Overheard in Seville: 
Bulletin of the Santayana Society

Editor: Angus Kerr-Lawson

Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo,
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1,

Communications about papers on Santayana's life and works
should be sent to Kerr-Lawson.

E-mail address: kerrlaws@uwaterloo.ca

Communications about Santayana bibliography, the Santayana Society,
the Santayana Edition, or business matters, should be sent to:

Kristine W. Frost
Associate Editor, Santayana Edition
Institute for American Thought

School of Liberal Arts, IUPUI
ES 0010

902 W New York St.
Indianapolis, IN 46202-5157

U. S. A.

E-mail address: kfrost@iupui.edu

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The Bulletin appears annually. It is formatted and composed for typesetting using Microsoft Word and Adobe Acrobat at the University of Waterloo, printed and distributed by Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis.

Papers are published dealing with all aspects of Santayana's philosophy, his literary works, or his life. There are regular progress reports on the Santayana Edition and updates to Santayana bibliography. Announcements concerning the Santayana Society and its annual meeting also appear in each number.

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Tables of Contents: 1983 - 2006

2006 .… 2005 ….. 2004 ..... 2003 .....2002 .....2001 ..... 2000 ..... 1999
1998 ..... 1997 ..... 1996 ..... 1995 ..... 1994 ..... 1993 ..... 1992 ..... 1991
1990 ..... 1989 ..... 1988 ..... 1987 ..... 1986 ..... 1985 ..... 1984 ..... 1983

Certain of the texts of the articles beginning in 1993 are available through hyperlinks as shown below. More recent articles appear as Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) files

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No. 24 FALL 2006 TABLE OF CONTENTS

$ Table of Contents. page i

$ Announcement of 2006 Annual Meeting. page ii

$ Carta desde España. page 39

$ The Second International Conference on George Santayana. page 40

$ A Liberty Fund Conference on George Santayana. page 40

$ The Website of the Bulletin and other Websites. page 41

$ The George Santayana Society. page 41

$ Overheard in Seville. page 42

$ Some Abbreviations for Santayana's Works. page 42

Phillip Stambovsky	1	Royce, Santayana, and “The Relational Form of the Ontological Argument”
Richard M. Rubin	12	The Philosophical and Interpretive Import of Santayana's Marginalia
Tom Davis	19	Mimicking Mrs. Toy
Chris Skowroñski	23	C. A. Strong and G. Santayana in Light of Archive Material
Angus Kerr-Lawson	28	On the Supervenience of Spirit
Kristine W. Frost	35	Bibliographical Checklist: Twenty-Second Update

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No. 23 - Fall 2005 - TABLE OF CONTENTS

Joel Porte	1	Artifices of Eternity: The Ideal and the Real in Stevens, Williams and Santayana
James Seaton	9	Skepticism, Romanticism and “Penitent Art”
David A. Dilworth	16	The Life of the Spirit in Santayana, Stevens, and Williams
César Garcỉa	23	Santayana on Public Opinion
Angus Kerr-Lawson	28	Santayana on Causation
Angus Kerr-Lawson	33	The Autonomy of Spirit
Kristine W. Frost	38	Bibliographical Checklist: Twenty-First Update
Chris Skowronski	41	Second International Conference on George Santayana

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No. 22 - Fall 2004 - TABLE OF CONTENTS

	i	Table of Contents
	ii	Announcement
Michael Hodges	1	A Free Man’s Worship: Santayana and Russell on Transcendence
	9	The Bulletin and other Websites
Stephen Faison	10	And We Didn’t Even Get His Name: Santayana’s Existential Stranger
Daniel Moreno	16	The Pathetic Fallacy in Santayana
Martin Coleman	23	Santayana’s Lectures on Aesthetics
Johanna E. Resler
Angus Kerr-Lawson	29	The Absence of Argument in Santayana
Kristine W. Frost	36	Bibliographical Checklist Twentieth Update
Marriane S. Wokeck	41	The Santayana Edition
Kristine W. Frost
	42	Some Abbreviations for Santayana’s Works

