What I Read in 2012
The best this year is a tie between Balthasar’s Prayer and Zizioulas’ Being as Communion:
Adams, Robert Merrihew. 2003. “The Silence of God in the Thought of Martin Buber.” Philosophia 30 (March): 51–68.
———. 2004. “Voluntarism and the Shape of a History.” Utilitas 16: 124–132.
Adelmann, Frederick J. 1966. The Theory of Will in St. John Damascene. Ed. Frederick J. Adelmann. The Quest for the Absolute. Boston College.
Anselm. 1998. The Major Works. Ed. Brian Davies and Evans; G. R.. Oxford World Classics. Oxford?;;New York: Oxford University Press.
Aquinas, Thomas. 1997. Basic Writings of Saint Thomas Aquinas. Trans. Anton C. Pegis. Hackett.
von Balthasar, Hans Urs. 1986a. Prayer. Trans. Graham Harrison. Ignatius Press.
———. 1986b. “On the Concept of Person.” Communio 13 (Spring): 18–26.
Barbu, Liviu. 2008. “Communion and Otherness (review).” The Heythrop Journal 49: 348–350.
Berlin, Isaiah. 1984. Two Concepts of Liberty. Ed. Michael Sandel. Liberalism and Its Critics. New York University Press.
Bernhardt, Reinhold. 2011. Timeless Action?. Ed. Christian Tapp and Edmund Runggaldier. God, Eternity, and Time. Ashgate.
Buber, Martin. 1970. I and Thou. Trans. Walter Kaufmann. Syracuse N.Y.
Carnap, Rudolf. 1950. “Empiricism, Semantics, and Ontology.” Revue Internationale de Philosophie 4: 20–40.
Cary, Phillip. 1995–October. “The Logic of Trinitarian Doctrine.” Religious and Theological Studies Fellowship Bulletin (September).
Coburn, Robert C. 1963. “Professor Malcolm on God.” Australasian Journal of Philosophy 41: 143–162.
Courtenay, William J. 1984. The Dialectic of Divine Omnipotence. Covenant and Causality in Medieval Thought. Variorum.
Craig, William Lane. 1998. “Divine Timelessness and Personhood.” International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 43: 109–124.
———. 2011. Divine Eternity and Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity. Ed. Christian Tapp and Edmund Runggaldier. God, Eternity, and Time. Ashgate.
Danto, Arthur. 1964. “The Artworld.” The Journal of Philosophy 61 (October): 571–584.
Darwall, Stephen L. 2006. The Second-person Standpoint. Harvard University Press. http://books.google.com/books?id=x52elHrEyTIC.
Dennett, Daniel. 1976. Conditions of Personhood. Ed. Amélie Oksenberg Rorty. The Identities of Persons. University of California Press.
Dupré, Louis. 1993. Passage to Modernity. Yale University Press.
Evans, Gareth. 1978. “Can There Be Vague Objects?.” Analysis 38 (October): 208.
Foster, Richard. 1998. Celebration of Discipline. HarperOne.
———. 2012. Sanctuary of the Soul. InterVarsity Press.
Frankfurt, Harry G. 1969. “Alternate Possibilities and Moral Responsibility.” The Journal of Philosophy 66 (December): 829–839.
———. 1971. “Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person.” The Journal of Philosophy 68 (January): 5–20.
Gendler, Tamar. 2000. “The Puzzle of Imaginative Resistance.” The Journal of Philosophy 97 (February): 55–81.
Gill, Christopher. 1988. “Personhood and Personality.” Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 6: 169–199.
———. 1991. Is There a Concept of the Person in Greek Philosophy. Ed. Stephen Everson. Psychology. Cambridge University Press.
Goodman, Nelson. 1976. Art and Authenticity. Ed. Denis Dutten. University of California Press.
Grant, W. Matthews. 2009. “Aquinas On How God Causes the Act of Sin Without Causing Sin Itself.” Thomist 73: 455–496.
Guilherme, Alexandre. 2011. “God as Thou and Prayer as Dialogue.” Sophia (November): 1–14. doi:10.1007/s11841-011-0282-0. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11841-011-0282-0.
Hare, John E. 2006. God and Morality. Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
Hazlett, Allan, and Christy Mag Uidhir. 2011. “Unrealistic Fictions.” American Philosophical Quarterly 48 (January): 33–46.
Hoffmann, Tobias. 2007. “Aquinas and Intellectual Determinism.” Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 89: 122–156.
van Inwagen, Peter. 1983. An Essay on Free Will. Oxford University Press.
———. 1999. “Moral Responsibility, Determinism, and the Ability to Do Otherwise.” Journal of Ethics 3: 341–350.
———. 2000. “Free Will Remains a Mystery.” Philosophical Perspectives 14: 1–19.
