Recent Acquisitions in Philosophy at Ohio State University Libraries

February 2008

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Web Site:  Selected online philosophy resources: http://library.osu.edu/sites/history/philosophyDBFP.php

B82 .S388 2007.  Schmitz, Hermann.  Der Weg der europäischen Philosophie: eine Gewissenserforschung.  Hermann Schmitz.  Freiburg: Alber, c2007-.  Philosophy, European -- History.  Includes bibliographical references and indexes. 
Bd 1. Antike Philosophie

B105.E95 G74 2007.  Green, Mitchell S.  Self-expression.  Mitchell S. Green.  Oxford: Clarendon Press   New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.  Expression (Philosophy).  Includes bibliographical references (p. [214]-223) and index;  The significance of self-expression -- Expression delineated -- Showing and meaning -- Meaningful expression -- Facial expression -- Convention and idiosyncrasy -- Expressive qualities

B171 .P37 2008.  Passions and moral progress in Greco-Roman thought.  edited by John T. Fitzgerald.  London   New York: Routledge, 2008.  Philosophy, Ancient;  Emotions -- History;  Ethics -- History.  Includes bibliographical references (p. 322-355) and indexes

B187.T5 D76 2007.  Drozdek, Adam.  Greek philosophers as theologians: the divine arche.  Adam Drozdek.  Aldershot, England   Burlington, VT: Ashgate, c2007.  Philosophy, Ancient;  God -- History of doctrines;  Philosophical theology -- History;  God (Greek religion).  Includes indexes

B395 .R764 2007.  Rowe, C. J.  Plato and the art of philosophical writing.  Christopher Rowe.  Cambridge, UK   New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007.  Plato;  Plato -- Literary art;  Plato -- Influence.  Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-281) and index

B528 .V64 2008.  Vogt, Katja Maria, 1968-.  Law, reason, and the cosmic city: political philosophy in the early Stoa.  Katja Maria Vogt.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.  Stoics;  Political science -- Philosophy;  Political science -- Greece -- History.  Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-227) and indexes.

Table of Contents:     The disturbing theses -- The community of all human beings -- Wisdom: Sages and Gods -- Law and reason

B791 .V38 2008.  Vaughan, William, 1963-.  Detours in philosophy: controversies in the continental tradition.  William Vaughan.  New York: Peter Lang, c2008.  Continental philosophy;  Philosophy, European.  Includes bibliographical references (p. [329]-361) and index

B804 .M383 2007.  Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 1908-1961.  The Merleau-Ponty reader.  edited by Ted Toadvine and Leonard Lawlor.  Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 2007.  Philosophy, Modern -- 20th century.   Chronological bibliography of Merleau-Ponty's works , (p.473-476);  Includes bibliographical references (p. 477-481) and index
Table of Contents:  The pre-sorbonne period (preceding 1949) -- The Sorbonne period (1949-1952) -- The college de France period (1952-1961)

B824.17 .R47 2007.  Rescher, Nicholas.  Interpreting philosophy: the elements of philosophical hermeneutics.  Nicholas Rescher.  Frankfurt: Ontos, 2007.  Interpretation (Philosophy);  Hermeneutics.  Includes bibliographical references

B824.17 .W45 2008.  Weissman, David, 1936-.  Styles of thought: interpretation, inquiry, and imagination.  David Weissman.  Albany: State University of New York Press, c2008.  Interpretation (Philosophy);  Inquiry (Theory of knowledge);  Imagination (Philosophy).  Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-182) and index; 
Table of Contents:  Introduction -- Two styles of explanation: interpretation and inquiry -- Interpretation -- Inquiry -- Different tasks -- Perspective -- Contrary responses: an example -- Mixed modes -- Applications -- Values -- Morality -- Politics -- Interpretation: self and society -- Origin and context -- Distortion -- Emotion -- Assumptions for a taxonomy -- Stories -- Socialized interpretations -- Eliding fact and value -- Magic, myth, and metaphor -- Faith and fantasy -- Philosophic rationales -- Tolerance -- Inquiry: practical life and science -- Context and objectives -- Meaning -- Truth -- Animadversions -- Engaging other people and things -- Aims -- Ideals -- A choice -- A disputed question -- Ontological alternatives -- The dialectic of untestable ideas -- Reconciliation -- Imagination -- Construction -- Construction rules -- Variation -- Discipline -- Leading principles -- Priority -- Precedents -- Use -- An inventory of leading principles -- Values -- When practical life and science disagree -- Categorial form

