HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY

Philosophy, as an investigation of fundamental concepts, knows no chronological boundaries. It is indispensable for certain philosophical inquiries to consult the conceptual perspectives of the great thinkers of the past. In my historical studies in philosophy, I try as far as possible to enter into the cultural contexts in which philosophers have worked, while recognizing that I cannot avoid imposing my own philosophical prejudices and the intellectual presuppositions of my place and time.

I do not regard my work in philosophy as primarily historical, nor do I think of myself primarily as an historian of philosophy; rather, for me, the history of philosophy is the ongoing conversation to which I have tried to contribute by continuing the discussion of problems that interest me but that began in ancient times and were carried forward through medieval philosophy into modern and contemporary thought.

The historical figures in philosophy whose work I have investigated in my publications include Plato, Aristotle, Zeno of Citium, Saint Anselm, Buridan, René Descartes, George Berkeley, David Hume, Immanuel Kant, Arthur Schopenhauer, Franz Brentano, Alexius Meinong, Ernst Mally, Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Alfred Tarski.

Listed here are publications specifically about the history of philosophy:

BOOKS

Gottlob Frege, The Foundations of Arithmetic: A Logical-Mathematical Investigation into the Concept of Number, Translation and Introduction With Critical Commentary by Dale Jacquette (of Die Grundlagen der Arithmetik: eine logisch mathematische Untersuchungen über den Begriff der Zahl, 1884) (New York: Longman Library of Primary Sources in Philosophy, 2007) (xxxii + 112 pp.).

Bertrand Russell, An Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy, with a Critical Introduction by Dale Jacquette (Longman, 2007).

The Philosophy of Schopenhauer (Acumen Books, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005) (xiv + 305 pp.).

Pathways in Philosophy: An Introductory Guide With Readings (Oxford University Press, 2004) (xv + 555 pp.).

The Cambridge Companion to Brentano (edited) (Cambridge University Press, 2004) (xxii + 322 pp.).

Philosophy, Psychology, and Psychologism: Critical and Historical Readings on the Psychological Turn in Philosophy (edited) (Kluwer Academic Publishing / Philosophical Studies Series, volume 91, 2003) (xiii + 339 pp.).

Ontology (Acumen Books, McGill-Queen's University Press / Central Problems of Philosophy Series, 2002) (xv + 348 pp.).

On Boole (Wadsworth Publishing / Philosophers Series, 2002) (vi + 97 pp.).

David Hume's Critique of Infinity (Brill Academic Publishers, 2001) (xvii + 384 pp.).

The School of Alexius Meinong (edited with Liliana Albertazzi and Roberto Poli) (Ashgate Publishing, 2001) (xi + 579 pp.).

Wittgenstein's Thought in Transition (Purdue University Press, 1998) (xix + 356 pp.).

Meinongian Logic: The Semantics of Existence and Nonexistence (Walter de Gruyter & Co., 1996) (xiii + 297 pp.).

Schopenhauer, Philosophy, and the Arts (edited) (Cambridge University Press, 1996) (xiii + 309 pp).

forthcoming

Frege: A Philosophical Biography (Cambridge University Press), in preparation.

After 'On Denoting': Themes from Russell and Meinong (edited with Kenneth Blackwell and Nicholas Griffin)(The Bertrand Russell Research Centre), in preparation.

Russell versus Meinong (edited with Nicholas Griffin), Routledge, in preparation.

ARTICLES

"Collingwood Against Metaphysical Realism", Collingwood and British Idealism Studies 12, 2006, 103-114.

"Bochenski on Property Identity and the Refutation of Universals", Journal of Philosophical Logic, 35, 2006, 293-316.

"An Elementary Deductive Logic Excercise: Maximus Tyrius's Proof That There is No Injustice", Teaching Philosophy, Logic Notes, 29, 2006, 45-52.

"Margolis on History and Nature", Metaphilosophy, 36, 2005, 568-577.

