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"Intended for those interested in Kant's contribution to philosophy, this volume provides an overview of Kant's arguments concerning central issues in metaphysics and ethics. Arthur Melnick argues that the key to all of Kant's arguments is his constructivist theory of space and time."--Jacket

"The work of women philosophers in the early modern period has traditionally been overlooked, yet their writing on topics such as reality, time, mind and matter holds valuable lessons for our understanding of metaphysics and its history. Investigating issues from eternity to free will and from body to natural laws, the essays uncover long- neglected perspectives and demonstrate their importance for philosophical debates, both then and now. Combining careful philosophical analysis with discussion of the intellectual and historical context of each thinker, they will set the agenda for future enquiry and will appeal to scholars and students of the history of metaphysics, science, religion and feminism"--

Francis J. Beckwith's (2001) critique of Paul D. Simmons's (2000) analysis of US abortion policy & of Justice Blackman's opinion in the US Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade (1973) is challenged. An overview of the social & cultural context surrounding the contemporary abortion debate is presented, emphasizing the rise in the practice of abandoning infants in US society. Beckwith's contention that involving metaphysics into discussions of abortion is unavoidable is questioned & contrasted to Simmons's & Blackman's respective positions that metaphysics has no place in democratic policy making. Several problems with Beckwith's argument for using the viability standard to determining when a fetus become a human being are then identified, eg, the use of metaphysical perspectives to interpret constitutional documents, especially in pluralistic societies. In addition, Beckwith's claim that Simmons's "no-subject perspective" necessarily makes him a metaphysical materialist is strongly repudiated. Ultimately, Beckwith is delineated as a philosophical fundamentalist & is urged to consider the works of American pragmatists William James & John Dewey. J. W. Parker

This book examines Richard Rorty's position that religious and metaphysical beliefs should simply be abandoned, and proposes that his position is contradicted by what is a fundamental part of every human life, namely the phenomenon of human recognition of other people.

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface: Why Gender Essentialism? -- 1. Two Notions of Essence -- 2. Gender and Social Normativity -- 3. Human Organisms, Social Individuals, and Persons -- 4. The Argument for Gender Essentialism -- 5. The Person, the Social Individual, and the Self -- Epilogue: Gender Essentialism and Feminist Politics -- Select Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.

This multidisciplinary work departs from the Marxist materialist tradition by criticizing its logical flaws and its incapacity to work out a naturalistic materialism. Micocci argues that capitalism itself is based on a dialectical intellectuality enforced despite the non-dialectical potentialities present in the material in general. Capitalism, therefore, is a massifying system isolated from nature by an intellectual fiat, and has no capacity for theoretical and technical innovation.

Foreword — The Modernity of Rhetoric -- Formal Logic and Informal Logic -- Logic and Argumentation -- To Reason While Speaking -- Organization and Articulation of Verbal Exchanges: Question-Response Exchange in Polemical Contexts -- Argumentativity and Informativity -- Saying and Knowing -- Dialectic, Rhetoric and Critique in Aristotle -- Toward an Anthropology of Rhetoric -- Rhetoric-Poetics-Hermeneutics -- Rhetoric and Literature -- The Figure and the Argument -- Rhetoric and Politics.

AbstractIn this paper, I aim to discuss what puns, metaphysically, are. I argue that the type-token view of words leads to an indeterminacy problem when we consider puns. I then outline an alternative account of puns, based on recent nominalist views of words, that does not suffer from this indeterminacy.