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No. 21 - Fall 2003 - TABLE OF CONTENTS

	i	Table of Contents
	ii	Announcement
John R. Shook	1	The Possibility of an Empiricist Naturalism: Dewey and Santayana
Richard M. Rubin	8	The Absence of Religion in Shakespeare: Dewey and Santayana On Shakespeare and Religion
	14	The Bulletin and other Websites
David A. Dilworth	15	Santayana's Review of Dewey's Experience and Nature: Pivotal Expression of a Philosophy of Living Nature and Vivacious Spirit
Chris Skowronski	24	Santayana Read from a Perspective of Polish Post-Communism
Angus Kerr-Lawson	31	Two Philosophical Psychologists
Marriane S. Wokeck and Kristine W. Frost	38	The Santayana Edition
Kristine W. Frost	39	Bibliographical Checklist: Nineteenth Update
	42	Some Abbreviations for Santayana's Works

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No. 20 - Fall 2002 - TABLE OF CONTENTS

	i	Table of Contents
	ii	Announcement
James Seaton	1	Santayana after September 11, 2001
H. T. Kirby-Smith	8	Santayana's God
	14	The Bulletin and other Websites
Irving Singer	15	Santayana on Culture and Religion
Edward L. Shaughnessy	19	The Letters of George Santayana
Angus Kerr-Lawson	27	Santayana on Limited Government
Chris Skowronski	38	The Santayana Edition
Kristine A. Frost Herman J. Saatkamp	39	Bibliographical Checklist Eighteenth Update
	42	Some Abbreviations for Santayana's Works

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No. 19 - Fall 2001 - TABLE OF CONTENTS

	i	Table of Contents
	ii	Announcement of the 2001 Annual Meeting
Jessica Wahman	1	The Meaning of Self-Knowledge in Santayana's Philosophy
Glenn A. Tiller	8	Self-Knowledge and Psychology: Literary, Dialectical, and Scientific
Charles Padrón	10	The Notion of the Tragic in Santayana's Thought
Matthew Caleb Flamm	18	Is Santayana Tragic?
	20	The Bulletin and Other Websites
	21	Some Abbreviations for Santayana's Works
Harry Wood	22	That Bit has its Unfading Color
	23	1959 Painting of Santayana by Harry Wood
Charles A. Strong	31	A Conversation, Partly Real and Partly Imaginary
Angus Kerr-Lawson	33	Consolations of an Impotent Spirit
Herman J. Saatkamp, Jr. Marianne S. Wokeck	38	The Santayana Edition
Kristine W. Frost and Herman J. Saatkamp, Jr.	39	Bibliographical Checklist: Seventeenth Update

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No. 18 - Fall 2000 - TABLE OF CONTENTS

                                                i     Table of Contents
                                                ii     Announcement of the 2000 Annual Meeting
Thomas Alexander                 1     Beauty and the Labyrinth of Evil: Santayana and the
                                                          Possibility of Naturalistic Mysticism
John Lachs                             17    Spirituality Without Moral Concerns
                                                20    Time cover. February 3, 1936
                                                21    Some Abbreviations for Santayana's Works
Thomas Alexander                  22    Memorial Notice: Paul Grimley Kuntz
Matthew Caleb Flamm           24    American and German Tendencies
                                                            in the Thought of Josiah Royce
Simon Grote                            30    The Three Lives of George Santayana at Harvard
Marianne S. Wokeck               38    The Santayana Edition
Kristine W. Frost, and             39     Bibliographical Checklist: Sixteenth Update
Herman J. Saatkamp, Jr.

