New Books in Philosophy

Interview with Philosophers about their New Books

Society & Culture
Philosophy
101
Patricia Hill Collins, "Intersectionality as Cr...
An interview with Patricia Hill Collins
61 min
102
Thomas Pradeu, "Philosophy of Immunology" (Camb...
Interview with Thomas Pradeu
61 min
103
Thomas P. Crocker, "Overcoming Necessity: Emerg...
An interview with Thomas P. Crocker
60 min
104
Fanny Söderbäck, "Revolutionary Time: On Time a...
An interview with Fanny Söderbäck
58 min
105
Kyle Johannsen, "Wild Animal Ethics: The Moral ...
An interview with Kyle Johannsen
67 min
106
Regina Rini, "The Ethics of Microaggression" (R...
An interview with Regina Rini
59 min
107
Paul Goldin, "The Art of Chinese Philosophy: Ei...
An interview with Paul Goldin
63 min
108
John Campbell, "Causation in Psychology" (Harva...
An interview with John Campbell
64 min
109
Paul Morrow, "Unconscionable Crimes: How Norms ...
The moral horrors of genocide and mass atrocity lead us to wonder how such things are even possible....
68 min
110
David Chai, "Zhuangzi and the Becoming of Nothi...
Chai offers a radical rereading of the Daoist classic Zhuangzi by bringing to light the role of nothingness in grounding the cosmological and metaphysical aspects of its thought...
71 min
111
C. Thi Nguyen, "Games: Agency as Art" (Oxford U...
Monopoly, Solitaire, football and Minecraft are all games, but for C. Thi Nyugen they are also an art form – specifically, the art form of agency...
64 min
112
Zena Hitz, "Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasur...
Hitz provides a vision of how learning is a characteristically human activity that is essential for a fulfilled life...
58 min
113
Elisabeth Paquette, "Universal Emancipation: Ra...
What is Badiou’s theory of emancipation? For whom is this emancipation possible? Does emancipation entail an indifference to difference?
58 min
114
William P. Seeley, "Attentional Engines: A Perc...
How do we distinguish art from non-art artifacts, and what does cognitive science have to do with it?
62 min
115
Serena Parekh, "No Refuge: Ethics and the Globa...
Rarely does the discourse consider the role of wealthy Western countries in creating the conditions under which a refugee crisis emerges....
70 min
116
Ann-Sophie Barwich, "Smellosophy: What the Nose...
What features of the world do smells pick out? What is the olfactory code?
66 min
117
Lisa Bortolotti, "The Epistemic Innocence of Ir...
Bortolotti identifies circumstances under which irrational beliefs are nonetheless beneficial, and thus, as she says, “epistemically innocent"...
66 min
118
Beata Stawarska, "Saussure’s Linguistics, Struc...
Beata Stawarska guides us to consider Ferdinand de Saussure’s Course in General Linguistics anew...
59 min
119
David Livingstone Smith, "On Inhumanity: Dehuma...
Smith analyzes what dehumanization is, why are we prone to dehumanize, and how we might resist dehumanizing others...
64 min
120
Bo Mou, "Philosophy of Language, Chinese Langua...
This book brings together work on the syntax and semantics of the Chinese language with philosophy of language, from the classical Chinese and contemporary analytic Anglophone traditions...
90 min
121
Cailin O’Connor, "Games in the Philosophy of Bi...
O’Connor introduces the basics of game theory and its particular branch, evolutionary game theory...
64 min
122
Justin Tosi and Brandon Warmke, "Grandstanding:...
We are all familiar with the ways in which the acts associated with upholding morality can go wrong....
65 min
123
Cressida J. Heyes, "Anaesthetics of Existence: ...
How should we think about the relationship between subjectivity and experience?
59 min
124
Robert Pippin, "Filmed Thought: Cinema as Refle...
Each chapter in Filmed Thought treats a film in-depth, including works by Hitchcock, Ray, Malick, Sirk, Almodovar, Polanski, and the Dardenne brothers...
98 min
125
Matthew Duncombe, "Ancient Relativity: Plato, A...
Duncombe considers ancient views of relativity from Plato, Aristotle, the Skeptics (particularly Simplicius), and the Stoics (particularly Sextus Empiricus)...
59 min