Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
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Enjoy thoughtful analyses and critical discussions on selected Philosophical books. Supported by the Philosophy Department of the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews is an online journal entirely devoted to publishing substantive, high-quality scholarly philosophy book reviews.
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Stefan Riedener’s book is concerned with axiological uncertainty—that is, the problem of how to evaluate prospects given uncertainty about what the correct axiology is. For evaluations of this kind of meta value, Riedener uses the term ‘m-value’ (3). The main goal of the book is to provide ..read more
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Human beings have a wide range of commitments, but we assign some of our commitments a privileged practical, axiological, and epistemic status. The success of some of our commitments (for example, to personal relationships, achievements, or political causes) requires toil or self-sacrifice, yet these ..read more
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David Snoke’s book, Interpreting Quantum Mechanics: Modern Foundations, is an engaging and comprehensive introduction to interpretative issues in quantum mechanics. It provides an accessible presentation of the field which would be useful for students and teachers, and it also offers a valuable ..read more
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Nick Bostrom is perhaps best known for his 2014 book Superintelligence, which explores the existential threat posed to humans by superintelligent AI. In his new book ..read more
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When my department underwent an external review recently, the reviewers recommended that the department offer a class on feminist philosophy. I was a bit perplexed by this recommendation. After all, most of the members of my department include feminist work in our classes on ethics, critical thinking ..read more
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Some thinkers are attracted to the philosophy of friendship because of their interest in the best possibilities of friendship while others are interested in the whole shebang, virtuous and unvirtuous. Kristjan Kristjánsson falls in the middle, as he takes Aristotelian character friendship as his topic ..read more
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This book, part of the Oxford History of Philosophy series, is an account of the development of Indian Buddhist philosophy during the first millennium of the common era. It thus begins its history not with the Buddha (roughly 5th c BCE) but with the rise of distinct schools of interpretation of the ..read more
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In this little whirlwind of a book, David Pitt, like some philosophical Tasmanian Devil, whirls us across the landscapes of philosophy of language and philosophy of mind, overturning dilapidated doctrines and whisking away outdated structures. Once it has forcefully achieved its destructive work ..read more
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Simon James offers an engaging and useful view about how parts of nature have constitutive value as important, often irreplaceable parts of meaningful wholes. It is a descriptive account of one way in which nature can be valuable to human beings, which means contributing to human welfare, as an alternative ..read more
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Catherine Wilson, Kant and the Naturalistic Turn of 18th Century Philosophy, Oxford University Press 2022, 312pp., $97.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780192847928.
Reviewed by Courtney D. Fugate, Florida State University ..read more