Books Available for Review
Updated 9 January 2015
Al-Ghazali. Yaqub, Aladdin M., trans. Moderation in Belief. University of Chigago Press,
2013. vii + 311 pp. $50.00 (cloth).
Angus, Ian. The Undiscovered Country. Essays in Canadian Intellectual Culture. AU
Press, 2013. ix + 294 pp. $34.95 (paper).
Arp, Robert, and Kevin S. Decker. The Ulitimate South Park and Philosophy. Respect
My Philosophah! Black Well Phlosopy and Pop Culture Series. Wiley-Blackwell, 2013. v
+ 276 pp. $11.99 (paper).
Arrington, Lauren, and Zoë Leinhardt, Philip Dawid, eds. Beauty. Cambridge University
Press, 2013. vii + 195 pp. $20.95 (paper).
Badiou, Alain, with Fabien Tarby. Philosophy and the Event. Polity Press, 2013. vii + 154
pp. (paper).
Bailey, Tom, and Gentile Valentina (eds.) Rawls and Religion. Columbia University
Press, 2015. 328 pp. $30.00 (paper).
Banks, Erik C. The Realistic Empiricism of Mach, James, and Russell. Neutral Monism
Reconceived. Cambridge University Press, 2014. 217 pp. $99.95 (hardback).
Bencivenga, Ermanno. Return from Exile. Lexington Books, 2013. v + 99 pp.
(hardback).
Boersema, David (ed.). Dimensions of Moral Agency. Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
2014. 205 pp. (hardback).
Bortolotti, Lisa. Irrationality. Polity Press, 2015. 183 pp. (paper).
Burgess, Alexis, and Brett Sherman (eds.). Metasemantics. New Essays on the
Foundations of Meaning. Oxford University Press, 2014. 367 pp. £40.00 (hardback).
Callahan, Laura Frances, and Timothy O’Connor. Religious Faith and Intellectual Virtue.
Oxford University Press, 2014. x + 333 pp. £45.00 (hardback).
Carney, J.J. Rwanda Before the Genocide. Catholic Politics and Ethnic Discourse in the
Late Colonial Era. Oxford University Press, 2013. vii + 343 pp. £47.99 (hardback).
Cassam, Quassim. Self-knowledge for humans. Oxford University Press, 2014. 189 pp.
£30.00 (hardback).
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Cohen, Alix (ed.). Kant’s Lectures on Anthropology. A Critical Guide. Cambridge
University Press, 2015. 270 pp. $103.95 (hardback).
Colombetti, Giovanna. The Feeling Body. Affective Science Meets the Enactive Mind.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014. vii + 270 pp. $40.00 (cloth).
Colyvan, Mark. An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mathematics. Cambridge University
Press, 2012. v + 188 pp. $29.95 paper.
Cottingham, John. Philosophy of Religion. Towards a More Humane Approach.
Cambridge University Press, 2014. 192 pp. $28.95 (paper).
Cottingham, John, ed. and trans. René Descartes: Meditations on First Philosophy. With
Selections from the Objections and Replies. Cambridge University Press, 2013. 281 pp.
$91.95 (hardback)
Cucker, Felipe. Manifold Mirrors. The Crossing Paths of the Arts and Mathematics.
Cambridge University Press, 2013. v + 415 pp. $30.95 (paper).
Cutrofello, Andrew. All For Nothing. Hamlet’s Negativity. MIT Press, 2014. 226 pp.
$22.95 (paper).
De Lazari-Radek, Katarzyna, and Peter Singer. The Point of View of the Universe.
Sidgwick & Contemporary Ethics. Oxford University Press, 2014. 403 pp. £30.00
(hardback).
Dearden, Ian. Do Philosophers Talk Nonsense? And Inquiry into the Possibility of
Illusions of Meaning. Revised edition. Rellet Press, 2013. 136 pp.
Detmer, David. Phenomenology Explained. From Experience to Insight. Open Court
Publishing, 2013. v + 212 pp. $24.95 (paper).
Ebbesen, Sten, and John Marenbon, and Paul Thom, eds. Aristotle’s Categories in the
Byzantine, Arabic and Latin Traditions. Publications of the Centre for the Aristotelian
Tradition, vol. 2, 2013, 340 pp. (hardback).
