American Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 46, # 4, 2009
Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 87, # 4, 2009
Biology and Philosophy, Vol. 24, # 5, 2009
Dialectica, Vol. 63, # 3, 2009
Erkenntnis, Vol. 71, # 3, 2009
Faith and Philosophy, Vol. 26, # 3, 2009
Journal for the General Philosophy of Science, Vol. 40, # 1, 2009
Journal of Value Inquiry, Vol. 43, # 3, 2009
Law and Philosophy, Vol. 28, # 6, 2009
Nanoethics, Vol. 3, # 2, 2009
Philosophical Papers, Vol. 38, # 2, 2009
Philosophical Studies, Vol. 146, # 1, 2009
Philosophy and Literature, Vol. 33, # 2, 2009
Review of Symbolic Logic, Vol. 2, # 2, 2009
Synthese, Vol. 171, # 1, 2009
American Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 46, # 4, 2009
Articles
Alan Goldman. Desires and Reasons,
Patricia Greenspan. Resting Content: Sensible Satisficing?
Joshua Gert. Desires, Reasons, and Rationality.
Andrew D. Cling. Reasons, Regresses, and Tragedy: The Epistemic Regress Problem and the Problem of the Criterion.
Igor Douven. Uniqueness Revisited.
Clayton Littlejohn. “Ought,” “Can,” and Practical Reasons.
René van Woudenberg. Ignorance and Force: Two Excusing Conditions for False Beliefs.
Volume Index.
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Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 87, # 4, 2009
Articles
Jason Brennan. Polluting the Polls: When Citizens Should Not Vote.
William G. Lycan. Giving Dualism Its Due.
Jason Turner. The Incompatibility of Free Will and Naturalism.
Julian C. Cole. Creativity, Freedom, and Authority: A New Perspective on the Metaphysics of Mathematics.
Stephen P. Schwartz. The Essence of Essence.
John Koethe. Knowledge and the Norms of Assertion.
Martin Montminy. Contextualism, Invariantism, and Semantic Blindness.
Murali Ramachandra. Anti-Luminosity: Four Unsuccessful Strategies.
Book Reviews
E. J. Lowe. The Four-Category Ontology: A Metaphysical Foundation for Natural Science. Reviewed by Phillip Bricker.
Philip Pettit. Made With Words: Hobbes on Language, Mind and Politics. Reviewed by R. E. Erwin.
Howard Sankey. Scientific Realism and the Rationality of Science. Reviewed by Stathis Psillos.
Robert Young. Medically Assisted Death. Reviewed Sean McKeever.
Book Notes
Paul Coates. The metaphysics of Perception: Wilfrid Sellars, Perceptual Consciousness and Critical Realism. Notes by Elizabeth Schier.
Mark Schroeder. Being For: Evaluating the Semantic Program of Expressivism. Notes by Rachael Briggs.
Dominic Scott (ed.). Maieusis: Essays in Ancient Philosophy in Honour of Myles Burnyeat. Notes by Andrew Shortridge.
Obituary
Leonard Goddard, 1925-2009. Written by Graham Priest.
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Biology and Philosophy, Vol. 24, #5, 2009
Articles
Samir Okasha. Individuals, groups, fitness and utility: multi-level selection meets social choice theory.
Alvaro Moreno & Kepa Ruiz-Mirazo. The problem of the emergence of functional diversity in prebiotic evolution.
Olivier Rieppel. Total evidence’ in phylogenetic systematic.
Bernd Rosslenbroich. The theory of increasing autonomy in evolution: a proposal for understanding macroevolutionary innovations.
James Tabery. Difference mechanisms: explaining variation with mechanisms.
Catherine Driscoll. Grandmothers, hunters and human life history.
Liz Stillwaggon Swan. Synthesizing insight: artificial life as thought experimentation in biology.
Stephen M. Downes. Moving past the levels of selection debates.
James Tabery. Making Sense of the Nature–Nurture Debate.
