Next Home Previous How Biology Shapes Philosophy David Livingstone Smith Reviewed by Charles H. Pence How Biology Shapes Philosophy: New Foundations for Naturalism David Livingstone Smith ( ed .) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017, £82.99/£21.99 ISBN 9781107055834/9781107628205 As anyone who has put together a syllabus for a survey course in the philosophy of biology can attest, there is something of a dual

Next Home Previous Understanding, Explanation, and Scientific Knowledge Kareem Khalifa Reviewed by Henk W. de Regt and Anna E. Höhl Understanding, Explanation, and Scientific Knowledge Kareem Khalifa Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017, £78.99 (£24.99) ISBN 9781107195639 (9781316646915) Recent years have witnessed an increasing interest among philosophers of science in the topic of understanding.

Next Home Previous What Biological Functions Are and Why They Matter Justin Garson Reviewed by Matteo Colombo What Biological Functions Are and Why They Matter Justin Garson Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019, £75.00 ISBN 9781108472593 Why do zebras have black and white stripes? No, it’s not to amuse the fans of Juventus, an (in)famous Italian football club with a black-and-white-striped home kit.

Next Home Previous Brute Facts Elly Vintiadis and Constantinos Mekios Reviewed by Kristoffer Willert Brute Facts Elly Vintiadis and Constantinos Mekios ( ed .) Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018, £50 ISBN 9780198758600 Say you are waiting for your mom at the cinema, but she doesn’t turn up. You wonder if she’s stuck in traffic. Or if she has mixed up the dates.

Next Home Previous The Routledge Handbook of the Computational Mind Mark Sprevak and Matteo Colombo Reviewed by Adrian Downey The Routledge Handbook of the Computational Mind Mark Sprevak and Matteo Colombo ( eds ) London: Routledge, 2019, £190.00 ISBN 9781138186682 In their introduction to this volume, Mark Sprevak and Matteo Colombo highlight its three aims: to constitute a ‘time-capsule’ of

Next Home Previous Values in Psychological Science Lisa M. Osbeck Reviewed by Robert Hudson Values in Psychological Science: Re-imagining Epistemic Priorities at a New Frontier Lisa M. Osbeck Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019, £80 / £19.99 ISBN 9781107134904 / 9781316500972 In Values in Psychological Science: Re-imagining Epistemic Priorities at a New Frontier , Lisa Osbeck believes we live ‘in an era

Next Home Previous The Normative Animal Neil Roughley and Kurt Bayertz Reviewed by Martina Valković The Normative Animal?

Next Home Previous Macroscopic Metaphysics Paul Needham Reviewed by Max Kistler Macroscopic Metaphysics: Middle-Sized Objects and Longish Processes Paul Needham Cham: Springer, 2017, £79.99 ISBN 9783319709987 Paul Needham’s book Macroscopic Metaphysics elaborates a systematic metaphysical framework with the aim of analysing, along the lines of Strawson’s ([1959], p. 9; quoted on p. v) ‘descriptive metaphysics’,

Next Home Previous Philosophy of Physics Tim Maudlin Reviewed by Valia Allori Philosophy of Physics: Quantum Theory Tim Maudlin Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019, £22.00 ISBN 9780691183527 This book is an introduction to the foundation of quantum mechanics. As such, this book is perfect: it is the book that my former, physics undergraduate, self would have wanted to read.

Next Home Previous Speculation Peter Achinstein Reviewed by Samuel Schindler Speculation: Within and about Science Peter Achinstein Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019, £19.99 ISBN 9780190615055 What is a scientific speculation? What epistemic attitude should one take towards speculation in science? These are two of the central, hitherto little discussed, questions Achinstein seeks to shed light on in his book.

Next Home Previous The Goodness Paradox Richard Wrangham Reviewed by Ronald J. Planer The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution Richard Wrangham New York: Pantheon Books, 2019, £25.00 ISBN 9781101870907 Richard Wrangham’s The Goodness Paradox is an excellent book.