Robbins Library Notes

Good morning, readers!

Here’s an fascinating look at “experimental philosophy,” — or x-phi — by David Edmonds and Nigel Warburton.

A hat-tip to Brian Leiter for this article.

Good morning, readers!

Here are the December 2008 reviews from Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.  Are any worth purchasing for the Robbins collection?

• Peg Birmingham, Serena Parekh, Hannah Arendt and Human Rights: The Predicament of Common Responsibility; Hannah Arendt and the Challenge of Modernity: A Phenomenology of Human Rights , Reviewed by Patchen Markell, University of Chicago
  

• Virginia Held, How Terrorism Is Wrong: Morality and Political Violence, Reviewed by Igor Primoratz, University of Melbourne

• Rosalyn Diprose, Jack Reynolds (eds.), Merleau-Ponty: Key Concepts, Reviewed by John Protevi, Louisiana State University

• Annika Thiem, Unbecoming Subjects: Judith Butler, Moral Philosophy, and Critical Responsibility, Reviewed by Catherine Mills, University of Sydney

• Brian Leiter, Michael Rosen (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Continental Philosophy, Reviewed by Pol Vandevelde, Marquette University

• Joshua Knobe, Shaun Nichols (eds.), Experimental Philosophy, Reviewed by Frank Jackson, Princeton University
  

• Joseph Agassi, Abraham Meidan, Philosophy from a Skeptical Perspective, Reviewed by Charles Landesman, Hunter College/Graduate School of the City University of New York

• Barry Dainton, The Phenomenal Self, Reviewed by William Uzgalis, Oregon State University

• Deborah Cook (ed.), Theodor Adorno: Key Concepts, Reviewed by Lambert Zuidervaart, University of Toronto

• Gillian Russell, Truth in Virtue of Meaning: A Defence of the Analytic/Synthetic Distinction, Reviewed by Åsa Wikforss, Stockholm University

• Sara MacDonald, Finding Freedom: Hegel’s Philosophy and the Emancipation of Women, Reviewed by Lydia Moland, Colby College

• Aldo Brancacci, Pierre-Marie Morel (eds.), Democritus: Science, the Arts, and the Care of the Soul, Reviewed by Patricia Curd, Purdue University

• Joseph Almog, Cogito?: Descartes and Thinking the World, Reviewed by Kurt Smith, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania

• Sally Sedgwick, Kant’s Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals: An Introduction, Reviewed by Lara Denis, Agnes Scott College

• Duncan Ivison, Rights, Reviewed by Derrick Darby, University of Kansas