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No. 17 - Fall 1999 - TABLE OF CONTENTS

                              i  Table of Contents
                             ii  Announcement of the 1999 Annual Meeting
            Richard A. Gale   1  Santayana's Bifurcationist Theory of Time
           Angus Kerr-Lawson 14  Sentimental Time and the Sense of Rationality
                             21  Some Abbreviations for Santayana's Works
              Daniel Pinkas  26  Santayana and Valery
          Angus Kerr-Lawson  35  Whither Santayana's Aesthetics
    Herman J. Saatkamp, Jr.  37  The Santayana Edition
      Kristine W. Frost and  38  Bibliographical Checklist:
     Herman J. Saatkamp, Jr.      Fifteenth Update

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No. 16 - Fall 1998 - TABLE OF CONTENTS

                              i  Table of Contents
                             ii  Announcement of the 1998 Annual Meeting
            James Gouinlock   1  Ultimate Religion
      Henry Samuel Levinson  13  Charity, Interpretation, Disintoxication: A
                                  Comment on Gouinlock's "Ultimate Religion"
               Eugenia Ames  19  Further Conversaciones
                 John Bruce  20  Poem
                             21  Some Abbreviations for Santayana's Works
               Glenn Tiller  22  Caresses or Insults: A Note
                                  on Santayana's Metaethics
          Matthew C. Altman  25  Santayana's Troubled Distinction: Aesthetics
                                  and Ethics in The Sense of Beauty
    Herman J. Saatkamp, Jr.  34  The Santayana Edition
          Angus Kerr-Lawson  35  Spirit Within a Life of Reason
      Kristine W. Frost and  39  Bibliographical Checklist:
     Herman J. Saatkamp, Jr.      Fourteenth Update

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No. 15 - Fall 1997 - TABLE OF CONTENTS

                              i  Table of Contents
                             ii  Announcement of the 1997 Annual Meeting
          David A. Dilworth   1  The Place of Santayana in Modern Philosophy
             Michael Hodges  11  Sensibility, Pragmatism, and Modernity
             Julio Irazusta  14  Conversations in Rome
          Angus Kerr-Lawson  25  Rudiments of a Speculative Naturalist Philosophy
    Herman J. Saatkamp, Jr.  37  The Santayana Edition
    Herman J. Saatkamp, Jr.  39  Bibliographical Checklist: Thirteenth Update

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No. 14 - Fall 1996 - TABLE OF CONTENTS

                              i  Table of Contents
                             ii  Announcement of the 1996 Annual Meeting
  Ruth Anna & Hilary Putnam   1  The Quarrel Between Poetry and Philosophy
           Victorino Tejera  15  Sagas of the Spirit: On the Retrospections
                                  of George Santayana and Henry Adams
              Richard DeTar  24  The Rival Naturalisms of Dewey and Santayana
          Angus Kerr-Lawson  35  "To Be Happy, You must be Wise"
      William G. Holzberger  37  Obituary: Margot Cory
    Herman J. Saatkamp, Jr.  39  The Santayana Edition
    Herman J. Saatkamp, Jr.  40  Bibliographical Checklist: Twelfth Update

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No. 13 - Fall 1995 - TABLE OF CONTENTS

                              i  Table of Contents
                             ii  Announcement of the 1995 Annual Meeting
Michael Hodges & John Lachs   1  Thinking in the Ruins:
                                  Two Overlooked Responses to Contingency
           James C. Edwards   8  Contingency, Philosophy, and Superstition
          Angus Kerr-Lawson  12  Rorty has no Physics
           Fernando Savater  16  Concept and Aesthetics in George Santayana
         Robert A. Renzetti  25  Concerning the Nature of Intent
    Herman J. Saatkamp, Jr.  35  The Santayana Edition
               Clay Splawn   37  Obituary: Corliss Lamont
    Herman J. Saatkamp, Jr.  38  Bibliographical Checklist: Eleventh Update

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No. 12 - Fall 1994 - TABLE OF CONTENTS

