Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

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Following are the few philosophical book reviews.

• Kant's Theory of Taste, A Reading of the Critique of Aesthetic Judgment
• Enlightenment and Action from Descartes to Kant: Passionate Thought
• The Cambridge Companion to Rousseau
• Towards a Critical Theory of Society: The Collected Papers of Herbert Marcuse: Volume Two
• Knowledge, Possibility, and Consciousness
• Descartes: Belief, Scepticism and Virtue
• Rationality in Action
• The Gay Science: With a Prelude in German Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
• The Letters of George Santayana Book One, [1868]-1909 and Vol. V of The Works of George Santayana
• Living Without Free Will
• Characters in Search of Their Author: The Gifford Lectures, 1999-2000
• Practical Rationality and Preference: Essays for David Gauthier
• Agency and Deontic Logic
• Adorno: Disenchantment and Ethics
• Husserl, Heidegger, and the Space of Meaning: Paths toward Transcendental Phenomenology
• Truth and Hope: The Furst Franz Josef und Furstin Gina Lectures Delivered at the International Academy of Philosophy, 1998
• Zollikon Seminars: Protocols - Conversations-Letters
• Philosophy, Literature, and the Human Good
• New Thoughts about Old Things: Cognitive Policies as the Ground of Singular Concepts
• The Enchantment of Modern Life: Attachments, Crossings, and Ethics
• Time and Chance
• Reality and Impenetrability in Kant's Philosophy of Nature
• Reference, Truth and Conceptual Schemes: A Defense of Internal Realism
• Socrates against Athens: Philosophy on Trial
• Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy: Volume XX
• Public Goods, Private Goods
• The Soul of Justice: Social Bonds and Racial Hubris
• Francis Bacon and the Transformation of Early-Modern Philosophy
• Religion and the Demise of Liberal Rationalism: The Foundational Crisis of the Separation of Church and State
• Beyond Hegel And Nietzsche: Philosophy, Culture and Agency
• Autonomy in Jewish Philosophy
• The God Who May Be: A Hermeneutics of Religion
• The Architecture of Reason: The Structure and Substance of Rationality
• Knowledge, Truth, and Duty: Essays on Epistemic Justification, Responsibility, and Virtue
• Logical Properties
• Morals from Motives
• Bodies of Resistance: New Phenomenologies of Politics, Agency, and Culture
• A Materialist Metaphysics of the Human Person
• Moral Relativism, Moral Diversity, and Human Relations
• Questioning God, Indiana Series in the Philosophy of Religion
• Achieving Our Humanity: The Idea of the Postracial Future
• Wittgenstein, Theory and the Arts
• Natural Law and Practical Rationality
• Future Pasts: The Analytic Tradition in Twentieth-Century Philosophy
• Fearless Speech
• What is Knowledge?
• Logical Investigations, Volumes 1 and 2 and The Shorter Logical Investigations
• Moral Reality
• Gnostic Return in Modernity and Gnostic Apocalypse
• Ontology and the Art of Tragedy: an Approach to Aristotle's Poetics
• Real Ethics: Reconsidering the Foundations of Morality
• Mind and Mechanism
• Essay on the Origin of Human Knowledge, translated and edited by Hans Aarsleff
• Adaptationism and Optimality
• Freud as Philosopher: Metapsychology after Lacan
• Passionate Engines: What Emotions Reveal about Mind and Artificial Intelligence
• Belief and its Neutralization: Husserl's System of Phenomenology in Ideas I
• Reverence: Renewing a Forgotten Virtue
• Aristotle's Metaphysics Book Lambda
• Skepticism and the Veil of Perception
• Gadamer's Century: Essays in Honor of Hans-Georg Gadamer
• Four-Dimensionalism: an Ontology of Persistence and Time
• Ideal Code, Real World
• Wittgenstein: Biography and Philosophy
• Human Nature and the Limits of Science
• Leibniz's Metaphysics: Its Origins and Development
• Reference and Reflexivity
