Medicine, Healthcare and Philosophy, Vol. 15, #2, 2012
Metaphilosophy, Vol. 43, #3, 2012
NDPR
Neuroethics, Vol. 5, #1, 2012
Nursing Philosophy, Vol. 13, #2, 2012
Philosopher’s Imprint, Vol. 12, #9, 2012
Philosophical Investigations, Vol. 35, #2, 2012
Politics and Policy, Vol. 40, #2, 2012
Ratio Juris, Vol. 25, #1, 2012
Review of Development Economics, Vol. 16, #2, 2012
Review of Metaphysics, Vol. 65, #3, 2012
Social Choice and Welfare, Vol. 38, #4, 2012
Syntax, Vol. 15, #2, 2012
Synthese, Vol. 185, #2, 2012
Theoria, Vol. 78, #2, 2012
Law and Society Review, Vol. 46, #1, 2012
Articles
Ellen Berrey, Steve G. Hoffman and Laura Beth Nielsen. Situated justice: A contextual analysis of fairness and inequality in employment discrimination litigation.
John Hagan and Holly Foster. Children of the American prison generation: Student and school spillover effects of incarcerating mothers.
Kevin E. Davis, Benedict Kingsbury, and Sally Engle Merry. Indicators as a technology of global governance.
Joshua C. Wilson and Erin Ackerman. “Tort tales” and TV judges: Amplifying, modifying, or countering the antitort narrative?
Yoav Mehozay. The fluid jurisprudence of Israel’s emergency powers: Legal patchwork as a governing norm.
Jeb Barnes and Thomas F. Burke. Making way: Legal mobilization, organizational response, and wheelchair access.
Book Reviews
Representing Justice: Invention, Controversy, and Rights in City-States and Democratic Courtrooms by Judith Resnik and Dennis Curtis. Review by John Brigham.
Tort, Custom, and Karma: Globalization and legal consciousness in Thailand by David Engel and Jaruwan S. Engel. Review by Patricia Ewick.
The Victimization of Women: Law, Policies, and Politics by Michelle L. Meloy and Susan L. Miller. Review by Kristin Bumiller.
Cultures of Legality: Judicialization and Political Activism in Latin America edited by Javier A. Couso, Alexandra Huneeus, and Rachel Sieder. Review by Daniel Landau.
Chinese Justice: Civil Dispute Resolution in Contemporary China edited by Margaret Y.K. Woo and Mary E. Gallagher. Review by Stanley B. Lubman.
Making Rights Real: Activists, Bureaucrats, and the Creation of the Legalistic State by Charles R. Epp. Review by Anna-Maria Marshall.
Alibis of Empire: Henry Maine and the Ends of Liberal Imperialism by Karuna Mantena. Review by Geetanjali Srikantan.
Rehabilitating Lochner: Defending Individual Rights against Progressive Reform by David E. Bernstein. Review by Ronald C. Den Otter.
Perceptions in Litigation and Mediation: Lawyers, Defendants, Plaintiffs, and Gendered Parties by Tamara Relis. Review by Robert Dingwall.
Medicine, Healthcare and Philosophy, Vol. 15, #2, 2012
Editorial
Henk ten Have and Bert Gordijn. Broadening education in bioethics.
Articles
Petra Gelhaus. The desired moral attitude of the physician: (I) empathy.
Lars Sandman, Bradi B. Graner, Inger Ekman, and Christian Munthe. Adherence, shared decision-making and patient autonomy.
Silke Schicktanz, Mark Schweda and Brian Wynne. The ethics of ‘public understanding of ethics’ – why and how bioethics expertise should include public and patients’ voices.
Federica Russo. Public health policy, evidence, and causation: Lessons from the studies on obesity.
Jean-Christophe Weber. Pleasure in medical practice.
Jon A. Lindstrom. Medico-ethical versus biological evaluationism, and the concept of disease.
Mohammed Ghaly. The ethics of organ transplantation: How comprehensive the ethical framework should be?
Anne Hambro Alnaes. Narratives: An essential tool for evaluating living kidney donations.
