay. * Critiques Alvin Goldman s groundbreaking theories, writings, and ideas on a range of philosophical topics * Features contributions from some of the most important and influential contemporary philosophers * Covers Goldman s views on epistemology both individual and social in addition to cognitive science and metaphysics * Pays special attention to Goldman s writings on philosophy of mind, including the evolution of his thoughts on Simulation-Theory (ST).
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• Notes on Contributors ix Introduction: Life and Work 1 Ernie Lepore and Kirk Ludwig Part I Action Theory 13
• 1 Action Explanation 15 Ralf Stoecker
• 2 Practical Reason 32 Agnes Callard
• 3 Action Individuation 48 Hugh J. McCann
• 4 Freedom to Act 62 Olav Gjelsvik
• 5 Intention 75 Luca Ferrero Part II Metaphysics 91
• 6 Event Variables and Their Values 93 Paul M. Pietroski
• 7 Causation 126 John Heil
• 8 Davidson's "Method of Truth" in Metaphysics 141 William G. Lycan
• 9 The Concept of Truth 156 Michael Glanzberg Part III Philosophy of Language 173
• 10 Truth in the Theory of Meaning 175 Ernie Lepore and Kirk Ludwig
• 11 Parataxis 191 Adam Sennet
• 12 Logical Form 208 Miguel Hoeltje
• 13 Radical Interpretation and the Principle of Charity 225 Peter Pagin
• 14 Davidson's Measurement-Theoretic Analogy 247 Piers Rawling
• 15 Reference 264 J. Robert G. Williams
• 16 Language and Thought 287 A.P. Martinich
• 17 Conceptual Schemes 300 David Henderson
• 18 Interpretation and Value 314 Robert H. Myers
• 19 Predication 328 Jeff Speaks
• 20 Convention and Meaning 339 Kathrin Gluer
• 21 Metaphor and Varieties of Meaning 361 Elisabeth Camp
• 22 Davidson and Literary Theory 379 Samuel C. Wheeler III Part IV Philosophy of Mind 393
• 23 The Larger Philosophical Signifi cance of Holism 395 Carol Rovane
• 24 Anomalous Monism 410 Brian P. McLaughlin
• 25 Triangular Externalism 443 Sven Bernecker
• 26 Triangulation 456 Claudine Verheggen
• 27 Rationality as a Constitutive Ideal 472 Michael Rescorla
• 28 Irrationality 489 Sarah Stroud
• 29 The Rationality of the Emotions 506 Mitchell Green Part V Epistemology 519
• 30 Davidson and Radical Skepticism 521 Duncan Pritchard
• 31 First-Person Authority 533 William Child
• 32 Knowledge of Other Minds in Davidson's Philosophy 550 Anita Avramides Part VI Influences and Influence 565
• 33 Quine and Davidson 567 Hans-Johann Glock
• 34 Davidson and Contemporary Philosophy 588 Pascal Engel Name Index 605 General Index 609.
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A Companion to Donald Davidson presents newly commissioned essays by leading figures within contemporary philosophy. Taken together, they provide a comprehensive overview of Davidson's work across its full range, and an assessment of his many contributions to philosophy. Highlights the breadth of Davidson's work across philosophy Demonstrates the continuing influence his work has on the philosophical community Includes newly commissioned contributions from leading figures in contemporary philosophy Provides an in-depth exposition and analysis of Davidson's work across the range of areas to which he contributed, including philosophy of action, epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mind.
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Originally published between 1968 and 2009, this collection of 25 pieces includes six interviews translated into English for the first time and a new transcription of a Q&A session with Baudrillard following a lecture he gave in London in 1994. The guiding theme of the collection is Baudrillard's engagement with culture. The implications of the implosion of Western culture are dissected and documented in the rich range of material included here.
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How was the universe created, and what is our place within it? These are the questions at the heart of Plotinus' Against the Gnostics. For the Gnostics, the universe came into being as a result of the soul's fall from intelligible reality-it is the evil outcome of a botched creation. Plotinus challenges this, and insists that the soul's creation of the world is the necessary consequence of its contemplation of the ideal forms. While the Gnostics claim to despise the visible universe, Plotinus argues that such contempt displays their ignorance of the higher realities of which the cosmos is a beautiful image. Against the Gnostics is a polemical text. It aims to show the superiority of Plotinus' philosophy over that of his Gnostic rivals, and poses unique challenges: Plotinus nowhere identifies his opponents by name, he does not set out their doctrines in any great detail, and his arguments are frequently elliptical. The detailed commentary provides a guide through these difficulties, making Plotinus' meandering train of thought in this important treatise accessible to the reader.
