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Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy

Jaakko Hintikka, Robert Neville, Ernest Sosa, and Alan Olson, editors

The Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy was held in Boston in August 1998, and was the largest international gathering of academic philosophers in the 20th century. The twelve volume print collection of the Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy contains more than 270 invited and selected contributed papers from this event. The set is presented in thematically organized volumes that provide summary statements of the international status of the major fields in philosophy at the turn of the century. Volume titles include Ethics, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Education, Philosophies of Religion, Art, and Creativity, Epistemology, Analytic Philosophy and Logic, Modern Philosophy, Contemporary Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Science, Social and Political Philosophy, and Intercultural Philosophy.

Philosophers published in this collection include Pierre Aubenque, Evandro Agazzi, Karl-Ott Apel, Natalia Avtonomova, Arindam Chakrabarti, Chung-ying Cheng, Daniel Dennett, Fred Dretske, Jorge J.E. Gracia, Marjorie Grene, Adolf Grünbaum, Jaakko Hintikka, Ted Honderich, Ionna Kuçuradi, Hans Lenk, Alasdair MacIntyre, C. Ulises Moulines, W. V. Quine, Gunnar Skirbekk, Vyachevslav Stepin, P. F. Strawson, Olúfémi Táíwò, Georg Henrik von Wright, and Linda Zagzebski. Author abstracts are provided for each paper and a complete name index is provided in each hardbound volume. Complete tables of contents for each volume are provided below.

The Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy are indexed in the Bibliographie de la Philosophie, Index to Social Sciences and Humanities Proceedings, and Philosopher's Index.

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Tables of Contents

  1. Alasdair MacIntyre. "Moral Pluralism without Moral Relativism"
  2. So Hung-yul. "Pluralism and the Moral Mind"
  3. Stephen Darwell. "Why Ethics is Part of Philosophy: A Plea for Philosophical Ethics"
  4. Stuart Rosenbaum. "Moral Theory and the Reflective Life"
  5. Virginia Held. "Feminist Ethical Theory"
  6. Michael Slote. "Moral Theories and Virtue Ethics"
  7. Jonathan Dancy. "Can a Particularist Learn the Difference Between Right and Wrong?"
  8. Margarita M. Valdés. "Practical Ethics and Moral Objectivism"
  9. Ricardo Maliandi. "Principios de equidad discursiva"
  10. Gunnar Skirbekk. "Discourse-Ethical Gradualism: Beyond Antropocentrism and Biocentrism?"
  11. Gilbert Harman. "Moral Knowledge and Linguistics"
  12. Walter P. Sinnott-Armstrong. "Explanation and Justification in Moral Epistemology"
  13. John Martin Fischer. "The Value of Moral Responsibility"
  14. John Passmore. "Philosophy and Ecology"
  15. Holmes Rolston III. "Nature and Culture in Environmental Ethics"
  16. Robin Attfield. "Depth, Trusteeship and Redistribution"
  17. Matti Häyry & Tuija Takala. "Biotechnology and the Environment: From Moral Objections to Ethical Analyses"
  18. Jorge L. A. Garcia. "Beyond Biophobic Medical Ethics"
  19. Felicia Ackerman. "Death, Dying, and Dignity"
  20. Bernard Gert. "Morality and Health Care Policy"
  21. Dan Brock. "Ethical Issues in the Construction of Cost-Effectiveness Analyses for the Prioritization and Rationing of Health Care"
  22. Russell Hardin. "Ethics in Big Science"
  1. Ludger Honnenfelder. "Reconsidering the Tradition of Metaphysics: The Medieval Example (Thomas Aquinas, Duns Scotus, William Ockham)"
  2. John F. Wippel. "Thomas Aquinas, Siger of Brabant, and Their Use of Avicenna in Clarifying the Subject of Metaphysics"
