springer.de/buchhandel Springer News 3/2008 Philosophie 103 F. Allhoff, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, N. Bar-Am, Sapir College of the Negev, Israel D.K. Chan, University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point, WI, MI, USA (Ed.) USA (Ed.) Extensionalism Physicians at War The Revolution in Logic Moral Psychology Today: The Dual-Loyalties Challenge Essays on Values, Rational Choice, and the Will This vivid and thought-provoking book by the Recently, there has been a tremendous interest in Israeli logician Nimrod Bar-Am impels one to the ethical issues that confront physicians in times rethink the place of logic in Western thought. It This volume is an edited collection of original of war, as well as some of the uses of physicians shows that the history of logic from Aristotle to papers on the theme of “Values, Rational Choice, during wars. This book presents a theoretical Tarski is the history of the gradual undoing of the and the Will”. The editor is a Stanford-trained apparatus which undergirds those debates, namely classic conflation of logic and empirical science. moral philosopher, and the organizer of a confer- by casting physicians as being confronted with It sets tomorrow’s agenda for philosophers and ence held on April 1-3, 2004. The conference dual-loyalties during times of war. While this theo- historians of logic and scientific method by taking succeeded in bringing together a wide range of retical apparatus has already been developed in as its starting point the mere fact that, curiously, essays that dealt with most of the central questions other contexts, it has not been specifically brought ancient logic is not as formal as current literature of moral philosophy today, in both normative to bear on the ethical conflicts that attain in wars. presents it. Rather, as Bar-Am explains, modern ethics and meta-ethics, theoretical and applied Arguably, wars thrust physicians into ethical formal logic became possible only after a series ethics, and especially in moral psychology, a broad conflicts insofar as these wars create a tension of bold criticisms of the magnificent Aristotelian area at the intersection of moral philosophy and between a physician’s obligation to heal and an system. These criticisms begin with David Hume’s philosophy of mind and action. obligation to serve some other good (e.g., military declaration that logic does not sanction induction, chain of command, national security, the greater follow on with Kant’s view of logic as an extremely Features good, etc.). Alternatively, we can debate whether limited system, and culminating with Booles’ 7 Provides the most current and extensive update this conception is appropriate. introduction of logic as an extensional system, and on research in moral psychology 7 In contrast Russell’s solution to his own paradox. with most recent books in moral psychology, the Features original papers in this volume explore a wide 7 A topic that has thus far not been treated at Features range of topics in moral psychology, and is not just book length and nowhere nearly as comprehen- 7 Provides a broad, concise, accurate and up-to- narrowly focused on a single issue sively 7 Extremely timely and highly current date overview of the history of logic (up to and 7 Unique and broad basis for dealing with including the early modern period) 7 The first From the contents issues that not only impact on medical ethics, but history of logic that explains logical theories as Part I: Meta-ethics of Values. 1. Moral Realism, cut across various spheres of justice in a setting philosophical solutions to fundamental epistemo- Meta-Ethical Pyrrhonism and Naturalism. defined by the multiple perspectives of medical, logical problems: it is the first extended treatment 2. Buck-Passing Personal Values.- Part II: Reason military and legal practice of the history of logic from the point of view of and Choice. 3. Volitions, Comparative Value Judg- critical rationalism 7 Challenges previous and ments, and Choice. 4. The Insignificance From the contents prevalent histories of logic of Choice.- Part III: Desire and Intention. 5. The Preface.- Introduction: Physicians at War: The Indeterminacy of Desire and Practical Reason. Dual-Loyalties Challenge.- Section 1: Physicians Contents 6. The Myth of Objectively Alien Desires. 7. On the and Dual-Loyalties.- Section 2: Physicians and Acknowledgments. Abstract. Introduction. In Intelligibility of Bad Acts. 8. After Anscombe.- Part Torture.- Section 3: Physicians and Weapons praise of shallowness: a methodological credo. IV: Practical Reason. 9. The Limits of Teleology. Development.- Section 4: Physicians on the Battle- Part 1: Preliminary notes. Part 2: Setting the 10. Motivation to the Means. 11. Thresholds, field.