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The physician and commentator Sergius of Reshaina (d. 536) composed two related texts in Syriac about the philosophy of Aristotle, chiefly dealing with themes discussed by Aristotle in his Categories, but also with his teaching on space as found in the Physics. This book presents a critical edition and English translation of the shorter of these texts. A survey of Sergius' life and works is given in the introduction and the intellectual context of his education in Alexandria is outlined, with focus on the medical and philosophical curricula of the Alexandrian school. Sergius' line of thought is clarified and his text is compared to Greek commentaries on the Categories that also present the teaching of his Neoplatonist master Ammonius Hermeiou.
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• List of Abbreviations (Works by Derrida) ix Notes on Contributors xv Introduction 1 Zeynep Direk and Leonard Lawlor Part I Fundamental Themes and Concepts in Derrida s Thought 21
• 1 Truth in Derrida 23 Christopher Norris
• 2 A Certain Truth: Derrida s Transformation of the Kantian Heritage 42 Olivia Custer
• 3 Difference 57 Claire Colebrook
• 4 The Obscurity of Differance
• 72 Gary Gutting
• 5 Metaphor and Analogy in Derrida 89 Geoffrey Bennington
• 6 The Slow and Differentiated Machinations of Deconstructive Ethics 105 Kelly Oliver
• 7 Deconstruction 122 Leonard Lawlor
• 8 The Transcendental Claim of Deconstruction 132 Maxime Doyon
• 9 Writing the Violence of Time: Derrida Beyond the Deconstruction of Metaphysics 150 Bjorn Thorsteinsson
• 10 Derrida s Radical Atheism 166 Martin Hagglund
• 11 Play and Messianicity: The Question of Time and History in Derrida s Deconstruction 179 Francoise Dastur
• 12 I See Your Meaning and Raise the Stakes by a Signature: The Invention of Derrida s Work 194 Peggy Kamuf
• 13 An Immemorial Remainder: The Legacy of Derrida 207 Rodolphe Gasche Part II Derrida and ... 229
• 14 Derrida and Ancient Philosophy (Plato and Aristotle) 231 Michael Naas
• 15 There Is Neither Jew Nor Greek: The Strange Dialogue Between Levinas and Derrida 251 Robert Bernasconi
• 16 The Crystallization of the Impossible: Derrida and Merleau-Ponty at the Threshold of Phenomenology 269 Sabrina Aggleton
• 17 The Politics of Writing: Derrida and Althusser 287 Edward Baring
• 18 Derrida and Psychoanalysis 304 Elizabeth Rottenberg
• 19 Derrida and Barthes: Speculative Intrigues in Cinema, Photography, and Phenomenology 321 Louise Burchill
• 20 Derrida and de Man: Two Rhetorics of Deconstruction 345 J. Hillis Miller
• 21 Fraternal Politics and Maternal Auto-Immunity: Derrida, Feminism, and Ethnocentrism 362 Penelope Deutscher
• 22 Antigone as the White Fetish of Hegel and the Seductress of Derrida 378 Tina Chanter
• 23 Art s Work: Derrida and Artaud and Atlan 391 Andrew Benjamin
• 24 Heidegger and Derrida on Responsibility 412 Francois Raffoul
• 25 On Faith and the Holy in Heidegger and Derrida 430 Ben Vedder and Gert-Jan van der Heiden
• 26 Safe, Intact : Derrida, Nancy, and the Deconstruction of Christianity
• 447 Kas Saghafi
• 27 Derrida and the Trace of Religion 464 John D. Caputo
• 28 Derrida and Islamic Mysticism: An Undecidable Relationship 480 Recep Alpyadyl
• 29 Derrida and Education 490 Samir Haddad Part III Areas of Investigation 507
• 30 A Philosophy of Touching Between the Human and the Animal: The Animal Ethics of Jacques Derrida 509 Patrick Llored
• 31 Poetry, Animality, Derrida 524 Nicholas Royle
• 32 On Forgiveness and the Possibility of Reconciliation 537 Ann V. Murphy
• 33 Cosmopolitanism to Come: Derrida s Response to Globalization 550 Fred Evans
• 34 The Flipside of Violence, or Beyond the Thought of Good Enough 565 Leonard Lawlor
• 35 Derrida/Law: A Differend 581 Pierre Legrand Bibliography of Secondary Sources on Derrida 599 Index 605.
