All Reviews
Reviews are listed in reverse chronological order, with the most recent review appearing first in the list.
The Oxford Handbook of Food Ethics
Food ethics embraces a variety of different academic approaches and thus can be considered an interdisciplinary field that makes connections and builds b…
The Pervert
The description of this graphic novel on the publisher web site explains that it is about a trans sex worker in Seattle. Some parts of this are mor…
The Science of Sleep
In The Science of Sleep: What It Is, How It Works, and Why It Matters, Wallace B. Mendelson provides an insightful as well as…
Things You Didnt See
There are two narrators of this story, Cass and Holly. There’s a big cast of characters, but they are both central. The book takes place in Suffolk, Engl…
What are you staring at?
This short illustrated book in the form of a graphic novel is aimed at children to explain restorative justice. Two boys at school, Jake and Ryan,…
Yoga Therapy
One of the authors of this work, Staffan Elgelid, edited a previous book with a similar title that I reviewed for this site, Yoga Therapy: Theor…
Beautiful Bodies
Kim Miller is a writer who works on food and diet, but also runs her own blog, The Kim Challenge Beautiful…
Becoming Myself
In this memoir, famed existential psychotherapist Irvin Yalom sets out his past and his intellectual history. He starts with his home life living in Wash…
Best Explanations
Inference to the Best Explanation (IBE) has a curious status within analytic philosophy. Many acknowledge its pervasiveness in our cognitive activity, bu…
Enactivist Interventions
With Gallagher’s Enactivist Interventions we have another book which is in a large part a collection of papers published previously in journals…
Existential Psychotherapy
Daniel Sousa’s Existential Psychotherapy: A Genetic-Phenomenological Approach seeks to legitimize two lesser-known psychotherapeutic approaches.…
Learning ACT
ACT, pronounced ACT and not A-C-T, is a new form of therapy that these authors have had a meaningful relationship with, in terms of bringing it to the wo…
Madness and Modernism: Insanity in the light of modern art, literature, and thought
In this new edition of Madness and Modernism: Insanity in the Light of Modern Art, Literature, and Thought, Louis Sass carefully revises and cla…
Philosophy of Medicine
Like philosophy of biology and philosophy of physics, philosophy of medicine is a branch of philosophy of science. This means that philosophy of medicine…
Positive Nihilism
Hartmut Lange is a German writer of prose, essays and plays. In 2003 he was awarded by the Italo Svevo Prize and in 2004 by the LiteraTour Prize. His boo…
Sinless
Grace Luther is 17. It is a couple of decades into the future, and the world has changed dramatically. There is no bad behavior, and there is almost no n…
Song of Riddles
Geula Twersky has written an extra-ordinary book: start with the title, Song of Riddles, which announces immediately the approa…
Subhuman
Subhuman analyzes human attitudes toward animals, arguing that those attitudes are determined by our moral valuations of them, which according t…
The Ethics of Choosing Children
In The Ethics of Choosing Children, author Simon Reader discusses the notion of bioethics and technologies of reproduction (such as ART – Assist…
The Patient as Agent of Health and Health Care
When I requested this book to read and review, I admit I was hesitant: it is a rather long read (just under 400 pages), and I anticipated it to be…
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The Perfect Girl
This teen drama is somewhere between a young adult novel and a psychological thriller. Set in the UK, specifically the Bristol area, Zoe is 17. She lives…
The Recovering
According to the Yale English Department website, Leslie Jamison gained her PhD in May 2016…
The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Animal Minds
Almost 10 years ago, Robert Lurz published The Philosophy of Animal Minds (Cambridge University Press, 2009). At the time, it was the only volum…
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The Whiz Mob and the Grenadine Kid
Having wrapped up his Wildwood trilogy, Colin Meloy…
Arguments about Abortion
Abortion. In philosophy it raises many questions around several important issues including: When does life begin? What is a person? Is t…