Eggleston, Ben, and Dale E. Miller, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Utilitarianism.
Cambridge University Press, 2014. 387 pp. $30.95 (paper).
Effingham, Nikk. An Introduction to Ontology. Polity Press, 2013. vii + 228 pp. $26.95
(paper).
Farrell, Michael. Modern Just War Theory. A Guide to Research. Scarecrow Press, Inc.,
2013. vii + 413 pp. $75.00 (hardback).
Flage, Daniel E. Berkeley. Polity Press, 2014. 202 pp. (paper).
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Flusser, Vilém. On Doubt. Zielinski, Siegried, ed. Novaes, Rodrigo Maltez, trans.
University of Minnesota Press, 2014. 100 pp. $22.95 (paper).
Forst, Rainer. Justification and Critique. Polity Press, 2014. v + 216 pp. (paper).
Forti, Simona. Hanafi, Zakiya, trans. New Demons. Rethinking Power and Evil Today.
Stanford University Press, 2015. 388 pp. (paper).
Frisch, Mathias. Causal Reasoning in Physics. Cambridge University Press, 2014. 256
pp. $99.95 (hardback).
Fulkerson, Matthew. The First Sense. A Philosophical Study of Human Touch.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2014. vii + 219 pp. $30.00 (cloth).
Galloway, Alexander R. Laruelle. Against the Digital. University of Minnesota Press,
2014. 304 pp. $27.50 (paper).
Garavaso, Pieranna, and Nicla Vassallo. Frege on Thinking and Its Epistemic
Significance. Lexington Books, 2015. 128 pp. (hardback).
Gentry, Caron E. Offering Hospitality. Questioning Christian Approaches to War.
University of Notre Dame Press, 2013. 200 pp. $29.00 (paper).
Glover, Jonathan. Alien Landscapes? Interpreting Disordered Minds. Harvard University
Press, 2014. 448 pp. $35.00 (hardcover).
Gray, Christopher Berry. Human Works, Absent Words. Law, Man, and God in Some
Classical Philosophers. Rowman & Littlefield, 2014. v + 122 pp. $55.00 (hardback).
Gregory, Dominic. Showing, Sensing, & Seeming. Distinctively Sensory
Representations and their Contents. Oxford University Press, 2013. vii + 230 pp. £35.00
(hardback).
Guess, Raymond, A World Without Why. Princeton University Press, 2014. v + 264 pp.
$39.40 (cloth).
Gunnell, John G. Social Inquiry After Wittgenstein and Kuhn. Leaving Everything As It
Is. Columbia University Press, 2014. 280 pp. $50.00 (cloth).
Hansen, Hans V., ed. Riel’s Defence. Perspectives on His Speeches. McGill-Queen’s
University Press, 2014. 331 pp. $35.00 (paper).
Hegel, G.W.G. Hegel’s Introduction to the System. Encyclopaedia Phenomenology and
Psychology. Wood, Robert E. (Introduction, Translation, and Commentary). University of
Toronto Press, 2014. 210 pp. $24.95 (paper).
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Hegel, G.W.F. Brown, Robert F., trans. Lectures on the Philosophy of Art. The Hotho
Transcript of the 1823 Berlin Lectures. Oxford University Press, 2014. 508 pp. £80.00
(hardback).
Hendry, John . Ethics and Finance. An Introduction. Cambridge University Press, 2013.
v + 309 pp. $30.95 (paper).
Hofer-Szabó, Gábor, and Miklós Rédei, and László E. Szabó, The Principles of the
Common Cause. Cambridge University Press, 2013. v + 202 pp. $100.95 (hardback).
Hoffman, Tobias, and Jörn Müller, and Matthias Perkams. Aquinas and the
Nicomachean Ethics. Cambridge University Press, 2013. v + 281 pp. $96.95
(hardback).
Holowchak, M. Andrew. Thomas Jefferson. Uncovering His Unique Philosophy and
Vision. Prometheus Books, 2014. 355 pp. $26.00 USD (hardback).
