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.” […]

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 […]

Barry Hallen, Morehouse College and W.E.B. Du Bois Institute, Harvard University More than three decades ago a definite and deliberate consensus had been reached among philosophers in and of Africa that there had been enough second-order talk about whether there had been and was ‘philosophy’ in indigenous African cultural contexts. This meant that it was […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Jeremy Kelly, Florida Southern College The redundancy view of truth states generally that the truth-predicate “is true” does not express an analyzable semantic property; and therefore it is semantically superfluous. To say, then, that a sentence or proposition is true is, in a certain sense, to assert nothing other than the sentence itself. According to […]

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 […]