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1、PhilosophicalInvestigations32:1January2009ISSN0190-0536REVIEWSMichelSeymourandMatthiasFritsch,(eds.),ReasonandEmancipation:EssaysonthePhilosophyofKaiNielsen(Amherst,NewYork:HumanityBooks,2007).9+431,price£16.99pb.VanA.Harvey,StanfordUniversityThisbookcontainssome20essaysthat
2、addresssomeaspectofKaiNielsenswide-rangingphilosophicalandintellectualconcerns.Toeachofthemheoffersareply.Theessaysaredividedintofivegroups:religion,meta-philosophy,Marxism,globaljusticeandnationalism.Withthepossibleexceptionofthreeoftheessaysonreligion(byJeffreyStout,Nichola
3、sWolterstorrfandAnthonyKenny),mostoftheessaysarebasicallysympathetictoNielsenssocialnaturalismandhisanalyticalMarxism.Themoresympatheticessaystendonthewholeeithertosuggesthowhemighttightenupsomefeatureofhisphi-losophyinordertobettermeettheobjectionsofsomecriticsortheycritici
4、zesomefeatureofhisMarxismorhisviewsonegalitarianismandsocialjustice.Thebookalsocontainsanindex,abibliographyofNielsenswritingsandageneralbibliography.Asisevidentfromthebasicdivisionsofthebook,theessaysroamoveranextraordinaryrangeofissues.Tomentiononlyafew:whetherhisinterpret
5、ationofPlatosEuthyphrojustifieshisrejectionofdivinecommandethics(JeffreyStout);whetherpluralism,asNielsencon-tends,hasmadeitimpossibleforintellectualstobejustifiedinholdingtheisticbelief(NicholasWolterstorff);whethernaturalismneedsarobustconceptionoftruthratherthanNielsenswarr
6、antedassertabil-ity(CherylMisak);whetherMarxorCondorcetgivestheEnlight-enmentprojectamorerealisticgroundingforsecularhumanism(StevenLukes);whetherphilosophy,havingrejectedFoundationalismasNielsendoes,canaspiretobeanythingmorethanatypeofwriting(RichardRorty);whethertheadoptio
7、nofOttoNeurathsnormative©2009TheAuthors.Journalcompilation©2009BlackwellPublishingLtd.,9600GarsingtonRoad,OxfordOX42DQ,UKand350MainStreet,Malden,MA02148,USA.80PhilosophicalInvestigationsnaturalismwouldenableNielsentoavoidthecriticismthathiscriterionofwidereflectiveequilibrium
8、involveshiminself-contradiction(IdilBoran);whetherthiscriterionofwidereflect
