“Anyone can give up; it is the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone would expect you to fall apart, now that is true strength.”
– Chris Bradford
How to Swim Against the Stream: On Diogenes Los Angeles Review of Books
Colleen Hoover sold millions of books thanks to #booktok. Now, her fans are trying to cancel her.
New:
- Existentialism by Kevin Aho.
Revised:
- Haecceitism by Sam Cowling.
- Beardsley’s Aesthetics by Michael Wreen.
- Democritus by Sylvia Berryman.
- Bernardino Telesio by Michaela Boenke.
- Kant’s Account of Reason by Garrath Williams.
- The Value of Art by Harry Drummond.
- A Middle Way: A Non-Fundamental Approach to Many-Body Physics by Robert W. Batterman is reviewed by Jula R.S. Bursten.
- Wilderness, Morality, and Value by Joshua Duclos is reviewed by Kyle Johannsen.
- Analytical Essay on the Faculties of the Soul by Charles Bonnet is reviewed by John H. Zammito.
- Arguments: Why Do You Believe What You Believe? by Thomas Metcalf.
Recent Philosophy Book Reviews in Non-Academic Media
- In Praise of Failure by Costica Bradatan is reviewed by Jenifer Szalai at The New York Times.
- Is St. Thomas’ Aristotelian Philosophy of Nature Obsolete? by Robert C. Koons is reviewed by Edward Feser at Public Discourse.
- Justice for Animals: Our Collective Responsibility by Martha C. Nussbaum is reviewed by Matthew Scully at National Review.
Compiled by Michael Glawson
BONUS: Happy New Year
Philosophers on Substack
Substack, the online publishing platform, appears to be increasing in popularity among philosophers as a place to blog and share ideas via newsletter.
Yet it can be difficult to find philosophers’ Substacks if you’re not already aware of them, or if they are not especially popular. So I thought it would be useful to create a space to list them. To keep things manageable, let’s limit this post to Substacks by philosophy professors or those with at least some graduate training in philosophy.
Here’s a list of Substacks by philosophers I’m aware of:
- Hinternet by Justin E. H. Smith
- Mostly Aesthetics by Brad Skow
- The Philosophical Economist by Erik Angner
- Good Thoughts by Richard Y. Chappell
- It’s Her Factory by Robin James
- Fake Noûs by Michael Huemer
- Under the Net by Kieran Setiya
- Infinitely More by Joel David Hamkins
- Running Ideas by Nicholas Delon
- Philosophy for the People by Ben Burgis
- Uncommon Wisdom by Jimmy Alfonso Licon
- The Splintered Mind by Eric Schwitzgebel
Please share others in the comments. Thanks!
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