Ellen Clarke. Noah and the spaceship: evolution for twenty-first century Christians.
Peter Taylor. Perspectives from plant breeding on Tal’s argument about the weight of genetic versus environmental causes for individuals.
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Dialectica, Vol. 63, #3, 2009
Articles
Paolo Casalegno. Reasons to Believe and Assertion.
De re and De se. François Recanati.
Matteo Morgantix. Ontological Priority, Fundamentality and Monism : Winner of the 2008 dialectica essay prize.
Philip Goff. Why Panpsychism doesn't Help Us Explain Consciousness.
Matti Eklund. On Some Recent Criticisms of the 'Linguistic' Approach to Ontology.
Andrei Buleandra. Doxastic Transparency and Prescriptivity.
Francesco Orilia. Bradley's Regress and Ungrounded Dependence Chains: A Reply to Cameron.
Francesco Berto, Massimiliano Carrara. To Exist and to Count: a Note on the Minimalist View.
Book Reviews
Paul Boghossian.Fear of Knowledge, Against Relativism and Constructivism. Review by H.G. Callaway.
Heather Dyke. Metaphysics and the Representational Fallacy. Review by Richard Woodward.
Barry Smith, David M. Mark and Isaac Ehrlich, editors. The Mystery of Capital and the Construction of Social Reality. Review by Maksymilian Del Mar.
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Erkenntnis, Vol. 71, #3, 2009
Articles
André Ariew, Zachary Ernst. What Fitness Can’t Be.
Peter Fazekas. Reconsidering the Role of Bridge Laws in Inter-Theoretical Reductions.
Matthew Braham, Martin van Hees. Degrees of Causation.
Chiwook Won. Morgenbesser’s Coin, Counterfactuals, and Casual Versus Probabilistic Independence.
Ruth Weintraub. A Solution to the Cable Guy Paradox.
Wai-hung Wong. Internalism About Justification and the Skeptic’s Dilemma.
Elliott Wagner. Communication and Structured Correlation.
Mark Textor. Devitt on the Epistemic Authority of Linguistic Intuitions.
Jonathan Tallant. Presentism and Truth-making.
Oron Shagrir. Strong Global Supervenience is Valuable.
David Nicolas. Mereological Essentialism, Composition, and Stuff: A Reply to Kristie Miller.
Book Review
Marcel Weber. Philosophy of Experimental Biology. Reviewed by Jacob Stegenga.
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Faith and Philosophy, Vol. 26, # 3, 2009
Articles
Merold Wesphal. Inverted Intentionality: On Being Seen and Being Addressed.
Mark C. Murphy. Not Penal Substitution but Vicarious Punishment.
John M. Connolly. Eudaimonism, Teleology, and the Pursuit of Happiness: Meister Eckhart on “Living Without a Why.”
Brian Leftow. Anselmian Presentism.
Katherin Rogers. Back to Eternalism: A Response to Leftow’s “Anselmian Presentism.”
Reviews
Angus Menuge. Agents Under Fire: Materialism and the Rationality of Science. Reviewed by John M. DePoe and James C. McGlothin.
Victor Reppert. C. S. Lewis’s Dangerous Idea: In Defense of the Argument from Reason. Reviewed by John M. DePoe and James C. McGlothin.
Alan P. F. Sell. Mill on God: The Pervasiveness and Elusiveness of Mill’s Religious Thought. Reviewed by Andrew Gustafson.
Francis J. Beckwith. Defending Life: A Moral and Legal Case Against Abortion Choice. Reviewed by Robert N. Wennberg.
Peter Forrest. Developmental Theism: From Pure Will to Unbounded Love. Reviewed by Daniel Dombrowski.
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Journal for the General Philosophy of Science, Vol. 40, #1, 2009
Editorial
Helmut Pulte, Gregor Schiemann. Editorial.
