Abstract

Albany: State University of New York Press, 1984. 475 pp. Cloth, $44.50; paper, $24.50--This volume is a continuation of Weiss's multivolumed Philosophical journal. The entries range over a variety of topics that include personal anecdotes about his health, his friends, honors that he has received, his own work, and his contributions to philosophy, as well as specifically philosophical questions. He compares and contrasts his positions with those of other philosophers. He reflects on his notion of experiencing, the value and explanatory power of the world of art for philosophy, the basic disciplines and their relation to metaphysics, and the dual nature of metaphysics as involving a mutually filling wonder and innocence. He refers to many of his other systematic works and their themes in order to clarify, on the basis of continued reflection and new insight, what was said there and to relate them to his current investigations.