Pub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.1353/rvm.2023.a915464
André Juthe
Abstract:The first purpose of this article is to present a new theory of libertarian free will—the boundary theory of libertarian free will—which provides a new framework by means of employing boundaries as a “conceptual scheme” for understanding libertarian free will. This theory consists of two parts. One part suggests that the agent’s will should be viewed as the intermediate boundary between an agent’s reasons and his alternative choices. The second part is a model where the agent’s will is a faculty that solely operates by permitting or resisting reasons (that are potential causes) to become actual causes for the agent’s choices. The second purpose of the paper is to argue that the boundary theory of libertarian free will has several advantages, the most important of which are: (a) it defeats the charge that libertarian free will is a mystery; (b) it defeats the standard objections against the compatibility of libertarian free will and indeterminism (that is, the luck argument, the roll-back argument, the difference argument, the assimilation argument, etc.); and (c) it is simultaneously an argument for indeterminism as such (that is, that determinism is false).
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Pub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.1353/rvm.2023.a915474
Matthew Stripling
{"title":"Time and History in Hegelian Thought and Spirit by Sally Sedgwick (review)","authors":"Matthew Stripling","doi":"10.1353/rvm.2023.a915474","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rvm.2023.a915474","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":507479,"journal":{"name":"The Review of Metaphysics","volume":"4 10","pages":"364 - 366"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139196474","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.1353/rvm.2023.a915470
Susan Sauvé Meyer
{"title":"Plato’s Second Republic: An Essay on the Laws by André Laks (review)","authors":"Susan Sauvé Meyer","doi":"10.1353/rvm.2023.a915470","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rvm.2023.a915470","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":507479,"journal":{"name":"The Review of Metaphysics","volume":"54 3","pages":"355 - 357"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139188453","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.1353/rvm.2023.a915460
Silvia Carli
Abstract:Can Aristotle’s ontology account for the centrality of relations in the nature of political animals? This article responds to scholars who claim that it cannot, and argues that Aristotle’s conceptual framework in the practical writings is consistent, and continuous, with his first philosophy. Aristotle’s ontology of living beings already assigns a central and constitutive role to relations, both with respect to the exercise of their essential activities and with respect to their connections to other members of their group. Moreover, his thought is hospitable to relational thinking because of the role that it assigns to active receptivity. The fact that our lives are more interconnected than those of any other species does not call into question his ontology; rather, it illustrates how his metaphysics works in the case of the distinctive substances that we are, namely, animals with logos.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.1353/rvm.2023.a915463
Dimitris Vardoulakis
Abstract:Ancient monism matters today because it reveals an alternative answer to a problem faced by ontology “after the death of god,” namely, how to distinguish between good and bad actions after the disappearance of transcendence. The modern answer in Continental philosophy was systematized by Heidegger and consists in positing that the everyday is permeated by instrumentality whereas there is a different kind of action that is noninstrumental, such as art or the thinking of being. By contrast, ancient monism holds that all actions are instrumental and employs on a typology of action that relies on the distinction between techne and phronesis. Recognizing a different answer from the dominant Heideggerian one has the potential to renew the conception of the ethical and the political in Continental philosophy.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.1353/rvm.2023.a915466
Doug Al-Maini
{"title":"The Realm of Mimesis in Plato: Orality, Writing, and the Ontology of the Image by Mariangela Esposito (review)","authors":"Doug Al-Maini","doi":"10.1353/rvm.2023.a915466","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rvm.2023.a915466","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":507479,"journal":{"name":"The Review of Metaphysics","volume":"8 4","pages":"347 - 349"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139192882","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.1353/rvm.2023.a915478
Benjamin R. DeSpain
{"title":"God’s Knowledge of the World: Medieval Theories of Divine Ideas from Bonaventure to Ockham by Carl A. Vater (review)","authors":"Benjamin R. DeSpain","doi":"10.1353/rvm.2023.a915478","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rvm.2023.a915478","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":507479,"journal":{"name":"The Review of Metaphysics","volume":"26 11","pages":"373 - 375"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139188904","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.1353/rvm.2023.a915473
Will Desmond
{"title":"Hegel’s Theory of Self-Conscious Life by Guido Seddone (review)","authors":"Will Desmond","doi":"10.1353/rvm.2023.a915473","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rvm.2023.a915473","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":507479,"journal":{"name":"The Review of Metaphysics","volume":"9 2","pages":"361 - 364"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139191985","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.1353/rvm.2023.a915472
Noam Cohen
{"title":"Logos and Alogon: Thinkable and Unthinkable in Mathematics, from the Pythagoreans to the Moderns by Arkady Plotnitsky (review)","authors":"Noam Cohen","doi":"10.1353/rvm.2023.a915472","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rvm.2023.a915472","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":507479,"journal":{"name":"The Review of Metaphysics","volume":"15 6","pages":"359 - 361"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139195976","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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