Govert den Hartogh. The role of the relatives in opt-in systems of postmortal organ procurement.
Mohammed Ghaly. Religio-ethical discussions on organ donation among Muslims in Europe: An example of transnational Islamic bioethics.
Sohal Y. Ismail, Emma K. Massey, Annemarie E. Luchtenburg, Lily Claassens and Willij C. Zuidema, et al. Religious attitudes towards living kidney donation among Dutch renal patients.
Mohamed Y. Rady, Joan L. McGregor, and Joseph L. Verheijde. Mass media campaigns and organ donation: Managing conflicting messages and interests.
Book Reviews
Worst Case Bioethics: Death, Disaster, and Public Health by G.J. Annas. Review by Caroline Clarinval.
Enhancement: Ethique et Philosophie de la Medecine d’Amelioration edited by J.-N.Missa and L. Perbal. Review by Johann A.R. Roduit.
The Generosity of the Dead: A Sociology of Organ Procurement in France by G. Nowenstein. Review by Mare Knibbe.
What Makes a Good Nurse. Why the Virtues are Important for Nurses by D. Sellman. Review by Helen Kohlen.
The Politics of Emerging Strategic Technologies: Implications for Geopolitics, Human Enhancement, and Human Destiny by N.R.F. Al-Rodhan. Review by Johann A.R. Roduit.
Philosophy of Medicine: 5 Questions edited by J.K. Berg Friis, P. Rossel, and M. Slot Norup. Review by Pekka Louhiala.
Metaphilosophy, Vol. 43, #3, 2012
Articles
Hamid Vahid. Burge on perceptual entitlement.
Axel Arturo Barcelo Aspeitia. Semantic and moral luck.
Alexis Burgess. Negative existentials in metaphysical debate.
Alexander S. Harper. An oblique epistemic defence of conceptual analysis.
Paul Teller. Modeling, truth, and philosophy.
Katherine Thomson-Jones. Art, ethics, and critical pluralism.
Georg Brutian. Metaphilosophy in the systems of metatheories.
Clement Vidal. Metaphilosophical criteria for worldview comparison.
Book Reviews
Alain L. Locke: The Biography of a Philosopher by Leonard Harris and Charles Molesworth. Black Philosopher, White Academy: The Career of William Fontaine by Bruce Kuklick. Review by James Campbell.
NDPR
Anastasia Philippa Scrutton, Thinking Through Feeling: God, Emotion and Passibility. Reviewed by Stephen Chanderbhan.
Felicity Joseph, Jack Reynolds, and Ashley Woodward (eds.), The Continuum Companion to Existentialism. Reviewed by David Stegall.
Steven D. Hales (ed.), A Companion to Relativism. Reviewed by Elijah Millgram.
Thomas A. Tuozzo, Plato's Charmides: Positive Elenchus in a "Socratic" Dialogue. Reviewed by Emily A. Austin.
George Englebretsen, Robust Reality: An Essay in Formal Ontology. Reviewed by Nino B. Cocchiarella.
Justin E. H. Smith, Divine Machines: Leibniz and the Sciences of Life. Reviewed by Jeffrey K. McDonough.
Pol Vandevelde and Kevin Hermberg (eds.), Variations on Truth: Approaches in Contemporary Phenomenology. Reviewed by Adam Konopka.
Neuroethics, Vol. 5, #1, 2012
Delusions and other Irrational Beliefs
Articles
Lisa Bortolotti. Precis of delusions and other irrational beliefs.
Jakob Hohwy and Vivek Rajan. Delusions as forensically disturbing perceptual inferences.
Eric Schwitzgebel. Mad belief?
Dominic Murphy. The folk epistemology of delusions.
Keith Frankish. Delusions, levels of belief, and non-doxastic acceptances.
Maura Tumlty. Delusions and not-quite-beliefs.
Lisa Bortolotti. In defence of modest doxasticism about delusions.
Review Papers
Whitley R.P. Kaufman. Can science determine moral values? A reply to Sam Harris.