"Indeterminarea Cuanticai Argumentul Wittgensteinian al Limbajului Privat", (Romanian translation of "Quantum Indeterminacy and Wittgenstein's Private Language Argument", 1999, below), Analysis and Metaphysics, 4, 2005, 125-147.

"Theory and Observation in the Philosophy of Science", Logical Analysis and History of Philosophy, 7, special issue on History of the Philosophy of Nature ('Geschichte der Naturphilosophie'), 7, 2004, 177-196.

"Thomas Reid on Natural Signs, Natural Principles, and the Existence of the External World", The Review of Metaphysics,, 57, 2003, 279-300.

"Meinong on the Phenomenology of Assumption", Studia Phænomenologica, special issue on 'The School of Brentano and Husserlian Phenomenology', 3, 2003, 155-177.

"Plato on the Parts of the Soul", Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy, 8, 2003, 43-68.

"Socrates on Persuasion, Truth, and Courtroom Argumentation", Inquiry: Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines, 22, 2003, 33-41.

"Hume on Infinite Divisibility and the Negative Idea of a Vacuum", The British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 10, 2002, 413-435.

"Brentano's Scientific Revolution in Philosophy", Spindel Conference 2001, Origins: The Common Sources of Analytic and Phenomenological Traditions, Southern Journal of Philosophy, Spindel Conference Supplement, 40, 2002, 193-221.

"Fin de Siècle Austrian Thought and the Rise of Scientific Philosophy", History of European Ideas, 27, 2001, 307-315.

"Of Time and the River in Kant's Refutation of Idealism", History of Philosophy Quarterly, 18, 2001, 297-310.

"Introduction", The Journal of Value Inquiry, special issue on 'Aristotle's Theory of Value', guest edited by Dale Jacquette, 35, 2001, 303-308.

"Aristotle on the Value of Friendship as a Motivation for Morality", The Journal of Value Inquiry, special issue on 'Aristotle's Theory of Value', guest edited by Dale Jacquette, 35, 2001, 371-389.

"Schopenhauer on the Ethics of Suicide", Continental Philosophy Review, 33, 2000, 43-58.

"Carl Stumpf on the Ontology of Relations", Brentano Studien, 9, 2000-2001, 279-250.

"Quantum Indeterminacy and Wittgenstein's Private Language Argument", Philosophical Explorations: An International Journal for the Philosophy of Mind and Action, 2, 1999, 79-95.

"Wittgenstein's Anthropologism in Logic, Philosophy, and the Social Sciences", Social Epistemology, 13, 1999, 303-322.

"L'Antropologismo Wittgensteiniano nella Logica, nella Filosofia e nelle Scienze Sociali", (Italian translation of "Wittgenstein's Anthropologism in Logic, Philosophy, and the Social Sciences", 1999 above), Studi Perugini, 7, 1999, 159-189.

"Wittgenstein's Manometer and the Private Language Argument", History of Philosophy Quarterly, 15, 1998, 99-126.

"The Devil's Dilemma in Flaubert's Saint Antony", The Heythrop Journal: A Quarterly Review of Philosophy and Theology, 39, 1998, 140-147.

"Aristotle's Refutation of the Universal Good", The Journal of Value Inquiry, 32, 1998, 301-324.

"Wittgenstein on the Transcendence of Ethics", Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 75, 1997, 304-324.

"Reflections on Mally's Heresy", Axiomathes, 8, 1997, 163-180.

"Hume on Infinite Divisibility and Sensible Extensionless Indivisibles", Journal of the History of Philosophy, 34, 1996, 61-78.

"Kant on Unconditional Submission to the Suzerain", History of Philosophy Quarterly, 13, 1996, 117-131.

"Socrates' Ironic Image of Meno", The Personalist Forum, 12, 1996, 123-134.

"Descartes' Lumen naturale and the Cartesian Circle", Philosophy & Theology, 9, 1996, 273-320.