                              i  Table of Contents
                             ii  Announcement of the 1994 Annual Meeting
      Henry Samuel Levinson   1  Santayana and Making Claims on the Spiritual Truth 
                                  about Matters of Fact
                 John Lachs  13  Moral Truth or Empirical Truth about Morality
          Angus Kerr-Lawson  17  Pragmatism and Santayana's Realms
           Anthony Woodward  23  The 'Spanishness' of Santayana
    Herman J. Saatkamp, Jr.  31  The Santayana Edition
          Angus Kerr-Lawson  32  Mr. Santayana and the New Mysterians
    Herman J. Saatkamp, Jr.  35  Bibliographical Checklist: Tenth Update

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No. 11 - Fall 1993 - TABLE OF CONTENTS

                              i  Table of Contents
                             ii  Announcement of the 1993 Annual Meeting     
           Thomas Alexander   1  Santayana's Unbearable Lightness of Being: 
                                  Aesthetics a Prelude to Ontology
          John J. McDermott  11  A Sometime Companion
              John P. Anton  15  Santayana and Greek Philosophy
          John M. Michelsen  30  George Santayana: A Pyrrhonian Sceptic
                                  of Our Time
    Herman J. Saatkamp, Jr.  41  The Santayana Edition
                                 The Bibliographic Update will resume in the next 
                                  number

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No. 10 - Fall 1992 - TABLE OF CONTENTS

                              i  Table of Contents
                             ii  Announcement of the 1992 Annual Meeting
           Victorino Tejera   1  Santayana's Whitman Revisited
              Henny Wenkart   9  The Primordial Myth of The Bad Mother
                                  and the Good: Mother in Persons and Places 
                                  and in The Last Puritan 
          Angus Kerr-Lawson  17  An Abulensean Pragmatist?   
                 Paul Kuntz  22  The Ascent of Spirit: Is Santayana's System
                                  a Naturalistic Neo-Platonic Hierarchy?
          Angus Kerr-Lawson  32  Realms and Hierarchies
    Herman J. Saatkamp, Jr.  35  The Santayana Edition    
    Herman J. Saatkamp, Jr.  36  Bibliographic Checklist: Ninth Update

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No. 9 - Fall 1991 - TABLE OF CONTENTS
 
                              i  Table of Contents
                             ii  1992 Santayana Conference Avila, Spain
           Anthony Woodward   1  Santayana and Goethe     
            Richard C. Lyon   8  Oliver's Last Soliloquies   
          Angus Kerr-Lawson  22  A Soliloquy in Limbo 
           Leo T. Rosenberg  25  William James and George Santayana:
                                  The Extent of a Philosophic Vision
         Angus Kerr-Lawson   36  Santayana on James: 1891 
    Herman J. Saatkamp, Jr.  39  The Santayana Edition  
    Herman J. Saatkamp, Jr.  40  Bibliographical Checklist: Eighth Update

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No. 8 - Fall 1990 - TABLE OF CONTENTS
 
                              i  Table of Contents
                             ii  Announcement of the 1990 Annual Meeting  
          David A. Dilworth   1  The problem of Theoretical Self-Reflexivity
                                  in Peirce and Santayana 
              Nathan Houser  10  Santayana's Peirce
          Angus Kerr-Lawson  14  Substrative Materialism
            Morris Grossman  18  Interpreting Interpretations
          Henry S. Levinson  29  What Good is Irony?
              Harold Kirker  35  Santayana in Rome
    Herman J. Saatkamp, Jr.  38  The Santayana Edition
    Herman J. Saatkamp, Jr.  39  Bibliographical Checklist: Seventh Update

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No. 7 - Fall 1989 - TABLE OF CONTENTS
 
                          i  Table of Contents
                             ii  Announcement of the 1989 Annual Meeting
               Daniel Aaron   1  George Santayana and the Genteel Tradition
          David A. Dilworth   9  Santayana and Democritus
                                  Two Mutually Interpreting Philosophical Poets
            Georg Santayana  20  Lucifer: A Holograph Note
             Cornel Lengyel  24  In Memoriam: Santayana    
          Angus Kerr-Lawson  26  Santayana's Ontology and the Nicene Creed     
    Herman J. Saatkamp, Jr.  33  The Santayana Edition    
    Herman J. Saatkamp, Jr.  35  Bibliographical Checklist: Sixth Update     
          Angus Kerr-Lawson  41  PostScript

