Contributing specialists survey Hispanic literature of New Mexico and its influence. No index. The prevailing view in the history of philosophy has been that time is not basically real but has a derivative status. In contrast, Lieb establishes the thesis that time is a fundamental reality: it is individuals.".

Contributing specialists survey Hispanic literature of New Mexico and its influence. No index. The prevailing view in the history of philosophy has been that time is not basically real but has a derivative status. In contrast, Lieb establishes the thesis that time is a fundamental reality: it is individuals.".

WHY DO NATURAL THINGS act or behave according to laws? The answer, I think, is that the laws of nature make them act or behave so. If this answer can be made clear and plausible, it will help us to understand the reality of laws.

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

I AM GRATEFUL to Dean Dougherty and his colleagues for inviting me to this celebration of Paul Weiss's birthday. I admire and care for Paul Weiss, and I have learned from him. I have also learned because of him. Even now, years after my graduate studies, he is a familiar, a benign, but of course not always a gentle goad to my thoughts. Just the other day--I suppose Paul thought I was becoming too comfortable--he added a postscript to a short (...) note, urging me to hurry up to become seventy, because seventy is so fine a time to philosophize. (shrink)

WE ALL KNOW THAT TIME has something to do with value and that most of what we value is either present or past or something yet to come. In hundreds of well-known slogans, there is a good deal of wisdom about time and value: "the sooner, the better," for example, and "better late than never." It is also true, however, that "every thing has its due time" and that "time will always tell." We think, almost paradoxically, that even though each (...) of us is finally a person of his own time, we can also be out of joint with time; we can be ahead of our time or behind it, and people in our business wonder, of course, whether our ideas are the ideas whose time has come. (shrink)

The great charge against ontologies, according to Bergmann, is that they are senseless: they are paradoxical or absurd because they deny what is surely true or claim to say what can't be told. The answer to this charge, or Bergmann's answer, is that it con fuses appearance and reality. Ontological claims seem to us senseless when we fail to see that one or several of the words in them is used philosophically. To have their sense be clear, we have only (...) to talk commonsensically about the philosophical words, to set out and understand their patterns, and then to see how the patterns interlock to account for what there is. (shrink)

Fully adequate answers to these questions are best provided in a comprehensive philosophy of logic. Within shorter compass, it is nevertheless possible to be guided by some conditions that are necessary to adequate answers. These will be results of the analysis of propositions and statements. They are necessary, since no answers to the questions about the constants will be acceptable if, for example, it follows from the answers that propositions or statements cannot be unities, or that propositions or statements cannot (...) be true or false. (shrink)

It has been argued, for example, that a psychic event is a thick substantial being. It is an image, a packet of feeling, or a silently said word. It is something bounded and wholly where it is. But then, thick enough to be a psychic event, an idea is too thick to be significant. It is a separate, separated thing that just is--and it does not point beyond itself to represent anything else in or out of consciousness.

None of Peirce's most recent interpreters fall clearly into only one of these classes. All are expositors, critics, and innovators. Yet their emphases differ, and the classification serves to highlight them. W. B. Gallie, for instance, is mainly interested in introducing the general reader to the broadest line of Peirce's thought on pragmatism. He does this appreciatively, with skillful fluency. Yet he also advances a critical thesis about the meanings Peirce gave to "pragmatism," and he tests the compatibility of Peirce's (...) metaphysical and logical writings with suggestive results. Manley Thompson's book has, on the other hand, a more formal cast throughout. It is "offered as an essential propaedeutic to the determination of Peirce's place in the history of ideas". With closest care it traces the development of Peirce's pragmatic philosophy, setting out an ordered, definitive statement of what Peirce said, driving finally to a brief evaluation of the whole philosophy in which the pragmatic maxim is a principle. Lastly, the Studies in the Philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce contains essays of all three emphases: there are biographical, historical, and elucidating essays; there are critical ones that quibble to distraction and critical ones that excite to construction; and finally, there are a few that go through Peirce to continue inquiry on topics in ethics, logic, and metaphysics. (shrink)

The differences in the styles of these books are only tokens of more important differences in their methods and results. To see this it might be useful to look at the theses about representation which are central to the Tractatus, but which Wittgenstein leaves altogether aside in his Investigations.

The new volumes look like the earlier ones. The paper and the binding, except for a slight difference in the red, are about the same. So is the typography--though the print line has been made a little longer. The volumes are shorter than all but one of the first six. They do not have any photographs. But otherwise, in appearance, they are uniform with the others.