All Reviews
Reviews are listed in reverse chronological order, with the most recent review appearing first in the list.
Health, Illness and Disease
With their volume Health, Illness and Disease the editors Havi Carel and Rachel Cooper provide the reader with a systematic overview of essentia…
Making Another World Possible
Before addressing the book, a few words are in order concerning the volume’s publishing house and its series’ editors. In 2010, Bloomsbury became the fir…
Moral Status and Human Life
Moral status is one of the most difficult topics in ethics. The difficulty resides in the fact that any account of what makes one morally considerable is…
Pharmageddon
It may be constitutive of our enduring appetite for tragedies that bitter truths are best metabolized by witnessing them being feigned — demonstrated in…
The Elephant in the Room
The Elephant in the Room, by New York City psychotherapist Gerald Alper, is a book about the dynamic unconscious and psychodynamics. The w…
The Moral Panics of Sexuality
The Moral Panics of Sexuality, edited by Breanne Fahs, Mary L. Dudy and Sarah Stage is a collection of writings on various forms of mor…
The Philosophy of Free Will
This is a collection of many influential philosophical essays on the topic of free will and is an exceptional resource for philosophers interested in the…
The Placebo
The “reader” genre is becoming more difficult today than in any previous decade: in the pre-digital repositories age, compilations granted easy access in…
The Way Way Back
The Way Way Back is a simple coming of age story set over a summer in a seaside town in Massachusetts. Duncan is 14 years old and is dragg…
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Karen Joy Fowler’s novel brings to mind other novels that address science and ethics in a sophisticated way. The narrator is a young woman, Rosemar…
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American Madness
I have reviewed over one hundred books for journals. Some books have been a pleasure to review, and some a chore, but I have rarely read a book for…
Better Humans?
What can our bodies do? What do we talk about when we talk about making “better” humans? It sounds like a Raymond Carver story, but it’s just one of the…
Big Gods
Means and ends, cause and effect, or the chicken or the egg; this is, in a nutshell, the basic and underlying issue that is at stake in this book on pros…
Buying Sex
Buying Sex is a documentary about whether there should be laws prohibiting prostitution. The main story is a Canadian court decision that…
Cognition Through Understanding: Self-Knowledge, Interlocution, Reasoning, Reflection
Cognition through Understanding is the third volume of Tyler Burge’s collected papers. The book organizes the most representative papers that Bu…
Corrupted Culture
Corrupted Culture is a book about human nature, Hereditarianism, Humanistic Psychology, and America’s culture. The author, Vincent Ryan Ru…
Economics and Youth Violence
The authors of Economics and Youth Violence: Crime, Disadvantage, and Community are members of an organization of scholars known as the Deve…
Evil Men
James Dawes takes on the difficult task of writing about medical experimentation, murder, rape and torture based on interviews with aging Japanese war cr…
Holy Sh*t
In people’s social life, obscenities are known as tools for breaking social and cultural customs, to express and exaggerate emotions, and even to provide…
Improve Your Writing With NLP
“Even though I regard myself as a beginning writer with much to learn, I can attest that NLP has been a huge help. That’s what I want to share with…
Kant on Moral Autonomy
Kant on Moral Autonomy is an excellent collection of essays on one of the central concepts of Kant’s moral philosophy: the notion of autonomy, o…
Night Film
The audiobook of this novel is 23 hours long. This isn’t as bad as Donna Tartt’s widely praised but unfortunately sprawling novel…
Pink Ribbons, Inc.
Made before the Komen Foundation scandal in which it withdrew funds for breast cancer screening at Planned Parenthood and the revelation of the extremely…
Prenatal Flow
This DVD is offered by “celebrity trainer” Jessica James, whose web site does in fact feature endorsements from the likes of Jessica Alba and Kate Beckin…
Queer Philosophy
Queer Philosophy: Presentations of the Society for Lesbian and Gay Philosophy [henceforth SLGP], 1998-2008 eds. Halwani, Quinn and Wible,…