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Anjan Chakravartty, “Scientific Ontology: Integrating Naturalized Metaphysics and Voluntarist Epistemology” (Oxford UP, 2017)
Anjan Chakravartty
Scientific Ontology
Integrating Naturalized Metaphysics and Voluntarist Epistemology
Oxford University Press, 2018

New Books in PhilosophyNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ScienceNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books Network September 17, 2018 Carrie Figdor

A scientific ontology is a view about what a scientific theory says exists. Longstanding philosophical debate on this issue divides into two broad camps: anti-realists, who think scientific theories are committed to the existence only of those things that can be observed, and realists, who hold that these theories are... Read More
Shelley Tremain, “Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability” (U Michigan Press, 2017)
Shelley Tremain
Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability

University of Michigan Press, 2017

New Books in Critical TheoryNew Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in PhilosophyNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in SociologyNew Books Network September 11, 2018 Dave O'Brien

How should we understand disability? In Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability (University of Michigan Press, 2017), Dr. Shelley Tremain explores this complex question from the perspective of feminist philosophy, using the work of Michel Foucault. The book is a fascinating critique of much contemporary philosophy and policy, providing a detailed, but easy... Read More
Brian O’Connor, “Idleness: A Philosophical Essay” (Princeton UP, 2018)
Brian O’Connor
Idleness
A Philosophical Essay
Princeton University Press, 2018

New Books in PhilosophyNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network August 31, 2018 Robert Talisse

Culturally, idleness is widely derided as laziness, uselessness, and sloth.  Even within philosophy, the idle are criticized for being wasteful, selfish, and free-loading. Indeed, throughout the history of moral and political philosophy, it is frequently asserted (though not often argued) that humans must be perpetually active, busy, and, in a... Read More
Keya Maitra, “Philosophy of the Bhagavad Gita: A Contemporary Introduction” (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018)
Keya Maitra
Philosophy of the Bhagavad Gita
A Contemporary Introduction
Bloomsbury Academic, 2018

New Books in Hindu StudiesNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in PhilosophyNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books in South Asian StudiesNew Books Network August 15, 2018 Carrie Figdor

The Bhagavad Gita is one of the foundational texts of Hinduism and probably the one most familiar and popular in the West. The moral problem that motivates the text – is it right to kill members of one’s extended family if they are on the other side in a war?... Read More
Steven Gimbel, “Isn’t That Clever: A Philosophical Account of Humor and Comedy” (Routledge, 2018)
Steven Gimbel
Isn’t That Clever
A Philosophical Account of Humor and Comedy
Routledge, 2018

New Books in AnthropologyNew Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in LanguageNew Books in Literary StudiesNew Books in PhilosophyNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network August 6, 2018 Robert Talisse

Humor and its varied manifestations—jesting joking around, goofing, lampooning, and so on—pervade the human experience and are plausibly regarded as necessary features of interpersonal interactions.  As one would expect, these pervasive phenomena occasion philosophical questions.  What renders some item or event humorous?  Are funny jokes objectively so?  As humor is... Read More

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