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...Roger M. White David Pears, Paradox and Platitude in Wittgenstein's Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. xi + 133 pp. © 2010 by Cornell University 2010 BOOK REVIEWS David Pears, Paradox and Platitude in Wittgenstein’s Philosophy. Oxford...

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...Mark Wilson Sklar Lawrence , Philosophy and the Foundations of Dynamics . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2013 . ix + 272 pp . © 2015 by Cornell University 2015 In philosophy classes, we hear of the fabled struggles between theory T and T  ′, armored...

... benefit if you are sad. The high standard of production (complete with index), as is the custom for Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy , matches that of the papers. Specialists in ancient philosophy will find this volume rewarding, as will contemporary philosophers interested in virtue ethics...

...Nathaniel Bulthuis Cameron Margaret and Stainton Robert J. , eds., Linguistic Content: New Essays on the History of Philosophy of Language . Oxford: Oxford University Press , 2015 . 272 pp . © 2017 by Cornell University 2017 Cameron and Stainton's edited volume...

... Shemmer Yonatan eds., Constructivism in Practical Philosophy . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2012 . 261 pp. © 2014 by Cornell University 2014 Constructivists aim to account for the semantics or metaphysics of (part or all of) normativity. Against realists, and along...

...Charles McCarty Parsons Charles , Philosophy of Mathematics in the Twentieth Century: Selected Essays . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2014 . xii +350 pp. © 2016 by Cornell University 2016 The phrase ‘ontology of mathematics’ is ambiguous: it can refer either...

... by the essays that PCD contains: there's much to be learned from them. As I said at the outset, this book is a welcome addition to the literature. 1. Go to the publisher's site for the book, www.routledge.com/Philosophy-Comes-to-Dinner-Arguments-About-the-Ethics-of-Eating/Chignell-Cuneo-Halteman/p...

...Hasok Chang Hilary Putnam (1926–2016) has left many lasting marks. The editors of this volume have done an admirable job of providing a broad and well-balanced coverage of important strands of Putnam's work in logic, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of science, epistemology, philosophy...

... does not know, but inferred this from the “recipe” with which he “cooked up” his counterexamples to the justified-true-belief theory (98). However, there may be a more serious problem. According to negative x-phi's version of the picture of philosophy Deutsch attacks, the book's main argument puts...

...Shannon Spaulding Brownstein Michael and Saul Jennifer (eds.), Implicit Bias and Philosophy: Metaphysics and Epistemology, Volume 1 . Oxford: Oxford University Press , 2016 . 316 pp . © 2018 by Cornell University 2018 Implicit Bias and Philosophy: Metaphysics...

...Julie K. Ward Naomi Zack , ed., The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Race . New York: Oxford University Press , 2017 . xix + 631 pp . © 2019 by Cornell University 2019 The new anthology on philosophy of race edited by Naomi Zack is broad in scope yet succeeds in offering...

...Karen Green Bergès Sandrine and Coffee Alan , eds., The Social and Political Philosophy of Mary Wollstonecraft . Mind Association Occasional Series. Oxford: Oxford University Press , 2016 . xi + 247 pp . © 2019 by Cornell University 2019 In 1997, a collection of essays...

...Alan Kim What, for Laks, then, is at stake in the concept of Presocratic philosophy? Apparently this: Either (1) these earliest thinkers are radically detached from us, who stand at the end of a long decline initiated by Socrates or Plato or Aristotle. As such, they may present us with a model...

... measurement problem, quantum entanglement, and Bell nonlocality. Healey Richard , The Quantum Revolution in Philosophy . Oxford: Oxford University Press , 2017 . ix + 292 pp. © 2020 by Cornell University 2020 In this thought-provoking book, Richard Healey proposes a new interpretation...