"Hume's Aesthetic Psychology of Distance, Greatness and the Sublime", The British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 3, 1995, 89-112.

"Meinong's Concept of Implexive Being and Nonbeing", Grazer Philosophische Studien, 50, 1995, 233-271.

"Zeno of Citium on the Divinity of the Cosmos", Studies in Religion / Sciences Religieuses, 24, 1995, 415-431.

"Infinite Divisibility in Hume's First Enquiry", Hume Studies, 20, 1994, 219-240.

"Schopenhauer on the Antipathy of Aesthetic Genius and the Charming", History of European Ideas, 18, 1994, 373-385.

"Kant's Second Antinomy and Hume's Theory of Extensionless Indivisibles", Kant-Studien, 84, 1993, 38-50.

"Buridan's Bridge", Philosophy, 66, 1991, 455-471.

"The Origins of Gegenstandstheorie: Immanent and Transcendent Intentional Objects in Brentano, Twardowski, and Meinong", Brentano Studien, 3, 1990-1991, 277-302.

"Aesthetics and Natural Law in Newton's Methodology", Journal of the History of Ideas, 51, 1990, 659-666.

"The Uniqueness Problem in Kant's Transcendental Doctrine of Method", Man and World, 19, 1986, 425-438.

"Meinong's Doctrine of the Modal Moment", Grazer Philosophische Studien, 25-26, 1985-1986, 423-438.

"Berkeley's Continuity Argument for the Existence of God", The Journal of Religion, 65, 1985, 1-14.

"Analogical Inference in Hume's Philosophy of Religion", Faith and Philosophy, 2, 1985, 287-294.

"Bosanquet's Concept of Difficult Beauty", The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 63, 1984, 79-87.

"Meinong's Theory of Defective Objects", Grazer Philosophische Studien, 15, 1982, 1-19.

"Hume on the Infinite Divisibility of Extension and Exact Geometrical Values", Rivista di Storia della Filosofia, Special Issue on the Philosophy of David Hume, edited by Emmanuele Rochetti, Giancarlo Carabelli, and Emilio Mazza.

"Schopenhauer's Proof That Thing-in-Itself is Will", Kantian Review.

"Object Theory Logic and Mathematics: Two Essays by Ernst Mally (Translation and Commentary)", History and Philosophy of Logic.

"Burleigh's Paradox ", Philosophy.

"Supervenience of Qualia and Intentionality", Philo: The Journal of the Society of Humanist Philosophers.

"Preface: After Russell, After Meinong", Russell: Journal of the Bertrand Russell Society, special issue on the 100th aniversary of 'On Denoting', guest co-edited with Kenneth Blackwell and Nicholas Griffin.

"Marx and Engels on the Downfall of Capitalism", Critical Review.

“Brentano, Franz”, “Husserl, Edmund”, Europe: Encyclopedia of Industry and Empire 1789-1914, Scribner’s Library of Modern Europe, edited by John Merriman and Jay Winter (New York: Gale/Thomson, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2006), vol. 1 (Abdul Hamid II to Colonialism), 298–300; vol. 2 (Colonies to Huysmans), 1099-1101.

"Tarski's Analysis of Logical Consequence and Etchemendy's Criticism of Tarksi's Modal Fallacy", The Lvov-Warsaw School: The New Generation, Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and Humanities 89, edited by Jacek Juliusz Jadacki and Jacek Pasniczek (Amsterdam: Rodopi Editions, 2006), 345-368.

"Twardowski, Brentano's Dilemma, and the Content-Object Distinction", Actions, Products, and Things: Brentano and Polish Philosophy, Mind and Phenomenology series, edited by Arkadiusz Chrudzimski and Dariusz Lukasiewicz (Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag, 2006), 9-33.

"Wittgensteins 'Tractatus' und die Logik der Fiktion", Wittgenstein und die Literatur, edited by John Gibson and Wolfgang Huemer, translated by Martin Suhr (Frankfurt am Main: Surkamp Verlag, 2006), 448-467 (original English version published by Routledge, 2004 below).