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A Companion to Derrida is the most comprehensive single volume reference work on the thought of Jacques Derrida. Leading scholars present a summary of his most important accomplishments across a broad range of subjects, and offer new assessments of these achievements. * The most comprehensive single volume reference work on the thought of Jacques Derrida, with contributions from highly prominent Derrida scholars * Unique focus on three major philosophical themes of metaphysics and epistemology; ethics, religion, and politics; and art and literature * Introduces the reader to the positions Derrida took in various areas of philosophy, as well as clarifying how derrideans interpret them in the present * Contributions present not only a summary of Derrida s most important accomplishments in relation to a wide range of disciplines, but also a new assessment of these accomplishments * Offers a greater understanding of how Derrida s work has fared since his death.
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• Speculative philosophy : method and function
• The speculative approach to existence : process and individuation
• Experiences and societies : thinking nature.

Didier Debaise focuses in on Whitehead s attempt to construct a metaphysical system of everything in the universe that exists whilst simultaneously claiming that it can account for every element of our experience, giving us a radically new way of conceiving the relations between experience and speculation.
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A radically new philosophy of experience and speculation, based on a reading of Whitehead's Process and Reality Can experience be thought systematically without transforming the richness of the world as it is lived into reductive philosophical generalities? Can the method of empiricism ever be reconciled with a method of systematic cosmological speculation? Didier Debaise's reading of Whitehead shows clearly what a philosophy that makes this possible looks like, how it works and what is at stake. He focuses in on Whitehead's attempt to construct a metaphysical system of everything in the universe that exists whilst simultaneously claiming that it can account for every element of our experience: everything enjoyed and perceived, willed or thought.
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• Intro; Preface; Contents; Editors and Contributors; 1 Memories of Hilary Putnam; Reference; 2 Bibliography of Hilary Putnam's Writings in Logic and Mathematics; Logic and the Philosophy of Logic; 3 Logic, Counterexamples, and Translation; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Logic and Quantum Mechanics; 3.3 The Argument for Empirical Logic Revision; 3.4 Disjunction(s) and Distributivity; 3.5 Falsity and Failure to Be True; 3.6 Some Final Observations on Logical Form; References; 4 Putnam's Theorem on the Complexity of Models; References; 5 Extendability and Paradox; 5.1 Introduction

• 5.2 The Burali-Forti Paradox5.3 Semantic Paradoxes; References; 6 The Metaphysics of the Model-Theoretic Arguments; 6.1 Epistemic Humility; 6.2 The Model-Theoretic Picture; 6.2.1 Reductio ad Absurdum; 6.3 The Skolemite Argument; 6.4 Just More Theory; 6.5 The Renunciation of the Notion of the `Thing in Itself'; References; 7 Normativity and Mechanism; 7.1 Putnam's Rejoinder; 7.2 Normatively Reflective Representations; 7.3 Escaping the Soundness Argument; 7.4 Ampliative Accumulation: Gödel; 7.5 Effectively Presented Non-monotonic Structures; 7.6 A Limitative Argument

• 7.7 Normative Status of Solvability7.8 Concluding Remarks; 8 Changing the Subject: Quine, Putnam and Waismann on Meaning-Change, Logic, and Analyticity; References; Mathematics, Foundations, and Philosophy of Mathematics; 9 Putnam on Foundations: Models, Modals, Muddles; 9.1 Putnam, Logic, and Foundations; 9.2 A View of His Sketch; 9.3 Modality and Mathematics; 9.4 Mathematics as Modal Logic; 9.5 Equivalent Descriptions; 9.6 Objections and Replies; 9.7 Contrasting Pictures; References; 10 Pragmatic Platonism; 10.1 Gödel's Platonism; 10.2 Gödel Incompleteness and the Metaphysics of Arithmetic

• 10.3 Infinity in the Seventeenth Century10.4 Putnam's Defense of ``Realism''; 10.5 Robustness of Formalism; 10.6 The Ontology of Mathematics; 10.7 Infinity Today; 10.8 Hilary Punam's ``Depressing Survey''; References; 11 Abstraction, Axiomatization and Rigor: Pasch and Hilbert; 11.1 Introduction; 11.2 Background; 11.3 Semantic Abstraction and Premisory Surreption; 11.4 Axiomatic Reasoning and Rigor in Hilbert; 11.5 Conclusion; References; 12 Concrete Mathematical Incompleteness: Basic Emulation Theory; 12.1 Introduction; 12.1.1 Basic Emulation Theory; 12.1.2 ON Q[0, 1]