Kahn, Charles H. 1988. Discovering the Will. Ed. John M. Dillon and A. A. Long. University of California Press.
King, Peter. 2005. “Duns Scotus on Singular Essences.” Medioevo 30: 111–138.
Kraml, Hans. 2011. Eternity in Process Philosophies. Ed. Christian Tapp and Edmund Runggaldier. God, Eternity, and Time. Ashgate.
Lessing, Alfred. 1983. What is Wrong with Forgery. Ed. Denis Dutten. The Forger’s Art: Forgery and the Philosophy of Art. University of California Press.
Levi, A. H. T. 1987. The Breakdown of Scholasticism and the Signigicance of Evangelical Humanism. Ed. Gerard Hughes. The Philosophical Assesment of Theology. Georgetown University Press.
Levinas, Emmanuel. 1994. Nine Talmudic Readings. Trans. Annette Aronowicz. Indiana University Press.
Lewis, David. 1976. Survival and Identity. Ed. Amélie Oksenberg Rorty. The Identities of Persons. University of California Press.
Liao, Shen-yi. 2012. “Imaginative Resistance, Genre, and Normativity.” DRAFT.
Markosian, Ned. 1998. “Brutal Composition.” Philosophical Studies 92: 211–249.
McGrath, Alister E. 2004. Late Medieval Theology and the Reformation. The Intellectual Origins of the European Reformation. Blackwell.
Merricks, Trenton. 2001. Objects and Persons. Objects and Persons. Oxford University Press.
Miller, Mitchell. 1986. Plato’s Parmenides. The Pennsylvania State University Press.
Mounier, Emmanuel. 1938. A Personalist Manifesto. Longmans, Green and Co.
Médaille, John C. 1997. “The Person as Metaphysics of the Future.”
Noone, Timothy B. 2002. Universals and Individuation. Ed. Thomas Williams. The Cambridge Companion to Duns Scotus. Cambridge University Press.
Nyssa, Gregory of. 1978. The Life of Moses. Ed. Abraham J. Malherbe and Everett Ferguson. Trans. Abraham J. Malherbe and Everett Ferguson. Classics of Western spirituality. Paulist Press.
Ockham, William of. 1973. William of Ockham. Ed. Arthur Hyman. Philosophy in the Middle Ages. Hackett.
Plato. 1991. The Republic. Trans. Allan Bloom. Basic Books.
Plotinus. 1992. Enneads. Trans. Stephen MacKenna. Larson Publications.
Poole, Ross. 1996. “On Being a Person.” Australasian Journal of Philosophy 74 (March): 38–56.
Quine, Willard V. 1948. “On What There Is.” The Review of Metaphysics 2 (September): 21–38.
Rawls, John. 1984. The Right and the Good Contrasted. Ed. Michael Sandel. Liberalism and Its Critics. New York University Press.
Rogers, Katherin A. 2008. The Purpose, Definition, and Structure of Free Choice. Anselm on Freedom. Oxford University Press.
Schechtman, Marya. 1990. “Personhood and Personal Identity.” The Journal of Philosophy 87 (February): 71–92.
Scotus, Duns. 1997. Duns Scotus on the Will & Morality. Trans. Allan B. Wolter and William A. Frank. Catholic University Press of America.
Steel, Carlos. 1994. “Does Evil Have a Cause? Augustine’s Perplexity and Thomas’s Answer.” The Review of Metaphysics 48 (December): 251–273.
Stump, Eleonore. 1999. “Alternative Possibilities and Moral Responsibility.” The Journal of Ethics 3 (April): 299–324.
———. 2001. “Second-Person Accounts and the Problem of Evil.” Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 57 (October–December): 745–771.
———. 2003. Freedom. Aquinas. Routledge.
———. 2011. Eternity, Simplicity, and Presence. Ed. Christian Tapp and Edmund Runggaldier. God, Eternity, and Time. Ashgate.
Tapp, Christian. 2011. Eternity and Infinity. Ed. Christian Tapp and Edmund Runggaldier. God, Eternity, and Time. Ashgate.
Taylor, Charles. 1976. Responsibility For Self. Ed. Amélie Oksenberg Rorty. The Identities of Persons. University of California Press.
———. 1985. Atomism. Philosophy and the Human Sciences. Cambridge University Press.
———. 1989. Sources of the Self. Harvard University Press.
Thunberg, Lars. 1985. The Human Person as Image of God. Ed. Bernard McGinn and John Meyendorff. Christian Sprituality. Vol. 1. Crossroad.
Turcescu, Lucian. 2005. Gregory of Nyssa and the Concept of Divine Persons. Oxford University Press.
Unger, Peter. 1997. I Do Not Exist. Ed. Michael Cannon Rea. Material Constitution. Rowman & Littlefield.
