Philosophy News Summary

Recent philosophy-related news.*

1. A new journal, Passion: the Journal of the European Philosophical Society for the Study of Emotions, has just published its inaugural issue. The journal is a peer-reviewed (double blind), open-access, biannual publication. Its editors-in-chief are Alfred Archer (Tilburg University) and Heidi Maibom (University of the Basque Country, University of Cincinnati). The first issue is here.

2. The popular nationally-syndicated radio program Philosophy Talk, co-hosted by Ray Briggs and Josh Landy (Stanford University), has been awarded a media production grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to create “Wise Women,” a 16-episode series about women philosophers through the ages. The series, which will feature different guest scholars in conversation with the show’s hosts, begins on July 23rd with an episode on Hypatia.

3. Butler University just wrapped up its first ever philosophy camp for high school students. You can learn more about it here.

4. PhilVideos (previously), a project from researchers at the University of Genoa that aims to sift through the abundance of philosophy videos online and present an expert-curated and searchable selection of them, is now online (in beta). You can try it out here and read more about its features (including a more specific search interface) here. If you’re interested in becoming a reviewer for the site, you can find out about doing so here.

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* Over the summer, many news items will be consolidated in posts like this.

The post Philosophy News Summary first appeared on Daily Nous.

Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

The weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources and new reviews of philosophy books…

SEP

New: 

1. Søren Kierkegaard by John Lippitt and C. Stephen Evans.

Revised:

1. Hermann von Helmholtz by Lydia Patton.
2. Analytic Philosophy in Latin America by Diana Ines Perez and Santiago Echeverri.
3. The Pragmatic Theory of Truth by John Capps.
4. Cultural Evolution by Tim Lewens and Andrew Buskell.
5. Robert Desgabets by Patricia Easton.

IEP     

1. The Compactness Theorem by Robert Leek and A. C. Paseau. (Revised)

NDPR    

1. Imitation of Rigor: An Alternative History of Analytic Philosophy by Mark Wilson is reviewed by Katherine Brading.

1000-Word Philosophy    

1. Plato’s Allegory of the Cave: The Journey Out of Ignorance by Spencer Case.

Project Vox     ∅     

Open-Access Book Reviews in Academic Philosophy Journals     ∅      

Recent Philosophy Book Reviews in Non-Academic Media  

1. Parfit: A Philosopher and His Mission to Save Morality by David Edmonds is reviewed by Stephen Mulhall at The London Review of Books.
2. A Terribly Serious Adventure: Philosophy and War at Oxford 1900-60 by Nikhil Krishnan is reviewed by Suresh Menon at The Hindu.
3. The Complete Works: Handbook, Discourses and Fragments by Epictetus, translated by Robin Waterfield is reviewed by Emily Wilson at The London Review of Books.
4. How Not To Kill Yourself: A Portrait of the Suicidal Mind by Clancy Martin is reviewed by Gordon Marino at The Los Angeles Review of Books.

Compiled by Michael Glawson

BONUS: Personal longtermism

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Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

The weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources and new reviews of philosophy books…

SEP

New:    

1. Epistemological Problems of Memory by Matthew Frise.

Revised:

1. Albert of Saxony by Joél Biard.
2. Platonism in the Philosophy of Mathematics by Øystein Linnebo.
3. Philosophy of Religion by Charles Taliaferro.

IEP  

1. Spinoza: Free Will and Freedom by Christopher Kluz.
2. The Compactness Theorem by A. C. Paseau and Robert Leek.
3. Hunhu/Ubuntu in the Traditional Thought of Southern Africa by Fainos Mangena.

NDPR    

1. The Stoic Theory of Sign and Proof by Schwabe Verlag is reviewed by Reier Helle.
2. Avicenna on the Necessity of the Actual: His Interpretation of Four Aristotelian Arguments by Celia Kathrun Hatherly is reviewed by Thérèse-Anne Druart.

1000-Word Philosophy     ∅

Project Vox     ∅

Open-Access Book Reviews in Academic Philosophy Journals

1. Noise: A flaw in Human Judgment by Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, & Cass Sunstein is reviewed by Michael Brownstein in Philosophical Psychology.

Recent Philosophy Book Reviews in Non-Academic Media  

1. Life Is Short: An Appropriately Brief Guide To Making It More Meaningful by Dean Rickles and Life Is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way by Kieran Setiya are reviewed by Skye C. Cleary at The Times Literary Supplement.
2. How Not to Kill Yourself by Clancy Martin is reviewed by Alexandra Jacobs at The New York Times.

