New Books in Philosophy
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
Eric Winsberg, “Philosophy and Climate Science” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Eric Winsberg
Philosophy and Climate Science

Cambridge University Press, 2018

New Books in Environmental StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in PhilosophyNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Public PolicyNew Books in ScienceNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books Network July 16, 2018 Carrie Figdor

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports that there is a warming trend in the global climate that is attributable to human activity, with an expected increase in global temperature (given current trends) of 1.5- 4.5 degrees Celsius (2.7-7.2 degrees Fahrenheit). But how do climate scientists reach these conclusions?... Read More
Elizabeth F. Cohen, “The Political Value of Time: Citizenship, Duration, and Democratic Justice” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Elizabeth F. Cohen
The Political Value of Time
Citizenship, Duration, and Democratic Justice
Cambridge University Press, 2018

New Books in PhilosophyNew Books in Political ScienceNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network June 29, 2018 Robert Talisse

We’re all familiar with some of the ways that time figures into our political environment.  Things such as term limits, waiting periods, deadlines, and criminal sentences readily come to mind.  But there are also protocols, accords, mandates, and contracts, and these frequently invoke temporal bounds of various kinds.  In fact,... Read More
Edouard Machery, “Philosophy Within Proper Bounds” (Oxford UP, 2017)
Edouard Machery
Philosophy Within Proper Bounds

Oxford University Press, 2017

New Books in PhilosophyNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network June 15, 2018 Carrie Figdor

There are five people on the track and a runaway trolley that will hit them, and you are on a footbridge over the track with a large person whose body can stop the trolley in its tracks. Should you push the large person to his death to save the five... Read More

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