May 13, 2015

APA Newsletter on Asian and Asian-American Philosophers and Philosophies, Vol. 14, #2, 2015
APA Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy, Vol. 14, #2, 2015
APA Newsletter on Hispanic/Latino Issues in Philosophy, Vol. 14, #2, 2015
APA Newsletter on Indigenous Philosophy, Vol. 14, #2, 2015
APA Newsletter on Philosophy and the Black Experience, Vol. 14, #2, 2015
APA Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers, Vol. 14, #2, 2015
APA Newsletter on Teaching Philosophy, Vol. 14, #2, 2015
British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Vol. 66, #2, 2015
Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, Vol. 30, #1, 2014
Synthese, Vol. 192, #4, 2015
Utilitas, Vol. 27, #2, 2015

APA Newsletter on Asian and Asian-American Philosophers and Philosophies, Vol. 14, #2, 2015
http://www.apaonline.org/?asian_newsletter
From the Editors
Prasanta S. Bandyopadhyay and Matthew R. Dasti
Articles
"Alethic Values," Graham Priest.
"Seeing from the Other's Point of View," Stephen Phillips.
"Self: Agency and the Good in Classical Vaiśesika," Shalini Sinha.
"Mind and Cognition: The Nyāya Perspective," K. S. Prasad.
"Lost in Translation? The Upanisadic Story about 'Da' and Interpretational Issues in Analytic Philosophy," Prasanta S. Bandyopadhyay, R. Venkata Raghavan, and Don Wallace Freeman Dcruz.
"Philosophy and Anticolonialism," J. Barton Scott.
"Race, Indian Philosophy, and the Historiography of Western Philosophy," Dan Flory.
"Eternity and Infinity: The Western Misunderstanding of Indian Mathematics, and Its Consequences for Science Today," C. K. Raju.
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APA Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy, Vol. 14, #2, 2015
From the Editor : Margaret A. Crouch
About the Newsletter // Submission Guidelines // News from the CSW
Articles
"Philosophy and the Non-Native Speaker Condition," Saray Ayala.
"Specters of Violence," Megan M. Burke.
Book Reviews
Shelley M. Park: Mothering Queerly, Queering Motherhood, reviewed by Sarah LaChance Adams.
Sarah LaChance Adams: Mad Mothers, Bad Mothers, and What a "Good" Mother Would Do: The Ethics of Ambivalence, reviewed by Dana Belu.
Clara Fischer: Gendered Readings of Change: A Feminist-Pragmatist Approach, reviewed by Marilyn Fischer.
Catriona Mackenzie, Wendy Rogers, and Susan Dodds (eds.): Vulnerability: New Essays in Ethics and Feminist Philosophy, reviewed by Erinn Gilson.
Margaret R. Holmgren: Forgiveness and Retribution: Responding to Wrongdoing, reviewed by Hailey Huget.
Susanne Lettow (ed.): Reproduction, Race, and Gender in Philosophy and the Early Life Sciences, reviewed by Mark William Westmoreland.
Announcements // Contributors
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APA Newsletter on Hispanic/Latino Issues in Philosophy, Vol. 14, #2, 2015
From the Editor : Carlos Alberto Sánchez
Announcements
Article
"Forging El Mundo Zurdo: Sexual and Linguistic Atravesados in Gloria Anzaldúa's Rio Grande Valley," Marianna Alessandri
2014 APA Prize in Latin American Thought
"Should a Concept of Truth Be Attributed to Nahuatl Thought? Preserving 'the Colonial Difference' between Concepts of the West and Nahua Philosophy," Philip T. L. Mack
Contributors.
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APA Newsletter on Indigenous Philosophy, Vol. 14, #2, 2015
From the Chair
"Renewing the Indigenous Philosophers' Newsletter," Kyle Powys Whyte.
Articles
"Conceptual Schemes Invited Symposium: Introduction," Ivan Welty.
"A Problem of Translation, Or Is It Something Else?," Ifeanyi Menkiti.
"Constructive Realism: Variations on a Theme by Nelson Goodman," Thomas M. Norton-Smith.
"Discombobulation and Epistemologies of Ignorance: On Having Your Conceptual Schemes Up-Ended," Naomi Scheman.
Book Review
Ontology Matters! A Review of Aztec Philosophy: A World in Motion, by James Maffie.
Reviewed by Anne Schulherr Waters.
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APA Newsletter on Philosophy and the Black Experience, Vol. 14, #2, 2015
From the Editors : George Yancy and John H. McClendon III.
Articles
"Report on the International Colloquium 'Toward a New Pan-Africanism: Deploying. Anthropology, Archaeology, History, and Philosophy in the Service of Africa and the Diaspora,' University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, Kingston, Jamaica, April 24-25, 2014," Gail M. Presbey, Sandra Ochieng'-Springer, and Kunbi Adefule.
"On the Contributions of John McClendon and Stephen Ferguson to the APA Newsletter on Philosophy and the Black Experience," Ralph Dumain.
"'I Can't Breathe!': Eric Garner's Salutory Verdict to the Racist Euro-American World and Its Implications for the African Worldwide," François Kodena.
"The Task at Hand," Todd Franklin.
Contributors
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APA Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers, Vol. 14, #2, 2015
From the Guest Editor : John P. Sullins
Notes from the Community on Pat Suppes
Articles
"Patrick Suppes Autobiography," Patrick Suppes.
"Singularitarians, AItheists, and Why the Problem with Artificial Intelligence is H.A.L. (Humanity at Large) not HAL," Luciano Floridi.
"First-Person Consciousness as Hardware," Peter Boltuc.
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APA Newsletter on Teaching Philosophy, , Vol. 14, #2, 2015
From the Editors
Tziporah Kasachkoff and Eugene Kelly
Articles
"Two Concepts of Tests," Andrew T. Forcehimes.
"On Teaching Aesthetics," Daniel A. Kaufman.
"So How Much Should I Give? Extending Class Coverage of Singer's Work on Poverty Ethics," Peter Murphy.
Poems
"Proposal to Professor Superstar," Felicia Nimue Ackerman.
"Professor on Alert," Felicia Nimue Ackerman.
"On Shelley's Claim, 'Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world'," Felicia Nimue Ackerman.
Books Received // Addresses of Contributors
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British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Vol. 66, #2, 2015
Articles
Stephan Torre. Restricted Diachronic Composition and Special Relativity.
Foad Dizadji-Bahmani. The Probability Problem in Everettian Quantum Mechanics Persists.
Mathias Frisch. Users, Structures, and Representation.
Michał Marczyk and Leszek Wroński. Completion of the Causal Completability Problem.
Arnon Levy and Adrian Currie. Model Organisms are Not (Theoretical) Models.
Zalán Gyenis and Miklós Rédei. Defusing Bertrand’s Paradox.
Matthew H. Slater. Natural Kindness.
Joseph Y. Halpern and Christopher Hitchcock. Graded Causation and Defaults.
Reviews
Bob Hale reviews William Demopoulos Logicism and Its Philosophical Legacy.
Lev Vaidman reviews David Wallace The Emergent Multiverse: Quantum Theory According to the Everett Interpretation.
Eran Tal reviews Michael Weisberg Simulation and Similarity: Using Models to Understand the World.
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Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, Vol. 30, #1, 2014
Preliminary Material
Colloquium 1 The Place of Pleasure and Knowledge in the Fourfold Ontological Model of Plato’s Philebus

