American Philosophical Quarterly articles from October 1996

American Philosophical Quarterly archives from October 1996

Romantic love and loving commitment: articulating a modern ideal.
October 1, 1996... Romantic love and loving commitment are topics that a lot of artists, philosophers, and theologians spend a lot of time talking and thinking about, and yet for all this the topics strike most of us as rather poorly understood.(1) In what...

The ontological difference.
October 1, 1996... The ontological difference is the difference between what there is and the being of what there is, the difference between beings and being -- on one side, all that exists, on the other, the very existence of what exists. Perhaps the reader...

Conventions, cognitivism and necessity.
October 1, 1996... Modal locutions are common enough to give modality an air of legitimacy. Frequently, we talk of things being necessary, possible, inevitable, or avoidable. To point out just a few cases, it is reasonably uncontroversial that Jeanna could...

Sartre, emotions, and wallowing.
October 1, 1996... This paper seeks to clarify and evaluate the central claim of Sartre's small book, The Emotions: Outline of a Theory. That claim says that emotions are essentially modes of consciousness which apprehend the world so as to resolve or reduce...

Pragmatic arguments and belief.
October 1, 1996... Among the class of pragmatic arguments are some intended to motivate the acquisition of certain beliefs. Interestingly, the pragmatic arguments of this sub-class are not, at least not primarily, truth-directed. A truth-directed argument is...

Who needs an answer to skepticism?
October 1, 1996... The prominent version of skepticism takes off from the claim that we are unable to show that the world is as we believe it to be. This is how Hume puts the problem, once he has drawn the distinction between perceptions and objects: By...