New Books in Philosophy

Elizabeth Barnes, “The Minority Body: A Theory of Disability” (Oxford UP, 2016)

We are all familiar with the idea that some persons are disabled. But what is disability? What...

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Andy Clark, “Surfing Uncertainty: Prediction, Action, and Embodied Mind” (Oxford UP, 2016)

The predictive processing hypothesis is a new unified theory of neural and cognitive function...

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William H. Shaw, “Utilitarianism and the Ethics of War” (Routledge, 2016)

On any mature view, war is horrific. Naturally, there is a broad range of fundamental ethical...

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Paul C. Taylor, “Black is Beautiful: A Philosophy of Black Aesthetics” (Wiley Blackwell, 2016)

Why is it controversial to cast light-skinned actress Zoe Saldana as the lead character in a film...

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A. John Simmons, “Boundaries of Authority” (Oxford UP, 2016)

Political states claim the moral right to rule the persons living within their jurisdiction; they...

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J.D. Trout, “Wondrous Truths: The Improbable Triumph of Modern Science” (Oxford UP, 2016)

The social practice we call science has had spectacular success in explaining the natural world...

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Kenneth Schaffner, “Behaving: What’s Genetic, What’s Not, and Why Should We Care?” (Oxford UP, 2016)

In the genes vs. environment debate, it is widely accepted that what we do, who we are, and what...

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Martha Nussbaum, “Anger and Forgiveness: Resentment, Generosity, Justice” (Oxford UP, 2016)

Anger is among the most familiar phenomena in our moral lives. It is common to think that anger...

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Silvia Jonas, “Ineffability and Its Metaphysics: The Unspeakable in Art, Religion, and Philosophy” (Palgrave Macm...

There is a long history in philosophy, art and religion of claims about the ineffable from The...

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Diana Heney, “Towards a Pragmatist Metaethics” (Routledge, 2016)

The pragmatist tradition in philosophy tends to focus on the pioneering work of its founding trio...

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Arianna Betti, “Against Facts” (MIT Press, 2015)

The British philosopher and logician Bertrand Russell claimed it is a truism that there are...

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Mark Navin, “Values and Vaccine Refusal: Hard Questions in Epistemology, Ethics, and Health Care” (Routledge, 2016)

Communities of parents who refuse, delay, or selectively decline to vaccinate their children pose...

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Julian Reiss, “Causation, Evidence and Inference” (Routledge, 2015)

What do we mean when we claim that something is a cause of something else that smoking causes...

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David Shoemaker, “Responsibility from the Margins” (Oxford UP, 2015)

Moral life is infused with emotionally-charged interactions. When a stranger carelessly steps on...

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Rachel McKinnon, "The Norms of Assertion: Truth, Lies, and Warrant" (Palgrave McMillan, 2015)

One of the important ways we use language is to make assertions – roughly, to pass on information...

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Duncan Pritchard, "Epistemic Angst: Radical Skepticism and the Groundlessness of Our Believing" (Princeton ...

Many are introduced to philosophy by way of a confrontation with the kind of radical skepticism...

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Eric Dietrich, "Excellent Beauty: The Naturalness of Religion and the Unnaturalness of the World" (Columbia...

Although there are many deep criticisms of a scientific view of humanity and the world, a...

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Brian Epstein, "The Ant Trap: Rebuilding the Foundations of the Social Sciences" (Oxford UP, 2015)

The social sciences are about social entities – things like corporations and traffic jams, mobs...

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Leif Wenar, "Blood Oil: Tyranny, Violence, and the Rules that Run the World" (Oxford UP, 2016)

Chances are that at this very moment, you are either looking at a computer screen, holding a...

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David J. Stump, "Conceptual Change and the Philosophy of Science: Alternative Interpretations of the A Priori"

David J. StumpView on AmazonEver since Kant argued that there was a category of truths, the...

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