Compiled by Michael Glawson

BONUS: The pessimistic meta-analysis

Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

The weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources and new reviews of philosophy books…

and a reminder about the new “Open-Access Book Reviews in Academic Philosophy Journals” section.

SEP

New:    

1. Solidarity in Social and Political Philosophy by Andrea Sangiovanni and Juri Viehoff.

Revised:

1. Zombies by Robert Kirk.
2. Ancient Political Philosophy by Melissa Lane.

IEP  

1. History of African Philosophy by Jonathan O. Chimakonam.     

NDPR    

1. The Logic of Number by Neil Tennant is reviewed by Will Stafford.

1000-Word Philosophy     ∅

Recent Philosophy Book Reviews in Non-Academic Media   

1. Alasdair McIntyre: An Intellectual Biography by Émile Perreau-Saussine is reviewed by Jennifer Frey in The Hedgehog Review.
2. Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life by Clare Mac Cumhail and Racheal Wiseman is reviewed by Rachel Handley at The Times Literary Supplement.
3. A Terribly Serious Adventure: Philosophy and War at Oxford 1900-60 by Nikhil Krishnan is reviewed by Jane O’Grady at The Times Literary Supplement.
4. Professor of Apocalypse: The Many Lives of Jacob Taubes by Jerry Z. Muller is reviewed by Susan Neiman at The New York Review of Books.
5. The Last Writings of Thomas S. Kuhn: Incommensurability in Science by Bojana Mladenović (ed.) is reviewed by Steven Shapin at The London Review of Books.

Open-Access Book Reviews in Academic Philosophy Journals     

This section contains reviews sent in by journal editors (we do not go searching for them). In order to be included in this section, book reviews must be:

• • open-access
  • published no earlier than January 2023,
  • published in an academic philosophy journal or, if published in a non-philosophy journal, be a review of a book authored by a philosopher,
    and
  • submitted by email to [email protected] in the following format: “[Book Title] by [Book Author] is reviewed by [Review Author] in [Journal Title]”, where Journal Title must embed a link to the web page on which the book review appears (not to the journal’s homepage or table of contents).

The Weekly Updates appear on Mondays. Normally, if you send in the links by Friday afternoon they can be included in the coming week’s edition.

Compiled by Michael Glawson

 

 

SEP Currently Down (updated: now back up)

The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP) is currently down, reportedly owing to a power outage at Stanford.

But don’t panic. You can access the SEP’s Amsterdam-based mirror site here and its Sydney-based mirror site here.

UPDATE (3/21/2023, 11:50pm): The site appears to be back online.

Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

The weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources and new reviews of philosophy books, and a reminder about the new “Open-Access Book Reviews in Academic Philosophy Journals” section…

SEP

New:     ∅

Revised:

1. Philosophy of Money and Finance by Boudewijn de Bruin, Lisa Herzog, Martin O’Neill, and Joakim Sandberg.
2. Aristotle on Causality by Andrea Falcon.
3. Philosophy of Technology by Maarten Franssen, Gert-Jan Lokhorst, and Ibo van de Poel.
4. Buddha by Mark Siderits.
5. Indispensability Arguments in the Philosophy of Mathematics by Mark Colyvan.
6. Time Travel and Modern Physics by Christopher Smeenk, Frank Arntzenius, and Tim Maudlin.

IEP     ∅   

NDPR    

1. Anselm’s Argument: Divine Necessity by Brian Leftow is reviewed by Gaven Kerr.
2. Aquinas on Efficient Causation and Causal Powers by Gloria Frost is reviewed by Can Laurens Löwe.

1000-Word Philosophy

1. The Doctrine of Double Effect: Do Intentions Matter to Ethics? By Gabriel Andrade.

Project Vox     ∅

Recent Philosophy Book Reviews in Non-Academic Media  

1. Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy by David Chalmers is reviewed by Alexa Hazel at The Point.
2. How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind by Regan Penaluna is reviewed by Lydia Moland in The Wall Street Journal.
3. A Terribly Serious Adventure: Philosophy and War at Oxford 1900-1960 by Nikhil Krishnan is reviewed by Kathleen Stock at Unherd.

Open-Access Book Reviews in Academic Philosophy Journals     

This section contains reviews sent in by journal editors (we do not go searching for them). In order to be included in this section, book reviews must be:

• • open-access
  • published no earlier than January 2023,
  • published in an academic philosophy journal or, if published in a non-philosophy journal, be a review of a book authored by a philosopher,
    and
  • submitted by email to [email protected] in the following format: “[Book Title] by [Book Author] is reviewed by [Review Author] in [Journal Title]”, where Journal Title must embed a link to the web page on which the book review appears (not to the journal’s homepage or table of contents).

