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BOOK NOTES Boo~: REWEWS 433 Jonathan Harrison. Hume's Theory of Justice. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 198t. Pp. xxvi + 304 . $49.5 ~9 Hume's Theory ofJustice is a detailed discussion of the important middle part of Book IlI of A Treatise of Human Nature. Professor Harrison rightly thinks of Hume as offering viable moral views, and refuses to apologize for treating him as a philosopher of genius, "a great enough man to be capable of surviving the most rigorous criticism," a matter on which Harrison seems to think critics of his earlier work, Hume's Moral Epistemology, hold a different view. I myself doubt there is any real difference of opinion on this matter. Many readers of this earlier work doubted the appositeness of Harrison's critical strokes, not their acceptability as rigorous criticism per se. Despite these doubts about the first of what is a three-volume commentary on Book IIl of the Treatise, this second, detailed study of Hume's theory of justice, and his views on artifice or conventions in general, will be required reading for those hoping to advance our understanding of these important topics. All readers will be well-served by the analytical table of contents and the detailed index. --DAVID FATE NORTON McGitl University Pierre Clair, Jacques Rohault (i 6i 8-x 672: Bio-Bibliographie, avec l'~dition critique des Entretiens sur la philosophie). Paris: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1978. Pp. 187. 48 Fr. Under the direction of Andr6 Robinet the Centre d'Histoire des Sciences et des Doctrines has produced its third volume in the series Recherches sur le XVIIe si~cle. The biography of Rohauh offered here is exhaustive, but the bibliography is restricted to French sources. The inclusion of" the Entretiens is valuable, particularly for Rohault's defense of Descartes's discussion of transubstantiation . We look forward to future offerings in this important scholarly series. --RICHARD A. WATSON Washington University BOOKS RECEIVED Armour, Leslie and Elizabeth Trott. The Faces of Reason. An Essay on Phdosophy and Culture in English Canada 185o-195o. Atlantic Highlands, N.J : Humanities Press, Inc., 1981. Pp. xxvi + 548. $19.5 o. Bland, Kalman P., Editor and Translator. The Epistle on the Possibilit~of Conjunction with the Active Intellect by Ibn Rushd with the Commentary of Moses Narboni. Critical edition and annotated translation. Moreshet Series, Studies in Jewish History, Literature and Thought. New York: The Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1982. Pp. xiii + 151. Blumenthal, H. J. and A. C. Lloyd, Editors. Soul and the Structure of Being in Late Neoplatonism: Syrianus, Proclus and Simplicius. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1982. Pp. vii + 95. Paper, pounds 6.5o. Brandt, Reinhard, Editor. RechtsphilosophiederAufkli~rung. Symposium Wolfenbfittel 1981. Berlin , New York: Walter de Gruyter & Co., t982. Pp. viii + 459. $64.oo. Brown, James F. Affectivity: Its Language and Meaning. Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, Inc., 1982. Pp. xii + 268. Paper, $11.75. 434 HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY Bruzina, Ronald and Bruce Wilshire, Editors. Phenomenology:Dialogues and Bridges. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, t982. Pp. xii + 361. Cloth, $39.5o; paper, $t9.5o. Burkert, Walter. Structure and History in Greek Mythology and Ritual. Berkeley: University of California Press, 198e (paper), 1979 (cloth). Pp. xix + 226. Cloth, $21.5o; paper, $7.95. Carafiol, Peter C. Transcendent Reason: James Marsh and the Forms of Romantic Thought. Tallahassee : A Florida State University Book, University Presses of Florida, 1982. Pp. xviii + 222. $23.00. Chan, Hok-lam and Win. Theodore de Bary, Editors. Yiian Thought, Chinese Thought and Religion Under the Mongols. New York: Columbia University Press, 1982. Pp. 545. $35.oo. Cohen, Hermann. Werke. Volumes 8 & 9. Hildesheim, New York: Georg Olms Verlag, 1982. Pp. xvi + 48o; xxvi + 4o2. DM 88. Conway, Anne. The Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy. International Archives of the History of Ideas, 1ol. Edited and with an Introduction by Peter Loptson. Boston, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1982. Pp. 252. $35.oo. Deely, John. Introducing Semiotic: Its History and Doctrine. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1982. Pp. xvi + 246. Cloth, $22.5o; paper, $7.95De Jong, Willem Remmelt. The Semantics ofJohn Stuart Mill. Synthese Historical Library, volume 23. Translated by Herbert Donald Morton...