- Appendices: WMA Regulations in Time scene: some notes on the pre-history of logic. Vagueness and the Psychology of Small Improve- of Armed Conflict. WMA Statement on Torture, Part 3: Aristotle’s logic: the rise of essentialism. ments. Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment.- CEJA Part 4: Essentialism besieged. Part 5: The fall of Physician Participation in Interrogation. essentialism. Notes. Bibliography. Index of Names. Fields of interest Index of Subjects. Ethics; Philosophy of Mind; Psychology, general Fields of interest Ethics; Philosophy Fields of interest Target groups Philosophy; Logic; History of Philosophy Professional philosophers and graduate students. It Target groups can be used as a text in graduate courses in moral Philosophers, (military) ethicists, (military) physi- Target groups philosophy or philosophy of action, as a research cians, (military) lawyers, human rights lawyers, Students and scholars, at all levels, interested in the tool by academics and graduate students, and medical practitioners, political scientists history of logic broadly conceived to include the as a significant contribution in ethics and moral history of science and epistemology psychology that sets the stage for future debates Type of publication Contributed volume Type of publication Type of publication Monograph Contributed volume Due March 2008 Due March 2008 Due March 2008 2008. Approx. 225 p. (International Library of Ethics, Law, 2008. Approx. 260 p. (Philosophical Studies Series, and the New Medicine, Volume 41) Hardcover 2008. Approx. 205 p. Hardcover Volume 110) Hardcover 7 * € (D) 112,30 | € (A) 115,45 | sFr 183,00 7 * € (D) 85,55 | € (A) 87,95 | sFr 139,50 7 * € (D) 139,05 | € (A) 142,95 | sFr 226,50 9<HTMELC=agjbbg>ISBN 978-1-4020-6911-6 9<HTMELC=aibghf>ISBN 978-1-4020-8167-5 9<HTMELC=agihbd>ISBN 978-1-4020-6871-3 104 Philosophie Springer News 3/2008 springer.de/buchhandel M. Futch, University of Tulsa, USA M.G. Hansson, Uppsala University, Sweden E. Husserl, R. Sowa, Husserl-Archief, Leuven, Belgium (Hrsg.) Leibniz’s Metaphysics of Time The Private Sphere and Space An Emotional Territory and Its Agent Die Lebenswelt Auslegungen der vorgegebenen Welt und ihrer Konstitution. Leibniz’s metaphysics of space and time stands The non-interference perspective is common when Texte aus dem Nachlass (1916-1937) at the centre of his philosophy and is one of the theorizing about the protection of the private high-water marks in the history of the philosophy life of individuals and their families. However, of science. In this work, Futch provides the first this accepted way of looking at things, leads our In den im vorliegenden Band versammelten systematic and comprehensive examination of thoughts astray. It fails to do justice to the interests Forschungsmanuskripten erhält Husserls in der Leibniz’s thought on this subject. In addition to both in being left in peace but at the same time Krisis-Abhandlung skizziertes Projekt einer elucidating the nature of Leibniz’s relationalism, participating in a community together with other Wissenschaft von der Lebenswelt die Gestalt the book fills a lacunae in existing scholarship by people. New methods of communications intercep- ausführender Arbeit. In detaillierten deskrip- examining his views on the topological struc- tion, video and even satellite surveillance allow tiven Analysen werden wesentliche Dimensionen ture of space and time, including the unity and insight and an entry into personal matters, but und Strukturen der Lebenswelt zur Sprache unboundedness of space and time. It is shown they can also be used to satisfy people’s need for gebracht sowie die sinnbildenden aktiven und that, like many of his more recent counterparts, protection, safety and security in public places. A passiven Leistungen untersucht, in denen sich das Leibniz adopts a causal theory of time where theory about the respect for the individual’s right Sinngebilde einer jeweils geltenden Lebenswelt als temporal facts are grounded on causal facts, and to a private sphere and its protection ought there- Totalerwerb einzelsubjektiver und intersubjektiver that his approach to time represents a precursor fore to incorporate both these interests. Erfahrung und Praxis konstituiert. Schwerpunkte to non-tensed theories of time. Futch then goes von Husserls Analysen sind die Horizontstruktur on to situate Leibniz’s philosophy of space and Features der Welterfahrung, die Vorgegebenheit als primäre time within the broader context of his idealistic 7 An explanation of a concept often used but Gegebenheitsweise der Lebenswelt, ihre Orientie- metaphysics and natural theology. seldom understood in political discussions rungsstruktur, die Lebenswelt als personale Welt 7 An integrated approach from evolutionary der Praxis, Struktur und Genesis der Weltapper-