The Weekly Updates appear on Mondays. Normally, if you send in the links by Friday afternoon they can be included in the coming week’s edition.

Compiled by Michael Glawson

BONUS: The moral hazard of giving AI morality.

Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

The weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources and new reviews of philosophy books…

 

SEP

New:

1. Gender in Confucian Philosophy by Li-Hsiang Rosenlee.

Revised:

1. Henry David Thoreau by Rick Anthony Furtak.
2. Medieval Theories: Properties of Terms by Stephen Read.
3. Descartes’ Life and Works by Kurt Smith.
4. Afterlife by William Hasker and Charles Taliaferro.

IEP   

1. Leibniz: Modal Metaphysics by Charles Joshua Horn.

NDPR    ∅

1000-Word Philosophy    ∅

Project Vox     ∅

Recent Philosophy Book Reviews in Non-Academic Media  

1. Intact: A Defense of the Unmodified Body by Clare Chambers is reviewed by Becca Rothfeld at Boston Review.

Open-Access Book Reviews in Academic Philosophy Journals     

To have book reviews from your journal included in this section, see the instructions here.

Compiled by Michael Glawson

BONUS: Reality Minus

Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

The weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources and new reviews of philosophy books…

SEP

New:

1. Dignity by Remy Debes.
2. Creativity by Eliot Samuel Paul and Dustin Stokes.

Revised:

1. Fatalism by Hugh Rice.

IEP     ∅     

NDPR    

1. Normative Reasons: Between Reasoning and Explanation by Artūrs Logins is reviewed by Daniel Drucker.
2. Being Rational and Being Right by Juan Comesaña is reviewed by Adam Marushak.

1000-Word Philosophy

1. The Buddhist Theory of No-Self (Anātman/Anattā) by Daniel Weltman.

Project Vox     ∅

Recent Philosophy Book Reviews in Non-Academic Media

1. 1. Bias: A Philosophical Study by Thomas Kelly is reviewed by Jessie Munton at the Times Literary Supplement.
   2. How to Think Like a Philosopher by Julian Baggini is reviewed by Ray Burke at the Irish Times.
   3. Alasdair MacIntyre: An Intellectual Biography by Émile Perreau-Saussine (translated by Nathan J. Pinkoski) is reviewed by Joseph Scolaro at The University Bookman.

Open-Access Book Reviews in Academic Philosophy Journals     

To have book reviews from your journal included in this section, see the instructions here.

Compiled by Michael Glawson

BONUS: A Problem Hero (via Brian Johnson)

Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

The weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources and new reviews of philosophy books…

SEP

New:

1. Jaina Philosophy by Marie-Hélène Gorisse.
2. Creativity by Elliot Samuel Paul and Dustin Stokes.
3. Dignity by Remy Debes.

Revised:

1. Aesthetic Judgment by Nick Zangwill.
2. Double Consciousness by John P. Pittman.
3. Propositional Dynamic Logic by Nicolas Troquard and Philippe Balbiani.

IEP     ∅     

NDPR    

1. Beyond Words: Philosophy, Fiction, and the Unsayable by Timothy Cleveland is reviewed by Iris Vidmar Jovanović.
2. Madness: A Philosophical Exploration by Justin Garson is reviewed by Serife Tenkin.

1000-Word Philosophy

1. Self-Knowledge: Knowing Your Own Mind by Benjamin Winokur.

Project Vox     ∅

Recent Philosophy Book Reviews in Non-Academic Media

1. How to Think Like a Philosopher by Julian Baggini is reviewed by Susan Flockhart at The Herald Scotland.
2. Justice for Animals: Our Collective Responsibility by Martha Nussbaum is reviewed by Rohan Silva at The Guardian.
3. Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self by Andrea Wulf is reviewed by Anthony Curtis Adler at Los Angeles Review of Books.

Open-Access Book Reviews in Academic Philosophy Journals     

To have book reviews from your journal included in this section, see the instructions here.

Compiled by Michael Glawson

BONUS: Experience Machine Update

Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

The weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources and new reviews of philosophy books…

SEP

New:

1. Frege’s Logic by Roy Cook.

Revised:

1. Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling by Andrew Bowie.
2. Dewey’s Political Philosophy by Matthew Festenstein.
3. Erotic Art by Hans Maes.
4. Intentionality by Pierre Jacob.