• Value, Respect, and Attachment
• The Structure of Values and Norms
• Interpreting Davidson
• Truth and the Absence of Fact
• Collective Rationality and Collective Reasoning
• Observations upon Experimental Philosophy
• Wittgenstein's Copernican Revolution: The Question of Linguistic Idealism
• Nietzsche, Biology and Metaphor
• Ricoeur as Another: The Ethics of Subjectivity
• From Frege to Wittgenstein: Perspectives on Early Analytic Philosophy
• The Empirical Stance
• Practical Rules: When We Need Them and When We Don't
• Thomas Aquinas on Human Nature: A Philosophical Study of Summa Theologiae 1a 75-89
• Heidegger's Later Philosophy
• Hilary Putnam: Pragmatism and realism, Routledge
• Legislating Morality: Pluralism and Religious Identity in Lawmaking
• Doing Things for Reasons
• Philosophy and the Adventure of the Virtual: Bergson and the Time of Life
• A Theory of Freedom: From the Psychology to the Politics of Agency
• The Fullness of Being: A New Paradigm for Existence
• Facing the Future: Agents and Choices in Our Indeterminist World
• Karl Jaspers: Politics and Metaphysics
• Physicalism and Its Discontents
• Thomas Reid and Scepticism: His reliabilist response
• Good Knowledge, Bad Knowledge: On Two Dogmas of Epistemology
• Naturalism Defeated? Essays on Plantinga's Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism
• What Am I? Descartes and the Mind-Body Problem
• Richard Wollheim on the Art of Painting: Art as Representation and Expression
• Breakdown of Will
• The Demands of Consequentialism
• Beyond Good and Evil
• Vagueness and Contradiction
• Anselm: Three Philosophical Dialogues
• Facing Facts
• Divine Hiddenness
• Descartes' System of Natural Philosophy
• Practical Reasoning in a Social World
• Rights, Wrongs and Responsibilities
• Kindness and the Good Society: Connections of the Heart
• Ethics, Exegesis and Philosophy: Interpretation after Levinas
• Sameness and Substance Renewed
• Dostoevsky the Thinker
• Philosophy and the Law of Torts
• G. E. Moore's Ethical Theory: Resistance and Reconciliation
• Epistemic Justification
• Why Good is Good: the Sources of Morality
• Kant's Empirical Realism
• Selves and Other Texts: The Case for Cultural Realism
• Gender in the Mirror: Cultural Imagery and Women's Agency
• Literary Philosophers: Borges, Calvino, Eco
• Before Forgiving: Cautionary Views of Forgiveness in Psychotherapy
• Religion and Violence: Philosophical Perspectives from Kant to Derrida
• Fashionable Nihilism: A Critique of Analytic Philosophy
• Theorie der Kausalitat: Ein Leitfaden zum Kausalitatsbegriff in zwei Teilen
• Allocating Scarce Medical Resources: Roman Catholic Perspectives
• The Devil in the Details: Asymptotic Reasoning in Explanation, Reduction and Emergence
• Hoekema's Review of Wilshire
• Wittgenstein: Connections and Controversies
• Does Socrates Have a Method' Rethinking the Elenchus in Plato's Dialogues and Beyond
• The Cambridge Companion to Gadamer
• Belief's Own Ethics
• The Nature of Consciousness
• The Ethics of Killing: Problems at the Margins of Life
• Spinoza: Metaphysical Themes
• Environmental Culture: The Ecological Crisis of Reason
• Liberal Pluralism: The Implications of Value Pluralism for Political Theory and Practice
• Beyond Romance
• Common Sense, Reasoning, and Rationality
• Kant's Search for the Supreme Principle of Morality
• Toleration as Recognition
• Understanding African Philosophy: A Cross-Cultural Approach to Classical and Contemporary Issues
• Deleuze and Spinoza: An Aura of Expressionism
• On the Trinity: Books 8-15
• Against Equal Opportunity
• The Philosophy of Michael Oakeshott
• The Animal Question: Why Non-Human Animals Deserve Human Rights
• Spinoza's Heresy: Immortality and the Jewish Mind
• The Beautiful Shape of the Good: Platonic and Pythagorean Themes in Kant's Critique of the Power of Judgment