"Idealism: Schopenhauer, Schiller and Schelling", The Routledge Companion to Aethestics, second edition, edited by Berys Gaut and Dominic McIver Lopes (London: Routledge, 2005), 83-95.

"Arthur Schopenhauer: The World as Will and Representation", Central Works of Philosophy, 3, The Nineteenth Century, edited by John Shand (Chesham: Acumen Books, 2005), 93-126.

"Introduction: Brentano's Philosophy", The Cambridge Companion to Brentano, edited by Dale Jacquette (Cambridge: Cambridge Unniversity Press, 2004), 1-19.

"Brentano's Concept of Intentionality", The Cambridge Companion to Brentano, edited by Dale Jacquette (Cambridge: Cambridge Unniversity Press, 2004), 98-130.

"Wittgenstein's Tractatus and the Logic of Fiction", Wittgenstein and Philosophy of Literature, edited by John Gibson and Wolfgang Huemer (London: Routledge, 2004), 305-317.

"Wittgenstein on Lying as a Language Game", The Third Wittgenstein: The Post-Investigations Works, edited by Daniél Moyal-Sharrock (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2004), 159-176.

"Monod, Jacques (Lucien)", Encyclopedia of Modern French Thought, edited by Christopher John Murray (New York: Taylor & Francis, 2004), 488-490.

"Socrates on Rhetoric, Truth, and Courtroom Argumentation in Plato's Apology", Informal Logic at 25: Proceedings of the Windsor Conference, edited by Anthony Blair, Daniel Farr, Hans V. Hansen, Ralph H. Johnson, and Christopher W. Tindale (Windsor: Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation, 2003), CD-ROM.

"Introduction: Psychologism the Philosophical Shibboleth", Philosophy, Psychology, and Psychologism: Critical and Historical Readings on the Psychological Turn in Philosophy, edited by Dale Jacquette (Kluwer Academic Publishing / Philosophical Studies Series, volume 91, 2003), 1-19; reprinted from Philosophy and Rhetoric.

"Psychologism Revisited in Logic, Metaphysics, and Epistemology", Philosophy, Psychology, and Psychologism: Critical and Historical Readings on the Psychological Turn in Philosophy, edited by Dale Jacquette (Kluwer Academic Publishing / Philosophical Studies Series, volume 91, 2003), 245-262; reprinted from Metaphilosophy.

"Wittgenstein on Thoughts as Pictures of Facts and the Transcendence of the Metaphysical Subject", Wittgenstein and the Future of Philosophy: A Reassessment After 50 Years / Wittgenstein und die Zukunft der Philosophie, Eine Newbewetung nach 50 Jahren, edited by Rudolf Haller and Klaus Puhl (Vienna: Öbv&Hpt, 2002), 160-170.

"Wittgenstein, Ludwig", Encyclopedia of Communication and Information, edited by Jorge Reina Schement (New York: Macmillan Reference, 2002), 1090-1092.

"Außersein of the Pure Object", The School of Alexius Meinong, edited by Liliana Albertazzi, Dale Jacquette, and Roberto Poli (Ashgate Publishing, 2001), 373-396.

"Nuclear and Extranuclear Properties", The School of Alexius Meinong, edited by Liliana Albertazzi, Dale Jacquette, and Roberto Poli (Ashgate Publishing, 2001), 397-426.

“Of Time and the River in Kant’s Refutation of the Problematic Idealism”, Kant und die Berliner Aufklarung: Akten des Neunten Internationalen Kant–Kongresses, edited by Volker Gerhardt, Rolf-Peter Horstmann and Ralph Schumacher (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2001), 5 volumes, volume 3, 571–582.

"A History of Early Analytic Philosophy of Language", Analytic Philosophy: Classical Readings, edited by Steven B. Hales (Wadsworth Publishing, 2001), 11-20.