B832 .C53 2007.  Clarke, D. S. (David S.), 1936-.  Some pragmatist themes.  D.S. Clarke.  Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, c2007.  Pragmatism -- History.  Includes bibliographical references (p. 93-96) and index
Table of Contents:  Introduction -- Belief, acceptance, and truth -- Human and infrahuman continuity -- Pragmatism, pragmatics, and the philosophy of language -- Moral conduct and impartial intelligence -- Metaphysics and ontology

B835 .D53 2007.  Dictionary of critical realism.  [edited by] Mervyn Hartwig.  London   New York: Routledge, 2007.  Critical realism -- Dictionaries

B945.B474 O58 2007.  Ontology and analysis: essays and recollections about Gustav Bergmann.  Laird Addis, Greg Jesson, Erwin Tegtmeier (eds.).  Frankfurt: Ontos, c2007.  Bergmann, Gustav, 1906-1987 -- Congresses;  Ontology -- Congresses.  Papers from an international conference held May 19-20, 2006, at the University of Iowa;  Includes bibliographical references

B1647.M74 T44 2007.  Themes from G.E. Moore: new essays in epistemology and ethics.  edited by Susana Nuccetelli and Gary Seay.  Oxford   New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.  Moore, G. E. (George Edward), 1873-1958;  Knowledge, Theory of;  Ethics.  Includes bibliographical references and index

B1868.R43 K7 2007.  Kreeft, Peter.  Socrates meets Descartes: the father of philosophy analyzes the father of modern philosophy's Discourse on method.  by Peter Kreeft.  San Francisco: Ignatius Press, c2007.  Descartes, René, 1596-1650. Discours de la méthode;  Socrates.  Includes bibliographical references (t.p. verso)

B2430.B5824 B57 2007.  Blondel et la philosophie française.  Emmanuel Gabellieri et Pierre de Cointet (éd.).  [Paris]: Parole et Silence, c2007.  Blondel, Maurice, 1861-1949 -- Congresses;  Philosophy, French -- Congresses;  French Catholic Philosophy Late 19th Century Critical Studies.   Colloque tenu à Lyon --Cover;  Includes bibliographical references

B2430.D454 D48 2007.  Deleuzian encounters: studies in contemporary social issues.  edited by Anna Hickey-Moody and Peta Malins.  Basingstoke [England]   New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.  Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995.  Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-258) and index.
Table of Contents:  Introduction: Gilles Deleuze and four movements in social thought.  Anna Hickey-Moody & Peta Malins -- The politics of non-being.  Gregory Flaxman -- The revolutionary dividual.  Jonathan Roffe -- Intersex: between law and nature.  Edward Mussawir --  Deleuze and suicide.  Ashley Woodward -- Intellectual disability, sensation and thinking through affect.  Anna Hickey-Moody -- Toward a pedagogy of affect.  Christa Albrecht-Crane & Jennifer Daryl Slack -- Sensing beyond security.  Erin Manning -- Affective terrorism.  Felicity Colman -- Molar ecology: what can the (full) body of an eco-tourist do?.  Mark Halsey -- City folds: injecting drug use and urban space.  Peta Malins -- Holey space and the smooth and striated body of the refugee.  Hélène Frichot -- Microsociology and the ritual event.  Kenneth Dean & Thomas Lamarre -- Indigenous peoples and a Deleuzian theory of practice.  Simone Bignall -- Deleuze and the tale of two intifadas.  Todd May -- The autonomy of migration: the animals of undocumented mobility.  Dimitris Papadopoulos & Vassilis Tsianos -- Complex and minor: Deleuze and the alterglobalization movement(s).  Graeme Chesters

