The British Society for the History of Philosophy Electronic Newsletter No. 13 Dear member Welcome to the thirteenth edition of the BSHP electronic newsletter. Please do send me any news you may have, including: - Member's activities and publications. You can let us know of your recent and forthcoming papers and books, by offering us title, place of publication and a brief abstract. Also research projects, awards etc. - Conferences of interest to BSHP members, and calls for papers - Other items of news From time to time the newsletter may also carry some advertising from publishers. Please let me know of anything you wish to be included by emailing me. The newsletter depends on my having news to distribute, and that can only come from you. Contents 1. Latest edition of the British Journal for the History of Philosophy, Vol. 16. No. 1, February 2008 2. Report from Taylor and Francis on the BJHP 3. Offer to Members from Oxford Unversity Press 4. Member News 5. Call for Abstracts 1. BJHP Contents Spinoza's cognitive affects and their feel Eugene Marshall Locke's theory of reflection Kevin Scharp Sydenham and the development of Locke's natural philosophy Jonathan Walmsley 'The books are in the study as before': Berkeley's claims about real physical objects Margaret Atherton The historical consistency of Berkeley's idealism Thomas M. Lennon On 'The religion of the visible Universe': Novalis and the pantheism controversy Benjamin D. Crowe The significance of Kierkegaard's interpretation of Don Giovanni in relation to Hegel's philosophy of art David James Neither Dogma nor Common sense: Moore's confidence in his 'proof of an external world' Paul Forster Re-Reading The Second Sex's 'Simone de Beauvoir' Tom Grimwood Discussion Fifth meditation TINs revisited: A reply to criticisms of the epistemic interpretation David Cunning Semantic antipluralism: How to translate terms in philosophy David Evans Essay Review Kant, idealism and the historical turn Author: Graham Bird Book Reviews Books Received 2. Report on the BJHP John Rogers sent me his report, and Taylor and Francis’s report, on the BJHP. The journal is going from strength to the strength, with pressure to change from four to five issues per year. It has subscribers in 254 countries, and was given an A rank in the European Reference Index for Humanities (ERIH) ranking. Last year 84 papers were submitted, and 24 published. 3. Oxford University Press Offer Oxford University Press are offering to BSHP members a 30% discount on their full range of titles until the end of April, and 20% thereafter. See http://www.oup.co.uk/sale/WEBBSHP08/ 4. Member News Paul Schuurman has posted an update to his digital edition of John Locke’s Drafts for the “Essay concerning Human Understanding” in the Digital Locke Project, see http://www.digitallockeproject.nl/ Mike Beaney announces the recent publication of his edited collection stemming from a BSHP conference, The Analytic Turn: Analysis in Early Analytic Philosophy and Phenonenology Routledge, 2007. Point your browser to http://wwwusers.york.ac.uk/~mab505/pubs/anturn/anturn.htm Francesco Piro announces that G. W. LEIBNIZ, "Dialoghi filosofici e scientifici", Milano, Bompiani has been published in July 2007. The book includes all Leibniz's dialogues concerning philosophy, religion and science with the exception of the "New Essays on the Human Understanding". There are two quite unedited fragments and a remarkably enlarged new edition of the already known "Dialogue de Philarete et d'Ariste" (1713). But even other already edited texts have been corrected. Gianfranco Mormino edited and translated the "Phoranomus" (1689) and the "Dialogue effectif" (1695); Enrico Pasini the "Pacidius Philalethi" (1676) and the already cited "Dialogue de Philarete et d'Ariste", Francesco Piro (I) the other 14 works, starting from the "Confessio Philosophi" including the so called "mystical dialogues" and those on truth and ideas who precede the "New Essais". James Giles announces the publication of his edited book 'Kierkegaard and Japanese Thought' (Palgrave Macmillan, Dec. 2007). From the cover: The Danish Philosopher Kierkegaard (1813-1855) is an enigmatic thinker whose works call out for interpretation. One of the most fascinating strands of this interpretation is in terms of Japanese thought. Kierkegaard himself knew nothing of Japanese philosophy, yet the links between his own ideas and Japanese philosophers are remarkable. These links were spotted quickly by Japanese thinkers and Japanese translations of Kierkegaard appeared long before English translations did. Yet, strangely enough, the Japanese relation to Kierkegaard has been all but ignored in the West. This book seeks to remedy this by bringing the Japanese interpretation to the West. Here, both Japanese and Western scholars examine the numerous links between Kierkegaard and Japanese thought while presenting Kierkegaard in terms of Shinto, Pure Land Buddhism, Zen Buddhism, the Samurai, the famous Kyoto school of Japanese philosophers, and in terms of pivotal Japanese thinkers who were influenced by Kierkegaard. For more information visit www.james-giles.com and click on the book's title Paul Lodge announces the availability of draft translations of the de Volder/Leibniz correspondence. Point you browser to http://users.ox.ac.uk/~mans1095/devolder.htm Tad Schmaltz announces the publication of his Descartes on Causation, Oxford University Press, 2007 5. Call for Abstracts Call for Abstracts Philosophy and Science in the Early Modern Period Workshop University of Helsinki 28 July – 2 August 2008 Chair: Enrique Chávez-Arvizo The City University of New York During the THE 11th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF International Society for the Study of European Ideas Language and the Scientific Imagination Philosophy and Science in the Early Modern Period. This one-day workshop will examine the two-fold theme philosophy and science in the early modern period—-roughly the period from Montaigne to Kant. In a well-known metaphor, René Descartes—-often called 'the father of modern philosophy', compares philosophy to a tree: ‘The roots are metaphysics, the trunk is physics, and the branches emerging from the trunk are all the other sciences’. Whether this is (standardly) interpreted as averting that philosophy is the foundation of science or (revisionistically) that science is the basis of metaphysics, one thing remains clear enough: Descartes’ holistic view of philosophy sees all knowledge as interconnected. Descartes’ project of a general science or general discipline—-mathesis universalis-—which would yield the foot-print for a number of different fields of enquiry seems devised to encompass the whole of metaphysics, physics, and other sciences such as medicine, mechanics, and morals. The workshop will contribute to the discussion of the main conference theme, ‘Language and the Scientific Imagination’ by expounding and critically assessing precisely this interplay between philosophy and science in a crucial period in our intellectual history. Please submit (preferably by e-mail) a brief (one-page, double-spaced) abstract by April 15th, 2008, including name, affiliation, and e-mail address to: Professor Enrique Chávez-Arvizo Department of Art, Music, and Philosophy John Jay College of Criminal Justice The City University of New York 899 Tenth Avenue New York, NY 10019 USA Tel. (Direct): +1 (212) 237-8347 Tel. (Philosophy Department): +1 (212) 237-8325 Fax: +1 (212) 237-8333 email: EChavezArvizo@JJay.CUNY.edu 6. New BSHP Website Address Please note that the new website address is http://www.bshp.org.uk