  3. Brian Leftow. "Aquinas on the Infinite"
  4. Robert Greenberg. "The Ontology of Kant's Theory of Knowledge"
  5. Herman Philipse. " Heidegger's Grand (Pascalian) Strategy: On the Problem of Reinterpreting the Esistentiala"
  6. Peter Van Inwagen. "Meta-ontology: A Brief Introduction"
  7. David-Hillel Rubin. "Actions and Their Parts"
  8. Fred Dretske. "Mental Causation"
  9. Peter M. Simons. "Does the Sun Exist? The Problem of Vague Objects"
  10. Brian Loar. "Should the Explanatory Gap Perplex Us?"
  11. Philip Percival. "The Explanation of Chance Events"
  12. Robert van Gulick. "Taking a Step Back from the Gap"
  13. Robert Kane. "New Directions on Free Will"
  14. Saul Smilanksky. "Free Will: The Positive Role of Illusion"
  15. Arda Denkel. "Transcience and Identity"
  16. Loretta Torrago. "Vagueness and Identity"
  17. Roger Wertheimer. "Identity Syntax"
  18. Debi Prasad Chattopadhyaya. "On the Ways of Knowing What is There: Being and Knowing"
  19. E. Jonathan Lowe. "Abstraction, Properties, and Immanent Realism"
  20. Sharon Kaye. "Russell, Strawson, and William of Ockham"
  21. Jay Rosenberg. "How Not to Be Systematic: Three Case Studies"
  22. Beth J. Singer. "Philosophic Systems and Systematic Philosophy"
  23. Robert Cummings Neville. "Eternity and the Time of Education"
  1. Gareth B. Matthews. "On Valuing Perplexity in Education"
  2. Katalin G. Havas. "Learning to Think: Logic for Children"
  3. Matthew Lipman. "What's Happening with P4C?"
  4. Tu Wei-ming. "Self-Cultivation as Education Embodying Humanity"
  5. Mark D. Gedney. "Rousseau's 'Émile': Home-Schooling or Education Behind Closed Doors"
  6. James Garrison. "Philosophy as the General Theory of Critical Education"
  7. Paul Woodruff. "Paideia and Good Judgment"
  8. John R. Silber. "Philosophy and the Future of Education"
  9. Richard Feldman. "Epistemology, Argumentation, and Citizenship"
  10. León Olivé. "Can Philosophy and Education Still Emancipate Humanity?"
  11. Jonathan E. Adler. "Epistemic Dependence, Diversity of Ideas, and a Value of Intellectual Vices"
  12. Catherine Z. Elgin. "Education and the Advancement of Understanding"
  13. Adrian Miroiu. "Changing Patterns of Teaching Philosophy"
  14. David Evans. "Global Agenda for the Teaching of Philosophy"
  15. Wu Kuang-ming. "World Inter-Learning: The Global Project of Teaching Philosophy"
  16. Margaret Chatterjee. "Global Agenda for Teaching Philosophy"
  17. Lucius Outlaw. "Philosophical Education and Cultural Diversity"
  18. J.C. Nyiri. "Philosophy, Education and the History of Communication"
  19. Israel Scheffler. "Some Contributions of Philosophy to Education"
  1. Merold Westphal. "The Politics of Religious Pluralism"
  2. Robert Audi. "Ethics and Religion: Philosophical, Psychological, and Political Connections"
  3. Phillip L. Quinn. "Epistemological Problems of Religious Pluralism"
  4. Kai Nielson. "On Being a Secularist All the Way Down"
  5. Charles Taliaferro. "The Ideal Observer's Philosophy of Religion"
  6. William E. Mann. "Believing Where We Cannot Prove: Duns Scotus on the Necessity of Supernatural Belief"
  7. Stephen F. Barker. James' "The Will to Believe"
  8. Guy Axtell. "Courage, Caution, and Heaven's Gate: James' Pragmatic Defense of Religious Belief"
  9. William P. Alston. "What is Distinctive About the Epistemology of Religious Belief?"
  10. Gary Gutting. "An Historical Perspective on Religious Epistemology"
  11. Howard Wettstein. "Against Theodicy"
  12. Michael P. Levine. "The Problem of Evil: Strange Mutations, Strange Solutions"
  13. Keith E. Yandell. "God, Freedom, and Creation in Cross-Cultural Perspective: Ramanuja, Madhva, Augustine, Aquinas"
  14. Gary Iseminger. "The Aesthetic Function of Art"
  15. Peg Zeglin Brand. "Glaring Omissions in Traditional Theories of Art"
  16. Barry Hallen. "Handsome Is as Handsome Does": Interrelations of the Epistemic, the Moral, and the Aesthetic in an African Culture"
  17. Andrew Chignell. "The Problem of Particularity in Kant's Aesthetic Theory"
  18. Mark DeBellis. "The Paradox of Music Analysis"
  19. Edith Wyschogrod. "The Death of the Sign, the Rise of the Image in Merce Cunningham's Choreography"
  20. George Allan. "Forms, Transforms, and the Creative Process"
  21. Matti Sintonen. "Creativity and Discovery"
  1. George Bealer. "A Priori Knowledge"
  2. Laurence BonJour. "Four Theses Concerning A Priori Justification"
  3. Richard Fumerton. "Relational, Non-Relational, and Mixed Theories of Experience"
  4. Michael John Pendlebury. "Perception and Objective Knowledge"
  5. Bill Brewer. "Self-Knowledge and Externalism"
  6. Fernando Broncano. "Reliable Rationality"
  7. Albert Casullo. "Is Empiricism Coherent?"
  8. Murray Clarke. "Reliabilism and the Meliorative Project"
  9. Brian P. McLaughlin. "Colors and Color Spaces"
  10. Keith DeRose. "Now You Know It, Now You Don't"
  11. Alvin I. Goldman. "Veritistic Social Epistemology"
  12. Ilka Niiniluoto. "Is It Rational to Be Rational?"
  13. Tom Rockmore. "Knowledge as Historical"
  14. Vyachevslav S. Stepin. "Knowledge as Cultural and Historical System"
  15. John Greco. "Skepticism, Reliabilism and Virtue Epistemology"
  16. Christopher Hookway. "Regulating Inquiry: Virtue, Doubt, and Sentiment"
  17. Kevin L. Stoehr. "The Virtues of Circular Reasoning"
  18. Linda Zagzebski. "From Reliabilism to Virtue Epistemology"
  19. Richard Foley. "Epistemically Rational Belief and Responsible Belief"
  20. Eli Hirsch. "Objectivity Without Objects"
  21. Peter D. Klein. "Why Not Infinitism?"
  22. Paul K. Moser. "Skepticism, Question Begging, and Burden Shifting"
  1. Stephen Schiffer. "Pleonastic Fregeanism"
  2. João Branquinho. "On the Individuation of Fregean Propositions"
  3. Phillip L. Peterson. "Fact/Proposition/Event Individuation"
  4. Manuel Garcia-Carpintero. "Token-Reflexivity and Indirect Discourse"
  5. R. Mark Sainsbury. "Empty Names"
  6. Roger Wertheimer. "The Synonymy Antinomy"
  7. George M. Wilson. "Satisfaction Through the Ages"
  8. Terry Horgan. "Facing Up to the Sorites Paradox"
  9. Tim Williamson. "Semantic Paradox and Semantic Change"
  10. Dan Goldstick. "Correspondence"
  11. Lorenz B. Puntel. "What Does '...is True' ('It is True That...') Express?"
  12. Gabriel Sandu. "Minimalism and the Definability of Truth"