IEP    

1. Faith: Contemporary Perspectives by Elizabeth Jackson.

NDPR    

1. Spinoza on Learning to Live Together by Susan James is reviewed by Justin Steinberg.
2. Appearance in Reality by John Heil is reviewed by Christopher S. Hill and Elizabeth Miller.
3. Nietzsche’s Free Spirit Works: A Dialectical Reading by Matthew Meyer is reviewed by Jeremy Fortier.

1000-Word Philosophy

1. The Meaning of Life: What’s the Point? by Matthew Pianalto.

Project Vox     ∅

Recent Philosophy Book Reviews in Non-Academic Media 

1. 1. Anaximander and the Nature of Science by Carlo Rovelli is reviewed by Tim Adams at The Guardian.

Open-Access Book Reviews in Academic Philosophy Journals     

To have book reviews from your journal included in this section, see the instructions here.

Compiled by Michael Glawson

Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

The weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources and new reviews of philosophy books…

SEP

New:

1. Fakhr al-Din al-Razi by Peter Adamson and Fedor Benevich.

Revised:

1. Instrumental Rationality by Niko Kolodny and John Brunero.
2. Computing and Moral Responsibility by Merel Noorman.
3. Mental Causation by David Robb, John Heil, and Sophie Gibb.
4. Justice and Bad Luck by Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen.
5. Plato’s Ethics: An Overview by Dorothea Frede and Mi-Kyoung Lee.
6. Neutral Monism by Leopold Stubenberg and Donovan Wishon.
7. Set Theory by Joan Bagaria.
8. The Philosophy of Childhood by Gareth Matthews and Amy Mullin.
9. Cognitive Science by Paul Thagard.

IEP     ∅

NDPR    

1. Johann Friedrich Herbart: The Grandfather of Analytic Philosophy by Frederick C. Beiser is reviewed by David Sullivan.
2. The Notions of George Berkeley: Self, Substance, Unity and Power by James Hill is reviewed by Genevieve Migely.
3. A Plea for Natural Philosophy: And Other Essays by Penelope Maddy is reviewed by Gary Hatfield.
4. Lire le Matérialisme by Charles T. Wolfe is reviewed by Ruth Edith Hagengruber.

Recent Philosophy Book Reviews in Non-Academic Media

1. The Struggle for Decent Politics by Michael Walzer is reviewed by James Traub at The New York Times.
2. Imagining the End by Jonathan Lear is reviewed by Paul J. Griffiths at Commonweal Magazine.
3. This Beauty: A Philosophy of Being Alive by Nick Riggle is reviewed by Ryan Kemp at The Hedgehog Review.

Open-Access Book Reviews in Academic Philosophy Journals

To have book reviews from your journal included in this section, see the instructions here.

Compiled by Michael Glawson

BONUS: Well it’s still something…

Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

The weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources and new reviews of philosophy books…

SEP

New:

1. Legal Rights by Ori Herstein.
2. Ernst Bloch by Ivan Boldyrev.
3. Fitting Attitude Theories of Value by Christopher Howard.

Revised:

1. Ibn Bâjja [Avempace] by Josep Puig Montada.
2. Dewey’s Moral Philosophy by Elizabeth Anderson.
3. Bernard Williams by Sophie-Grace Chappell and Nicholas Smyth.
4. Alfred Tarski by Mario Gómez-Torrente.
5. Children’s Rights by David William Archard.
6. Ibn Rushd’s Natural Philosophy by Josep Puig Montada.
7. Négritude by Souleymane Bachir Diagne.
8. Metaethics by Geoff Sayre-McCord.
9. Coercion by Scott Anderson.
10. Modal Logic by James Garson.

IEP     ∅

NDPR     ∅

1000-Word Philosophy     ∅         

Project Vox     ∅

Recent Philosophy Book Reviews in Non-Academic Media

1. On Paradox: The Claims of Theory by Elizabeth Anker is reviewed by Michael W. Clune at Los Angeles Review of Books.
2. How to Say No: An Ancient Guide to the Art of Cynicism by Diogenes and the Cynics, and M.D. Usher (ed., trans.), is reviewed by Costica Bradatan at The Times Literary Supplement.
3. Justice for Animals: Our Collective Responsibility by Martha Nussbaum is reviewed by Sigal Samuel at Vox.
4. Living for Pleasure: An Epicurean Guide to Life by Emily A. Austin is reviewed by Julian Baggini at The Guardian.

Open-Access Book Reviews in Academic Philosophy Journals*

1. Open Future: Why Future Contingents are All False, by Patrick Todd is reviewed by Alessio Santelli in the European Journal of Analytic Philosophy.

* To have book reviews from your journal included in this section, see the instructions here.

Compiled by Michael Glawson

BONUS: Simone Weil takes an ethics course