Adam, Alison. Artificial Knowing. Routledge. 1998. Pp. v and 210. £12.99. Adams, E. M. A Society Fit for Human Beings. SUNY Press. 1997. Pp. xxii and 269. $16.95. Archard, David. Sexual Consent. Westview Press. 1998. Pp. x and 189. £37.95, £13. Arrington, Robert L. Western Ethics. Blackwell. 1997. Pp. xi and 419. £15.99 or $29.95. Barnes, Annette. Seeing Through Self-Deception. Cambridge University Press. 1998. Pp. x and 182. £32.50, $54.95. Battersby, Christine. The Phenomenal Woman. Polity Press. 1998. Pp. xii and 236. No price given. Becker, Lawrence C. A New Stoicism. Princeton University Press. 1998. Pp. ix and 216. £22.50 or $29.95. Benn, Piers, Ethics. Taylor & Francis. 1997. Pp. xiv and 223. £10.95. Biletzki, Anat and Anat Matar. (Eds). The Story of Analytic Philosophy. 1997. Pp. xiv and 276. £45. Blystone, Jasper. (Robert Reichle, Ed.) The Pragmatics of the Human Heritage. Long Beach Publications. 1997. Pp. 92. $19.95. Bohlin, Henrik. Groundless Knowledge. Almqvist & Wiksell International. 1977. Pp. 231. No price given. Brülde, Bengt. The Human Good. Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis. 1998. Pp. xi and 490. No price given.

In 1990 Hilary Putnam wrote that ‘it cannot be the case that scientific knowledge (future fundamental physics) is absolute and nothing else is; for fundamental physics cannot explain the possibility of referring to or stating anything, including fundamental physics itself’ Readers of Philosophy will also be aware of Thomas Nagel's doubts about the ability of our current modes of scientific and philosophical thinking to encompass the subjective at all (expressed most recently in our current issue). Even after the most strenuous efforts of contemporary philosophy of mind, many continue to feel cheated: has anything been said which throws light on just how it is that consciousness, thought and reference are possible? Have subjectivity and the intentionality of thinking been adequately characterized?

Alanen, Lilli, Sara Heinämaa, and Thomas Wallgren. (Eds). Commonality and Particularity in Ethics. Macmillan. 1997. Pp. x and 493. £47.50. Allen, Prudence. The Concept of Woman. Second Edition. Eerdmans Publishing. 1997. Pp. xxiv and 583. £22.99 or $35. Almeder, Robert. Blind Realism. Rowman & Littlefield. 1997. Pp. xiii and 247. £41, £19.95. Anderson, Pamela Sue. A Feminist Philosophy of Religion. Blackwell. 1997. Pp. xvi and 287. £45, £13.99. Armitage, David. (Ed.) Bolingbroke: Political Writings. Cambridge University Press. 1997. Pp. xliv and 305. £50, £16.95 or $64.95, $24.95. Bader, Veit. (Ed.) Citizenship and Exclusion. Macmillan. 1997. Pp. xi and 208. £42.50. Baron, Marcia W., Philip Pettit, and Michael Slote. (Eds). Three Methods of Ethics. Blackwell. 1997. Pp. vi and 285. No price given. Beaney, Michael. (Ed.) The Frege Reader. Blackwell. 1997. Pp. xv and 409. £14.95 or $21.95. Bélanger, André J. The Ethics of Catholicism and the Consecration of the Intellectual. Liverpool University Press. 1997. Pp. viii and 242. £25. Bencivenga, Ermanno. A Theory of Language and Mind. University of California Press. 1997. Pp. 103. £16.95 or $22. Bencivenga, Ermanno. Freedom: A Dialogue. Hackett. 1997. Pp. viii and 107. £29.95, £9.95. Berger, Harry Jr., (Introduction by Peter Erickson, Ed.) Making Trifles of Terrors. Cambridge University Press. 1997. Pp. xxxviii and 487. £40, £14.95 or $59.50, $19.95. Bloor, David. Wittgenstein, Rules and Institutions. Routledge. 1997. Pp. xvi and 173. £40. Boas, George. Primitivism and Related Ideas in the Middle Ages. Johns Hopkins University Press. 1997. Pp. xii and 227. No price given. Bolotin, David. An Approach to Aristotle's Physics. State University of New York Press. 1997. Pp. vii and 156. $14.95. Boucher, David. (Ed.) The British Empiricists. Cambridge University Press. 1997. Pp. xlvi and 304. £45, £15.95 or $64.95, $24.95. Brook, Andrew. Kant and the Mind. Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xii and 327. £45, £14.95 or $74.95, $18.95. Bunzl, Martin. Real History. Routledge. 1997. Pp. viii and 152. No price given.

Royal Institute of Philosophy Annual Conference 1998

‘Prospects for Pragmatism’

The Conference will be held at the University of Sheffield, 11–13 September, 1998

Details and booking information may be obtained from Professor Christopher Hookway, Department of Philosophy, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN.