Thomas Nadelhoffer, Stephanos Bibas, Scott Grafton, Kent A. Kiehl and Andrew Mansfield, et al. Neuroprediction, violence, and the law: Setting the stage.
Nursing Philosophy, Vol. 13, #2, 2012
Editorial
Derek Sellman. Marking and curving.
Articles
Graham McCaffrey, Shelley Raffin-Bouchal and Nancy J. Moules. Buddhist thought and nursing: A hermeneutic exploration.
Catherine Green. Nursing intuition: A valid form of knowledge.
Martin Lipscomb. Questioning the use value of qualitative research findings.
Austyn Snowden and John Atkinson. Concurrent analysis: A pragmatic justification.
Dialogue
Daniel A. Putman. A reply to ‘Skepticism about the virtue ethics approach to nursing ethics’ by Stephen Holland: The relevance of virtue in nursing ethics.
Letter to the Editor
Colin A. Holmes and Kim Walker.
Book Reviews
Enlightened Charity: The Holistic Nursing Care, Education, and ‘Advices Concerning the Sick’ of Sister Matilda Coskery, 1799-1870 by Martha M. Libster and Sister Betty Ann McNeil. Review by Beverly J.B. Whelton.
Mental Health Ethics: The Human Context edited by Phil Barker. Review by Peter Allmark.
Abjectly Boundless: Boundaries, Bodies and Health Work edited by Trudy Rudge and Dave Holmes. Review by Caroline Bradbury-Jones.
Philosopher’s Imprint, Vol. 12, #9, 2012
Yuval Avnur, "Closure Reconsidered" http://www.philosophersimprint.org/012009/
Philosophical Investigations, Vol. 35, #2, 2012
Articles
Matthias Kiesselbach. Constructing commitment: Brandom’s pragmatist take on rule-following.
Yasemin J. Erden. Wittgenstein on simile as the “best thing” in philosophy.
Rupert Read. Why there cannot be any such thing as “time travel.”
Discussion Note
Piero Pinzauti. The autonomy of morality from religion. The end of religion and of relativism. Howard Mounce on Peter Winch.
Critical Notice
Timothy Chappell. Climbing which mountain? A critical study of Derek Parfit On What Matters.
Politics and Policy, Vol. 40, #2, 2012
Articles
Joshua J. Dyck and Annika Hagley. Political geography, direct democracy, and the reasoning voter: Spatial proximity, symbolic politics, and voting on California’s proposition 83.
Leticia Bode and Valerie M. Hennings. Mixed signals? Gender and the media’s coverage of the 2008 vice presidential candidates.
Shanna Pearson-Merkowitz. Aqui no hay oportunidades: Latino segregation and the keys to political participation.
Brianne Heidbreder. Agenda setting in the states: How politics and policy needs shape gubernatorial agendas.
Jonathan Day and Keith Boeckelman. The impact of legislative term limits on state debt: Increased spending, flat revenue.
Santiago Basabe-Serrano. Presidential power and the judicialization of politics as determinants of institutional change in the judiciary: The supreme court of Ecuador (1979-2009).
Ratio Juris, Vol. 25, #1, 2012
Articles
Robert Alexy. Law, morality, and the existence of human rights.
George Pavlakos. Correctness and cognitivism. Remarks on Robert Alexy’s argument from the claim to correctness.
Jose Juan Moreso. Ways of solving conflicts of constitutional rights: Proportionalism and specificationism.
Dennis Patterson. Alexy on necessity in law and morals.
Hendrik Gommer. The biological essence of law.
Gemma Cornelissen. Belief-based exemptions: Are religious beliefs special?
Review
Stellenindex und Konkordanz zum Naturrecht Feyerabend, Teilband I: Einleitung des Naturrechts Feyerabend edited by Heinrich P. Delfosse, Norbert Hinske, and Gianluca Sadun Bordoni. Review by Paul Guyer.
Review of Development Economics, Vol. 16, #2, 2012
Articles
Panos Hatzipanayotou and Michael S. Michael. Migration, foreign aid, and the welfare state.
