New Books in Philosophy
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Santiago Zabala, "Being at Large: Freedom in th...
In recent years, questions around the nature of truth and facts have reentered public debate...
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Karl-Stéphan Bouthillette, "Dialogue and Doxogr...
This ground-breaking work on Indian philosophical doxography examines the function of dialectical texts within their intellectual and religious milieu
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Adrian Johnston, "Prolegomena to Any Future Mat...
Johnston looks at three recent French theorists, Jacques Lacan, Alain Badiou and Quentin Meillasoux, arguing that all three ultimately fail to maintain a consistent atheism...
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B. Earp and J. Savulescu, "Love Drugs: The Chem...
The authors consider the case for using drugs to alter our love relationships...
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Dominik Finkelde, "Excessive Subjectivity: Kant...
How are we to conceive of acts that suddenly expose the injustice of the current order?
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Emily Thomas, "The Meaning of Travel: Philosoph...
Travel has been a topic lurking in the background (at least) of a lot of philosophy.
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Shay Welch, "The Phenomenology of a Performativ...
Welch investigates the phenomenological ways that dance choreographing and dance performance exemplify both Truth and meaning-making within Native American epistemology,..
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Peter Adamson, "Classical Indian Philosophy" (O...
Adamson and Ganeri survey the breadth and depth of Indian philosophical traditions...
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Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: ...
How involved with slavery were American universities? And what does their involvement mean for us?
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Peter Carruthers, "Human and Animal Minds: The ...
Do nonhuman animals have phenomenally conscious mental states?
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Matthew McManus and Marion Trejo, "Myth and May...
In 2016, Jordan Peterson, a relatively obscure professor of psychology, released several videos on YouTube making critical remarks on political correctness and related political legislation...
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Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Parad...
According to Cook, a paradox paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick...
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Todd McGowan, "Emancipation After Hegel: Achiev...
McGowan combines sophisticated discussion of matters like the limits of formal logic and the history of German Idealism with playful allusions to Star Trek characters and classic films like Casablanca and Bridge on the River Kwai...
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Zahi Zalloua, "Žižek on Race: Towards an Anti-...
Zalloua uses Žižekian philosophy to arrive at more complicated, but also more productive and emancipatory visions of racial oppression and emancipation might look like...
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Amy Reed-Sandoval, "Socially Undocumented: Iden...
Reed-Sandoval reframes the question of immigration justice by focusing on the historical development and lived experiences of socially undocumented identity...
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Kareem Khalifa, "Understanding, Explanation and...
What is the relation between understanding and knowledge in science? Can we understand a scientific theory if it is false? Do we understand a scientific proposition we can’t elaborate or do anything with?
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Richard Polt, "Time and Trauma: Thinking Throug...
For some time, the German philosopher Martin Heidegger has been treated with a certain level of skepticism because of his engagement with the Nazi party...
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David Estlund, "Utopophobia: On the Limits (If ...
It is tempting to hold that any proposed principle of social justice is defective if it demands too much of people, given their proclivities...
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Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Bo...
How does the world of book reviews work?
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Megan Burke, "When Time Warps: The Lived Experi...
Burke considers the relationship of sexual violence to lived time by reexamining and building upon the work of Simone de Beauvoir, and in conversation with Judith Butler, María Lugones, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and many others...
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Chenyang Wang, "Subjectivity In-Between Times: ...
If you thought Jacques Lacan’s essay on "Logical Time" was the psychoanalyst’s final word on the subject, then this interview has a lot to teach you...
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Travis Dumsday, "Dispositionalism and the Metap...
Dispositionalism is the view that there are irreducible causal powers in nature that explain why objects behave as they do...
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Katherine Hawley, "How to Be Trustworthy" (Oxfo...
It is obvious that in our day-to-day lives, a lot hangs on trust, and thus on whether those around us are trustworthy...
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K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alt...
If you’re a grad student facing the ugly reality of finding a tenure-track job, you could easily be forgiven for thinking about a career change...
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Adrian Johnston, "A New German Idealism: Hegel,...
Johnston traces the development of Žižek's recent thought in detail, salvaging the key philosophical themes while also offering several criticisms and developments of his own...
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