Articles
Gregor Betz. Underdetermination, Model-ensembles and Surprises: On the Epistemology of Scenario-analysis in Climatology.
Emiliano Boccardi. Who’s Driving the Syntactic Engine?
David Corfield, Bernhard Schölkopf, Vladimir Vapnik. Falsificationism and Statistical Learning Theory: Comparing the Popper and Vapnik-Chervonenkis.
Tamás Demeter. Two Kinds of Mental Realism.
Aharon Kantorovich. Ontic Structuralism and the Symmetries of Particle Physics.
Muhammad Ali Khalidi. How Scientific is Scientific Essentialism?
Nicholas Maxwell. Muller’s Critique of the Argument for Aim-Oriented Empiricism.
Seungbae Park. Philosophical Responses to Underdetermination in Science.
Jochen Apel, Monika Dullstein, Pawel Radchenko. Data-Phenomena-Theories: What’s the Notion of a Scientific Phenomenon Good For?
Friedrich Stadler, Donata Romizi, Miles MacLeaod. The Present Situation in the Philosophy of Science: Opening Conference of the ESF-Research Networking Programme “The Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective.”
Ioannis Votsis. Theoretical Frameworks and Empirical Underdetermination.
Book Reviews
Paul Smolensky, Géraldine Legendre. The Harmonic Mind. From Neural Computation to Optimality-Theoretic Grammar. Vol. 1: Cognitive Architecture. Vol. 2: Linguistic and Philosophical Implications. Reviewed by Harald Maurer.
Hernán Pringe. Critique of the Quantum Power of Judgement. A Transcendental Foundation of Quantum Objectivity. Reviewed by Peter Mittelstaedt.
Moritz Schlick, Kristiche Gesamtausgabe, herausgegeben von Friedrich Stadler, Hans-Jürgen Wendel. Die Wiener Zeit. Aufsätze, Beiträge Rezensionen 1926–1936, Abteilung I, Band 6 (herausgegeben und eingeleitet von Johannes Friedl und Heiner Rutte). Reviewed by Thomas Mormann.
Carsten Seck. Zur wissenschaftstheoretischen Lehr- und Einführungsliteratur im deutschsprachigen Raum. Ein kritischer Blick auf ausgewählte neuere Veröffentlichungen.
Books Received
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Journal of Value Inquiry, Vol. 43, #3, 2009
Articles
R. A. Duff . Strict Responsibility, Moral and Criminal.
John Gardner. The Logic of Excuses and the Rationality of Emotions.
Susan Dimock. The Responsibility of Intoxicated Offenders.
Gideon Yaffe. A Procedural Rationale for the Necessity Defense.
Victor Tadros. Poverty and Criminal Responsibility.
Matthew Talbert. Situationism, Normative Competence, and Responsibility for Wartime Behavior.
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Law and Philosophy, Vol. 28, #6, 2009
Articles
Ronen Perry. Correlativity.
Helga Varden. Nozick’s Reply to the Anarchist.
Simon Wigley. Disappearing Without a Moral Trace? Rights and Compensation During Times of Emergency*
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Nanoethics, Vol. 3, #2, 2009
Articles
Christopher M. Kelty. Beyond Implications and Applications: the Story of ‘Safety by Design.’
Soraj Hongladarom. Nanotechnology, Development and Buddhist Values.
Astrid E. Schwarz. Green Dreams of Reason. Green Nanotechnology Between Visions of Excess and Control.
Ulrik B. Nissen. Justice in Nanotechnological Development (Symposium Introduction).
Guillermo Foladori, Noela Invernizzi and Edgar Záyago. Two Dimensions of the Ethical Problems Related to Nanotechnology.
Andrew Jamison. Can Nanotechnology Be Just? On Nanotechnology and the Emerging Movement for Global Justice.
Donald C. Maclurcan. Southern Roles in Global Nanotechnology Innovation: Perspectives from Thailand and Australia.
David Koepsell. Let’s Get Small: An Introduction to Transitional Issues in Nanotech and Intellectual Property.
