The British Society for the History of Philosophy
Electronic Newsletter No. 13
Dear member
Welcome to the thirteenth edition of the BSHP electronic newsletter.
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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