Here’s the weekly report on new entries in online philosophical resources and new reviews of philosophy books.
Below is a list of recent updates, if there have been any, to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP), Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (IEP), Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (NDPR), 1000-Word Philosophy, and Wireless Philosophy (Wi-Phi). There’s also a section listing recent reviews of philosophy books appearing in popular media.
New:
- Cancer, by Anya Plutynski (Washington University, St. Louis).
Revised:
- Epiphenomenalism, by William Robinson (Iowa State).
- Richard Mervyn Hare, by Anthony Price (Birbeck, University of London).
- The Experience and Perception of Time, by Robin Le Poidevin (Leeds).
- The Epsilon Calculus, by Jeremy Avigad (Carnegie Mellon) and Richard Zach (Calgary).
- Cognitive Penetrability of Perception and Epistemic Justification, by Christos Georgakakis (Aberdeen) and Luca Moretti (Aberdeen).
- Simone Weil, by Tony Lynch (New England).
- Reviewed by Duncan Richter (Virginia Military Institute) reviews Reading Wittgenstein with Anscombe, Going On to Ethics (Harvard), by Cora Diamond.
- Morten Ebbe Juul Nielsen (Copenhagen) reviews Capabilities in a Just Society: A Theory of Navigational Agency (Cambridge), by Rutger Claassen.
- Karsten R. Stueber (College of the Holy Cross) reviews From Psychology to Morality: Essays in Ethical Naturalism (Oxford), by John Deigh.
- Peter Thielke (Pomona College) reviews For the Love of Metaphysics: Nihilism and the Conflict of Reason from Kant to Rosenzweig (Oxford), by Karin Nisenbaum.
- Daniel M. Johnson (Shawnee State) reviews The Problem of Evil: Eight Views in Dialogue (Oxford), by N.N. Trakakis (ed.).
- Reparations for Historic Injustice, by Joseph Frigault (Colorado-Boulder).
Recent Philosophy Book Reviews in Non-Academic Media
- Robert Davis reviews Socrates in Love: The Making of a Philosopher by Armand D’Angour, at The New York Journal of Books.
- Gregory Jones-Katz reviews Theory and Practice by Jacques Derrida and Shenzai: Deconstruction in Chinese by Byung-Chul Han, at the Los Angeles Review of Books.
- Daniel Kodsi reviews Doing Philosophy: From Common Curiosity to Logical Reasoning by Timothy Williamson, at The Oxonian Review.
BONUS: “Philosophy Emergency Hotline. What is your emergency?”
Compiled by Michael Glawson.
Philosophy Emergency Hotline? Here’s a real emergency: While we track updates on Epiphenomenalism, the political-tech apparatus of Peter Thiel is actively performing a live ‘conceptual drift’ on the category of the Antichrist.
What happens when the ‘Katechon’ logic fails and Thiel’s machinery starts defining the Antichrist not as an enemy, but as a mimetic inversion of Jesus? If Trump is recalibrated as the Antichrist within this framework, J.D. Vance faces a crisis no Stanford entry can solve: Does René Girard’s prophecy allow a VP to remain in the seat of a deceptive structure, or is the ‘ontological blurring’ now total?
We are substituting metatheoretical flexibility for physical and moral clarity. Is anyone at the hotline listening, or are we too busy revising the Epsilon Calculus?