S. Guillaumont Jeanneney and S. J-A. Tapsoba. Aid and income stabilization.
Ozgur Kaya, Ilker Kaya and Lewell Gunter. Development aid to agriculture and economic growth.
Been-Lon Chen and Shun-Fa Lee. Intersectoral spillovers, relative prices, and development traps.
Gustavo A. Barboza and Valerien O. Pede. A spatial econometric analysis of cultural dimensions, technology knowledge and economic growth.
Nobuyuki Iwai and Stanley R. Thompson. Foreign direct investment and labor quality in developing countries.
Yoko Kijima and Horacio Gonzalez-Ramirez. Has the program 3x1 for migrants contributed to community development in Mexico? Evidence from panel data of 2000 and 2005.
Thorsten Janus. Odious debt in an imperfect world.
Leonid V. Azarnert. Guest-worker migration, human capital and fertility.
Henrik Barslund Fosse and Pascalis Raimondos-Moller. Reducing tariffs according to WTO accession rules: The case of Vietnam.
Bong-Soo Lee, Jiangang Peng, Guanzheng Li and Jing He. Regional economic disparity, financial disparity, and national economic growth: Evidence from China.
Reza Oladi and John Gilbert. Buyer and seller concentration in global commodity markets.
Review of Metaphysics, Vol. 65, #3, 2012 (not yet online)
Articles
Christopher Mirus. Order and the determinate: the good as a metaphysical concept in Aristotle.
Samantha E. Thompson. What goodness is: Order as imitation of unity in Augustine.
James C. Hebbeler. The principles of the first Critique.
Mark Alznauer. Ethics and history in Hegel’s Practical Philosophy.
Giovanni Maddalena. Pierce’s incomplete synthetic turn.
Book Reviews
The Cautious Jealous Virtue: Hume on Justice by Annette C. Baier. Review by Sophie Botros.
Paul Ricoeur Between Philosophy and Theology: Detour and Return by Boyd Blundell. Review by Sean Larsen.
Problems and Solutions Concerning First Principles by Damascius. Translated with introduction and notes by Sara Ahbel-Rappe. Review by Damian Caluori.
Design for Liberty: Private Property, Public Administration, and the Rule of Law by Richard Epstein. Review by Jude P. Dougherty.
Cultural Revolution in Berlin: Jews in the Age of Enlightenment by Shmuel Feiner and Natalie Naimark-Goldberg. Review by Jude P. Dougherty.
The Unintended Reformation: How a Religious Revolution Secularized Society by Brad S. Gregory. Review by Jude P. Dougherty.
The Music of Our Lives by Kathleen Marie Higgins. Review by Deborah Burton.
Kierkegaard and Socrates: A Study in Philosophy and Faith by Jacob Howland. Review by C. Stephen Evans.
A Genealogy of Marion’s Philosophy of Religion: Apparent Darkness by Tamsin Jones. Review by Shane Mackinlay.
The Existence of God and the Faith-Instinct by Howard P. Kainz. Review by William Haggerty.
The Constitution of Agency: Essays on Practical Reason and Moral Psychology by Christine M. Korsgaard. Review by Mary Clayton Coleman.
Wittgenstein’s Apprenticeship with Russell by Gregory Landini. Review by Brendan Sweetman.
Creative Actualization: A Meliorist Theory of Values by Hugh P. McDonald. Review by Larry A. Hickman.
La pensee catholique en Amerique du Nord: Reseaux intellectuels et echanges culturels entre l’Europe, le Canada, et les Etats-Unis (annees 1920-1960) by Florian Michel. Review by John C. Cahalan.
Dante’s Commedia: Theology as Poetry edited by Vittorio Montemaggi and Matthew Treherne. Review by Jeffrey S. Lehman.
Descartes’ Deontological Turn: Reason, Will, and Virtue in the Later Writings by Noa Naaman-Zauderer. Review by Richard Davies.
Michael Polanyi and His Generation: Origins of the Social Construction of Science by Mary Jo Nye. Review by Jude P. Dougherty.
The Supreme Court and the American Elite by Lucas A. Powe. Review by Mark Tushnet.
