- ponsibility — of imagination — Stephen Asma (Columbia College Chicago) and actor Paul Giamatti on the practice and philosophy of imagination
- That time Aristotle allowed himself to be ridden like a pony by the “seductive” Phyllis to warn Alexander the Great about being manipulated by women — immortalized in a water dispenser for your home
- “Women are said to be transformed into objects in AI, but injecting women’s humanity into AI objects makes these objects seem more human and acceptable” — do we learn something about gender and objectification from people’s reactions to robots and AI?
- An animated video series on values in scientific modelling — from Stephanie Harvard (UBC) and Eric Winsberg (South Florida)
- “More important than logic, is truth—and in particular, the truth of some contradictions” — a fascinating interview about logic with Zach Weber (Otago)
- The very first edition of the complete works of Plato to appear in any language is up for auction — estimated to sell for up to $400,000 (scroll down). If you’re looking for a deal, consider the 2nd edition of book 2 of Aquinas’s Summa, estimated to go for $120,000
- “Teaching Disability Studies… has given me insight into how much ableism is ‘baked into the bread’ of academia” — an interview with Jennifer Scuro (Miami U. of Ohio)
- Simpson’s Paradox, by Jan Sprenger and Naftali Weinberger
Revised:
- Gorampa [go rams pa], by Constance Kassor
- Xenocrates, by Russell Dancy
- Idiolects, by Alex Barber and Eduardo Garcia Ramirez
- William Godwin, by Mark Philp
- Philo of Larissa, by Charles Brittain and Peter Osorio
- Hans Reichenbach, by Clark Glymour and Frederick Eberhardt
- Moore’s Moral Philosophy, by Thomas Hurka
- Dependence Logic, by Pietro Galliani
- Empirical Aesthetics, by Aenne Brielmann
- Critical Thinking, by Jamie Carlin Watson
- Humility Regarding Intrinsic Properties, by Lok-Chi Chan
- Daniel Telech reviews The Moral Psychology of Hope, by Claudia Blöser and Titus Stahl (eds.).
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Recent Philosophy Book Reviews in Non-Academic Media
- The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms Volume 1: Language, Volume 2: Mythical Thinking, and Volume 3: Phenomenology of Cognition, by Ernest Cassirer, reviewed by Adam Kirsch in The New York Review of Books.
- The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science by Michael Strevens, reviewed by Peter Bernhardt on Australian Broadcasting Corporation Radio.