Jonathan Bennett
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3842827 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Jonathan Bennett |
| PRENOMES | Jonathan |
| SOBRENOME | Bennett |
| ASSINATURA | BENNETT J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Syracuse University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0195-1022 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 64 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 95 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 63 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1887 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2005 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Motivation and job satisfaction in the Swiss Support Company in Kosovo
Motivation and its determinants were the focus of this three-point survey among the 5th Swiss Support Company in Suva Reka, Kosovo. Belief in the meaningfulness of the tasks and in the benefits of their activities proved to be the main predictive factors both for volunteering and for reporting higher levels of personal satisfaction. Great importance can also be attributed to the moral support provided by the personal environment at home (parents,…
A Philosophical Guide to Conditionals
Conditionals are of two basic kinds, often called ‘indicative’ and ‘subjunctive’. This book expounds and evaluates the main literature about each kind. It eventually defends the view of Adams and Edgington that indicatives are devices for expressing subjective probabilities, and the view of Stalnaker and Lewis that subjunctives are statements about close possible worlds. But it also discusses other views, e.g. that indicatives are really material…
Les tendances de l’opinion suisse en matière de politique de sécurité
Effectuées par l’École militaire supérieure à l’École polytechnique fédérale de Zurich, en collaboration avec le Centre de recherche sur la politique de sécurité et la polémologie, EPF Zurich, les études annuelles « Sécurité » servent à déterminer les tendances de l’opinion suisse en matière de politique extérieure et de sécurité. L’article présente les résultats de l’enquête représentative menée en janvier/février 2001 auprès de la population su…
Shorter Notices
SHORTER NOTICES Get access J. A. BENNETT J. A. BENNETT Museum of the History of ScienceOxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXIII, Issue 450, February 1998, Pages 258-a–258, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXIII.450.258-a Published: 01 February 1998
The Act Itself
The Invisible World
The Act Itself
The distinction between the consequences of an act and the act itself is supposed to define the fight between consequentialism and deontological moralities. This book, though sympathetic to consequentialism, aims less at taking sides in that debate than at clarifying the terms in which it is conducted. It aims to help the reader to think more clearly about some aspects of human conduct—especially the workings of the ‘by’‐locution, and some distin…
Practical Geometry and Operative Knowledge
Configurations - Volume 6, Number 2, Spring 1998
Museums and the establishment of the history of science at Oxford and Cambridge
In the Spring of 1944, an informal discussion took place in Cambridge between Mr. R. S. Whipple, Professor Allan Ferguson and Mr. F. H. C. Butler, concerning the formation of a national Society for the History of Science. This is the opening sentence of the inaugural issue of the Bulletin of the British Society for the History of Science , the Society's first official publication. Butler himself was the author of this outline account of the subse…
Instrumentos de Navegacion
Leibniz
In the New Essays on Human Understanding, Leibniz argues chapter by chapter with John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding, challenging his views about knowledge, personal identity, God, morality, mind and matter, nature versus nurture, logic and language, and a host of other topics. The work is a series of sharp, deep discussions by one great philosopher of the work of another. Leibniz's references to his contemporaries and his discussio…
Descartes's Theory of Modality
Descartes propounded the allegedly strange, peculiar, curious, and incoherent doctrine that necessary truths are made true by God's voluntary act.' It seems to imply that God could have made necessary truths false, which entails that they are not necessary after all. Some of Descartes's interpreters have taken him in that way, as firmly implying that nothing is absolutely necessary or impossible.2 We all know, however, that if this doctrine runs …
The Necessity of Moral Judgments
Events and Their Names
From Pleasure and Profit to Science and Security
The Difference Between Right and Left
Reply to Reviewers
First, a clarification: I do not deny that appreciation of works of fiction is a genuinely emotional experience, that readers and spectators feel real emotions in response to novels and plays and movies. It is not merely fictional that we are moved by fiction; we really are. The actual experience of being moved emotionally by fiction is what I try to understand. The negative part of my claim is simply that a (normal) appreciator's response to the…
Precis of Events and Their Names
numbers in this abstract correspond to the chapter numbers in the book. 1. By names of events I mean sentence-nominals that refer to events. Following Vendler, I take it that these will be perfect and not imperfect nominals. Quisling's betrayal of Norway (perfect) was an event; Quisling's betraying Norway (imperfect) is a fact, namely the fact that Quisling betrayed Norway. Quisling's betraying Norway is different from his doing Norway a disservi…
Truth and Stability in Descartes’ Meditations
The announced project of the Meditations, it is usually supposed, is to get rid of all error by rejecting everything that might be false, thus retaining only what is certainly true; the next step is to acquire further certainly true beliefs by valid inference from that foundation.
