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No philosopher has done more than Michael Devitt to develop an account of language that accommodates (i) the broadly Fregean insight that the meanings of proper names and of certain other terms seem not to be their referents, (ii) the broadly Kripkean insight that the meanings of proper names and…
Friedrich Nietzsche’s penetrating psychological insights uncovered several pathologies obscurely hidden within modern morality. Prominent among these maladies, given its Judeo-Christian lineage, is morality’s reliance on the affects of guilt and shame, which Nietzsche ingeniously demonstrates to be…
Susan Stebbing (1885-1943) was a prominent analytic philosopher in the generation after Russell and Moore. Stebbing was highly influential on the post-war generation of analytic philosophers, but her work suffered unwarranted neglect toward the end of the last century. Stebbing is best known for her…
Adam Cureton’s Respecting Disability: Attitudes, Ideals, and Relationships is the inaugural title in OUP’s new book series, Oxford Studies in Disability, Ethics, and Society, and it sets the bar high for all future books in the series. According to the blurb on OUP’s website, the…
In his preface to this volume of Eileen O'Neill's collected essays, Gary Ostertag notes two book projects that O'Neill discussed writing: one on occasional causation in early modern philosophy, and a second collecting her essays. This is that second project, essays gathered together by Ostertag. Even…
In Facing Authority: A Theory of Political Legitimacy, Thomas Fossen aims to do away with the standard methodologies for thinking through the puzzle of legitimate political authority. After quickly arguing for junking these familiar approaches, Fossen develops his own pragmatist method for…
Thom Brooks offers this slender and skilful volume as an introduction to political philosophy. It would perform admirably as a textbook in an introductory course at the undergraduate level. The book assumes no prior knowledge of the field and approaches its subject matter topically. Each of…
When the story of the history of ethics is told, the ancient Greeks are often grouped together as eudaimonists. This usually means that an individual’s happiness or well-being is the ultimate justification for or against any action. Henry Sidgwick influentially puts the point in contrast with modern…
In his magisterial, three-volume Also a History of Philosophy (AHP; German: Auch eine Geschichte der Philosophie, 2 Vols., Suhrkamp 2019), Habermas sets forth an extended historical defense of central elements of Western modernity, specifically…
Alan Coffee approaches Mary Wollstonecraft’s works with the aim of showing their philosophical value. Wollstonecraft wrote in a wide variety of genres, none of which is easily identified as philosophical argumentation. Like any scholar working to extract the philosophical contents of Wollstonecraft’s…
