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Wednesday, February 02, 2022

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Nothing has ever been said about God that hasn't already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.

— Thomas Merton, born in 1915


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POSTMODERN WARFARE: Hactivists say they hacked Belarus rail system to stop Russian military buildup.


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New:

  1. Philosophical Approaches to Work and Labor by Michael Cholbi.
  2. Economics in Early Modern Philosophy  by Margaret Schabas.
  3. Spinoza’s Epistemology and Philosophy of Mind by Karolina Hübner.
  4. Cicero by Raphael Woolf.
  5. Korean Philosophy by Halla Kim.

Revised: 

  1. Omnipotence by Joshua Hoffman and Gary Rosenkrantz.
  2. Josiah Royce by Kelly A. Parker and Scott Pratt.
  3. John Austin by Brian Bix.
  4. Semantic Conceptions of Information by Sebastian Sequoiah-Grayson and Luciano Floridi.
  5. Black Reparations by Bernard Boxill and J. Angelo Corlett.
  6. Social and Political Thought in Chinese Philosophy by Stephen C. Angle.
  7. Paul of Venice by Alessandro Conti.
  8. Frederick Douglass by Ronald Sundstrom.
  9. The History of Feminism: Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet by Joan Landes.

IEP    

  1. Anti-Natalism, by Kirk Lougheed.

NDPR      

  1. Vagueness: A Global Approach by Kit Fine is reviewed by Roy Sorensen.

1000-Word Philosophy

  1. Indoctrination: What is it to Indoctrinate Someone?, by Chris Ranalli.

Project Vox     ∅           

Recent Philosophy Book Reviews in Non-Academic Media         

  1. The Right to Sex by Amia Srinivasan is reviewed by Katha Pollitt at Dissent Magazine
  2. How to Do Things with Emotions by Owen Flanagan is reviewed by Susie Orbach at The Guardian. 

Compiled by Michael Glawson

BONUS: Making the best of a bad situation