It is well known that Friedrich Nietzsche suffered a complete mental collapse in January 1889 after an impressive flurry of philosophical activity in the preceding five years. The works he completed during that time include Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883-5), the fifth book of The Gay Science…| Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews | Reviews
Prior to the introduction of Darwinian and Mendelian ideas and their later integration in the early 20th Century, it was common to view organisms as hav...| Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
Carlos Sánchez has dedicated a lot of thought and ink to two questions: (1) Is there such a thing as “Mexican philosophy”? and (2) If there is such a thing, does it matter? Throughout his career, Sánchez has consistently answered the first question affirmatively.[1] In…| Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews | Reviews
Michael Lynch’s On Truth in Politics: Why Democracy Demands It defends both a pluralist account of truth and the importance of truth to our ...| Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
One of the features of philosophical discourse that distinguishes it from most other branches of scientific and humanistic enquiry is the lack of widespread agreement about basic terms and concepts. Philosophy is less often a matter of adopting and refining a methodology and applying it to the evidence…| Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews | Reviews
Seeing More answers two questions. What is the imagination for Kant? And what role does it play in his philosophical picture? It is named for the reading Samantha Matherne proposes: the imagination is a capacity to “see more” than what is immediately given (109f.). This capacity is woven…| Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews | Reviews
Think of how it feels to be sick, or to care for someone else who is sick. What has gone missing? Or what is this new thing that is present? What is it we are doing when we try to “eat healthy” or “be healthy” or “avoid unhealthy lifestyle choices”? And why does it matter so much? Why is it so powerful…| Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews | Reviews
This book is a thorough and detailed journey through a complex landscape: theories of truth and modality in languages that allow for self-referential sentences. As is well known, such languages are prone to paradoxes, and the book explores the main results in the field within classical logic. The…| Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews | Reviews
In eighteen compact chapters, Sophie Grace Chappell’s A Philosopher Looks at Friendship provides a wonderfully readable introduction to many questions and debates under the umbrella that is the philosophy of friendship. These include typical questions about the nature and ethics of friendship,…| Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews | Reviews
Among the first things one typically learns about Fichte is that he dubbed his philosophical system “the first system of freedom,” on the grounds that it frees us “from those external influences with which all previous systems—including the Kantian—have more or less fettered man” (1988, 385). Far…| Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews | Reviews
The International Criminal Court (ICC) is central to the enterprise of international criminal justice (ICJ). It claims the authority to try perpetrators of ‘the most serious crimes of concern to the international community as a whole’, which ‘deeply shock the conscience of humanity’ and ‘threaten…| Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews | Reviews
As J. L. Mackie (1955, 200) formulated the so-called logical problem of evil: God is omnipotent; God is wholly good; and yet evil exists. There seems to be some contradiction between these three propositions, so that if any two of them were true the third…| Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews | Reviews
Neuroethics is a young discipline with still-blurred boundaries, situated at the crossroads of neurology and philosophy. Yet it has successfully positioned itself within one of the most fascinating and implication-rich scientific domains of our time—and likely of the times to come. What could be more…| Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews | Reviews
In Charles Taylor's work, poetry has consistently served as a paradigmatic example of protest against the modern diremption of nature and spirit, as wel...| Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
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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
Natural history (naturalis historia, Naturgeschichte, histoire naturelle) in the western world began in earnest with Aristotle as an exercise in the des...| Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
Derrick Darby’s urgent and important book, A Realistic Blacktopia, raises to the surface of conversations about race a question that too ofte...| Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
This is an important and timely book. It focuses on the undeniable fact that in our current partisan—or as I would put it, extremely tribalistic&#...| Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
This book is the most recent entry in the Bloomsbury Introductions to World Philosophy. The twelve previously published books are uniformly excellent, a...| Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
In this short and engaging volume, Peter Adamson explores a range of medieval answers to questions of epistemic authority. The first five chapters addre...| Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
This volume, number 43 of the collection Auctores Britannici Medii Aevi, is the sixth of the project editing the Dialogus of William of Ockham, initiate...| Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews