Graduate Essay Prize Winning Paper of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Florida Philosophical Association Jeremy Kirby, Florida State University  Introduction  In an article entitled “Is an Aristotelian Philosophy of Mind Still Credible? A Draft,” Myles Burnyeat suggested that we might do “what the seventeenth century did . . . [with the Aristotelian concept of […]

Nicholas Power, University of West Florida, Pensacola Introduction Recently I volunteered to join a sociologist colleague in debating a pair of evangelical Christian ministers on the topic of creation science versus evolutionary theory on the campus of my university. The opposing side was led by a professor and pastor at an area Baptist College named Kent […]

Critical Commentary on Martin Schönfeld’s The Philosophy of the Young Kant: The Precritical Project (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2000) Jennifer K. Uleman, University of Miami  This is a truly wonderful book. I confess I hesitated to agree to adding to my workload reading and commenting on Schönfeld’s The Philosophy of the Young Kant. And I suppose I wasn’t sure what I […]

On The Philosophy of the Young Kant: The Precritical Project (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2000) Martin Schönfeld, University of South Florida  I would like to thank Sidney Axinn, Jennifer Uleman, and Byron Williston for their insightful and generous comments. All three raise interesting questions that need to be answered. Before trying to do so, I should briefly explain […]

Critical Commentary on Alfred Mele’s Self-Deception Unmasked (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton UP, 2001) Peter Dalton, Florida State University  In Self-Deception Unmasked, Alfred Mele focuses almost entirely on explaining self-deception, and he argues effectively for explanations that stress non-agency (and hence that are causal in nature) rather than ones that cite agency (and hence that involve intention, trying and purpose). […]

Critical Commentary on Martin Schönfeld’s The Philosophy of the Young Kant: The Precritical Project (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2000) Byron Williston, Wilfrid Laurier University  Schönfeld’s book on the young Kant has an argument I find unassailable, namely that reality is, for the precritical Kant, coherent and unified. This is of course at odds with the fundamental assumption of the […]

Critical Commentary on Martin Schönfeld’s The Philosophy of the Young Kant: The Precritical Project (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2000) Sidney Axinn, University of South Florida; Temple University, Emeritus  Professor Schönfeld had a difficult problem: how can you keep the attention of your readers when they already know the outcome of your story? His story is Kant’s precritical project, […]

Critical Commentary on Alfred Mele’s Self-Deception Unmasked (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton UP, 2001) Crystal Thorpe, University of Florida  In the book, Self-Deception Unmasked, Alfred Mele offers a fresh new approach for dealing with the seemingly intractable problem of self-deception. Traditionally, philosophers have taken self-deception to be a phenomenon in which an individual who initially knows or believes the truth, p, […]

Introduction The 2000 Presidential election with its undeniable complications has forced most legal and constitutional scholars, legal journalists and Supreme Court journalists to examine critically the status of the Supreme Court’s power. For example, articles related to the Court’s accountability or lack thereof, Supreme Court appointments, and possible reform and constitutional interpretation, have filled newspapers, […]

Some Remarks on Self-Deception: Mele, Moore, and Lakatos Critical Commentary on Alfred Mele’s Self-Deception Unmasked (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton UP, 2001) Risto Hilpinen, University of Miami  Sartre and Moore on Contradicting Oneself  Much of the recent philosophical discussion of the problems and paradoxes of self- deception or self-delusion goes back Jean-Paul Sartre’s analysis of bad faith in Being […]