Hösle, Vittorio, ed. Forms of Truth and the Unity of Knowledge. University of Notre
Dame Press, 2014. 368 pp. $39.00 (paper).
Hurka, Thomas. British Ethical Theorists from Sidwick to Ewing. Oxford University
Press, 2014. 310 pp. £30.00 (hardback).
Ingold, Tim, and Gisli Palsson, eds. Biosocial Becomings. Integrating Social and
Biological Anthropology. Cambridge University Press, 2013. v + 281 pp. $86.95
(hardback).
Jaeggi, Rahel. Neuhouser, F and Alan E. Smith, trans. Neuhouser, F, ed. Alienation.
Columbia University Press, 2014. 304 pp. $35 (cloth).
Janiak, Andrew, ed. Newton. Philosophical Writings. Cambridge Texts in the History of
Philosophy, Revised Edition. Cambridge University Press, 2014. 198 pp. $30.95
(paper).
Janssen, Michel, and Christoph Lehner, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Einstein.
Cambridge University Press, 2014. 562 pp. $38.95 (paper).
Jeffers, Chike, ed. Listening to Ourselves. A Multilingual Anthology of African
Philosophy. SUNY Press, 2013. vii + 194 pp. $80.00 (hardback).
Kaspar, David. Intuitionism. Bloomsbury Ethics Series. Bloomsbury, 2012. 214 pp.
$35.95 (paper).
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Khalidi, Muhammad Ali. Natural Categories and Human Kinds. Classification in the
Natural and Social Sciences. Cambridge University Press, 2013. vii + 250 pp. $91.95
(hardback).
Kirchin, Simon, ed. Thick Concepts. Oxford University Press, 2013. vii + 237 pp. £45.00
(hardback).
Kisner, Matthew J., and Andrew Youpa, eds. Essays on Spinoza’s Ethical Theory.
Oxford University Press, 2014. vii + 284 pp. (hardback).
Kitcher, Philip. Deaths in Venice. The Cases of Gustav von Aschenbach. Columbia
University Press, 2013. 280 pp. $30.00 (cloth).
Kremer, Elmar J. Analysis of Existing. Barry Miller’s Approach to God. Bloomsbury
Publishing, 2014. ix +143 pp. $110.00 (hardback).
Kurtz, Paul. The Transcendental Temptation. Prometheus Books, 2013. 604 pp. $21.95
(paper).
Lackey, Jennifer (ed.). Essays in Collective Epistemology. Oxford University Press,
2014. 253 pp. £40.00 (hardback).
Layne, Danielle A., and Harold Tarrant, eds. The Neoplatonic Socrates. University of
Pennsylvania Press, 2014. 264 pp. $75.00 (cloth).
Leach, Stephen, and James Tartaglia, eds. Richard Rorty. Mind, Language, and
Metaphilosophy. Early Philosophical Papers. Cambridge University Press, 2014. 318
pp. $30.95 (paper).
Lee, Kevin Alan. Ethical Motivations. LeTTers Press, 2014. Self-published manuscript.
431 pp. (pdf).
Lefebvre, Alexandre. Human Rights as a Way of Life. On Bergson’s Political
Philosophy. Stanford, California. Stanford University Press, 2013. 216 pp. $24.95
(paper).
Lloyd, G.E.R. The Ideals of Inquiry. And Ancient History. Oxford University Press, 2014.
163 pp. (hardback).
Long, A.A. Greek Models of Mind and Self. Harvard University Press, 2015. 231 pp.
$25.95 (cloth).
Long, Christopher P. Socratic and Platonic Political Philosophy. Practicing a Politics of
Reading. Cambridge University Press, 2014. 205 pp. $94.95 (hardback).
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Lowe, E. J. Forms of Thought. A Study in Philosophical Logic. Cambridge University
Press, 2013. v + 213 pp. $91.95 (hardback).
Ludlow, Peter. Living Words. Meaning Underdetermination and the Dynamic Lexicon.
Oxford University Press, 2014. 189 pp. (hardback).
Lyotard, Jean-François. Andrew Brown, trans. Why Philosophize? Polity Press, 2013. v
+ 123 pp. (paper).
Macagno, Fabrizio and Douglas Walton. Emotive Language in Argumentation.