Author: Cristina Ionescu
Colloquium 1 Commentary on Ionescu 

Author: Marina McCoy
Colloquium 1 Ionescu/McCoy Bibliography

Colloquium 2 Plato on the Good of the City-state in the Republic

Author: Gerasimos Santas
Colloquium 2 Commentary on Santas

Author: Rachel Singpurwalla
Colloquium 2 Santas/Singpurwalla Bibliography

Colloquium 3 Self-Knowledge in Plato’s Theaetetus and Alcibiades I

Author: Zina Giannopoulou
Colloquium 3 Commentary on Giannopoulou

Author: John Partridge
Colloquium 3 Giannopoulou/Partridge Bibliography

Colloquium 4 Strange Encounters: Theaetetus, Theodorus, Socrates, and the Eleatic Stranger

Author: Drew A. Hyland
Colloquium 4 Commentary on Hyland 

Author: Jill Gordon
Colloquium 4 Hyland/ Gordon Bibliography

Colloquium 5 Socrates on Socrates: Looking Back to Bring Philosophy Forward

Author: Anne-Marie Schultz
Colloquium 5 Commentary on Schultz

Author: Suzanne Stern-Gillet
Colloquium 5 Schultz/Stern-Gillet Bibliography

Index of Names

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Synthese, Vol. 192, #4, 2015
Special Section on Peirce's Logic and Philosophy of Language
Editorial Notes
Editorial Preface. Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen.
Original Papers
Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen. Two papers on existential graphs by Charles Peirce.
Rocco Gangle, Gianluca Caterina. The sheet of indication: a diagrammatic semantics for Peirce’s EG-alpha.
Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen. Exploring the beta quadrant.
Chuansheng He. E-type interpretation without E-type pronoun: how Peirce’s Graphs capture the uniqueness implication of donkey pronouns in discourse anaphora.
Risto Hilpinen. Conception, sense, and reference in Peircean semiotics.
Frederik Stjernfelt. Dicisigns.
Matthew E. Moore. Peirce’s topical theory of continuity
Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen, Frederik Stjernfelt. Peirce and diagrams: two contributors to an actual discussion review each other.
Roger Stanev. Early stopping of RCTs: two potential issues for error statistics.
Piotr Kulicki, Robert Trypuz. Completely and partially executable sequences of actions in deontic context.
Peter W. Evans. Retrocausality at no extra cost.
Alexandra Zinke. On exhibiting representational validity.
Erik C. W. Krabbe, Jan Albert van Laar. That’s no argument! The dialectic of non-argumentation.
Luciano Floridi, Nir Fresco, Giuseppe Primiero. On malfunctioning software.
John Turri. Selfless assertions: some empirical evidence.
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Utilitas, Vol. 27, #2, 2015
Research Articles
James G. Quigley. Moral Psychology and the Unity of Morality.
Robert Northcott. Harm and Causation.
Piers Norris Turner. Punishment and Discretion in Mill's Utilitarianism.
Ryan Muldoon. Expanding the Justificatory Framework of Mill's Experiements in Living.
John Halstead. The Impotence of the Value Pump.
Keith Hyams. Hypothetical Choice, Egalitarianism and the Separateness of Persons.
Torbjörn Tännsjö. Utilitarianism or Prioritarianism?
Book Reviews
Joshua Gert. Normative Bedrock: Response-Dependence, Rationality, and Reasons. Review by Errol Lord.
Thomas Piketty. Capital in the Twenty-First Century, trans. Arthur Goldhammer. Review by Ben Eggleston.
Paul Bloomfield, The Virtues of Happiness: A Theory of the Good Life. Review by William Hassleberger.
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