B2430.D484 E53 2007.  Encountering Derrida: legacies and futures of deconstruction.  edited by Allison Weiner and Simon Morgan Wortham.  London   New York: Continuum, 2007.  Derrida, Jacques;  Deconstruction;  Derrida.  Includes bibliographical references (p. [202]-210) and index.
Table of Contents:  Introduction.  Allison Weiner and Simon Morgan Wortham -- Foundations.  Geoffrey Bennington -- 'Rather than nothing': Derrida, literature, and the resistance of Nihilism.  Shane Weller -- Accounterability.  Peggy Kamuf -- 'Don't count me in': Derrida's refraining.  J. Hillis Miller -- Reading over a globalized world.  Samuel Weber -- Counterchange: Derrida's poetry.  William Watkin -- Disagreement as (possible) event: Derrida contre de man.  Tom Toremans -- The counterpromise: Derrida on the instant of Blanchot's death.  Allison Weiner -- Derrida's transcendental contraband: impossible acts.  Joanna Hodge -- The entropics of discourse: the 'materiality' of affect between Marx and Derrida.  Karyn Ball -- The grammar of deconstruction.  Stefan Herbrechter and Ivan Callus -- Dislocating Derrida: Badiou, the unthought and the justice of multiplicity.  Patience Moll;  Includes bibliographical references and index

B2745 .D835 2007.  Dudley, Will, 1967-.  Understanding German idealism.  Will Dudley.  Stocksfield [England]: Acumen, 2007.  Idealism, German. 

B2799.A4 H84 2007.  Hughes, Fiona.  Kant's aesthetic epistemology: form and world.  Fiona Hughes.  Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, c2007.  Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804 -- Aesthetics;  Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804. Kritik der Urteilskraft;  Knowledge, Theory of.  Includes bibliographical references (p. 316-320) and index

B2799.E8 W58 2008.  Wood, Allen W.  Kantian ethics.  Allen W. Wood.  Cambridge   New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008.  Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804;  Ethics, Modern.  Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-333) and index.
Table of Contents:  Reason -- Moral worth -- Ethical theory -- The moral law -- Humanity -- Autonomy -- Freedom -- Virtue -- Duties -- Conscience -- Social justice -- Punishment -- Sex -- Lies -- Consequences

B3279.H49 R32 2007.  Radloff, Bernhard, 1952-.  Heidegger and the question of National Socialism: disclosure and gestalt.  Bernhard Radloff.  Toronto: University of Toronto Press, c2007.  Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976 -- Political and social views;  National socialism and philosophy.  Includes bibliographical references (p. [449]-475) and index;  Includes some text in German

B3279.H94 L68 2007.  Lotz, Christian, 1970-.  From affectivity to subjectivity: Husserl's phenomenology revisited.  Christian Lotz.  Basingstoke [England]   New York: Palgrave Macmillan , 2007.  Husserl, Edmund, 1859-1938;  Phenomenology.  Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-167) and index

B3313.G43 N54 2007.  Nietzsche and the rebirth of the tragic.  edited by Mary Ann Frese Witt.  Madison [N.J.]: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, c2007.  Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900;  Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900. Geburt der Tragödie;  Greek drama (Tragedy) -- History and criticism;  Tragic, The;  Ethics;  Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics;  Aesthetics.  Includes bibliographical references (p. 242-248) and index

B3318.R4 B46 2008.  Benson, Bruce Ellis, 1960-.  Pious Nietzsche: decadence and Dionysian faith.  Bruce Ellis Benson.  Bloomington: Indiana University Press, c2008.  Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900;  Religion.  Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-260) and index.

Table of Contents:  Introduction: improvising pietism -- The prayers and tears of young Fritz -- The euthanasia of Christianity -- The piety of Zarathustra -- Nietzsche's decadence -- Socrates' fate -- Wagner's redemption -- Paul's revenge -- Deconstructing the redeemer -- Nietzsche's musical askêsis -- We, too, are still pious

