“Perhaps “cowardice,” that miserable, despicable, much-abused weakness of the underworld, is not such a vice after all. Perhaps it is even a virtue. Think...

“However much we are affected by the things of the world, however deeply they may stir and stimulate us, they become human for us...

What should billionaires do? People love to criticize billionaire philanthropy, e.g. as “undemocratic”. I find this so weird. Given that billionaires exist, would you...

[Books I’ve read that I think may be of general interest. See also my book club entries under essays.] Peter Adamson presents a lively introduction to...

2022.08.02 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Mark Christian Thompson, Phenomenal Blackness: Black Power, Philosophy, and Theory, The University of...

2022.08.04 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Ingmar Persson, Morality from Compassion, Oxford University Press, 2021, 145pp. $60.00 (hbk), ISBN...

2022.08.03 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Colin Bird, Human Dignity and Political Criticism, Cambridge University Press, 2021, 276pp., $99.99...

2022.08.05 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Barbara Herman, The Moral Habitat, Oxford University Press, 2021, 249pp., $40.00 (hbk), ISBN...

[Revised entry by Graham Priest, Francesco Berto, and Zach Weber on August 13, 2022. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] A dialetheia is a sentence,...

Donald Bloxham. Why History?: A History, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2020 & History and Morality, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2020.   The...

“Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom, in...

[Revised entry by David Hills on August 12, 2022. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Metaphor is a poetically or rhetorically ambitious use of words,...