Cambridge University Press, 2014. vii + 292 pp. $34.95 (paper).
Magidor, Ofra. Category Mistakes. Oxford University Press, 2013. vii + 171 pp. £30.00
(hardback).
Marder, Michael. The Philosopher’s Plant. An Intellectual Herbarium. Columbia
University Press, 2014. 208 pp. $24.95 (paper).
Marlin, Randal. Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion, 2 nd Edition. Broadview Press,
2013. vii + 368 pp. $32.95 (paper).
Marshall, Richard. Philosophy at 3:AM. Questions and Answers with 25 Top
Philosophers. Oxford University Press, 2014. 296 pp. £20 (hardback).
McBride, Cillian. Recognition. Key Concept Series. Polity Press, 2013. v + 184 pp.
(hardback).
McGilvray, James. Chomsky. 2nd Edition. Key Contemporary Thinkers Series. Polity
Press, 2014. v + 262 pp. (hardback).
McLeish, Tom. Faith & Wisdom in Science. Oxford University Press, 2014. 284 pp.
£18.99 (hardback).
McNay, Lois. The Misguided Search for the Political. Polity Press, 2014. 250 pp.
(paper).
Miller, David Marshall. Representing Space in the Scientific Revolution. Cambridge
University Press, 2014. 235 pp. $94.95 (hardback).
Musolino, Julien. The Soul Fallacy. What Science Shows We Gain from Letting Go of
Our Soul Beliefs. Prometheus Books, 2015. 287 pp. $18.00 (paper).
Negri, Antonio. Spinoza for Our Time. Politics and Postmodernity. Columbia University
Press, 2013. 152 pp. $24.00 (cloth).
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Newell, Waller R. Tyranny. A New Interpretation. Cambridge University Press, 2013. v +
544 pp. $30.95 (paper).
Nichols, Robert. The World of Freedom. Heidegger, Foucault, and the Politics of
Historical Ontology. Stanford University Press, 2014, 2014. 277 pp. (paper).
Nilsson, Nils J. Understanding Beliefs. MIT Press, 2014. 151 pp. $12.95 (paper).
O’Malley, Maureen A. Philosophy of Microbiology. Cambridge University Press, 2014.
269 pp. $33.95 (paper).
O’Rourke, Fran, ed. What Happened in and to Moral Philosophy in the Twentieth
Century? Philosophyhical Essays in Honor of Alasdair MacIntylre. University of Notre
Dame Press, 2013. v + 499 pp. $34.00 (hardback).
Papazoglou, Alexis, ed. The Pursuit of Philosohpy. Some Cambridge Perspectives.
Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. v + 167 pp. $19.99 (paper).
Parsons, Charles. Philosophy of Mathematics in the Twentieth Century. Selected
Essays. Harvard University Press, 2014. vii + 350 pp. $55.00 (cloth).
Parsons, Terence. Articulating Medieval Logic. Oxford University Press, 2014. vii + 331
pp. (hardback).
Pasnau, Robert, ed. Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosohpy, Volume 1. Oxford
University Press, 2013. 233 pp. £22.00 (paper).
Patten, Alan. Equal Recognition. The Moral Foundation of Minority Rights. Princeton
Univeristy Press, 2014. 327 pp. (hardback).
Paul, L.A. Transformative Experience. Oxford University Press, 2014. 189 pp. £18.99
(hardback).
Peddle, David. The Religious Origins of American Freedom and Equality. A Response
to John Rawls. Lexington Books, 2014. 136 pp. (hardback).
Petro, Jim, and Nancy Petro. False Justice. Eight Myths that Convict the Innocent.
Revised Edition.Taylor & Francis, 2015. 300 pp. (paper).
Powe, B.W. Marshall McLuhan and Northrop Frye. Apocalypse and Alchemy. University
of Toronto Press, 2014. ix + 354 pp. $32.95 (paper).
Predelli, Stafano. Meaning without Truth. Oxford University Press, 2013. vii + 230 pp.
£35.00 (hardback).
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Reid, Jeffrey. The Anti-Romantic. Hegel Against Ironic Romanticism. Bloomsbury, 2014.
