All Reviews
Reviews are listed in reverse chronological order, with the most recent review appearing first in the list.
Mind Fixers
Anne Harrington is a historian of science at Harvard who specializes in th…
Missing Pieces
Have you ever been working on a puzzle and after hours of fitting pieces together you discover that there are a few missing pieces that make it impossibl…
Outside Looking In
T.C. Boyle has established himself as a big name novelist, reflecting on twentieth century themes,…
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Philosophy of Action from Suarez to Anscombe
Philosophy of Action from Suarez to Anscombe, edited by Constantine Sandis, features an introduction and 11 chapters, each of which focuses on t…
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Pornography
There are two main views on what is the legitimate object of philosophical inquiry. Some hold that the endeavor of philosophy is to answer specific quest…
Putney
Sofka Zinovieff is English, of Russian heritage, and is married to a Greek man. She grew up in Putney, a suburb of London, and has lived in Greece, Russi…
Red Meat Republic
Red Meat Republic is a wonderfully thorough history of the rise of industrial beef production. According to one standard narrative, it was…
Scientism
As the editors note in their introduction (p6), this book represents another entry in the growing philosophical literature on scientism (Williams and Rob…
Silent Partners
Rebecca Dresser’s personal experience of cancer diagnosis, in the context of which she faced decisions concerning both routine treatment and research par…
The Moral Psychology of Disgust
Another in Rowman’s series Moral Psychology…
The Moral Psychology of Forgiveness
One might wonder why forgiveness is a topic in a book series on …
The Song of the Jade Lily
Australian author Kirsty Manning has written two historical novels, but The Song of the Jade Lilly (or just The Jade Lily&nbs…
The Truth About Animals
Lucy is a zoologist with a subtle and wicked sense of humor which comes out constantly across the chapters of this entertaining book. She does set out ho…
The Varieties of Consciousness
This book was published originally in 2015 and now it reappears as a paperback. This is a fantastic work, both for its clarity of presentation and precis…
Trust Exercise
Trust Exercise has gained a fair amount of attention from critics because it is so meta-. The first half of the book turns out to be a nove…
Acts of Infidelity
Lena Andersson’s first novel was Willful Disregard: A Novel About Love, published in translation from…
All That You Leave Behind
Chimpanzee Rights
Tommy and Kiko are two chimpanzees kept in conditions not fit for their cognitive and emotional abilities. Both chimpanzees live a secluded life in New Y…
Doing Philosophy
Bertrand Russell once said that philosophy was formed by “the residue,” which remained after “definite” answers had been given, and insisted that “philos…
How Art Works
Ellen Winner sets out the psychological study of art in a methodical and approachable fashion. She says what she will show, she shows it, and then she su…
Never Home Alone
Apparently some readers of Never Home Alone find it alarming. Reviews in the New York Times and Washington Post talk about the horror…
On Animals
Philosophers are writing a lot about animals these days. Christian theologians generally aren’t. And that’s a shame, even if you aren’t particularly symp…
Searching for Sylvie Lee
Jean Kwok has written three novels of Chinese-American life, starting with her debut from 2010, …
Suffering and Virtue
It is risky to talk about pain. It is one of those subjects in which we move as in a pendulum; or, we avoid talking about it and we choose to silence it;…
The Moral Psychology of Anger
Anger has been getting a lot of attention in moral philosophy, which is partially due to Matha Nussbaum, who argued in her 2016 …