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
Interest in the thought of the later Wittgenstein was hugely revived by Saul Kripke’s groundbreaking Wittgenstein On Rules and Private Langua...| Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
For over 4 decades, Elliott Sober has been examining and illuminating philosophical aspects of evolutionary theory. His recent book, The Philosophy of Evolutionary Theory, is something of a culmination of his extensive contributions to philosophers’ and biologists’ thinking about evolution.…| Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews | Reviews
“Are there any lineages of women philosophers in Confucianism?” When students in my Chinese Philosophy classes ask this question, I enjoy answering yes. Now, I am delighted to be able to assign the work of the philosophers I tell them about. This book collects and translates, for the first time, the…| Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews | Reviews
The traditional story of the development of modern philosophy is a good, if inaccurate, story not least because it finds a compelling antagonist in the figure of Hume. According to that story, the importance of Hume’s philosophy lies in his development of a boundless skepticism in the guise of a science…| Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews | Reviews
There is a strange self-depreciation in the opening passages of Emad H. Atiq’s stimulating and sophisticated new book. He is both critical of its title (‘drab and not very informative’) and of its organising motif, the unification of one research agenda around ‘the rejection of another—namely, positivism’.…| Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews | Reviews
While on paper an obvious insider, Raymond Geuss has for decades been criticizing contemporary philosophy as though he were an outsider, viewing it as an intellectually limiting practice too occupied with academically narrow, self-generated problems. He performs this critique with an eye to the past,…| Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews | Reviews
Steven Wall’s latest book Enforcing Morality covers a lot more ground than its title appears to offer. He defends the enforcement of morality-in-a-broad-sense, which encompasses norms about (1) what ways of living are worthwhile and valuable; (2) what kinds of conduct wrong others without…| Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews | Reviews
Chrisoula Andreou is one of the leading contemporary philosophers of rational choice. Choosing Well builds upon her influential articles and book chapters over the last two decades (ix-x). On a standard model of rational preferences (for short, the “classical model”), formal criteria…| Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews | Reviews
In 2007, the US company, Purdue Pharma, pleaded guilty to misleading governmental regulators, doctors, and patients about the addictiveness of its opioid product, Oxycodone, known under the brand name OxyContin (Meier 2007, 2018). Purdue Pharma advertised OxyContin as less addictive because it had…| Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews | Reviews
Over a career spanning more than three decades, Chenyang Li has become one of the world’s leading interpreters of Confucian philosophy. From the b...| Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
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
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, ...| Notre Dame Philosophical 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...| Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
There are few introductions to Latin American philosophy and even fewer devoted specifically to Mexican philosophy. Carlos Alberto Sánchez’s ...| Notre Dame Philosophical 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 regr...| Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
In the opening sentences of the Transcendental Aesthetic, Kant writes that intuition is that through which cognition relates immediately to objects (A19...| Notre Dame Philosophical 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
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
