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Maria Dimova-Cookson, “Rethinking Positive and Negative Liberty” (Routledge, 2019)
Maria Dimova-Cookson
Rethinking Positive and Negative Liberty

Routledge, 2019

New Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in PhilosophyNew Books in Political ScienceNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Public PolicyNew Books Network January 20, 2020 Yorgos Giannakopoulos

Maria Dimova-Cookson‘s new book Rethinking Positive and Negative Liberty (Routledge, 2019) offers an analysis of the distinction between positive and negative freedom building on the work of Constant, Green and Berlin. The author proposes a new reading of this distinction for the twenty-first century. The author defends the idea that... Read More
Manuel Heras Escribano, “The Philosophy of Affordances” (Palgrave MacMillan, 2019)
Manuel Heras-Escribano
The Philosophy of Affordances

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

New Books in PhilosophyNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network January 10, 2020 Carrie Figdor

Ecological psychology is one of a number of contemporary theories that explains the mind in terms of embodiment and environmental situatedness, rather than inner symbol manipulation by brains. J. J. Gibson, a founder ecological psychology, coined the term “affordance” to express a core concept of the view: as embodied, situated... Read More
Frederick Beiser, “Hermann Cohen: An Intellectual Biography” (Oxford UP, 2018)
Frederick Beiser
Hermann Cohen
An Intellectual Biography
Oxford University Press, 2018

New Books in BiographyNew Books in German StudiesNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Jewish StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in PhilosophyNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books Network January 6, 2020 Avi Bernstein

The eminent scholar of Neo-Kantianism, Frederick Beiser, has struck again, this time bringing his considerable analytical powers and erudition to the task of intellectual biography. For those of you aware of the distinguished philosophical career of Hermann Cohen (1859 – 1918) and the absence of an intellectual biography in English,... Read More
John Danaher, “Automation and Utopia: Human Flourishing in a World without Work” (Harvard UP, 2019)
John Danaher
Automation and Utopia
Human Flourishing in a World without Work
Harvard University Press, 2019

New Books in AnthropologyNew Books in EconomicsNew Books in PhilosophyNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books in TechnologyNew Books Network January 2, 2020 Robert Talisse

The future is a constant focus of anxiety, and we are all familiar with the pressures that come distinctively from automation – the transformation by which tasks formerly assigned to humans come to be performed by machines.  These days, the stakes seem to be higher, as technology now seems poised... Read More
Peter Adamson, “Philosophy in the Islamic World: A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps, Volume 3” (Oxford UP, 2019)
Peter Adamson
Philosophy in the Islamic World
A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps, Volume 3
Oxford University Press, 2018

New Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Islamic StudiesNew Books in Middle Eastern StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in PhilosophyNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books Network December 24, 2019 Asad Dandia

It is no easy task to survey and present a comprehensive history of philosophy of an entire intellectual tradition to a broad public audience without compromising on the scholarly rigor demanded by that history’s nuances. In an ambitious endeavor to do precisely that with the Islamic tradition, Peter Adamson masterfully... Read More
Adriel M. Trott, “Aristotle on the Matter of Form: A Feminist Metaphysics of Generation” (Edinburgh UP, 2019)
Adriel M. Trott
Aristotle on the Matter of Form
A Feminist Metaphysics of Generation
Edinburgh University Press, 2019

New Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in PhilosophyNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network December 20, 2019 Sarah K. Tyson

In Aristotle on the Matter of Form: A Feminist Metaphysics of Generation (Edinburgh University Press, 2019), Adriel M. Trott argues for understanding the relationship of matter and form in Aristotle’s work on the model of a Möbius strip. With the figure of the Möbius strip, we can identify two planes... Read More
Christopher Peacocke, “The Primacy of Metaphysics” (Oxford UP, 2019)
Christopher Peacocke
The Primacy of Metaphysics

Oxford University Press, 2019

New Books in PhilosophyNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network December 10, 2019 Carrie Figdor

A basic question in mind and metaphysics is the relation between the nature of mental content (or meaning) and the nature of the domains of entities and relations to which those contents refer or which they are about. Does an explanation of this relation require us to give meaning priority,... Read More
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