"Introduction: Meinong in His and in Our Times", (with Liliana Albertazzi and Roberto Poli), The School of Alexius Meinong, edited by Liliana Albertazzi, Dale Jacquette, and Roberto Poli (Ashgate Publishing, 2001), 3-48.

"On Certainty (Wittgenstein, Ludwig)", World Philosophers and Their Works, revised edition, 3 vols., edited by John K. Roth (Pasadena: Salem Press, 2000), vol. 3, 2002-2005.

"Schopenhauer on Death", The Cambridge Companion to Schopenhauer, edited by Christopher Janaway (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), 293-317.

"Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von", Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, 4 vols., edited by Michael Kelly (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998), vol. 2, 311-315.

"Haller on Wittgenstein and Kant", Austrian Philosophy Past and Present: Essays in Honor of Rudolf Haller, edited by Keith Lehrer and Johannes Christian Marek, Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997), 29-44.

"A Priori / A Posteriori Distinction", "Analytic/Synthetic Distinction", "Kant, Immanuel", "Sensationalism",Encyclopedia of Empiricism, edited by Don Garrett and Edward Barbanell (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1997), 1-2; 7-10; 197-202; 388-390.

"Alexius Meinong (1853-1920)", The School of Franz Brentano, edited by Liliana Albertazzi, Massimo Libardi, and Roberto Poli (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996), 131-159.

"Schopenhauer's Metaphysics of Appearance and Will in the Philosophy of Art", in Schopenhauer, Philosophy, and the Arts, edited by Dale Jacquette (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), 1-36.

"Hume, David", "Quine, Willard Van Orman", Encyclopedia of Rhetoric and Composition: Com-munication from Ancient Times to the Information Age, edited by Theresa Enos (New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1996), 332-333; 580-581.

"Introduction: Findlay and Meinong", J.N. Findlay, Meinong's Theory of Objects and Values, Edited with an Introduction by Dale Jacquette (Gregg Revivals) (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 1995), xxv-lvi.

"Abstract Entity", "Brentano, Franz", "Extensionalism", "Haecceity", "Impredicative Definition", "Meinong, Alexius", "Subject-Object Dichotomy", "Use-Mention Distinction", The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, edited by Robert Audi (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), 3-4; 86-87; 258; 308; 363-364; 477-478; 773-774; 823-824.

"Buridan's Bridge", Zeit und Zeichen, edited by Tilman Borsche, Johann Kreuzer, Helmut Pape, and Guenter Wohlfart, Schriften der Academie du Midi (Munich: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 1993), 227-241; reprinted from Philosophy 1991 (above).

"Definite Descriptions", "Extensionalism", "Lambda Abstraction", "Mally, Ernst", Handbook of Metaphysics and Ontology, edited by Hans Burkhardt and Barry Smith (Munich and Vienna: Philosophia Verlag, 1991), 2 vols., 201-202; 268-269; 435; 485-486.

"Boole's Logic", Handbook of the History and Philosophy of Logic, edited by Dov M. Gabbay and John Woods (Elsevier Science).

"Brentano, Franz", "Husserl, Edmund", Scribner's Encyclopedia of Europe 1789-1914, edited by John Merriman and Jay Winter (Gale/Thomson)

"Developments in Philosophy of Science and Mathematics", History of Continental Philosophy, edited by Daniel Conway, 8 vols., vol. 2 (Acumen).

"Designation", "Knowledge", "Probable", "Scheffler, Israel", "Synthesis", Routledge Encyclopedia of American Philosophy, edited by John Lachs and Robert Talisse (Routledge).

"Tarski, Alfred", "Fractals", "Modality", Handbook of Mereology, edited by Hans Burkhardt, Guido Imaguire, and Johanna Seibt (Philosophia Verlag).

"Schopenhauer's Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics", Companion to Schopenhauer, edited by Bart Vandenabeele, (Blackwell Publishing).

