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ANTIFOUNDATIONALISM & PRACTICAL REASONING
Edited by Evan Simpson
ISBN: 0-920980-279
PUB: 1987
FORMAT: 254pp, paperback
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It has often been claimed that the broadly analytic philosophy prevailing in English-speaking countries and the broadly hermeneutical philosophy generally associated with the European continent share central interest. A primary point of convergence between the two philosophical traditions is a revived and broadened "anti-foundationalism." Suddenly "anti-foundationalism" is a good thing to be.
AGE OF THEATRE IN FRANCE
Edited by David Trott & Nicole Boursier
ISBN: 0-85323-155-9
PUB: 1988
FORMAT: 374pp, paperback
PRICE: $23.95Cdn (in Canada) / $23.95US (outside Canada)
A bi-lingual collection of origianl essays, by an international group of scholars, on dramatic literature and performance form Corneille to Beaumarchais. The concept of "theatre" is now much enriched, thanks to the variety and multiplicity of recent studies devoted to it. This volume is centred on the concept of "theatre" in its totality.
ARISTOTLE, VIRTUE AND THE MEAN
Edited by Richard Bosley, Roger A. Shiner & Janet D. Sisson
ISBN: 0-920980-651 paper, 0-920980-643 cloth
PUB: 1995
FORMAT: xxi + 217pp, paper and cloth
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Interest is currently high in virtue ethics as a reasoned alternative to standard objectivist and subjectivist ethical theories. This volume of origianl essays examines the ancient sources of virtue ethics in Aristotle's ethical theory, and in particular the central doctrine of that theory, virtue as a mean between extremes of excess and relationship to contemporary ethical theory.
THE CRITERION OF TRUTH
Edited by Pamela Huby and Gordon Neal
ISBN: 0-85323-155-9
PUB: 1989
FORMAT: xiv + 301pp, cloth
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Essays written in honour of George Kerferd together with a text and translation (with annotations) of Ptolemy's On the Krierion and Hegemonikon.
DESIRE, IDENTITY AND EXISTENCE:
Essays in Honour of T.M. Penner
Edited by Naomi Reshotko
ISBN: 0-920980-85-6 paper, 0-920980-84-8 cloth
PUB: 2003
FORMAT: x + 310pp, paper and cloth
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Original essays in honor of a leading interpreter of ancient thought. Includes an Introduction and brief biography, and a bibliography of T.M. Penner's writings. Topics discussed include the chronology of Plato's dialogues, Justice and Politics, Plato on Pleasure, Socratic Egoism and the Desire for the Good, and issues in ancient metaphysics and epistmeology.
Contributors: Mariana Anagnostopoulos, Scott Berman, James Butler, Antonio Chu, Alan Code, David Estlund, Melinda Hogan, Patrick Mooney, Sandra Peterson, Naomi Reshotko, Christopher Rowe, George Rudebusch, Gerasimos Santas, Michael Taber, Paul Warren.
”These articles … provide a detailed and stimulating discussion of several topics in ancient Greek philosophy dear to Penner’s heart, and indicate the fruitfulness of his approach“ (Philosophy in Review)
”The compliment the contributors pay Penner is to attempt to refine his views … specialists will find much to appreciate“ (Heythrop Journal)
"A very good collection that testifies to the importance of Penner's work, and especially to the liveliness of the debates this work has created" (Philosophie de l'Antiquite)
DIFFERENT HOPES, DIFFERENT DREAMS
Edited by Emma Pivato
ISBN: 0-920980-457 paper, 0-920980-449 cloth
PUB: 1990
FORMAT: 177 pp, paper and cloth
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This excellent collection provides valuable insight into the families of handicapped children and will enrich the understanding of anyone involved with parents of mentally handicapped children. (Developmental Disabilities Bulletin)
DIALOGUES WITH PLATO
Edited by Eugenio Benitez
ISBN: 0-920980-687 paper, 0-920980-66X cloth
PUB: 1988
FORMAT: 298pp, paper and cloth
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These original essays about Plato interrogate Plato's dialogues understood as processes of moral habituation. The essays discuss issues of moral expertise, moral training, moral knowledge, and the transcendent good, as expounded by Plato. Dialogues considered include Crito, Charmides, Paedo, Philebus, Republic and Sophist.
`Overall a useful collection’ (Phronesis).
`Tackles controversial subjects by combining wit with scholarship’ (Philosophy in Review).
`Interesting and worthwhile volume … good material for class use’ (Canadian Book Review Annual).
`Impressive assemblage of impeccable scholarship’ (Midwest Book Review).
ETHICS AND JUSTIFICATION
Edited by Douglas Odegard
ISBN: 0-920980-295 paper, 0-920980-287 cloth
PUB: 1988
FORMAT: 298pp, paper and cloth
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Theories of justification for ethical decisions abound, each rejecting the others' claims and promoting their own. It is controversial whether such theories are possible, or indeed whether they are necessary. The contributors to the volume, all leading Canadian moral philosophers, explore these issues in the attempt to find common, and therefore reliable, ground.
