New Books in Philosophy
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Frederick Beiser, "Hermann Cohen: An Intellectu...
For those of you aware of the distinguished philosophical career of Hermann Cohen (1859 - 1918) and the absence of an intellectual biography in English, Beiser’s scholarship is a long time coming...
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John Danaher, "Automation and Utopia: Human Flo...
Danaher explores the issues facing us as we confront our own obsolescence. He defends the idea that a workless future is not only possible, but possibly utopian...
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Adriel M. Trott, "Aristotle on the Matter of Fo...
Trott argues for understanding the relationship of matter and form in Aristotle’s work on the model of a Möbius strip...
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Peter Adamson, "Philosophy in the Islamic World...
Adamson takes readers on a vivid – and accessible – journey through the intricate landscape of the philosophical world of Islam...
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Christopher Peacocke, "The Primacy of Metaphysi...
Peacocke argues for the idea that the metaphysics of the domain must always be involved – that one must always draw on facts about metaphysics to explain meaning but not vice versa..
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Julia Maskivker, "The Duty to Vote" (Oxford UP,...
When asked what democracy is, many of us instantly think of elections, and thus voting...
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Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter...
We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at?
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Robert Talisse, "Overdoing Democracy: Why We Mu...
Talisse argues that contrary to what many democratic theorists have argued, democracy is something we can do too much of...
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Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
What do university presses do, and how do they do it?
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Elijah Millgram, "John Stuart Mill and the Mean...
Mill’s life was in many respects unsatisfying – riven with anxiety and trauma...
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J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intell...
The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...
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Dilek Huseyinzadegan, "Kant’s Nonideal Theory o...
Huseyinzadegan analyzes Kant’s political writings by attending to the role of history, anthropology, and geography in his thought...
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Justin Garson, "What Biological Functions are a...
Why do zebras have stripes?
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Axel Seemann, "The Shared World: Perceptual Kno...
Much of what we are able to accomplish in our day-to-day lives depends on the ability to act and think in concert with others...
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Malcolm Keating, "Language, Meaning, and Use in...
Philosophy of Language was a central concern in classical Indian Philosophy....
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Chiara Russo Krauss, "Wundt, Avenarius and Scie...
At the start of the 19th century, the field we now call psychology was still the branch of philosophy that studied the soul...
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Amy Olberding, "The Wrong of Rudeness: Learning...
The Wrong of Rudeness asks a key question for our times how do we interact with each other, especially in politically contentious situations?
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Patricia Marino, "Philosophy of Sex and Love" (...
For those who think that philosophy must speak to everyday experience and ordinary life, it would seem that philosophical questions occasioned by love and sex should take center stage...
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John T. Lysaker, "Philosophy, Writing, and the ...
What is the relationship between the form of writing and what can be thought?
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Samir Okasha, "Agents and Goals in Evolution" (...
Okasha explores the fascinating and complex links between evolutionary biology and rational choice theory...
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Quassim Cassam, "Vices of the Mind: From the In...
Sometimes people are blameworthy or otherwise not admirable because of what they believe....
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Susanna Schellenberg, "The Unity of Perception:...
How does perception result in thoughts about items in the world (such as dogs or flowers) and in conscious states of many kinds (such as experiences of seeing red)?
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Christian List, "Why Free Will is Real" (Harvar...
Given our modern scientific view of the world, how is freedom of the will possible?
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Camisha Russell, "The Assisted Reproduction of ...
While there is a robust scientific consensus that there is no meaningful genetic basis for race, Russell’s analysis of the role of race in ARTs reveals that when it comes to producing kinship, race is still doing a great deal of work.
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Nicholas Shea, "Representation in Cognitive Sci...
In order to explain thought in natural physical systems, mainstream cognitive science posits representations, or internal states that carry information about the world and that are used by the system to guide its behavior...
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