Kierkegaard and Freedom

An International Conference of The British Society for the History of Philosophy

Madingley Hall, University of Cambridge, 3–5 July 1998

Proceedings:

1. Michael Weston (Essex)—Kierkegaard: The Literature on Freedom

2. David Campbell (Glasgow)—Kierkegaard, Freedom, and Self-Interpretation

3. George Pattison (Cambridge)— Sublimity and the Experience of Freedom

4. Antony Rudd (Bristol)— The Subjective Problem of Freedom

5. Paul Bauer (Copenhagen)— Freedom, Motion, and the Self

6. Peter Rogers (Lancaster)— Indirect Communication: Training in Freedom?

7. Joerg Disse (Lucerne)— Autonomy in ‘Either/Or’

8. James Giles (Hawaii)— Anxiety and Tangled Freedom

9. Elsebeth Wulff (Open University)— Kierkegaard: Freedom and Determinism

10. D. Z. Phillips (Swansea)— Freedom and Self-deception in ‘Purity of Heart’

Royal Institute of Philosophy Bursaries

The Royal Institute of Philosophy proposes to make available annually four bursaries of £1,000 each, to be awarded to students who are already on courses of postgraduate study (e.g. MA, MPhil, PhD, DPhil, BPhil) in British Universities.

The aim of the scheme is to assist students of promise and of proven postgraduate ability to continue or complete their courses of study or dissertations. Each Bursary will last for one year and will not be renewable, although successful candidates from one year will be able to re-apply for a second bursary in a succeeding year (to a maximum of two bursaries in toto).

In order to apply, a candidate must submit a CV, a 1-2 page account of his or her future research and/or programme of study and the names of two academic referees from the institution at which he or she is currently studying. At the end of their tenure of a bursary, successful candidates will be expected to make a report to the Royal Institute of Philosophy on their academic progress.

Candidates will not normally be called for interview. In making the awards, the Royal Institute of Philosophy will attempt to select one candidate annually from each of the following subdivisions of philosophy:

1. Epistemology, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Science

2. Philosophical Logic, Philosophies of Mind and Language

3. Moral and Political Philosophy

4. Aesthetics, Philosophy of Religion, Law and History

(These areas may be treated by reference to the History of Philosophy).

The bursaries will run from the beginning to the end of the academic year and will begin in September 1998. Those who wish to apply for the 1998-99 awards should submit their applications by 1 May, 1998 to the Secretary, Royal Institute of Philosophy, 14, Gordon Square, London WC1H 0AG. Those applying will be notified of the decision of the Royal Institute of Philosophy in July, 1998.

Almond, Brenda. Exploring Ethics. Blackwell. 1998. Pp. x and 259. £14.99 or $24.95.

Anderson, Brian C. Raymond Aron: The Recovery of the Political. Rowman & Littlefield. 1998. Pp. ix and 215. No price given.

Arden, Margaret. (Forward by Elizabeth Spillus.) Midwifery of the Soul. Free Association Books. 1998. Pp. xii and 126. £15.95.

Aristotle. (C. D. C. Reeve, trans). Politics. Hackett. 1998. Pp. lxxix and 288. £27.95, £6.96.

Ashby, Warren. (Foreword by W. Allen Ashby, Ed.) A Comprehensive History of Western Ethics. Prometheus Books. 1998. Pp. 569. £34.

Audi, Robert. Epistemology. Routledge. 1997. Pp. xii and 340. £12.99.

Berkeley, George. (Jonathan Dancy, Ed.) A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge. Oxford University Press. 1998. Pp. vi and 237. £18.99, £5.99.

Berkeley, George. (Jonathan Dancy, Ed.) Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous. Oxford University Press. 1998. Pp. v and 186. £18.99, £5.99.

Blachowicz, James. Of Two Minds. SUNY Press. 1998. Pp. xv and 434. $24.95.

Bohm, David. Causality and Chance in Modern Physics. New Edition with New Preface. Routledge. 1997. Pp. xv and 174. £12.99.

Bonjour, Laurence. In Defense of Pure Reason. Cambridge University Press. 1998. Pp. xiv and 232. £37.50, £13.95 or $54.95, $18.95.

Brecher, Bob. Getting What you Want? Routledge. 1997. Pp. x and 217. £11.99

The Good, the True and the Beautiful: Enquiries into Contemporary Value Theory

1998

9 October: David Wiggins

Prolegomena to a Philosophy of Value

16 October: Paul Horwich

Norms of Language

23 October: Bernard Williams

Epistemic Values, Normativity and Naturalism

30 October: Simon Blackburn

Battering, Gilding, and Staining

6 November: John Leslie

The Divine Mind

13 November: Ronald Hepburn

Values and Cosmic Imagination

20 November: David Evans

Beyond Reality: Plato's Good Revisited

27 November: Robert Hopkins

Beauty and Testimony

4 December: Anthony Price

Criticising Values

11 December: Roger Fellows

Enchantment