B3376.W564 R42 2007.  Read, Rupert J., 1966-.  Applying Wittgenstein.  Rupert Read   edited by Laura Cook.  London   New York: Continuum, c2007.  Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951.  Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-182) and index.
Table of Contents:  Language -- Towards a working through of 'meaning as use' -- Presumption versus assumption -- Distinguishing 'meaningful consequences' from 'grammatical effects' -- Towards a dynamic, applied conception of meaning -- What does 'signify' signify? -- Literature -- 'Wittgensteinian' poetry -- Wallace Stevens as  'Wittgensteinian' -- The many meanings of 'seeing': a literary 'reminder' -- Invitations to nonsense: poetry considered as a therapeutic tool -- Wittgenstein as Stevensian? -- 'Modernist' performative literature: philosophy, poetry, prose -- 'Wittgensteinian' prose -- The 'strong grammar' of Faulkner's The sound and the fury -- Delusions of 'sense' in the 'representation' of derangement: the dangers of interpretation --'Creative mimicry' and the untranslatable metaphor --Wittgenstein and the 'sound of sense' -- Time -- Dummett challenged: beyond 'realist' and 'anti-realist' renderings of time -- Introduction -- Using nonsense to combat nonsense: different conceptions -- How to discuss matters with a realist -- Realism versus anti-realism? -- An intermediate conclusion -- Methodological reflections -- A better picture of time (-statements) -- On still wanting to ask,  what is time?  -- Conclusions: what is it to apply Wittgenstein to time?: or: what is a grammatical investigation? -- (Dis)solving the 'time-slice' conception of time -- Introduction -- How not to represent space-time -- Are we limited beings? -- Continuity -- Real time-slice talk -- Metaphysicians' time-slice talk -- Dummett on time-slices -- Against time-slice talk? -- In closing

BC177 .C86 2008.  Current issues and enduring questions: a guide to critical thinking and argument, with readings.  [edited by] Sylvan Barnet, Hugo Bedau.  Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martins, c2008.  Reasoning;  Logic;  Social ethics;  Religion.  Includes bibliographical references and indexex

BD21 .I54 2008.  Introduction to philosophy: classical and contemporary readings.  [edited by] Louis P. Pojman, James Fieser.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.  Philosophy -- Introductions.  Includes bibliographical references (p. 389-694).
Table of Contents:  What is philosophy? -- Theory of knowledge -- Philosophy of religion -- Philosophy of mind -- Freedom of the will, responsibility, and punishment -- Moral philosophy

BD95 .C66 2008.  Contemporary debates in metaphysics.  edited by Theodore Sider, John Hawthorne, and Dean W. Zimmerman.  Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub., 2008.  Metaphysics.  Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:  Abstract entities -- Abstract entities.  Chris Swoyer -- There are no abstract objects.  Cian Dorr -- Causation and laws of nature -- Nailed to Hume's cross?.  John W. Carroll -- Causation and laws of nature: reductionism.  Jonathan Schaffer -- Modality and possible worlds -- Concrete possible worlds.  Phillip Bricker -- Ersatz possible worlds.  Joseph Melia -- Personal identity -- People and their bodies.  Judith Jarvis Thomson -- Persons, bodies, and human beings.  Derek Parfit -- Time -- The privileged present: defending an  a-theory  of time.  Dean Zimmerman -- The tenseless theory of time.  J.J.C. Smart -- Persistence -- Temporal parts.  Theodore Sider -- Three-dimensionalism vs. four-dimensionalism.  John Hawthorne -- Free will -- Incompatibilism.  Robert Kane -- Compatibilism, incompatibilism, and impossibilism.  Kadri Vihvelin -- Mereology -- The moon and sixpence: a defense of mereological universalism.  James van Cleve -- Restricted composition.  Ned Markosian -- Meteontology -- Ontological arguments: interpretive charity and quantifier variance.  Eli Hirsch -- The picture of reality as an amorphous lump.  Matti Eklund

BD111 .B46 2007.  Bird, Alexander, 1964-.  Nature's metaphysics: laws and properties.  by Alexander Bird.  Oxford: Clarendon Press   New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.  Metaphysics;  Disposition (Philosophy);  Law -- Philosophy.  Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-225) and index

BD175 .N49 2008.  New waves in epistemology.  edited by Duncan Pritchard and Vincent Hendricks.  Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008;  200709.  Knowledge, Theory of. 

