New Books in Philosophy

Interview with Philosophers about their New Books

Society & Culture
Philosophy
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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?
54 min
202
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...
68 min
203
Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
What do university presses do, and how do they do it?
37 min
204
Elijah Millgram, "John Stuart Mill and the Mean...
Mill’s life was in many respects unsatisfying – riven with anxiety and trauma...
66 min
205
J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intell...
The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...
29 min
206
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...
54 min
207
Justin Garson, "What Biological Functions are a...
Why do zebras have stripes?
65 min
208
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...
61 min
209
Malcolm Keating, "Language, Meaning, and Use in...
Philosophy of Language was a central concern in classical Indian Philosophy....
66 min
210
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...
63 min
211
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?
53 min
212
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...
60 min
213
John T. Lysaker, "Philosophy, Writing, and the ...
What is the relationship between the form of writing and what can be thought?
70 min
214
Samir Okasha, "Agents and Goals in Evolution" (...
Okasha explores the fascinating and complex links between evolutionary biology and rational choice theory...
56 min
215
Quassim Cassam, "Vices of the Mind: From the In...
Sometimes people are blameworthy or otherwise not admirable because of what they believe....
68 min
216
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)?
65 min
217
Christian List, "Why Free Will is Real" (Harvar...
Given our modern scientific view of the world, how is freedom of the will possible?
63 min
218
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.
75 min
219
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...
57 min
220
Mary Kate McGowan, "Just Words: On Speech and H...
McGowen identifies a previously overlooked mechanism by which speech can be harm...
61 min
221
James Doyle, "No Morality, No Self: Anscombe's ...
A close associate of Ludwig Wittgenstein, Anscombe contributed fundamental insights in philosophy of mind, action theory, and ethics...
61 min
222
Mollie Gerver, "The Ethics and Practice of Refu...
Moral and political theorists have paid a healthy amount of attention to states’ rights to determine who may reside within their territory...
59 min
223
Jill Stauffer, "Ethical Loneliness: The Injusti...
Jill Stauffer argues that survivors of unjust treatment and dehumanization can experience further harm when individuals and institutions will not or cannot hear the survivors’ claims...
59 min
224
T. J. Kasperbauer, "Subhuman: The Moral Psychol...
Why do we put other animals in the various categories we do, and treat them in the various good and bad ways that we do?
60 min
225
Michael Hannon, "What is the Point of Knowledge...
Epistemologists working traditional modes have sought to discover the necessary and sufficient conditions under which one has knowledge...
58 min