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BOOK REVIEWS I71 science, since they couple the understanding of both "self" (subject) and "the world" (object), and since the problems of normative epistemology require prior resolution of questions concerning the self that possesses scientific knowledge. Building on an idea of Charles Taylor, Straker develops the exciting thesis that "the history of our changing conceptions of nature is the disguised form of the real history being enacted, the history of changing conceptions of the 'self'" (258). The editors preface the collection with a nicely-judged portrait of "Westfall as Teacher and Scholar," include a real photographic portrait as frontispiece, and append a bibliography of his publications on the history of science, the discipline he wisely sees "as potentially the fundamental mode of understanding our situation in the modern world" (Straker, 246). ALAN GABBEY The Queen's University of Belfast BOOKS RECEIVED Abel, Lionel. Important Nonsense. Buffalo: Prometheus Books, 1987. Pp. ix + 232. $22.95. Adorno, F., et al. Protagora, Antifonte, Posidonio. Aristotele. Saggi su Frammenti lnediti e Nuove Testimonianze da Papiri. Studi e Testi per il Corpus Dei Papiri Filosofici Greci e Latini, 2. Florence: Leo S. Olschki Editore, 1986. Pp. 153. Paper, L 3o. Adorno, Theodor W. Aesthetic Theory. Translated by C. Lenhardt. Edited by Gretel Adorno and Rolf Tiedemann. The International Library of Phenomenology and Moral Sciences. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1984. Pp. x + 526. Paper, $14.95. Albert, Karl. Mystik und Philosophie. Saint Augustine: Verlag Hans Richarz, 1986. Pp. 224. Paper, DM 34.8o. Amrine, Frederick, Francis J. Zucker and Harvey Wheeler, editors. Goethe and the Sciences: A Reappraisal. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Vol. 97- Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co., ~987. Pp. xvii + 442. DFL 19o. Arbib, Michael A. and Mary B. Hesse. The Construction of Reality. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. Pp. xii + 286. $29.95. Jonathan Barnes, ed. Early Greek Philosophy. Translated, edited, and with an introduction by Jonathan Barnes. New York: Viking Penguin, 1987. Baynes, Kennegh, James Bohman, and Thomas McCarthy. After Philosophy.End or Transformation ? Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1987. Pp. xi + 488. Paper, $14.95. Berman, David, editor. GeorgeBerkeley: Essaysand Replies. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1985. Pp. 171. $45.oo. Boethius of Dacia: On the Supreme Good, On the Eternity of the WorM, On Dreams. Translation and Introduction by John F. Wippel, Mediaeval Sources in Translation, 3o. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of MediaevalStudies, 1987. Pp. 89. Paper, $5.75. Philosophical Writings of Etienne Bonnot, Abb~ de Condillac. Vol. 2. Translated by Franklin Philip. Hillsdale,NJ: Lawrence Eribaum Associates, Publishers, 1987. Pp. x + 423-596. $29.95. Brancacci, Aldo. Rhetorike Philosophousa. Dione Crisostomonella Cultura Antica e Bizantina. Elenchos. Coilana di Testi e Studi sul Pensiero Antico, l 1. Naples: Bibliopolis, 1985. Pp. 347. Paper, L 35- ~72 JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY ~6:~ JANUARY ~988 Bury, J. B. The Idea of Progress. An Inquiry into Its Origin and Growth. Reprint. New York: Dover Publications, 1987. Pp. 357. Paper, $7.95Cantarella , Michele, editor. Bibliografia Salveminiana. 1892-1984. Rome: Bonacci Editore, 1986. Pp. 4o7. Paper, $3o.oo. Carnois, Bernard. The CoherenceofKant's DoctrineofFreedom.Translated by David Booth. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1987. Pp. xv + 174.$23.95. Carter, Richard B. Descartes' Medical Philosophy. The Organic Solution to the Mind-Body Problem. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983. Pp. xi + 3ol. $32.5o. Catalano, Joseph S. A Commentary on Jean-Paul Sartre's "Critique of DialecticalReason." Volume x. Theory of Practical Ensembles. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1986. Pp. x + 282. Cloth, $4o.oo. Paper, $15.95Cavini , W., et al. Studi. Su Papiri Grecidi Logica e Medicinia. Studi e Testi per il Corpus Dei Papiri FilosoficiGreci e Latini, 1. Florence: Leo S. Olschki Editore, 1985.Pp. 215. Paper, L 33. Celsus. On the True Doctrine. A DiscourseAgainst the Christians.Translated with a General Introduction by Joseph Hoffmann. New York: Oxford University Press, x987. Pp. xiii + 146. Cloth, $a8.95. Paper, $7.95. Chisholm, Roderick M. Brentano and Intrinsic Value. Modern European Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge UniversityPress, 1986. Pp. xiii + 1o5. Cloth, $~4.95. Paper, $1o.95. Christman, Henry, ed. Essential Works of Lenin, New York: Dover Publications, 1987. Pp. 372. Paper, $6.95. Croce, Benedetto. Bibliografia Vichiana. Reprint of...