Van Inwagen, Peter. 1997. The Doctrine of Arbitrary Undetatched Parts. Ed. Michael Cannon Rea. Material Constitution. Rowman & Littlefield.
Visser, Sandra, and Thomas Williams. 2009. Freedom. Anselm. Oxford University Press.
Volf, Miroslav. 1998. After Our Likeness. Eerdmans.
Walton, Kendall L. 1970. “Categories of Art.” Philosophical Review 79 (July): 334–367.
———. 1978. “Fearing Fictions.” The Journal of Philosophy 74 (January): 5–27.
Ward, Bernadette Waterman. 1990. “Philosophy and Inscape.” Texas Studies in Literature and Language 32: 214–239.
Weatherson, Brian. 2004. “Morality, Fiction, and Possibility.” Philosophers’ Imprint 4 (November): 1–27.
Weitz, Morris. 1956. “The Role of Theory in Aesthetics.” The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 15 (September): 27–35.
Williams, Bernard. 1976. Persons, Character and Morality. Ed. Amélie Oksenberg Rorty. The Identities of Persons. University of California Press.
Wolterstorff, Nicholas. 1991. “Divine Simplicity.” Philosophical Perspectives 5: 531–552.
Young, R. V. 1997. “Juliet and Shakespeare’s Other Nominalists.” Intercollegiate Review (Fall).
Zagzebski, Linda. 2011. Eternity and Fatalism. Ed. Christian Tapp and Edmund Runggaldier. God, Eternity, and Time. Ashgate.
Zizioulas, John. 1997. Being as Communion. St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press.
Meredith wrote:
Impressive! Might I request you sharing about your reading habits, routines, disciplines, and strategies?
Posted on 02-Jan-13 at 10:31 pm | Permalink
Dan Sheffler wrote:
Well, for starters, being in grad-school for philosophy imposes an external discipline I cannot claim for myself. I try to write in the morning and read after noon. The creative juices and motivations seem to flow more freely in the morning, and after noon I am better able to focus on reading from 1:00–6:00 PM or so, but this is merely a rough guideline for myself.
The only thing which remains really constant is my study of scripture and prayer. I study from 7:00–8:00 AM and I pray from 8:00–9:00. After this, I try to write for as long as I can, then I read until dinner. When teaching responsibilities or going to class interrupts this, I let them.
The most important habit that keeps all this going is vision. It is absolutely essential for me to know why I am reading the book I am reading, how it fits into my overall vocation as an intellectual. If I cannot answer this question for myself in a few concise and clear sentences then my study of the book becomes aimless and I begin to loose my grasp on what I am looking for. The second most important habit for me is to keep a set of open questions that are really pressing on my mind and my writing, this gives me something to look for when I am reading. If I don’t have any questions then I won’t recognize the answers when I come upon them (cf. Meno).
I noticed on your blog that you teach eight grade. If I were to encourage eighth graders I would tell them that they should not be discouraged if they find reading and writing hard. I find reading and writing incredibly hard. I didn’t learn to read until I was in fourth grade, but it is indispensable if you want to understand anything.
Posted on 03-Jan-13 at 5:17 pm | Permalink
Meredith wrote:
Dan, thanks for the info! Are you a professor?
I know what you mean about keeping your questions at hand. I read Meno this past summer for my studies at St. John’s College.
What do you do for distractions? How do you take notes? Electronic or hand-written?
I could ask more questions…
Blessings,
Meredith
Posted on 03-Jan-13 at 6:57 pm | Permalink
Dan Sheffler wrote:
No I am not a professor. I am a third-year PhD candidate in philosophy at the University of Kentucky. I study ancient philosophy and Early Christian theology, with additional competence in contemporary action theory and philosophy of time.
I’m horrible with staying focused.
I take notes almost exclusively electronically in markdown format. I use the program nvAlt to manage them in a system conceptually similar to the index card analogs of Luhmann’s Zettelkasten or the method advocated by Sertillanges in The Intellectual Life. I do nearly all my actual writing in Sublime Text 2 and I have recently written a plugin that interfaces Sublime Text with my notes.
For reading notes I write the notes directly in the margins of my reading (I read almost exclusively PDFs). The text of these notes is also in markdown format and I have written a script that extracts the notes from a selected PDF together with certain information (like a link to the page on which the note occurs) into a single markdown document.
I also keep a Moleskine with me since it is generally inadvisable to take electronic notes in the presence of other human beings. I use this notebook for class and sermon notes as well as quick thoughts while I am out at social events. Because these notes are not searchable, however, I don’t rely on them for the long-term storage of ideas. If something is really worthwhile from these notes I transfer them to my notes folder as soon as possible.
I plan on writing a full blog post about this segment of my work-flow, so more to come.
Posted on 04-Jan-13 at 4:26 pm | Permalink