"Measure for Measure? Wittgenstein on Language Game Criteria and the Paris Standard Meter Bar", Critical Guide to Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations, edited by A.M. Ahmed, (Cambridge University Press).

"Preface: After Russell, After Meinong", After "On Denoting': Themes from Russell and Meinong, (edited with Kenneth Blackwell and Nicholas Griffin) (The Bertrand Russell Research Centre).

"Paine, Thomas (1737-1809)", "Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet (1694-1778)", Biographical Dictionary of Enlightenment and Revolution, edited by Kevin E. Dodson (The Citadel Publishing) (electronic format).

"Justification in Ethics", Social and Political Justice, edited by John-Stewart Gordon (Rowman & Littlefield)

Review of Rom Harré and Michael Tissaw, Wittgenstein and Psychology: A Practical Guide, Journal of the History of Philosophy, 45, 2007, 169-170.

Review of Hans-Johann Glock, Quine and Davidson on Language, Thought and Reality, Philosophical Investigations, 29, 2006, 97-103.

Critical Notice of Danielle Macbeth, Frege's Logic, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 36, 2006, 609-632.

Review of Anna Sierzulska, Meinong on Meaning and Truth, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, (electronic format); http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.dfm?id=5781; 2006.02.17.

Review of Edmund Husserl, Philosophy of Arithmetic: Psychologcial and Logical Investigations with Supplementary Texts from 1887-1901, translated by Dallas Willard, The Review of Metaphysics, 59, 2005, 428-431.

Review of Gordon Baker, Wittgenstein's Method: Neglected Aspects, International Philosophical Quarterly, 45, 2005, 264-266.

Review of Sun-Joo Shin, The Iconic Logic of Peirce's Graphs, Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, 39, 2003, 127-133.

Review of Oswald Hanfling, Wittgenstein and the Human Form of Life, International Philosophical Quarterly, 43, 2003, 384-387.

Review of Sun-Joo Shin, The Iconomic Logic of Peirce's Graphs, Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, 39, 2003, 127-133.

Review of Arkadiusz Chrudzimski, Intentionalitätstheorie beim frühen Brentano, The Review of Metaphysics, 46, 2002, 163-167.

Review of Stephen Buckle, Hume's Enlightenment Tract: The Purpose of An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Hume Studies, 28, 2002, 149-153.

Review of Chistopher Williams, A Cultivated Reason: An Essay on Human and Humeanism, The British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 9, 2001, 591-594.

Review of Quentin Skinner, Reason and Rhetoric in the Philosophy of Hobbes, Philosophy and Rhetoric, 31, 1998, 74-79.

"The Microscope in Early Modern Science and Philosophy" (Essay Review of Catherine Wilson, The Invisible World: Early Modern Philosophy and the Invention of the Microscope), Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 28, 1997, 377-386.

Review of David Berman, George Berkeley: Idealism and the Man, Religious Studies, 31, 1995, 404-407.

Review of F.C. White, On Schopenhauer's Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason, Canadian Philosophical Reviews, 12, 1992, 370-372.

Review of Alexius Meinong, Über Gegenstandstheorie/Selbstdarstellung, edited by Josef M. Werle, Brentano Studien, 3, 1990-1991, 267-268.

Review of Marie-Luise Schubert Kalsi, Meinong's Theory of Knowledge, Noûs, 24, 1990, 487-492.

Review of Roderick M. Chisholm, Brentano and Intrinsic Value, The Journal of Value Inquiry, 22, 1988, 331-334.

Review of Karel Lambert, Meinong and the Principle of Independence: Its Place in Meinong's Theory of Objects and its Significance in Contemporary Philosophical Logic, International Studies in Philosophy, 20, 1988, 92-93.

"Henry Thoreau's Stoic Legacy" (Review of Robert D. Richardson, Jr., Henry David Thoreau: A Life of the Mind), Sierra, 72, January-February 1987, 150-153.

Review of Liliana Albertazzi, Immanent Realism: An Introduction to Brentano, The Review of Metaphysics.