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Cailin O’Connor, “Games in the Philosophy of Biology” (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Cailin O’Connor
Games in the Philosophy of Biology

Cambridge University Press Elements, 2020

New Books in MathematicsNew Books in PhilosophyNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ScienceNew Books in Science & Technology July 10, 2020 Carrie Figdor

The branch of mathematics called game theory – the Prisoners Dilemma is a particularly well-known example of a game – is used by philosophers, social scientists, and others to explore many types of social relations between humans and between nonhuman creatures. In Games in the Philosophy of Biology (Cambridge University... Read More
Justin Tosi and Brandon Warmke, “Grandstanding: The Use and Abuse of Moral Talk” (Oxford UP, 2020)
Justin Tosi and Brandon Warmke
Grandstanding
The Use and Abuse of Moral Talk
Oxford University Press, 2020

New Books in Big IdeasNew Books in CommunicationsNew Books in LanguageNew Books in PhilosophyNew Books in Political ScienceNew Books in PoliticsNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network July 1, 2020 Robert Talisse

College courses in Ethics tend to focus on theories of the moral rightness or wrongness of actions.  This emphasis sometimes obscures the fact that morality is a social project: part of what makes a decent and stable society possible is that we uphold standards of conduct.  We call out bad... Read More
Cressida J. Heyes, “Anaesthetics of Existence: Essays on Experience at the Edge” (Duke UP, 2020)
Cressida J. Heyes
Anaesthetics of Existence
Essays on Experience at the Edge
Duke University Press, 2020

New Books in PhilosophyNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in PsychologyNew Books in Science & Technology June 22, 2020 Sarah K. Tyson

How should we think about the relationship between subjectivity and experience? In Anaesthetics of Existence: Essays on Experience at the Edge (Duke University Press, 2020), Cressida J. Heyes approaches this question through interrogating the apparent limits of experience found in unconsciousness—including sleep; forms of “checking out”—including general anesthesia and a... Read More
Matthew Duncombe, “Ancient Relativity: Plato, Aristotle, Stoics and Skeptics” (Oxford UP, 2020)
Matthew Duncombe
Ancient Relativity
Plato, Aristotle, Stoics and Skeptics
Oxford University Press, 2020

New Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in PhilosophyNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network June 10, 2020 Carrie Figdor

As a matter of basic metaphysics, we classify individuals in terms of their relations to other things – for example, a parent is a parent of someone, a larger object is larger than a smaller object. The nature of relativity – the question of how things relate to other things... Read More
Ilya Somin, “Free to Move: Foot Voting, Migration, and Political Freedom” (Oxford UP, 2020)
Ilya Somin
Free to Move
Foot Voting, Migration, and Political Freedom
Oxford University Press, 2020

Mobilities and MethodsNew Books in LawNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in PhilosophyNew Books in Political ScienceNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in World AffairsNew Books Network June 1, 2020 Robert Talisse

When we think of democracy, we typically think of voting; and when we think of voting, we ordinarily have elections and campaigns in minds. In this intuitive sense, voting is a matter of casting a ballot. After Election Day, votes are counted, and, typically, the majority rules. But things really... Read More
B. Earp and J. Savulescu, “Love Drugs: The Chemical Future of Relationships” (Stanford UP, 2020)
Brian Earp and Julian Savulescu
Love Drugs
The Chemical Future of Relationships
Stanford University Press, 2020

New Books in Big IdeasNew Books in Drugs, Addiction and RecoveryNew Books in LawNew Books in MedicineNew Books in PhilosophyNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in PsychologyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books Network May 11, 2020 Carrie Figdor

Consider a couple with an infant (or two) whose lives have become so harried and difficult the marriage is falling apart. Would it be ethical for them to take oxytocin to help them renew their emotional bonds, or would this be an unethical evasion of the hard work that keeping... Read More
Emily Thomas, “The Meaning of Travel: Philosophers Abroad” (Oxford UP, 2020)
Emily Thomas
The Meaning of Travel
Philosophers Abroad
Oxford University Press, 2020

Mobilities and MethodsNew Books in PhilosophyNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network May 1, 2020 Robert Talisse

Travel has been a topic lurking in the background (at least) of a lot of philosophy. Socrates was keen to remind his jury as well as his interlocutor Phaedrus that he had spent nearly his entirely life within the city of Athens.  For another example, Descartes saw fit to take... Read More
Shay Welch, “The Phenomenology of a Performative Knowledge System” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
Shay Welch
The Phenomenology of a Performative Knowledge System
Dancing with Native American Epistemology
Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

New Books in AnthropologyNew Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in Native American StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Performing ArtsNew Books in PhilosophyNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books Network April 29, 2020 Alexus McLeod

In The Phenomenology of a Performative Knowledge System: Dancing with Native American Epistemology (Palgrave Macmillian, 2019), Shay Welch investigates the phenomenological ways that dance choreographing and dance performance exemplify both Truth and meaning-making within Native American epistemology, from an analytic philosophical perspective. Given that within Native American communities dance is... Read More
Peter Carruthers, “Human and Animal Minds: The Consciousness Questions Laid to Rest” (Oxford UP, 2019)
Peter Carruthers
Human and Animal Minds
The Consciousness Questions Laid to Rest
Oxford University Press, 2019

New Books in PhilosophyNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in PsychologyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books Network April 14, 2020 Carrie Figdor

Do nonhuman animals have phenomenally conscious mental states? For example, do they have the types of conscious experiences we have when, in our case, we experience the smell of cinnamon or the redness of a ripe tomato? In Human and Animal Minds: The Consciousness Questions Laid to Rest (Oxford University... Read More

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