BD221 .P45 2007.  Phillips, Patrick J.J., 1961-.  The challenge of relativism: its nature and limits.  Patrick J.J. Phillips.  London   New York: Continuum International Pub. Group, c2007.  Relativity.  Includes bibliographical references (p. [144]-152) and index.
Table of Contents:  The grounds of relativism: a plethora of opinion -- The branches of relativism: classical to modern -- A root of relativism: Wittgenstein and scepticism -- A root of relativism: Winch and culture -- The pluralist tree: Rorty, relativism, diversity and tolerance

BD311 .C63 2007.  Cocchiarella, Nino B.  Formal ontology and conceptual realism.  by Nino B. Cocchiarella.  Dordrecht: Springer, 2007.  Ontology;  Realism.   Based on a series of lectures given in Rome in 2004 at the Lateran Pontifical University --Preface;  Includes bibliographical references and index

BD311 .M37 2008.  Martin, C. B. (Charles Burton).  The mind in nature.  C.B. Martin.  Oxford: Clarendon Press   New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.  Ontology;  Philosophy of mind;  Disposition (Philosophy).  Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-206) and indexes

BD450 .A4723 2008.  Allen, Amy.  The politics of our selves: power, autonomy, and gender in contemporary critical theory.  Amy Allen.  New York: Columbia University Press, c2008.  Self (Philosophy);  Feminist theory;  Critical theory.  Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-221) and index.
Table of Contents:  Introduction: the politics of our selves -- Foucault, subjectivity, and the Enlightenment: a critical reappraisal -- The impurity of practical reason: power and autonomy in Foucault -- Dependency, subordination, and recognition: Butler on subjection -- Empowering the lifeworld? autonomy and power in Habermas -- Contextualizing critical theory -- Engendering critical theory

BF251 .O23 2007.  O'Callaghan, Casey.  Sounds: a philosophical theory.  Casey O'Callaghan.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.  Sounds -- Philosophy;  Auditory perception -- Philosophy.  Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-188) and index

BH81 .S4913 2007.  Sezemanas, Vosylius, 1884-1963.  Estetika;  Aesthetics.  Vasily Sesemann   translated from Lithuanian by Mykolas Drunga   edited and introduced by Leonidas Donskis.  Amsterdam   New York, NY: Rodopi, 2007.  Aesthetics;  Philosophy, Lithuanian.  Includes bibliographical references and index;  Originally published as Estetika by Vilnius: Mintis, 1970

BJ1031 .N49 2007.  New waves in applied ethics.  edited by Jesper Ryberg, Thomas S. Petersen and Clark Wolf.  Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.  Applied ethics.  Includes bibliographical references and index

BJ1031 .P75 2007.  Prinz, Jesse J.  The emotional construction of morals.  Jesse J. Prinz.  Oxford   New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.  Ethics;  Emotions;  Moral sense theory.  Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-328) and index;  Morality and emotion -- Constructing morals

HX833 .M35 2007.  McLaughlin, Paul.  Anarchism and authority: a philosophical introduction to classical anarchism.  Paul McLaughlin.  Aldershot, England   Burlington, VT: Ashgate, c2007.  Anarchism.  Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-196) and index.
Table of Contents:   Anarchism and the problem of authority -- Defining anarchism -- The nature of authority -- Forms of authority -- The legitimacy of the state -- Anarchism and the history of ideas -- The historical foundations of anarchism -- Foundational texts of anarchism -- Theoretical developments of anarchism

PG2947.B3 B43 2007.  Beasley-Murray, Tim, 1971-.  Mikhail Bakhtin and Walter Benjamin: experience and form.  Tim Beasley-Murray.  Basingstoke [England]   New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.  Bakhtin, M. M. (Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich), 1895-1975 -- Criticism and interpretation;  Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 -- Criticism and interpretation.  Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-208) and index;  Habit and tradition -- Experience -- Language -- Totalities

Q175.32.E44 E96 2007.  Evolution and emergence: systems, organisms, persons.  edited by Nancey Murphy and William R. Stoeger.  Oxford  New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.  Emergence (Philosophy);  Science -- Philosophy;  Philosophy;  Science;  Evolution;  Systems Theory;  Theology.  Includes bibliographical references (p. [350]-368) and index"