New Books in Philosophy
Interview with Philosophers about their New Books
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- http://newbooksnetwork.com/category/politics-society/philosophy/
- Description
- Interviews with Philosophers about their New Books
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2024-11-22 01:01
- last episode published
- 2024-11-21 09:00
- publication frequency
- 12.68 days
- Contributors
- Marshall Poe
- Owner
- Marshall Poe
- Author
- marshallpoe@gmail.com (Marshall Poe)
- Managing editor
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- Number of Episodes
- 388
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- Categories
- Society & Culture Philosophy
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2024-11-21 |
Robert B. Talisse, "Civic Solitude: Why Democracy Needs Distance" (Oxford UP, 2024) An internet search of the phrase "this is what democracy looks like" returns thousands of images of people assembled in public for the purpose of collective action. But is group collaboration truly the defining feature of effective democracy? In Civic ... |
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| 2024-11-20 |
Owen Ware, "Indian Philosophy and Yoga in Germany" (Routledge, 2023) Indian Philosophy and Yoga in Germany by Owen Ware (Routledge, 2024) takes the reader on a tour through the reception of Yoga philosophies in nineteenth-century German and the early twentieth century. European luminaries like Schlegel, Hegel, von Günde... |
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| 2024-11-10 |
Matti Eklund, "Alien Structure: Language and Reality" (Oxford UP, 2024) It is not uncommon to encounter people who think and talk about the world so differently from the way you do that it’s not really possible to put yourself in their shoes. But such systems of representing the world are not truly alien – they still invol... |
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| 2024-10-21 |
Vanessa Christina Wills, "Marx's Ethical Vision" (Oxford UP, 2024) Does Marx have a coherent ethical vision? How does that square with his sometimes-scathing dismissal of morality? What does his critique of capital have to do with ethics? Why is the proletariat the revolutionary class? What is the normative importance... |
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| 2024-10-10 | Aldo Leopold’s Land Ethic has been both hugely influential in the environmental conservation movement – and also often misinterpreted. In The Land is Our Community: Aldo Leopold’s Environmental Ethic for the New Millenium (University of Chicago Press),... |
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| 2024-10-01 |
Samuel Ely Bagg, "The Dispersion of Power: A Critical Realist Theory of Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2023) We commonly think of democracy as a social order governed by the people’s collective will. Given the size of the modern states, this picture is typically adjusted to say that democracy is a system of representative government, where elected officials a... |
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| 2024-09-21 | The open-access edited volume Philosophies of Appropriated Religions: Perspectives from Southeast Asia (Springer, 2023) collects philosophical approaches to Southeast Asian traditions of philosophy and religion. The editors, Soraj Hongladarom, Jeremiah... |
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| 2024-09-01 | We are familiar with the idea of a formal representative, and perhaps the idea of a formal political representative readily comes to mind. Roughly, this is someone who has been selected by an official process to hold a political office where he or she ... |
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| 2024-08-20 |
Devonya N. Havis, "Creating a Black Vernacular Philosophy" (Lexington Books, 2022) What can philosophy do? By taking up Black American cultural practices, Devonya N. Havis suggests that academic philosophy has been too narrow in its considerations of this question, supporting domination and oppression. In Creating a Black Vernacular... |
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| 2024-08-10 |
Alan C. Love, "Evolution and Development: Conceptual Issues" (Cambridge UP, 2024) It was an astounding discovery in the early 1980's that the same genetic sequence, the homeobox, controlled the development of basic body plans across the animal kingdom, whether the result was a flatworm, an octopus, a mouse, or a human. This discover... |
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