EUDAIMONIA AND WELL-BEING
Edited by Lawrence J. Jost & Roger A. Shiner
ISBN: 0-920980-783 cloth ( paper is out of print )
PUB: 2003
FORMAT: cloth
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This volume records a conversation between scholars working in Ancient Greek Ethics and Contemporary moral philosophers. Ancient and modern concepts of well-being are standardly constrasted thus. The foundational principle of Greek moral theory is that happiness is desired by all human beings as the ultimate end of life, and the life of virture is the happy life. Modern ethical theory focuses on well-being also, but as decided by individuals' subjective self-appraisals, not by an objective concept of the ethically good. These essays interrogate this standard contrast, both as an accurate reading of ancient ethical theory, and as valid representations of human well-being itself as a contested concept.
LEGAL THEORY MEETS LEGAL PRACTICE
Edited by Anne Bayefsky
ISBN: 0-920980-23-6 paper, 0-920980-22-8 cloth
PUB: 1988
FORMAT: xxvi + 369, paper and cloth
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Based on papers originally presented at a conference held in Ottawa in 1987 under the auspices of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy.
NATURE KNOWLEDGE AND VIRTUE:
Essays in memory of Joan Kung
Edited by Terry Penner and Richard Kraut
ISBN: 0-920980-35-x paper, 0-920980-34-1 cloth
PUB: 1989
FORMAT: xii-233pp, paper and cloth
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Joan Kung taught ancient philosophy for many years at Marquette University until her untimely death in 1987. In her shortened career, she won many friends among fellow scholars and students for her energy of min and her talent for stimulating and helping. Her friends and colleagues, distinguished contributors in their own right to the contemporary study of ancient philsophy, pay their respects publicly in this volume. the essays add to our understanding of a wide range of topics concerning Plato and Aristotle.
ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST:
The Making of the Western Canadian Philosophical Association 1963-2004
Bela Szabados
ISBN: 0-920980-83-7
PUB: 2005
FORMAT: x + 145 + 8pp b/w illustrations
PRICE: $18.95Cdn (in Canada) / $18.95US (outside Canada) paper
The Western Canadian Philosophical Association is the foremost philosophical institution for the prairies and the coast. Its annual gatherings are a festival of personal and intellectual exchange. As the WCPA enters its fifth decade, its character and evolution both academic and cultural are charted and celebrated in this book. The contents include letters from the founders and senior participants of the Association, personal memoirs by participants, as well as analysis and commentary by the author. The book also includes a section listing programs of the Association from the beginning.
OPSCULA AESTHETICA NOSTRA
A volume of essays on aesthetics and the arts in Canada
Edited by Cecile Cloutier and Calvin Seerveld
ISBN: 0-920980-07-4
PUB: 1984
FORMAT: 206pp, paper
PRICE: $16.95Cdn (in Canada) / $16.95US (outside Canada) paper
PATTERN WITHOUT END
(POEMS 1965-1979)
Nancy Toth
ISBN: 0-920980-00-7
PUB: 1981
FORMAT: 88pp, paper
PRICE: $4.95Cdn (in Canada) / $4.95US (outside Canada) paper
PERI TON MATHEMATON
Edited by Ian Mueller
ISBN: 0-920980-50-3
PUB: 1991
FORMAT: 251pp, cloth
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The essays in this volume illustrate both the richness of Greek mathematical science itself and the variety and extent of its impact on ancient Greek and subsequent culture. All but one of the essays were presented by their authors and discussed by the other contributors to the collection at a conference at the Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut, Oberwolfach, Germany, held beween August 19th and 25th, 1990.
POWER GENDER VALUES
Edited by Judith Genova
ISBN: 0-920980-25-2 paper, 0-920980-24-4 cloth
PUB: 1987
FORMAT: 190pp, paper and cloth
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RECOGNITION REMEMBRANCE AND REALITY
Edited by Mark L. Mcpherran
ISBN: 0-920980-75-9 paper, 0-920980-74-0 cloth
PUB: 1999
FORMAT: xi + 157pp, paper and cloth
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The essays in this book are unified by their common concern with the Platonic affiliation of knower, knowledge and the known. These essays respond also to Plato’s implicit invitation, or provocation, to take his texts as perennial sources of fruitful puzzlement and education in epistemology and metaphysics.