The Perspective of Morality: Philosophical Foundations of Thomistic Virtue Ethics by Martin Rhonheimer. Review by Christopher Tollefsen.
The Evidence for Evolution by Alan R. Rogers. Review by Michael J. Behe.
The New Science of Mind: From Extended Mind to Embodied Phenomenology by Mark Rowlands. Review by Athanassios Raftopoulos.
Controversies and the Metaphysics of Mind by Yaron M. Senderwicz. Review by Benjamin Hart.
Lonergan’s Discovery of the Science of Economics by Michael Shute. Review by Matthew Lamb.
Herder on Humanity and Cultural Difference: Enlightened Relativism by Sonia Sikka. Review by Kenneth D. Whitehead.
Thinking with Whitehead: A Free and Wild Creation of Concepts by Isabelle Stengers. Review by Leslie Armour.
The Evident Connexion: Hume on Personal Identity by Galen Strawson. Review by Gabriele Gava.
Freedom of Religion edited by William Sweet. Review by Brendan Sweetman.
After Life by Eugene Thacker. Review by Peter Weigel.
God’s Existence. Can it be Proven? A Logical Commentary on the Five Ways of Thomas Aquinas by Paul Weingartner. Review by Stephen L. Brock.
The Ultimate Why Question: Why Is There Anything at All Rather than Nothing Whatsoever? Edited by John F. Wippel. Review by Robert A. Delfino.
Social Choice and Welfare, Vol. 38, #4, 2012
Symposium on Behavioural Economics
Articles
Ben McQuillin and Robert Sugden. Reconciling normative and behavioral economics: The problems to be solved.
Jose-Luis Pinto-Prades and Jose-Maria Abellan-perpinan. When normative and descriptive diverge: How to bridge the difference.
Patricio S. Dalton and Sayantan Ghosal. Decisions with endogenous frames.
Eric Rasmusen. Internalities and paternalism: Applying the compensation criterion to multiple selves across time.
Ben McQuillin and Robert Sugden. How the market responds to dynamically inconsistent preferences.
Till Grune-Yanoff. Old wine in new casks: Libertarian paternalism still violates liberal principles.
Mozaffar Qizilbash. Informed desire and the ambitions of libertarian paternalism.
Bruno S. Frey and Alois Stutzer. The use of happiness research for public policy.
Syntax, Vol. 15, #2, 2012
Articles
Eva Engels. Scandinavian negative indefinites and cyclic linearization.
Ken Hiraiwa and Shinichiro Ishihara. Syntactic metamorphosis: Clefts, sluicing, and in-situ focus in Japanese.
Atakan Ince. Fragment answers and islands.
Synthese, Vol. 185, #2, 2012
Philosophical and Scientific Perspectives on Emergence
Articles
Hugues Bersini, Pasquale Stano, Pier Luigi Luisi and Mark A. Bedau. Philosophical and scientific perspectives on emergence.
Sandra D. Mitchell. Emergence: Logical, functional and dynamical.
Fabio Boschetti. Causality, emergence, computation and unreasonable expectations.
Philippe Huneman. Determinism, predictability and open-ended evolution: Lessons from computational emergence.
Leonardo Bich. Complex emergence and the living organization: An epistemological framework for biology.
Michel Bitbol. Downward causation without foundations.
Hugues Bersini. Emergent phenomena belong only to biology.
Luisa Damiano. Co-emergences in life and science: A double proposal for biological emergentism.
Peter A. Corning. The re-emergence of emergence, and the causal role of synergy in emergent evolution.
Theoria, Vol. 78, #2, 2012
Editorial
Sven Ove Hansson. Philosophy and public policy.
Articles
Hans van Ditmarsch, Wiebe van der Hoek and Petar Iliev. Everything is knowable – how to get to know whether a proposition is true.
Craig French. Does propositional seeing entail propositional knowledge?
Antti Keskinen. Quine on objects: Realism or anti-realism?
Kevin C. Klement. Frege’s changing conception of number.
Review
Science in the Age of Computer Simulation by Eric Winsberg. Review by Jesper Jerkert.