Kwasi Wiredu, University of South Florida I would like to mention that Professor Masolo is the author of the first full-length history of contemporary African philosophyand Professor Hallen has just recently written A Short History of African Philosophy that brings us right up to today. So we have two historians and one layman on this panel. […]

Reviewed by Miguel Martinez-Saenz, Wittenberg University Alan Dershowitz’s Supreme Injustice: How the High Court Hijacked Election 2000 provides a thorough, albeit at times partisan, account of the 2000 Presidential Election. Dershowitz’s analysis enables specialists and non-specialists alike to appreciate the complexity of the issues involved in determining the “real” or “legal” winner in the 2000 […]

Nationalism and the International Labor Movement: The Idea of the Nation in Socialist and Anarchist Theory is a review of the ideas that some primary socialist thinkers developed about the ideas of “nation” and “nationalism.” Divided into an introduction and four chapters, the book offers interesting and coherent perspectives on the subjects “nation” and “nationalism.” […]

Nathan Andersen, Eckerd College If discussions and debates of the last few decades on the politics of multiculturalism have established anything conclusive, it is that cross-cultural understandings and multi-cultural communities are never pre-given and can never be taken for granted. Moreover, if it were not already obvious from the experience of living in a contemporary […]

Robert Bass, Coastal Carolina University I once came across a Mark Twain story in which a character said something to the effect that the one thing God didn’t know was that he was not all-knowing. As an argument against omniscience, Twain’s one-liner doesn’t amount to much. Thinking about it, however, led to the kind of […]

Joseph Grcic, Indiana State University The US constitution specifies that the president and vice president of the United States are not to be chosen directly by the people but by what has come to be called the electoral college. The thesis of this essay is that the electoral college should be abolished because it lacks […]

Scott Kimbrough, Jacksonville University What is an emotion? This question has picked up a lot of momentum in the last thirty years or so, as philosophers, psychologists, and neuroscientists offer competing answers. One of the more hotly contested questions in these debates concerns the role of judgment in defining emotion. “Cognitivists” maintain that judgments are […]

James E. Roper, Michigan State University Introduction According to noted linguist George Lakoff, framing an issue amounts to placing it in a particular context for evaluation. In the summer of 2005, the Michigan Legislature took up a bill to allow a gasoline pipeline to be built in south Lansing. Those who objected to building the […]

Comments on Donald Davidson: Meaning, Truth, Language, and Reality   Simon Evnine, University of Miami Donald Davidson is, notoriously, a philosopher who has appeared as many things to many people. He has been interpreted in the light of Husserl, Heidegger, Derrida and the American Pragmatists. The Davidson who appears in the pages of Lepore and […]

Kirk Ludwig, University of Florida I want to thank Simon and Piers for their comments. It is real pleasure to have such perceptive commentators. Both Simon and Piers put the argument for the impossibility of radical interpretation at the center of their comments, and I will do the same with the aim of shedding more […]