RE-INVENTIONS:
Essays on Hellenistic & Early Roman Science
Edited by Philippa Lang
ISBN: 0-920980-89-9 paper, 0-920980-880 cloth
PUB: 2004
FORMAT: 153pp, paper and cloth
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Science and philosophy in the Hellenistic and early Roman periods constitute a set of increasingly specialized but inter-dependant subjects and methods. Scholars defined themselves in relation to the growing shadows of their authorities and traditions. Disciplines that sought to offer knowledge of the kind we now label scientific were continually reinvented and redefined in terms of their relationships both with their past and with other disciplines of their present. Today, the modern category of science informs, and is informed by, the ways in which we understand its history. The re-inventions charted in this volume shed light on our present as well as on our past.
Table of Contents
Introduction – Philippa Lang
New issues in the History of Ancient Science – G.E.R. Lloyd
Hero of Alexandria’s Mechanical Geometry – Karin Tybjerg
Remarks on Physics and Mathematical Astronomy and Optics in Epicurus, Sextus Empiricus, and Some Stoics – Ian Muller
Experience as a Source and Ground of Theory in Epicureanism – James Allen
Medical and Ethnic Identities in Hellenistic Egypt – Philippa Lang
SOCRATES' DIVINE SIGN:
Religion, Practice, and Value in Scoratic Philosophy
Edited by Pierre Destree and Nicholas D. Smith
ISBN: 0-920980-91-0 paper, 0-920980-90-2 cloth
PUB: 2005
FORMAT: xii + 180pp, paper and cloth
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Scholars nowadays are reevaluating the importance of the religious dimension of Socrates’ philosophy. To contemporary readers, perhaps the most alien aspect of Socratic religion is his daimonion. Plato and Xenophon portray Socrates as a paragon of reason, whose religious views they also regard as models of rationality. Whatever the exact nature of the daimonion, they never give the impression that Socrates’ reactions to it were foolish or irrational.
Table of Contents
Luc Brisson, ‘Socrates and the Divine Signal according to Plato’s Testimony: Philosophical Practice as Rooted in Religious Tradition’
Mark L. McPherran, ‘Introducing a New God: Socrates and His Daimonion’
Gerd Van Riel, ‘Socrates’ Daemon: Internalisation of the Divine and Knowledge of the Self’
Thomas C. Brickhouse and Nicholas D. Smith, ‘Socrates’ Daimonion and Rationality’
Pierre Destrée, ‘The Daimonion and the Philosophical Mission: Should the Divine Sign Remain Unique to Socrates?’
Roslyn Weiss, ‘For Whom the Daimonion Tolls’
Mark Joyal, ‘To Daimonion and the Socratic Problem’
Michel Narcy, ‘Socrates Sentenced by His Daimon’
Louis-André Dorion, ‘The Daimonion and the Megalegoria of Socrates in Xenophon’s Apology’
Aldo Brancacci, ‘The Double Daimon in Euclides the Socratic’
SOME PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES IN MORAL MATTERS:
The Collected Ethical Writings of Joseph Owens
Edited by Dennis J. Billy and Terrence Kennedy
PUB: 1996
FORMAT: 500pp, paper
PRICE: $34.95Cdn (in Canada) / $29.95US (outside Canada) paper
”The papers brought together in the present volume deal with instances in which philosophy does in fact have a notable function in the understanding of moral questions. They are meant to illustrate the way philosophical issues enter into the discussion of strictly moral problems. The philosophical side remains strictly philosophical. It is not what makes the decision to perform or not to perform the moral action. Yet it has its role to play in human conduct.“
VIRTUE, LOVE AND FORM:
Essays in Memory of Gregory Vlastos
Edited by Terence Irwin and Marth Nussbaum
ISBN: 0-920980-570 paper, 0-920980-562 cloth
PUB: 1993
FORMAT: xiv + 224pp, paper and cloth
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WISDOM IGNORANCE AND VIRTUE:
New Essays in Socratic Studies
Edited by Mark L. McPherran
ISBN: 0-920980-71-6 paper, 0-920980-70-8 cloth
PUB: 1997
FORMAT: xi + 155pp, paper and cloth
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These essays probe the complex connections between knowledge and virtue in Socrates’s thought. Topics discussed include his denial that wrongdoing is ever justified, the significance of ignorance, moral expertise as a capacity, moral intellectualism and its connection to punishment, the philosophical life, and Socrates’s religion.
`Can be read profitably by both scholars and students of Socrates’ (Classical Review)
`A very worthwhile collection ... one of the best on Socrates for some time’ (Heythrop Journal).
`Much of interest, and some excellent material’ (Bryn Mawr Classical Review).
`Useful to many different kinds of scholar’ (Ancient Philosophy).
`Crisp and well-argued essays … fundamental insights’ (Canadian Book Review Annual).
`An outstanding contribution to the growing body of Socratic studies literature’ (Midwest Book Review).
WITTGENSTEIN ELEGIES
Jan Zwicky
ISBN: 0-920980-28-9
PUB: 1986
FORMAT: 70pp, paper
PRICE: $9.95Cdn (in Canada) / $9.95US (outside Canada) paper