208 pp. $112.00 (hardback).
Roelofs, Monique. The Cultural Promise of the Aesthetic. Bloomsbury, 2014. 271 pp.
(hardback).
Rush, Penelope (ed.). The Metaphysics of Logic. Cambridge University Press, 2014.
267 pp. $103.95 (hardback).
Russell, Luke. Evil. A Philophical Investigation. Oxford University Press, 2014. v + 236
pp. (hardback).
Scheid, Don. E., ed. The Ethics of Armed Humanitarian Intervention. Cambridge
University Press, 2014. 282 pp. $32.95 (paper).
Schmitt, Frederick F. Hume’s Epistemology in the Treatise. A Veritistic Interpretation.
Oxford University Press, 2014. vi + 423 pp. (hardback).
Segalerba, Gianluigi. Semantik und Ontologie. Drei Studien zu Aristoteles. Peter Lang,
2013. 547 pp. (paper).
Slater, Michael R. Pragmatism and the Philosophy of Religion. Cambridge University
Press, 2014. 207 pp. $99.95 (hardback).
Smarandache, Florentin. Law of Included Multiple-Middle & Principle of Dynamic
Neutrosophic Opposition. EuropaNova & Education Publisher Brussels-Columbus,
2014. 135 pp. (paper).
Snowdon, Paul F. Persons, Animals, Ourselves. Oxford University Press, 2014. 260 pp.
£30.00 (hardback).
Soderquist, K. Brian. The Isolated Self. Truth and Untruth in Søren Kierkegaard’s On the
Concept of Irony. University of Chicago Press, 2014. iii + 247 pp. $35.00 (paper).
Sorabji, Richard. Moral Conscience Through the Ages. Oxford University Press, 2014.
265 pp. £20.00 (hardback).
Soteriou, Matthew. The Mind’s Construction. The Ontology of Mind and Mental Action.
Oxford University Press, 2013. vii + 385 pp. £55.00 (hardback).
Speak, Daniel. The Problem of Evil. Polity Press, 2015. 149 pp. (paper).
Springer, Elise. Communicating Moral Concern. An Ethics of Critical Responsiveness.
MIT Press, 2013. v + 329 pp. (hardback).
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Steel, Daniel. Philosophy and the Precautionary Principle, and the Future. Cambridge
University Press, 2014. 256 pp. $99.95 (hardback).
Stuart, Matthew. Locke’s Metaphysics. Oxford University Press, 2013. vii + 522 pp.
£55.00 (hardback).
Travis, Charles. Perception. Essays After Frege. Oxford University Press, 2013. 420 pp.
£50.00 (hardback).
Turri, John, and Peter D. Klein, eds. Ad Infinitum. New Essays on Epistemological
Infinitism. Oxford University Press, 2014. 262 pp. £40.00 (hardback).
Van Inwagen, Peter. Existence. Essays in Ontology. Cambridge University Press, 2014.
261 pp. $30.95 (paper).
Viveiros de Castro, Eduardo. Peter Skafish, trans. and ed. Cannibal Metaphysics. When
Everything is Human, the Human is an Entirely Different Thing …. Univocal Publishing,
2014. 245 pp. $26.95 (paper).
Vogel, Matthais. Darrel Arnold, trans. Media of Reason. A Theory of Rationality.
Columbia University Press, 2012. vii + 376 pp. £55 (cloth).
Wei, Sha Xin. Poiesis and Enchantment in Topological Matter. Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, 2013. v + 363 pp. $40.00 (cloth).
Weisberg, Josh. Consciousness. Polity Press, 2014. 174 pp. (paper).
Williams, Bernard. Essays and Reviews 1959 – 2002. Princeton University Press, 2014.
v + 435 pp. $35.00 (cloth).
Williamson, Timothy. Identity and Disrimination. Wiley-Blackwell, 2013. vii + 182 pp.
$18.99 (paper).
Young, James O. Criticque of Pure Music. Oxford University Press, 2014. vii + 199 pp.
(hardback).
Young, Julian (ed.). Individual and Community in Nietzsche’s Philosophy. Cambridge
University Press, 2015. 247 pp. $94.95 (hardback).
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