All Reviews
Reviews are listed in reverse chronological order, with the most recent review appearing first in the list.
The Bookshop on the Shore
Jenny Colgan has been writing pleasant romantic dramas for a couple of decades now. I reviewed her first…
The Incurable Romantic
Frank Tallis is a British psychotherapist and a prolific writer. He has many novels in the mystery and supernatural genres, and three books about psychot…
The Oxford Illustrated History of the World
I was 12 years old when I last took a history class. I was far more interested in science, mathematics and literature; and languages might be useful. I d…
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The Phenomenology of Sex, Love, and Intimacy
The concept of love has always been of interest to philosophers since the ancient times to the extent that philosophy itself in its beginning for Greeks…
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The Right to be Loved
Matthew Liao argues that children have a right to be loved by everyone. He had papers on this topic publi…
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The Routledge Companion to Virtue Ethics
The editors for this volume in the Routledge Philosophy Companions series are Lorraine Besser-Jones, Associate Professor of Philosophy…
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The Scientific Attitude
Imagine that you are an archeologist who has stumbled upon a strangely shaped artifact on the ground while surveying an area for potential excavation. Yo…
Thomas Szasz
Arkham Asylum, the world’s best-selling video game to date, and a major player in the very major Batman universe, includ…
Ways of Hearing
Ways of Hearing is a misleading title, at least it misled this reader to expect it to do with hearing, the sense, the faculty humans posses…
Wunderland
Wunderland is a novel about two families, mainly focusing on female characters, over more than fifty years, in Bremen, Germany in the 1930s…
Bowen Theory’s Secrets
Most of us trained in the late 70’s and early 80’s would have encountered General Systems Theory and the Family Therapy movement that emerged, partly as…
Dementia Reimagined
Tia Powell’s book on dementia is important and useful. She is a doctor, an academic, and someone who has a great deal of experience with dementia herself…
Duty and the Beast
Many philosophers have argued that farm animals belong to the moral community, and hence, deserve protections from human-caused harms. A common thought i…
Faces
There are many reasons to read a novel: enjoyment, character development, instruction, learning something new, plot line, images, ideas, stretching the i…
How to Do Nothing
First things first. This book is not about how to do nothing, as the author is at pains to point out on several occasions. It’s about how to stop doing s…
Medical Reasoning
This rather unusual book is essentially an introduction to the Philosophy of Medicine. More specifically, it is an account of Medical Epistemology. Its a…
Mind Games
For some, sports is a field with very little on the mind. For others, it’s completely different. Annie Vernon, a former Olympic rower and now a sp…
Naked
Shame was an important emotion in Christian religious morality, where it played the epistemic role of signaling when one had transgressed by sinning. In…
Never Enough
Judy Grisel is a researcher in neuroscience at Fuhrman Univers…
Post-Truth
Lee McIntyre’s Post-Truth is a timely analysis of the status quo of contemporary political discourse which has obviously become increa…
Purgatory
This is a collection of sixteen exciting essays on the notion of Purgatory, not a from historical or cultural but philosophical point of view, unlike the…
Regard for Reason in the Moral Mind
Times have been challenging for optimists about reasonable, altruistic, and moral human conduct. Events and developments in the public sphere, think of f…
Sex in Antiquity
Published in 2014, with 30 academic papers, and at 588 pages, …
The Darkening Age
Originally published in the UK in 2017, The Darkening Age presents a case against Christianity’s self-image. Author Catherine Nixey wa…
The Diversity Delusion
There is a lot to like in Heather Mac Donald’s The Diversity Delusion. She is a punchy writer who cuts through nonsense with funny put down…