  13. Jaakko Hintikka. "What is True and What is False About So-called Theories of Truth?"
  14. Osvaldo Chateaubriand. "Logical Forms"
  15. Stewart Shapiro. "Set-Theoretic Foundations"
  16. Bob Hale. "Reals by Abstraction"
  17. Donald L. M. Baxter. "A Humean Temporal Logic"
  18. Luciano Floridi. "Mathematical Skepticism: The Cartesian Approach"
  19. Daniel Andler. "The Undefinability of Analytic Philosophy"
  20. W. V. Quine. "Three Networks: Similarity, Implication, and Membership"
  1. Simone Goyard-Fabre. "Les Lumières et leur héritage"
  2. Hans Poser. "Leibniz on the Improvement of Language and Understanding"
  3. Henry Allison. "Kant's Conception of Enlightenment"
  4. Manfred Gawlina. "Transcendental Philosophy and the Specific Demands of Paideia: The Models of Descartes, Kant, and Fichte"
  5. Robert Merrihew Adams. "Leibniz's Conception of Religion"
  6. R. C. Sleigh, Jr. "Faith and Reason in the Philosophy of Leibniz"
  7. Sidney Axinn. "Kant on Possible Hope: The Critique of Pure Hope"
  8. Edwin Curley. "Castellio vs. Spinoza on Religious Toleration"
  9. Michael Ayers. "Can There be a New Empiricism?"
  10. Georges Dicker. "Regularity, Conditionality, and Asymmetry in Causation"
  11. Joãe Paulo Monteiro. "Hume's Empiricism and the Rationality of Induction"
  12. Morton White. "The Ideas of the Enlightenment and Their Legacy: The Psychologism of Hume and Quine Compared"
  13. Harold I. Brown. "Berkeley on the Conceivability of Qualities and Material Objects"
  14. Klaus Brinkmann. "System and History in Hegel"
  15. William Sweet. "Bosanquet, Culture, and the Influence of Idealistic Logic"
  16. Marcia L. Homiak. "Does Hume Have an Ethics of Virtue? Some Observations on Character and Reasoning in Hume and Aristotle"
  17. Douglas Moggach. "The Construction of Juridical Space: Kant's Analogy of Relation in the Metaphysics of Morals"
  18. Zeljko Loparic. "Is the Enlightenment an Outdated Program?"
  19. John Woods. "Hasty Generalization"
  20. Robert Sokolowski. "Transcendental Phenomenology"
  21. David Woodruff Smith. "Ontological Phenomenology"
  1. Marilyn Myerson. "Feminist Approaches to Sexology"
  2. Cheryl Hall. "Feminism's Essential Eros"
  3. Natalie Stoljar. "The Politics of Identity and the Metaphysics of Diversity: Conceptions of Essentialism in Feminist Philosophy"
