Should You Choose to Live Forever? is one of the newest entries in Routledge’s excellent “Little Debates about Big Questions” series, and it’s the best one I’ve read. Every book in the series has three parts. In the first, each author makes their positive arguments for their favored positions.…| Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews | Reviews
What makes a human being a rational animal? How did we become rational as a species? Kant’s account of autonomy marks a watershed moment in modern philosophy because it answers the first question in a novel way that makes the second appear unanswerable, possibly ill-formed. In Kant’s…| Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews | Reviews
There are few introductions to Latin American philosophy and even fewer devoted specifically to Mexican philosophy. Carlos Alberto Sánchez’s Blooming in the Ruins: How Mexican Philosophy Can Guide Us toward the Good Life not only introduces the reader to key concepts, figures, themes, and…| Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews | Reviews
Within ancient and classical Indian literature, sūtra texts are comprised of aphoristic statements that together frame a subject matter and present...| Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
If to err is human, then so too is to regret. At least if we follow Paddy McQueen in his recent book about the nature, normativity, and politics of regret. According to McQueen, regret is, roughly, a painful feeling of self-reproach or self-recrimination for making a “mistake” (21). Like all emotions,…| Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews | Reviews
In the opening sentences of the Transcendental Aesthetic, Kant writes that intuition is that through which cognition relates immediately to objects (A19/B33). He then adds that intuitions belong to the faculty of sensibility, which enables objects to be given to us, while the understanding…| Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews | Reviews
Amir Saemi opens the book by presenting a formidable challenge for today’s religious progressives who accept the authority of ancient scriptures b...| Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
This book sets out in some detail an interesting conception of freedom, according to which being unable to do something (or its being difficult to do),...| Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
The transparency referred to in the title of Matthew Boyle’s book is Gareth Evans’s highly influential idea that one makes self-ascriptions ...| Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
Over the past 25 years, philosophers have begun to address the long-standing neglect of the epistemic condition of moral responsibility. Several promine...| Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews