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James Doyle, “No Morality, No Self: Anscombe’s Radical Skepticism” (Harvard UP, 2018)
James Doyle
No Morality, No Self
Anscombe's Radical Skepticism
Harvard University Press, 2018

New Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in PhilosophyNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network May 10, 2019 Carrie Figdor

This is the centennial year of the birth of G.E.M. Anscombe, one of the major philosophical figures of the 20th century within the analytic tradition. A close associate of Ludwig Wittgenstein, Anscombe contributed fundamental insights in philosophy of mind, action theory, and ethics. In his new book No Morality, No... Read More
Mollie Gerver, “The Ethics and Practice of Refugee Repatriation” (Edinburgh Press, 2018)
Mollie Gerver
The Ethics and Practice of Refugee Repatriation

Edinburgh University Press, 2018

New Books in LawNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in PhilosophyNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Public PolicyNew Books in World AffairsNew Books Network May 1, 2019 Robert Talisse

Moral and political theorists have paid a healthy amount of attention to states’ rights to determine who may reside within their territory.  Accordingly, there’s a large literature on immigration, borders, asylum, and refugees.  However, relatively little work has been done on questions concerning how refugees are treated once they have... Read More
Jill Stauffer, “Ethical Loneliness: The Injustice of Not Being Heard (Columbia UP, 2015)
Jill Stauffer
Ethical Loneliness
The Injustice of Not Being Heard
Columbia University Press, 2018

New Books in LawNew Books in PhilosophyNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Public PolicyNew Books Network April 19, 2019 Sarah K. Tyson

In Ethical Loneliness: The Injustice of Not Being Heard (Columbia University Press 2015, paperback 2018), Jill Stauffer argues that survivors of unjust treatment and dehumanization can experience further harm when individuals and institutions will not or cannot hear the survivors’ claims about what they suffered and what they are owed... Read More
T. J. Kasperbauer, “Subhuman: The Moral Psychology of Human Attitudes to Animals” (Oxford UP, 2018)
T. J. Kasperbauer
Subhuman
The Moral Psychology of Human Attitudes to Animals
Oxford University Press, 2018

New Books in PhilosophyNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in PsychologyNew Books in Science & Technology April 10, 2019 Carrie Figdor

Non-human animals are companions, research subjects, creatures we fear, creatures we eat. Why do we put other animals in the various categories we do, and treat them in the various good and bad ways that we do? These are questions about human attitudes towards other animals, and the moral implications... Read More
Michael Hannon, “What’s the Point of Knowledge? A Function-First Epistemology” (Oxford UP, 2019)
Michael Hannon
What's the Point of Knowledge?
A Function-First Epistemology
Oxford University Press, 2019

New Books in Big IdeasNew Books in PhilosophyNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network April 1, 2019 Robert Talisse

Epistemologists working traditional modes have sought to discover the necessary and sufficient conditions under which one has knowledge.  This has led to several tricky philosophical problems.  Perhaps most notorious of these are the problems concerning skepticism.  It seems that any analysis of knowledge admits of cases where the analysis is... Read More
Elizabeth Schechter, “Self-Consciousness and Split Brains: The Mind’s I” (Oxford UP, 2018)
Elizabeth Schechter
Self-Consciousness and Split Brains
The Mind's I
Oxford University Press, 2018

New Books in PhilosophyNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in PsychologyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books Network March 11, 2019 Carrie Figdor

Human brains have two hemispheres whose major connection is the corpus callosum, which enables information to be shared between the hemispheres. Split-brain subjects are people whose corpus callosum has been surgically cut to alleviate epilepsy. This and other similar operations or conditions yield an odd phenomenon in which the patient... Read More