  4. Louise Antony. "Situating Feminist Epistemology"
  5. Sally Haslanger. "Defining Knowledge: Feminist Values and Normative Epistemology"
  6. Peter Caws. "Temporary Necessities and Permanent Possibilities: Structuralism and Poststructuralism"
  7. Dale Jacquette. "The Deconstruction Debacle in Theory and Practice"
  8. John R. Silber. "Paideia: Philosophy Educating Humanity"
  9. Daniel C. Dennett. "Postmodernism and Truth"
  10. Steven Fuller. "The Truth About Science in the Postmodern Condition: An Answer to Dennett's Postmodernism and Truth"
  11. Hans Lenk. "Outline of Systematic Schema Interpretation"
  12. Raymond Martin. "Narration, Objectivity, and Methodological Truth"
  13. C. Behan McCullagh. "The Structure and Objectivity of Historical Narratives"
  14. Alan M. Olson. "Epochal Consciousness and the Philosophy of History"
  15. Tom Rockmore. "Recent Analytic Philosophy and Idealism"
  16. Rodolphe Gasché. "Specters of Nietzsche"
  17. Stephen Watson. "'Post-Structuralism' and the Dispensation of the Good: A Reinterpretation of Levinas"
  18. James Campbell. "Dewey's Foundations"
  19. Larry A. Hickman. "What Was Dewey's 'Magic Number'?"
  20. Helmut Pape. "The Unity of Classical Pragmatism: Its Scope and its Limits"
  21. Sandra B. Rosenthal. "Pragmatism: What's in a Name?"
  22. Marjorie Grene. "What Have We Learned from Philosophy in the Twentieth Century?"
  23. Paul Weiss. "Philosophy as an Adventure: Reflections on the Twentieth Century"
  24. P. F. Strawson. "What Have We Learned from Philosophy in the Twentieth Century?"
  25. Georg Henrik von Wright. "Philosophy—A Guide for the Perplexed?"
  1. Josep E. Corbí and Josep L. Prades. "Mental Contents, Tracking Counterfactuals, and Implementing Mechanisms"
  2. Jesús Ezquerro and Agustín Vicente. "Explanatory Exclusion, Overdetermination, and the Mind-Body Problem"
  3. Sydney Shoemaker. "Realization and Mental Causation"
  4. Stephen Yablo. "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Thinkers"
  5. Henry Jackman. "Belief, Rationality, and Psychophysical Laws"
  6. Carlos J. Moya. "A Proposal About Intentional Action"
  7. Ted Honderich. "Consciousness as Existence Again"
  8. Ruth Garrett Millikan. "Naturalizing Intentionality"
  9. Pierre Jacob. "Can Selection Explain Content?"
  10. James H. Fetzer. "Computing is at Best a Special Kind of Thinking"
  11. James H. Moor. "Thinking Must Be Computation of the Right Kind"
  12. John L. Pollock. "Rationality in Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence"
  13. Mary Tjiattas. "Functional Irrationality"
  14. Michael DePaul. "Character Traits, Virtues and Vices: Are There None?"
  15. Olbeth Hansberg. "The Role of Emotions in Moral Psychology: Shame and Indignation"
  16. Mark Leon. "Believing Autonomously"
  17. Lynn Rudder Baker. "What Am I?"
  18. Diana Tietjens Meyers. "Authenticity for Real People"
  19. Adolf Grünbaum. "Does Freudian Theory Resolve 'The Paradoxes of Irrationality'?"
  1. Daniel Bonevac. "Defeasibly Sufficient Reason"
  2. Bruce Glymour and Marcelo Sabatés. "Micro-Level Indeterminism and Macro-Level Determinism"
  3. C. Ulises Moulines. "Ontology, Reduction, and the Unity of Science"
  4. Manuel Liz. "New Physical Properties"
  5. Michael Ruse. "Reduction in Biology"
  6. Lawrence Sklar. "What is an Isolated System?"
  7. Elliot Sober. "Instrumentalism Revisited"
  8. Ryszard Wójcicki. "What Do We Know?"
  9. Theo A. F. Kuipers. "Epistemological Positions in the Light of Truth Approximation"
  10. Eduardo H. Flischman. "Newton's Dynamics, Kuhn, and Incommensurability"
  11. Alberto Cordero. "Physics and the Underdetermination Thesis: Some Lessons from Quantum Theory"
  12. Tian Yu Cao. "Representation or Construction? An Interpretation of Quantum Field Theory"
  13. Gary S. Rosenkrantz. "What is Life?"
  14. David Gruender. "On Explanation: Aristotelian and Hempelean"
  15. David Grünberg. "Bootstrapping and the Problem of Testing Quantitative Theoretical Hypotheses"
  16. Manuel Comesaña. "¿Tiene Derecho a Existir la Filosofía de la Ciencia?"
  17. Barry Smith. "On Forms of Communication"
  18. Marcelo Dascal. "Controversies and Epistemology"
  19. Miriam Solomon. "Consensus in Science"
  20. Vladislav A. Lektorsky. "Scientific Knowledge as Historical and Cultural Phenomenon"
  21. Jesús Mosterín. "Self-Consciousness and Cosmic Consciousness"
  22. Evandro Agazzi. "Science and Humanities in the New Paideia"
  1. Karl-Otto Apel. "Is a Political Conception of 'Overlapping Consensus' an Adequate Basis for Global Justice?"
  2. Antonio Perez-Estevez. "Intercultural Dialogue and Human Rights: A Latin American Reading of Rawls's 'Law of Peoples'"
