All Reviews
Reviews are listed in reverse chronological order, with the most recent review appearing first in the list.
What Is a Human?
Without a doubt the answer to the question ‘What is a human?’ has been a long term and ongoing project — perhaps as old as human life here on this plane…
American Hookup
Lisa Wade’s American Hookup is one of the more thoughtful books about the sexual lives of young people in the US today. Her basic message is tha…
Cognitive Mechanisms of Belief Change
Let us start by clarifying the title in order to understand what is this book is about, in a glimpse. A cognitive explanation of belief change is an atte…
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Crimes of Reason
Stephen E. Braude has been researching exotic–and some would say ‘controversial’–domains of human behavior and mental phenomena for well over three dec…
Detox Yoga
This Detox Yoga DVD is well made, with 3 sessions, each about 20 minutes, that are all pretty simple, Schneider leads the sessions sitting outsi…
Drug Dealer, MD
It’s long been clear that doctors in the USA have been far too ready to prescribe opiates to patients and that they are largely responsible for the crisi…
Forgiveness and Love
Touring the seventeenth-century Jerónimos Monastery in Lisbon, I noticed a series of small doors that lined one of the cloistered walls. …
High Heat
High Heat is the eighth novel in the Nikki Heat series. It features the NYC detective and her journalist husband Jameson Rook. It starts out wit…
How Enlightenment Changes Your Brain
I grappled with this book on several occasions having abandoned it and returned to it much later on. How Enlightenment Changes Your Brain is aimed at a l…
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Mortal Dilemmas
Mortal Dilemmas: The Troubled Landscape of Death in America is an accessible and informative contribution to the public conversation over death…
Naturalism in the Philosophy of Health
Naturalism in the Philosophy of Health, edited by Élodie Giroux, is an excellent example of the kind of work capable of being done in emp…
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Philosophy of Action
This book is published in Palgrave Macmillan’s Philosophy Today series, which is supposed to provide researchers and advanced students of philosophy with…
Rebuttal
Jyotsna Hariharan’s Reubuttal is an audio drama performed by 5 actors, Phoebe Strole, Michael Crouch, Nina Mehta, Peter Ganim, and Dan…
Self-Compassion in Psychotherapy
Since the appearance of Mindfulness-Based Treatment Approaches: Clinician’s Guide to Evidence Base and Applications, w…
The Intentional Brain
In its fluent evocation of the interplay of philosophy, medicine, and the creative arts, The Intentional Brain echoes Michael Trimble’s much acc…
The Lives of Animals
This edition of Coetzee’s classic work is unchanged from the first edition, which was published in 1999. The only difference is the series in which it ap…
The Man Who Wasn’t There
Popular science writer Anil Ananthaswamy discusses philosophy as much as science in this survey of disorders of the brain. He is interested in different…
The Statistical Life of Me
The content of the book entitled The Statistical Life of Me: A Statistics-Based Journal by Emily Higgins can be a bit of a surprise. It is indee…
The Trouble with Goats and Sheep
I remember when I was a teenager, one of my school teachers said that a class exercise would help separate the sheep from the goats. I assumed then that…
What Is Buddhist Enlightenment?
King Lear is a play as profound as it is puzzling. It seems to be uncompromising in its attitude to the nature of things. Either its last s…
When Someone You Know Is Living in a Dementia Care Community
This is a simple guide for those with a loved one with dementia who has moved into a residential home. There are 29 short chapters on basic points and so…
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“How Come Boys Get to Keep Their Noses?”
Tahneer Oksman has written an impressive book with an enigmatic title: How Come Boys Get to Keep their Noses? Fortunately, the subtitle elaborat…
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A Companion to Buddhist Philosophy
A Companion to Buddhist Philosophy, edited by Steven M. Emmanuel, is the kind of book that lies on your desk while you try to gather the strengt…
Anger and Forgiveness
Regardless of one’s circumstances, anger, the emotion that “includes, conceptually, not only the idea of a serious wrong […], but also the idea th…
Capture
The promotional insert included in my review copy of David A. Kessler’s Capture: Unraveling the Mystery of Mental Suffering, declares that it is…