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Elisabeth Paquette, “Universal Emancipation: Race Beyond Badiou” (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
Elisabeth Paquette
Universal Emancipation
Race Beyond Badiou
University of Minnesota Press, 2020

New Books in Critical TheoryNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in PhilosophyNew Books in PoliticsNew Books in Politics & Society October 20, 2020 Sarah K. Tyson

What is Badiou’s theory of emancipation? For whom is this emancipation possible? Does emancipation entail an indifference to difference? In Universal Emancipation: Race Beyond Badiou (University of Minnesota Press, 2020) Elisabeth Paquette pursues these questions through a sustained conversation with decolonial theory, particularly the work of Sylvia Wynter. Through consideration of... Read More
William P. Seeley, “Attentional Engines: A Perceptual Theory of the Arts” (Oxford UP, 2020)
William P. Seeley
Attentional Engines
A Perceptual Theory of the Arts
Oxford University Press, 2020

New Books in ArtNew Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in MusicNew Books in Performing ArtsNew Books in PhilosophyNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in PsychologyNew Books in Science & Technology October 12, 2020 Carrie Figdor

How do we distinguish art from non-art artifacts, and what does cognitive science have to do with it? In Attentional Engines: A Perceptual Theory of the Arts (Oxford University Press, 2020), William Seeley offers a cognitive science-based account of how we engage with art, what it is that artworks do,... Read More
Serena Parekh, “No Refuge: Ethics and the Global Refugee Crisis” (Oxford UP, 2020)
Serena Parekh
No Refuge
Ethics and the Global Refugee Crisis
Oxford University Press, 2020

New Books in LawNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in PhilosophyNew Books in Political ScienceNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Public PolicyNew Books in World AffairsNew Books Network October 1, 2020 Robert Talisse

Discourse in wealthy Western countries about refugees tends to follow a familiar script.  How many refugees is a country morally required to accept?  What kinds of care and support are host countries required to provide?  Who is responsible to maintaining the resulting infrastructure?  What, ultimately, is to be done with... Read More
Ann-Sophie Barwich, “Smellosophy: What the Nose Tells the Mind” (Harvard UP, 2020)
Ann-Sophie Barwich
Smellosophy
What the Nose Tells the Mind
Harvard University Press, 2020

NBN Book of the DayNBN Special SeriesNew Books in PhilosophyNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network September 10, 2020 Carrie Figdor

Smells repel and attract; they bring emotionally charged memories to mind; they guide behavior and thought nonconsciously; they give food much of its taste; and the loss of sense of smell can help diagnose disease. But what features of the world do smells pick out? What is the olfactory code?... Read More
Lisa Bortolotti, “The Epistemic Innocence of Irrational Beliefs” (Oxford UP, 2020)
Lisa Bortolotti
The Epistemic Innocence of Irrational Beliefs

Oxford University Press, 2020

NBN Book of the DayNBN Special SeriesNew Books in PhilosophyNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in PsychologyNew Books in Science & Technology September 1, 2020 Robert Talisse

There is something intuitive about the idea that when we believe, we ought to follow our evidence. This entails that beliefs that are the products of garden varieties of irrationality, such as delusion, confabulation, false memory, and excessive optimism, are for that reason epistemically derelict.  Many philosophers would go so... Read More
Beata Stawarska, “Saussure’s Linguistics, Structuralism, and Phenomenology: The Course in General Linguistics after a Century” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
Beata Stawarska
Saussure’s Linguistics, Structuralism, and Phenomenology
The Course in General Linguistics after a Century
Palgrave Macmillan, 2020

New Books in Critical TheoryNew Books in LanguageNew Books in PhilosophyNew Books in Politics & Society August 20, 2020 Sarah K. Tyson

In Saussure’s Linguistics, Structuralism, and Phenomenology: The Course in General Linguistics after a Century (Palgrave Macmillan), Beata Stawarska guides us to consider Ferdinand de Saussure’s Course in General Linguistics anew. By delving into Saussure’s autograph notes, letters, and student lecture notes Stawarska reframes all of the hierarchical pairs promoted as part... Read More
David Livingstone Smith, “On Inhumanity: Dehumanization and How to Resist It” (Oxford UP 2020)
David Livingstone Smith
On Inhumanity
Dehumanization and How to Resist It
Oxford University Press, 2020

New Books in Genocide StudiesNew Books in PhilosophyNew Books in Political ScienceNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network August 10, 2020 Carrie Figdor

The phenomenon of dehumanization is associated with such atrocities as the 1994 genocide in Rwanda and the Holocaust in World War II. In these and other cases, people are described in ways that imply that they are less than fully human as a prelude to committing extreme forms of violence... Read More
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

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