Right-wing populists are gaining support in liberal democracies around the world. In considering how to respond to the spread of illiberal and antidemocratic views, liberals might wonder whether there is any guidance to be drawn from the work of John Rawls, the dominant figure in contemporary liberal…| Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews | Reviews
The view known as moral error theory (henceforth, simply error theory) holds that all moral statements are false insofar as they entail properties that do not exist. Proponents of error theory are confronted with what philosophers call the “Now What?” problem, which asks how we should respond to our…| Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews | Reviews
Cartesian studies has come a long way in recent years. It used to be (and I suspect still is the case in some places) that, when teaching Descartes, the focus was on the Meditations and on the development of his metaphysical and epistemological thought: Cartesian doubt, followed by the cogito,…| Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews | Reviews
In Kathryn Sophia Belle’s deliberately bold Beauvoir and Belle: A Black Feminist Critique of “The Second Sex”, the author asks, “did Beauvoir ever read the work of Black women?” (315). Belle finds that not only did Beauvoir not engage the ideas of Black women writers, the secondary…| Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews | Reviews
Tito Magri’s Hume’s Imagination is a big and impressive book. Big: with almost 500 pages of text, it is longer than ATreatise of Human Nature, David Hume’s masterwork, the first Book of which Magri takes as his focus. Magri thoughtfully helps his readers follow the argument…| Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews | Reviews