The Divided Circle
Locke on People and Substances
In the famous chapter on identity in the Essay (II.xxvii), Locke notoriously denies that sameness of substance is either necessary or sufficient for sameness of person. In thus denying that the identity of a person is determined by ‘unity of substance’, Locke denies that a person is a substance. If people were substances of some kind, then for me to be the same person through a stretch a time would just be for me to continue to be the same substa…
Event Causation
Philosophical theories of causation can be split two ways, into four groups. First. there is the split between event and fact or state of affairs theories. Event theories give pride of place to causal statements like these: •The explosion caused the fire. •His sudden collapse was caused by the beating they gave him. Fact theories give primacy rather to statements like these: •The forest burned because an incendiary bomb was dropped into it. •They…
The Collected Works of Spinoza
A Study of Spinoza's Ethics
Benjamin Martin
The Mechanics' Philosophy and the Mechanical Philosophy
Counterfactuals and Temporal Direction
A forward counterfactual conditional is one whose conse-quent is about a later time than any the antecedent is about: ‘If Stevenson had been President in 1953, the Viet Nam war would not have escalated in the 1960s. ’ The
Practical Geometry and Operative Knowledge
Configurations - Volume 6, Number 2, Spring 1998
Museums and the establishment of the history of science at Oxford and Cambridge
In the Spring of 1944, an informal discussion took place in Cambridge between Mr. R. S. Whipple, Professor Allan Ferguson and Mr. F. H. C. Butler, concerning the formation of a national Society for the History of Science. This is the opening sentence of the inaugural issue of the Bulletin of the British Society for the History of Science , the Society's first official publication. Butler himself was the author of this outline account of the subse…
The Act Itself
The distinction between the consequences of an act and the act itself is supposed to define the fight between consequentialism and deontological moralities. This book, though sympathetic to consequentialism, aims less at taking sides in that debate than at clarifying the terms in which it is conducted. It aims to help the reader to think more clearly about some aspects of human conduct—especially the workings of the ‘by’‐locution, and some distin…
The Act Itself
Descartes's Theory of Modality
Descartes propounded the allegedly strange, peculiar, curious, and incoherent doctrine that necessary truths are made true by God's voluntary act.' It seems to imply that God could have made necessary truths false, which entails that they are not necessary after all. Some of Descartes's interpreters have taken him in that way, as firmly implying that nothing is absolutely necessary or impossible.2 We all know, however, that if this doctrine runs …
Hooke and Wren and the System of the World
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Immigration, ‘Backbirding’, labour recruiting? The Hawaiian experience 1877–1887
Event Causation
Philosophical theories of causation can be split two ways, into four groups. First. there is the split between event and fact or state of affairs theories. Event theories give pride of place to causal statements like these: •The explosion caused the fire. •His sudden collapse was caused by the beating they gave him. Fact theories give primacy rather to statements like these: •The forest burned because an incendiary bomb was dropped into it. •They…
Locke on People and Substances
In the famous chapter on identity in the Essay (II.xxvii), Locke notoriously denies that sameness of substance is either necessary or sufficient for sameness of person. In thus denying that the identity of a person is determined by ‘unity of substance’, Locke denies that a person is a substance. If people were substances of some kind, then for me to be the same person through a stretch a time would just be for me to continue to be the same substa…
Identity and Cardinality
The thesis that identity is always relative to. . . a criterion seems to me a truism, like Frege’s connected thesis that a number is always relative to a Begriff. It is as nonsensical to speak of identification apart from identifying some kind of thing, as to speak of counting apart from counting some kind of thing. A numerical word demands completion with a count noun; similarly for ‘the same’ and ‘another’
Linguistic Behaviour
Reply to Reviewers
First, a clarification: I do not deny that appreciation of works of fiction is a genuinely emotional experience, that readers and spectators feel real emotions in response to novels and plays and movies. It is not merely fictional that we are moved by fiction; we really are. The actual experience of being moved emotionally by fiction is what I try to understand. The negative part of my claim is simply that a (normal) appreciator's response to the…
The Status of Determinism
Iterated Modalities
Iterated Modalities Get access Jonathan Bennett Jonathan Bennett Magdalen College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 5, Issue 18, January 1955, Pages 45–56, https://doi.org/10.2307/2217045 Published: 01 January 1955
The Architect of Salisbury Cathedral
Iterated Modalities
Iterated Modalities Get access Jonathan Bennett Jonathan Bennett Magdalen College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 5, Issue 18, January 1955, Pages 45–56, https://doi.org/10.2307/2217045 Published: 01 January 1955
Problems of Analysis
Some Aspects of Probability and Induction (I)
Some Aspects of Probability and Induction (Ii)
The Status of Determinism
A Note on Descartes and Spinoza
Descartes was a dualist and Spinoza a monist. If this marks a contrast between them, there ought to be a question to which Descartes’s answer was ‘two’ and Spinoza’s ‘one’. (a) How many substances are there? Spinoza: ‘One.’ Descartes: ‘Strictly speaking, one; but if we relax the criteria for substantiality a little, millions.’ On no interpretation of the question did Descartes answer, ‘Two.’ (b) How many basic kinds of substance are there? Descar…
The Recognition of Reason
Book Reviews Get access The Recognition of Reason. By Edward Pols. Philosophical Explorations, 1. (Carbondale : Southern Illinois U.P. 1963. Pp. xiv + 256. Price $6.00). Jonathan Bennett Jonathan Bennett Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 15, Issue 58, January 1965, Pages 72–73, https://doi.org/10.2307/2218634 Published: 01 January 1965
Rationality
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Rationality : An essay towards an analysis. By Jonathan Bennett. (London : Routledge. 1964. Pp. viii + 123. Price 14s). Alan R. White Alan R. White Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 15, Issue 61, October 1965, Pages 362–363, https://doi.org/10.2307/2218265 Published: 01 October 1965
Kant's Analytic
'Mr Bennett, as was to be expected, has written a first-rate book on Kant's Analytic. It is vivid, entertaining, and extremely instructive. It will be found of absorbing interest both by those who already know the Critique and by those - if there are any such - who have a developed interest in philosophy, yet no direct acquaintance with Kant. These last it will surely drive to the text and, as surely, will drive them to approach it in a truly phi…
Rationality
This stimulating work takes the concept of 'rationality', a concept that more than any other is supposed to express the essence of what it means to be human, and submits it to a careful and penetrating analysis. The conclusions drawn often challenge those previously suggested by both philosophers and psychologists
Philosophy, Science, and Sense Perception
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Philosophy, Science, and Sense Perception : Historical and critical studies. By Maurice Mandelbaum. (Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Press; London : Oxford University Press. 1964. Pp. xiv + 262. Price 52s). Jonathan Bennett Jonathan Bennett Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 16, Issue 64, July 1966, Pages 277–279, https://doi.org/10.2307/22…
Kant's Analytic
Book Reviews Get access Kant’s Analytic. By Jonathan Bennett. (Cambridge University Press. 1966. Pp. xvi + 251. Price 50s, paper 18s 6d). Graham Bird Graham Bird Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 17, Issue 68, July 1967, Pages 269–271, https://doi.org/10.2307/2218166 Published: 01 July 1967
New Studies in Berkeley's Philosophy
Book Reviews Get access New Studies in Berkeley’s Philosophy. Edited by Warren E. Steinkraus. (London & New York : Holt, Rinehart & Winston. 1966. Pp. xvi + 199. Price paper 26s or $3.25). Jonathan Bennett Jonathan Bennett Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 17, Issue 66, January 1967, Pages 70–71, https://doi.org/10.2307/2218369 Published: 01 January 1967
Substance, Reality, and Primary Qualities
TWO bad mistakes have been taken over from Berkeley by most philosophers who have read and assessed him with the casualness usually accorded to the great, dead philosophers. Each mistake is in the nature of a conflation or running together of two philosophical doctrines which ought to be kept apart, and thus a conflation also of the problems which the doctrines offer to solve. The doctrines in question are all expounded in Locke's Essay Concernin…
Strawson on Kant
Most of the Critique of Pure Reason is prima facie dead, because prima facie dependent upon wholly indefensible theories. The commentator’s dominant problem is to display the life below the surface: showing where an argument has an innocent analogue yielding the same conclusion, or a weaker but still untrivial one; testing these mutant arguments and conclusions for consonance with the broad lines of Kant’s thought; and so on. There have been many…
Entailment
Locke and the Compass of the Human Understanding
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Locke and the Compass of the Human Understanding : A Selective Commentary on the ‘Essay’. By John W. Yolton. (Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. 1970. Pp. x + 234. Price £3.00) Jonathan Bennett Jonathan Bennett Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 21, Issue 84, July 1971, Pages 265–267, https://doi.org/10.2307/2218136 Published: 01…
The age and size of the world
Wren’s last building
It is well known that the early Fellows of the Royal Society were not altogether happy with their accommodation at Gresham College. Occasionally they discussed plans for a building of their own, a ‘college’ designed for their own particular needs. Certainly with Evelyn, Hooke and Wren as enthusiastic members, there was no shortage, either of architectural skill, or of familiarity with materials, estimates and workmen’s accounts. Did the discussio…
Locke, Berkeley, Hume
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Locke, Berkeley, Hume; Central Themes. By Jonathan Bennett. (Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1971. Pp. x + 361. Price £3.50; paper £1.40.) Jonathan Barnes Jonathan Barnes Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 23, Issue 90, January 1973, Pages 73–76, https://doi.org/10.2307/2217739 Published: 01 January 1973
Locke, Berkeley, Hume
Kant's Dialectic
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Kant’s Dialectic. BY Jonathan Bennett ( Cambridge University Press. 1974. Pp. xi + 291. Price £4.90) P. F. Strawson P. F. Strawson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 25, Issue 99, April 1975, Pages 165–169, https://doi.org/10.2307/2217634 Published: 01 April 1975
Hooke and Wren and the System of the World
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Kant's Dialectic
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