Jesse Unruh Of the many and varied arguments maintaining that abortion is morally on keel with murdering an adult human, the deprivation argument against abortion is the most deserving of philosophical attention. The most noteworthy aspect of the argument is its attempt to prove the immorality of abortion while avoiding the issue of personhood altogether. […]

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 […]

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 […]

Eric D. Smaw, University of Kentucky Introduction Nearly fifty years after the Nuremberg and Tokyo trials, members of the 1998 Rome Conference voted on a treaty to establish a permanent international criminal court in which to prosecute people who commit the most egregious violations of human rights. Prior to the Rome Conference, international criminal tribunals […]

Book Symposium Margaret McLaren. Feminism, Foucault, and Embodied Subjectivity (SUNY Press, 2002) Foucault, Feminism, and the Care of the Self: Lessons from Antiquity Joanne Waugh, University of South Florida In Feminism, Foucault, and Subjectivity, Margaret McLaren accomplishes her aims. She shows how “Foucault’s ideas about body, power, and subjectivity can provide important theoretical resources for […]

Book Symposium Margaret McLaren. Feminism, Foucault, and Embodied Subjectivity (SUNY Press, 2002) Relativism and Particularity: A Commentary on McLaren’s Feminism, Foucault, and Embodied Subjectivity. Suzanne Jaeger, University of Central Florida Margaret McLaren’s book, Feminism, Foucault, and Embodied Subjectivity, provides a well written, informative, and challenging analysis of some intersections between Foucault and feminism. McLaren provides […]

Piers Rawling, The Florida State University What follows is a version of comments presented at the November 10, 2006 meeting of the Florida Philosophical Association. I have modified my original remarks somewhat in light of input at the meeting, and I would like to thank all those who participated – particularly Kirk Ludwig. I owe […]

W. Glenn Kirkconnell, Santa Fe Community College Introduction For Søren Kierkegaard, the depth and maturity of the person is reflected (or perhaps is created) by that person’s attitude towards death. Nowhere is this clearer than in the Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions, particularly when seen in contrast to its “accompanying” work, Stages on Life’s Way. […]

Darren Hibbs, Nova Southeastern University Introductory texts in the philosophy of science usually provide a general account of the traditional problems that constitute the core of the discipline: the distinction between science and pseudoscience, the degree of objective reasoning in science, the problems of induction and underdetermination, the concept of explanation, and the realism-antirealism debate. […]

Kant contra Herder: Almost against Nature Martin A. Bertman, Helsinki University In Rousseau, Immanuel Kant found a congenial emphasis on (1) morality as the most important aspect of human dignity: its quality being freedom, (2) the perfectibility of humankind, and (3) the need to provide concrete, circumstantial proposals for moral progress in politics, particularly, in […]