• 12.2 General Maximal Emulation12.3 Maximal Emulation on Q[0, 1]; 12.3.1 ME Usability; 12.3.2 Finite Relations; 12.3.3 Large Relations; 12.3.4 Small Relations; 12.3.5 Exotic Proof; 12.3.6 r-Emulation; 12.4 General Conjectures; Appendix A: The Stationary Ramsey Property; Appendix B: Formal Systems Used; References; 13 Putnam's Constructivization Argument; 13.1 The Constructivization Argument; 13.2 Commentary and Criticisms; 13.3 Constructivization Revisited; 13.4 Critical Coordination; References; 14 Putnam on Mathematics as Modal Logic; 14.1 Introduction

This book explores the research of Professor Hilary Putnam, a Harvard professor as well as a leading philosopher, mathematician and computer scientist. It features the work of distinguished scholars in the field as well as a selection of young academics who have studied topics closely connected to Putnam's work. It includes 12 papers that analyze, develop, and constructively criticize this notable professor's research in mathematical logic, the philosophy of logic and the philosophy of mathematics. In addition, it features a short essay presenting reminiscences and anecdotes about Putnam from his friends and colleagues, and also includes an extensive bibliography of his work in mathematics and logic. The book offers readers a comprehensive review of outstanding contributions in logic and mathematics as well as an engaging dialogue between prominent scholars and researchers. It provides those interested in mathematical logic, the philosophy of logic, and the philosophy of mathematics unique insights into the work of Hilary Putnam.
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• Introduction-- Part I. Derrida Post-Existentialist:
• 1. Humanist pretensions: Catholics, Communists and Sartre's struggle for existentialism in post-war France--
• 2. Derrida's 'Christian' existentialism--
• 3. Normalization: the Ecole Normale Superieure and Derrida's turn to Husserl--
• 4. Genesis as a problem: Derrida reading Husserl--
• 5. The God of mathematics: Derrida and the origin of geometry-- Part II. Between Phenomenology and Structuralism:
• 6. A history of differance--
• 7. L'ambiguite du concours: the deconstruction of commentary and interpretation in Speech and Phenomena--
• 8. The ends of man: reading and writing at the ENS-- Epilogue.
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In this powerful study Edward Baring sheds fresh light on Jacques Derrida, one of the most influential yet controversial intellectuals of the twentieth century. Reading Derrida from a historical perspective and drawing on new archival sources, The Young Derrida and French Philosophy shows how Derrida's thought arose in the closely contested space of post-war French intellectual life, developing in response to Sartrian existentialism, religious philosophy and the structuralism that found its base at the Ecole Normale Superieure. In a history of the philosophical movements and academic institutions of post-war France, Baring paints a portrait of a community caught between humanism and anti-humanism, providing a radically new interpretation of the genesis of deconstruction and of one of the most vibrant intellectual moments of modern times.
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• Introduction Christopher Bobonich--
• 1. The Laws' two projects Malcolm Schofield--
• 2. The relationship of the Laws to other dialogues: a proposal Christopher Rowe--
• 3. Ordinary virtue from the Phaedo to the Laws Richard Kraut--
• 4. Virtue and law in Plato Julia Annas--
• 5. Morality as law and morality in the Laws Terence Irwin--
• 6. Puppets on strings: moral psychology in Laws I and II Dorothea Frede--
• 7. Psychology and the inculcation of virtue in Plato's Laws Rachana Kamtekar--
• 8. Images of irrationality Christopher Bobonich--
• 9. Family and the question of women in the Laws Thanassis Samaras--
• 10. The theology of the Laws Robert Mayhew--
• 11. Plato's 'truest tragedy' (Laws VII, 817a-d) Andre Laks-- Bibliography-- Index.
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Long understudied, Plato's Laws has been the object of renewed attention in the past decade and is now considered to be his major work of political philosophy besides the Republic. In his last dialogue, Plato returns to the project of describing the foundation of a just city and sketches in considerable detail its constitution, laws and other social institutions. Written by leading Platonists, the essays in this volume cover a wide range of topics central for understanding the Laws, such as the aim of the Laws as a whole, the ethical psychology of the Laws, especially its views of pleasure and non-rational motivations, and whether and, if so, how the strict law code of the Laws can encourage genuine virtue. They make an important contribution to ongoing debates and will open up fresh lines of inquiry for further research.
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