Craig Cormick. Why Do We Need to Know What the Public Thinks about Nanotechnology?
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Philosophical Papers, Vol. 38, #2, 2009
Articles
Damian Cox. Scepticism and the Interpreter.
Louise Cummings. Mind and Body, Form and Content: How not to do Petitio Principii Analysis.
Rocco J. Gennaro. Fiction, Pleasurable Tragedy, and the HOT Theory of Consciousness.
Terry Horgan; Mark Timmons. Nondescriptivist Cognitivism: Framework for a New Metaethic.
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Philosophical Studies, Vol. 146, #1, 2009
Articles
Remy Debes. Neither Here Nor There: The Cognitive Nature of Emotion.
Fredrik Stjernberg. Restricting Factiveness.
Arthur Sullivan. Against Structured Referring Expressions.
Martijn Boot. Parity, Incomparability and Rationally Justified Choice.
Paul Needham. Reduction and Emergence: A Critique of Kim.
David Pitt. Intentional Psychologism.
Dale Dorsey. Aggregation, Partiality, and the Strong Beneficence Principle.
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Philosophy and Literature, Vol. 33, #2, 2009
Articles
Brian Ribeiro. Montaigne on Witches and the Authority of Religion in the Public Sphere William Franke. Dante's Inferno as Poetic Revelation of Prophetic Truth
Robert B. Pierce. Being a Moral Agent in Shakespeare's Vienna
Gene Fendt. Sweet Use: Genre and Performance of The Merchant of Venice
Roger Berkowitz. Approaching Infinity: Dignity in Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon
Stephen Davies. Life is a Passacaglia
Michael A. Winkelman. Sighs and Tears: Biological Signals and John Donne's "Whining Poetry" Jo-Anne Cappeluti. For the Love of Nothing: Auden, Keats, and Deconstruction
William Irwin. Reading Audio Books
Lester H. Hunt. Literature as Fable, Fable as Argument
Philip Seargeant. Philosophies of Language in the Fictions of Jorge Luis Borges.
Thomas Michael LeCarner. T. S. Eliot, Dharma Bum: Buddhist Lessons in The Waste Land Notes and Fragments
Paulette Kidder. Martha Nussbaum on Dickens's Hard Times.
Stewart Justman. Stiva's Idiotic Grin
Critical Discussions
Noël Carroll. On the Necessity of Theater
Richard Rader. The Fate of Humanism in Greek Tragedy.
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Review of Symbolic Logic, Vol. 2, #2, 2009
Articles
Mario Gómez-Torrente. Rereading Tarski on Logical Consequence.
J. B. Paris and R. Simmonds. O is Not Enough.
Robert Goldblatt. Conservativity of Heyting Implication Over Relevant Quantification.
Hartry Field. Pluralism in Logic.
Graham Priest. Neighborhood Semantics for Intentional Operators.
Norihiro Kamide, Heinrich Wansing. Sequent Calculi for Some Trilattice Logics.
Dov M. Gabbay, Karl Schlechta. Size and Logic.
Dov M. Gabbay and Karl Schlechta. Reactive Preferential Structures and Nonmonotonic Consequence.
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Synthese, Vol. 171, #1, 2009
Articles
Rodrigo Moro. On the nature of the conjunction fallacy.
Michael Pelczar. The knowledge argument, the open question argument, and the moral problem.
John Cantwell. Conditionals in reasoning.
Eugen Fischer. Philosophical pictures and secondary qualities.
Joseph Y. Halpern, Riccardo Pucella. Evidence with uncertain likelihoods.
C. D. Meyers and Sara Waller. Psychological investigations: the private language argument and inferences in contemporary cognitive science.
Audrey Yap. Logical structuralism and Benacerraf’s problem.
John Collins. The limits of conceivability: logical cognitivism and the language faculty.
Michał Walick. Reference, paradoxes and truth.
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