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Analyzes the externalism in ethics according to John Boatright. Logical relation between making a moral judgment and acting; Relevance of the person's beliefs or convictions about moral facts with the psychological explanation; Factors influencing human behavior.

Focuses on the views of eternity in Boethius and Plato. Possibility of omniscience; Association of omniscience with immortality; Purpose of Plato's distinction between time and enternity.

Presents arguments on seeing after-images as physical objects. Citation of the concept advocated by philosopher Norman Malcolm on after-images; Inapplicability of the concept of numerical identity to the after-images of different people; Difference of logical status in the discourse about after-images from the discourse about physical objects.

Focuses on the category allocation in natural language. Assessment of the sense-values of sentences with other terms; Consideration of the truth-value of a genuine subject-predicate statement; Accommodation of the sentential context in the sentence-frame.

Announces several events associated with "The Philosophical Quarterly." Contributing articles related to the philosophy of David Hume; Schedule of the Hume Conference in celebration of the bicentenary year of the death of Hume; Seminars on Hume's philosophy.

Invites contributions on any aspect of Hume's philosophy for the January 1976 issue of "The Philosophical Quarterly".

Presents a reply to the article "Thoughts and Time," by B. A. Farrell. Discussion of the Geach-Mouton line; Consideration of the problems in the analysis of the ordinary concepts of judgment and thought; Assessment of the temporal process of thinking.

Examines the logical distinction of the truth condition for knowledge from the evidence condition. Error of intense speculation on the nature of knowledge; Justification to the belief in false proposition; Doubt about the legitimacy of knowledge claims.

Focuses on the fundamental positions of Hubert Schwyzer with respect to the nature of the relationship between thought and reality. Characterization of the perfect fit in a Pre-Copernican idiom; Formulation of E.Q.1; Elaboration of anthropocentrism and linguicentrism.

Examines the consequence of the unresolvability of ethical disputes. Categorical character of the grammar of the moral assertions; Conflict between the humane ideal of a criminal code and the dictate of punishment; Function of moral principles.

Examines the necessity of extensional idioms in the characterization of sense-experience in intentional terms. Assimilation of the sensory awareness from different mental activity; Behaviorist theory of perception; Philosophical basis in the intentional use of perceptual verbs.

Investigates the distinction between locutionary, illocutionary and perlocutionary speech acts. Analysis of action based on the ontology of events; Phonetic sequence from the utterance of a meaningful English sentence; Senses of the expression "same act" in the generalized versions of J. L. Austen.

Focuses on the theory of appropriation of Locke. Accounts of the origin of private rights of property; Appropriation of necessary means of subsistence; Establishment of property rights in things common to all without the consent of others in the age of abundance.

Analyzes the argument of J. M. E. McTaggart about the unreality of time. Temporal characteristics of the past, present and future positions of time; Prepositional phrase of the form in question contrary to the rules of grammar; Elements of truth and falsity in the attempt of McTaggert to eliminate the tenses.

Examines the thesis "Constituents and Causes of Emotion and Action," by philosopher Irving Thalberg. Evaluation of relationship between emotion and thought; Conditions for a bodily movement to be an action; Explanation of the concept of free will in terms of neurophysiology.

Focuses on the discussion of David Ross on prima facie duties. Details on the various complex configurations of natural properties; Appropriateness of the figures of speech used by Ross in speaking about prima facie duties; Presupposition of the duty.

Focuses on the treatment of Aristotle on relativism. Characterization of numerous arguments in Metaphysics; Interest in the victim of honest perplexity; Effect of assimilating Platonic realism to the relativism.

Focuses on the defense made by philosopher Robert Paul Wolff on philosophical anarchism. Criticism against the claim of the right of a government to back up their laws with force and employ this force against lawbreakers; Pomotion of individual autonomy; Citation of the unlikelihood of unanimous direct democracy.

Focuses on a theological argument for fatalism. Question over the true existence of free will in relation to the omniscience of God; Independence of the logical premiss to the theological premiss; Variety of reactions to the theological argument.

Focuses on the concept of the explicit performative utterances. Negation on the nature of the utterances as statements; Outline of grammatical theory; Consequences of treating explicit performative utterances as statements.

Focuses on the use of words pertaining to greatness in the text of "Proslogion," by philosopher Anselm. Argument on the nature of God; Sources of the theology advocated by Anselm; Notions on the existence of God.

Focuses on the constructive support for the Aristotelian view concerning individual reasons for doing things. Identification of reasons for action; Levels of rationality and deliberateness in conduct; Flexibility of the basis constituent concepts of desire and beliefs; Connection between desire and motivation.

Focuses on the basic principles of the classical systems of propositional logic. Assessment of the grammatical order of the terms and phrases; Assessment of the traditional syllogistic moods with particular premises; Provision of the subject-predicate sentences.

Discusses the theological argument about the incompatibility of divine omniscience with human freedom. Characteristic of logical fatalism; Reasoning about divine foreknowledge; Logical argument for fatalism.

Focuses on the moral reasoning governing the interpretation of Mill's Act-Utilitarianism. Assessment of the actions of right and wrong; Consideration of the scientific status of secondary principles and moral rules; Modification of moral precepts.

Presents several books related to philosophy. "The Idea of a Spiritual Power," by H. B. Acton; "Los rios profundos," by Jose Maria Arguedas; "Wisdom: Twelve Essays," by Renford Bambrough.