Reviews: Books

Soon I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman

Nick DiChario finds out what it’s like to be the bad guy.
[Issue 73: May/June 2009]

The Death Of Socrates: Hero, Villain, Chatterbox, Saint by Emily Wilson

Alan Brody considers whether Socrates really was a philosophy hero.
[Issue 73: May/June 2009]

Education’s End: Why Our Colleges And Universities Have Given Up On The Meaning of Life by Anthony Kronman

Mark Huston ponders Anthony Kronman’s arguments about why universities don’t teach the meaning of life.
[Issue 73: May/June 2009]

Transcendence and History by Glenn Hughes

Robert Cheeks transcends history.
[Issue 72: March/April 2009]

Death, ‘Deathlessness’ & Existenz in Karl Jaspers’ Philosophy by Filiz Peach

Kurt Salaman cheers himself up by considering Karl Jaspers’ views on death and the experience of the eternal in life.
[Issue 72: March/April 2009]

Wilfrid Sellars by James R. O’Shea

Daniel Fernandez gets to know Wilfrid Sellars, US Chief of Epistemology.
[Issue 72: March/April 2009]

Moral Machines: Teaching Robots Right from Wrong by Wendell Wallach and Colin Allen

Tony Beavers considers a timely understanding of machine ethics.
[Issue 71: January/February 2009]

The Importance of Living by Lin Yutang

Mark Cyzyk finds out how to be a loafing scamp.
[Issue 71: January/February 2009]

Why We Hate Us by Dick Meyer

Kurt Keefner argues that Americans have had enough of Dick Meyer’s Pragmatic medicine.
[Issue 71: January/February 2009]

Nietzsche and Morality

Roger Caldwell responds to an analysis of Nietzsche’s morality.
[Issue 70: November/December 2008]

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