  3. William L. McBride. "Consumers and Cultural Hegemony Within a Cosmopolitan Order—Why Not?"
  4. Jonathan L. Gorman. "Justice and Toleration: A Western Perspective on Philosophy and Social Justice"
  5. Neil MacCormick. "Rhetoric and the Rule of Law"
  6. Olúfémi Táíwò. "On the Limits of Law at Century's End"
  7. Rex Martin. "Rawls on Constitutional Consensus and the Problem of Stability"
  8. Gabriel Vargas Lozano. "Liberal Democracy and Radical Democracy: The Two Faces of Janus"
  9. Peter A. French. "The Meaning of Democracy: A Western Perspective"
  10. James P. Sterba. "Reconciling Public Reason and Religious Values"
  11. Jorge J.E. Gracia. "Philosophy in American Public Life: De Facto and De Jure"
  12. Sirkku Kristiina Hellsten. "Communitarianism and Western Thought"
  13. Margaret Gilbert. "Sociality, Unity, Objectivity"
  14. Raimo Tuomela. "Collective Acceptance and Social Reality"
  15. Wolfgang Balzer. "Freedom and Equality in the Comparison of Political Systems"
  16. Daniel O. Dahlstrom. "Love, Honor, and Resentment"
  17. Robert L. Holmes. "A Western Perspective on the Problem of Violence"
  18. Eduardo Robossi. "Paideia, Social Justice, Human Rights"
  19. Newton Garver. "Politics and Anti-Politics"
  20. Michael Halberstam. "Aestheticism or Aesthetic Approach in Arendt and Heidegger on Politics"
  21. Thomas Magnell. "Educating for Practical Reasoning"
  22. Ionna Kuçuradi. "Paideia as the Subjective Condition for a Sagacious Implementation of Human Rights"
  23. Pierre Aubenque. "Paideia et Physis dan la Conception Grecque Antique"
  1. Carl Becker. "Philosophy Educating Humanity: From Western to Asian Environmental Ethics"
  2. Chung-ying Cheng. "Classical Chinese Philosophy in a Global Context"
  3. Chad Hansen. "How Chinese Thought 'Shapes' Western Thought"
  4. Arindam Chakrabarti. "Truth, Recognition of Truth, and Thoughtless Realism: Nyāya Without Fregean Fetters"
  5. Guy Newland. "'Will this Potato Grow?' Ultimate Analysis and Conventional Existence in the Madyamika Philosophy of Tsong ka pa Lo sang drak pa's Lam Rim Chen Mo"
  6. Barry Smith. "On Forms of Communication in Philosophy"
  7. Natalia Avtonomova. "On the (Re)creation of Russian Philosophical Language"
  8. Evert van der Zweerde. "The Normalization of the History of Philosophy in Post-Soviet Russian Philosophical Culture"
  9. Edward M. Swiderski. "Philosophy in Russia Today and the Legacy of the Soviet Union"
  10. James P. Scanlan. "Main Currents of Post-Soviet Philosophy in Russia"
  11. Mikhail Epstein. "Main Trends of Contemporary Russian Thought"
  12. Hamlet A. Gevorkian. "The Encounter of Cultures and the Philosophy of History: Problems and Solutions"
  13. Jay L. Garfield. "Buddhism and Democracy"
  14. Kwang-Sae Lee. "Justice from an Eastern Perspective: Field and Focus"
  15. Chung-ying Cheng. "Philosophy of Violence from an Eastern Perspective"
  16. Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze. "Democracy in Today's Africa: A Philosopher's Point of View"
  17. Safro Kwame. "Philosophy and Social Justice in the World Today: An African Perspective"
  18. D. A. Masolo. "Communitarianism: An African Perspective"
  19. D. P. Chattopadhyaya. "Communitarianism From An Eastern Perspective"
  20. Andrzej Maciej Kaniowski. "Is Globalization a Real Threat to Democracy? Remarks from an Eastern European Perspective"
  21. George Teschner. "The Humanities and Telecommunication Technology"
  22. Robert Cummings Neville. "Humanity and the Natural World: Reconceiving Knowing, Learning, and Living"

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