All Reviews
Reviews are listed in reverse chronological order, with the most recent review appearing first in the list.
A Decent Life
Todd May once defined his work as ‘poststructuralist anarchism’, a political philosophy that combines the ideals of anarchism with the theories of French…
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blueprint
The author of blueprint, Robert Plomin is an American psychologist, geneticist and neuroscientist and perhaps the most important voice, ove…
Country
Michael Hughes’s Country is self-consciously literary in modeling itself on Homer’s Iliad. But it is also very much root…
Delusions and Beliefs
Kengo Miyazono’s concise and densely-packed book Delusions and Beliefs: A Philoso…
Democracy in Chains
Gerrymandering to restrict African American votes. Laws requiring voters to show picture Identification. Closing state picture identification offices in…
Evil
More than two decades ago, my colleague and practice partner, Prof Victor Nell, commented to me that we, as psychologists, had not yet learned to investi…
Getting Started with EEG Neurofeedback
As I have noted before (https://metapsychology.net/poc/view_doc.ph…
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Hellenistic Philosophy
Hellenistic Philosophy, written masterfully by John Sellars, is the definitive guide to this fundamental period of philosophy. And, although Sellars is w…
How History Gets Things Wrong
Historians debate many things, from the Founding Fathers’ motivations to the role of violence in the rise of capitalism, from the possibility of writing…
Keeping Lucy
Part feminist road trip, part morality tale about attitudes towards children with Down syndrome, Keeping Lucy is a satisfying read. It…
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Nietzsche and Suffered Social Histories
Interest in the “therapeutic” aspects of Friedrich Nietzsche’s thought is growing in academic circles, after years of toiling in the shadows of more trad…
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Our Symphony with Animals
I have a, mixed, love-hate relationship with western medicine. In the span of 100 years it has significantly extended our lifespan and changed the…
Philosophy of Sex and Love
Patricia Marino’s Philosophy of Love and Sex: An Opinionated Introduction is a wonderful addition to the growing literature – an…
Shame
Shame is an emotion that results from exposing a personal action or decision to an audience. Often times, many people are shamed from doing something dev…
Speculation
Over the past 50 years, Peter Achinstein has earned a reputation in the philosophy of science for careful, thought-provoking, and methodologically signif…
The Birth of Ethics
A famous song by Ella Fitzgerald says that Birds do it, bees do it, even educated flees do it. What some species do, apart from falling in…
The Dutch House
Tom Hanks performs the unabridged audiobook of The Dutch House, and as with most celebrity performances, it makes it a lot harder to get lo…
The Metaphysics of Science and Aim-Oriented Empiricism
This book introduces the reader to the life-long work of Nicholas Maxwell on the metaphysics of science and its implications for the broader issues relat…
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The Stillwater Girls
This story has two female narrators whose lives are destined to interact. First, Wren, who is 19 and lives with her younger sister Sage in a cabin in the…
The Survival List
This is a novel for young people about a 17 year old girl, Sloane, whose older sister Talley dies by suicide. After the death, Sloane finds a mysterious…
Bring Them Home
Set in the northern English town of Heighington in Lincolnshire, Bring Them Home is a detective mystery with a feminist slant. It is the first featuring…
Ethics Beyond the Limits
Bernard Williams can appropriately be considered a heretic figure in twentieth century philosophy. While many moral philosophers were working on finessin…
Finishing Our Story
Not the cheeriest title in the world, for not the cheeriest subject, but of course for now, perhaps until 3-D printers get better, inevitable that all of…
Hume
James Harris’s impressive Hume: An Intellectual Biography was published in hardback in late 2015. As of January 2019, it has bee…
Life’s Values
The meaning of life is an everlasting question searched by both philosophers since Ancient times and recently psychologists and great many people through…