Vol. 20

2000-2001

 

Proceedings of the Heraclitean Society

A Report on Philosophy and Criticism of the Arts & Sciences

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I.         Consilience     

David W. Ayer

 

II.       Inference to the Best Explanation and Empirically Equivalent Theories

Richard Bohms

 

III.     Do Objections to Motivational Judgment Internalism Cripple Gibbard's Account?       

Aaron Cobb

                                                                                       

IV.      Does Aesthetics Rest Upon a Mistake      

John Dilworth

 

V.       Across a Meaningless Sea:  E. O. Wilson on Ethics   

   Scott Erbe

 

VI.     Can an Accurate Derivation of the Genral Will be Achieved?      

David A. Keith

         

VII.    The Problem of Shared Semantic Beginnings in the Debate over the Philosophy of Time      

Shawn McKinney

 

VIII.   Adam Smith’s Theory of the Impartial Spectator as Distinct from Ideal Observer Theories: A Reply to Allan Gibbard?      

Jon Petty

 

IX.     A Food’s Errand:  Political Theory from Darwinian Evolution  

    Jacob J. Sheber

 

X.      Prediction and the Strong Advantage Thesis      

John Shoemaker

 

 

 

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THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE HERACLITEAN SOCIETY

                                 Published by the Philosophy Department

of Western Michigan University

 

 

Vol. 20

2000-2001

 

Quentin Smith, Coordinating Editor

 

Pat Nelson, Managing Editor

 

 

 

This report is published by the Western Michigan University Philosophy Department and its students.  It is designed to maximize the exposure and dissemination of philosophical ideas and general criticism by this department, its students, and its friends.  The advisors are not necessarily in official agreement with each other, but recognize the general benefit of exposition, criticism and analysis for a community of scholars and students.  Papers by either students or faculty members may be submitted for publication and presentation to the Society and its friends by contacting the editor.

 

This issue (Volume 20) includes the first annual

Heraclitean Society Essay Prize Award Winners

 

(essays submitted 12/01; awarded 2/02)

 

1^st Prize ($500) to Jon Petty

Runners-up ($250 each) Aaron Cobb and John Shoemaker