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No. 6 - Fall 1988 - TABLE OF CONTENTS
 
                              i  Table of Contents
                             ii  Announcement of the 1988 Annual Meeting
                 John Lachs   1  The Enduring Value of Santayana's Philosophy
      Henry Samuel Levinson  14  Santayana's Pragmatism and the Comic Sense of Life
             Kirsten Bender  25  Beauty's Ballad and the Colors of the Gown
          Angus Kerr-Lawson  30  Turning to Santayana   
    Herman J. Saatkamp, Jr.  38  The Santayana Edition
    Herman J. Saatkamp, Jr.  39  Bibliographical Checklist: Fifth Update

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No. 5 - Fall 1987 - TABLE OF CONTENTS
 
                              i  Table of Contents
              Irving Singer   1  Santayana's Philosophy of Love
        Frederick W. Conner  17  Beyond Truth: Santayana on the Functional Relations
                                  of Art, Myth, and Religion 
            John M. Robson   27  Persons and Places -- Hold the Events
         Angus Kerr-Lawson   34  Variations on a Given Theme
    Herman J. Saatkamp, Jr.  41  The Santayana Edition                  
                             45  Announcement: Frontiers in American Philosophy
                             46  Announcement of the 1987 Annual Meeting
    Herman J. Saatkamp, Jr.  47  Bibliographical Checklist: Fourth Update

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No. 4 - Fall 1986 - TABLE OF CONTENTS
                          i  Table of Contents
        Robert C. Whittemore  1  Santayana's Neglect of Hartshorne's Alternative
            Richard C. Lyon   7  Santayana: Some Recollections and Asides
    Herman J. Saatkamp, Jr.  18  Santayana's Autobiography
                                  and the Development of his Philosophy
          Angus Kerr-Lawson  28  Six Aspects of Santayana's Philosophy              
                             34  Announcement of the 1986 Annual Meeting 
               Max H. Fisch  35  Reminiscences
    Herman J. Saatkamp, Jr.  36  The Santayana Edition
                                 The "Bibliographic Update will resume in the next 
                                  number

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No. 3 - Fall 1985 - TABLE OF CONTENTS
 
                              i  Table of Contents
            Richard C. Lyon   1  Persons and Places
              Paul G. Kuntz   9  Santayana's Neo-Platonism
    Herman J. Saatkamp, Jr.  22  Hermes the Interpreter
             Beth J. Singer  29  Buchler and Santayana      
                             38  Announcement of the 1985 Annual Meeting
           George Santayana  39  Un Matrimonio       
             David Wapinsky  42  Bibliographic Update
    Herman J. Saatkamp, Jr.  65  The Santayana Edition

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No. 2 - Fall 1984 - TABLE OF CONTENTS
 
                              i  Table of Contents
                             ii  Illustration
            Timothy Sprigge   1  Santayana and Panpsychism
          Angus Kerr-Lawson   9  Spirit's Primary Nature is to be Secondary
                 John Lachs  15  George Santayana                            
                             23  Report on the 1983 Annual Meeting
              Hilary Putnam  24  Greetings
                 John Lachs  26  First Toast
              Irving Singer  27  Second Toast
          Francis Sparshott  29  Birthday Poem
                             30  Announcement of the 1984 Annual Meeting
                             31  Bibliographic Update
     Herman J. Saatkamp Jr.  33  The Santayana Edition

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No. 1 - Fall 1983 - TABLE OF CONTENTS
 
                              i  Table of Contents
                             ii  Illustration
             John McCormick   1  Santayana's Idea of the Tragic 
          Angus Kerr-Lawson  12  On Grue and Bleen 
                             17  Announcement of Annual Meeting 
                             18  Bibliographic Update 
     Herman J. Saatkamp Jr.  20  The Santayana Edition 

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