• Beyond Rigidity: The Unfinished Semantic Agenda of Naming and Necessity
• Spirituality for the Skeptic: The Thoughtful Love of Life
• Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Nietzsche on Morality
• Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man
• The Cambridge Companion to Newton
• The Essence of Human Freedom: An Introduction to Philosophy and The Essence of Truth: On Plato's Cave Allegory and Theaetetus
• Key Concepts in Chinese Philosophy
• The Ethics of Aquinas
• Knowledge by Agreement: the Programme of Communitarian Epistemology
• A History of Irish Thought
• How Things Persist
• Praise and Blame: Moral Realism and Its Applications
• The Correspondence Theory of Truth: An Essay on the Metaphysics of Predication
• Zarathustra's Secret. The Interior Life of Friedrich Nietzsche
• Wittgenstein's Tractatus: A Dialectical Interpretation
• Individual and Conflict in Greek Ethics
• Interpreting Probability: Controversies and Developments in the Early Twentieth Century
• Kant's Metaphysics of Morals: Interpretative Essays
• Understanding the Many
• Religion and Rationality: Essays on Reason, God, and Modernity
• On Location: Aristotle's Concept of Place
• Heidegger's Way of Thought: Critical and Interpretive Signposts
• Hegel, Nietzsche, and Philosophy: Thinking Freedom
• Anthropic Bias: Observation Selection Effects in Science and Philosophy
• Oppression and Responsibility: a Wittgensteinian approach to social practices and moral theory
• Forgiveness and Revenge
• The Elusiveness of the Ordinary: Studies in the Possibility of Philosophy
• Radical Cartesianism: The French Reception of Descartes
• Language Alone: The Critical Fetish of Modernity
• The Cognitive Basis of Science
• Reading McDowell on Mind and World
• Critique of Practical Reason
• Mind, Metaphysics, and Value in the Thomistic and Analytical Traditions
• The Transhistorical Image: Philosophizing Art and its History
• Evil in Modern Thought: An Alternative History of Philosophy
• Religious Convictions in Liberal Politics
• The Ambitions of Curiosity: Understanding the World in Ancient Greece and China
• Kierkegaard's Upbuilding Discourses: Philosophy, theology, literature
• The Subject of Liberty: Toward a Feminist Theory of Freedom
• The Site of the Social: A Philosophical Account of the Constitution of Social Life and Change
• Truth
• Social Facts & Collective Intentionality
• Plato and Europe
• The Ethics of Deference: Learning from Law's Morals
• Principles of Truth
• Varieties of Religion Today: William James Revisited
• Vico: The First New Science
• Adorno's Positive Dialectic
• Truth Without Objectivity
• What Ought I to Do? Morality in Kant and Levinas
• Risk and Reason
• The Fragments
• A Defense of Abortion
• Corporeal Generosity: On Giving with Nietzsche, Merleau-Ponty, and Levinas
• The Treatise on Human Nature: Summa Theologiae 1a 75-89
• Foucault's Critical Project
• The Correspondence of Thomas Reid
• Epicurus and Democritean Ethics: An Archaeology of Ataraxia
• God, Locke and Equality: Christian Foundations of Locke's Political Thought
• Judaism and Enlightenment
• Categorical Principles of Law: A Counterpoint to Modernity
• Consciousness and Language
• Byzantine Philosophy and its Ancient Sources
• Genes: A Philosophical Inquiry
• Philosophy of Social Practices: A Collective Acceptance View
• Belief and Meaning: Essays at the Interface
• Hobbes, Locke, and Confusion's Masterpiece: An Examination of Seventeenth Century Philosophy
• Of Myth, Life and War in Plato's Republic
• Historical Ontology
• Morality's Progress
• Essays in the Metaphysics of Modality
• Adam Smith's Marketplace of Life
• Religion and the Obligations of Citizenship
• Paradox and Paraconsistency: Conflict Resolution in the Abstract Sciences
• The Art of Life
• The Idea of Form: Rethinking Kant's Aesthetics
• What is Ancient Philosophy?
• Stability and Justification in Hume's Treatise
• Ethics and Epics: Philosophy, Culture, and Religion
• Making Babies: Is There a Right to Have Children?
• Functions: New Essays in Philosophy of Psychology and Biology
• Plato's Timaeus as Cultural Icon
• Radical Interpretation in Religion
• You Must Change Your Life: Poetry, Philosophy, and the Birth of Sense
• Introducing Analytic Philosophy: Its Sense and Its Nonsense 1879-2002
• Not Passion's Slave: Emotions and Choice
• Collingwood and the Metaphysics of Experience
• Husserl at the Limits of Phenomenology
• Terms and Truth
• The Cambridge Companion to Duns Scotus
• Concealment and Exposure and Other Essays
• Strangers, Gods and Monsters
• A History of Philosophy in America 1720-2000
• World Without Design: The Ontological Consequences of Naturalism
• Departing From Frege: Essays in the Philosophy of Language
• Lack of Character: Personality and Moral Behavior
• The German Tradition in Aesthetics
• Heidegger's Interpretation of Kant: Categories, Imagination, and Temporality
• Feminist Interpretations of Hans-Georg Gadamer
• Thomist Realism and the Linguistic Turn: Toward a More Perfect Form of Existence
• Classical and Romantic German Aesthetics
• A Priori Justification
• Lectures on Philosophical Ethics
• Encyclopedia of Chinese Philosophy
• What Genes Can't Do
• Fairness: Theory and Practice of Distributive Justice
• In Mendel's Mirror: Philosophical Reflections on Biology
• Propositions
• Art and Morality
• The Resurrection of God Incarnate
• Problems at the Root of Law
• Environmental Justice: Creating Equality, Reclaiming Democracy
• The Emergence of Sexuality: Historical Epistemology and the Formation of Concepts
• Words Without Meaning
• Later Derrida: Reading the Recent Work
• Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience
• A Thomistic Tapestry: Essays in Memory of Eienne Gilson
• Reason and Nature: Essays in the Theory of Rationality
• The Importance of Being Understood: Folk Psychology as Ethics
• Apprehension: Reason in the Absence of Rules
• Truth and Truthfulness: An Essay in Genealogy
• ohn Locke: Writings on Religion
• The Ethics of Information Technology and Business
• Science and Other Cultures: Issues in Philosophy of Science and Technology
• The Life of the Mind: An Essay on Phenomenological Externalism
• Meaning, Expression, and Thought, Cambridge
• The Cambridge Companion to Rawls
• The Atrocity Paradigm: A Theory of Evil
• Heidegger's Atheism: The Refusal of a Theological Voice
• Moral Writings and The Right and the Good
• Autonomy and Trust in Bioethics
• Divine Action and Modern Science
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Philosophy: Fear and Trembling in Sunnydale
• Feminist Interpretations of Ludwig Wittgenstein
• Aristotle and the Philosophy of Friendship
• Marx and Wittgenstein: Knowledge, Morality and Politics
• The Procession of the World (De processione mundi)
• The Dialectic of Essence: A Study of Plato's Metaphysics
• Between Two Worlds, East and West: An Autobiography
• Theoretical Philosophy after 1781
• The Myth of Morality
• The Roman Philosophers: From the time of Cato the Censor to the death of Marcus Aurelius
• Thinking About Knowing
• Mathematics in Kant's Critical Philosophy
• Descartes' Cogito: Saved from the Great Shipwreck
• Quine and Davidson on Language, Thought and Reality
• Bayes's Theorem
• Unprincipled Virtue
• Recreative Minds: Imagination in Philosophy and Psychology
• Real Metaphysics: Essays in Honour of D. H. Mellor, Routledge
• Knowledge and its Place in Nature
• The Future of Human Nature
• Aquinas on Being
• Boethius
• The Roots of Reason: Philosophical Essays on Rationality, Evolution, and Probability
• Autonomy, Gender, and Politics
• Ethics and Foreign Intervention
• Truth and Justification

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