All Reviews
Reviews are listed in reverse chronological order, with the most recent review appearing first in the list.
Mind
In his book, Mind: Your Consciousness is What and Where, Ted Honderich presents an illuminating discussion on consciousness while examining the…
Neighborhood Girls
Wendy is a junior at the Academy of the Sacred Heart, a Catholic high school for girls run by nuns in Chicago. She and her small group of friends are jun…
Not My Shame
This short monochrome graphic novel doesn’t so much tell a story as explore themes about the effects of sexual abuse of young people. Most pages ar…
Pharmaceutical Freedom
Most academic philosophers live in a world of pharmaceutical paternalism: new treatments are subject to premarket approval by State regulatory agencies,…
Philosophy in the Roman Empire
Philosophy has a rich cultural history that deeply influenced domains such as ethics, politics and society from its inception. As Western Philosophy, it…
Relax, It’s Just Sex
In Relax, It’s Just Sex: Understanding Non-Possessive Intimate Relationships, Leslie Spurr, relationship therapist, introduces the reader to so…
Self-Portrait with Boy
Set in rundown/hipster Brooklyn of the 1990s, Self-Portrait with Boy sets out a year in the life of artist Lu Rile. She lives in an illegal squa…
Talking to Our Selves
One of the cornerstones of Western philosophy is found in the Delphic maxim: “Know Thyself.” This is frequently understood as the idea that the way to a…
The Guide for White Women Who Teach Black Boys
In The Guide for White Women Who Teach Black Boys there are 419 pages of material, 6 parts, 43 chapters with a section on references, over 60 co…
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The Philosophy of Trust
“How do you get money when you’ve got no money?” asks the character played by Robert Mantegna in David Mamet’s movie House of Games (1987). The…
The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Empathy
The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Empathy constitutes a comprehensive, likely the most comprehensive, collection of papers dealing with th…
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The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Pain
Routledge, under the editorship of Jennifer Corns, has produced a thorough and integrated account that shows just how philosophy can contribute…
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What Does Consent Really Mean?
This short graphic novel has teens talking with each other about consent to sex. They voice a number of different views but soon come to the idea that co…
Why We Sleep
Matthew Walker sets out why sleep is essential to our health and wellbeing. Why We Sleep is an alarming book since so many of us go without enou…
Against Marriage
Marriage has been the contested subject of a great deal of debate in the recent culture wars, which pits conservative, and often religious believers agai…
Barriers and Belonging
Barriers and Belonging: Personal Narratives of Disability fills a void in the field of disability studies that editors Michelle Jarman, Leila Mo…
Concepts and Causes in the Philosophy of Disease
Benjamin Smart’s short philosophical volume is a model of clarity for students, teachers, and practitioners in relevant domains, beyond philosophy, of an…
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Deleuze and the Concepts of Cinema
Daniela Angelucci is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Roma Tre where she teaches philosophy of film. Deleuze and the Concepts of Cinema…
Depression
Depression is among the latest contributions to Oxford University Press’s A Very Short Introduction series. It is written by prac…
Ethics at the End of Life
Ethics at the End of Life: New Issues and Arguments is a collection of 14 newly published essays tackling some of the more scarcely discussed to…
How to Stop Time
Matt Haig is an impressive writer. His novels T…
New York 2140
Robinson’s novel set a century or so in the future shows a New York City not very different from the existing one, except that lower Manhattan is underwa…
Overcoming Your Difficult Family
Eric Maisel is a prolific author with over 50 books to his name. He is a psychotherapist whose work focuses a lot on…
Philosophical Issues in Pharmaceutics
Pharmaceutics is the foundation of contemporary medicine. Indeed, there are few ailments that plague mankind today where we cannot prescribe some kind of…
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Straying
This short novel reflects on the marriage of Alice to Eddie and her affair with Cauley, from the perspective of Alice as an older woman who has had a suc…