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Robert Lawrence Kuhn

[long_description] Can a personal experience strengthen one's appreciation of materialism rather than undermine it? Robert Lawrence Kuhn recounts his daughter's extraordinary journey through fertility treatment and the birth of his grandson. Witnessing the remarkable possibilities of human biology leads him to reconsider, however slightly, his longstanding intuition that reality extends beyond the physical. A moving reflection on the potential of the material world and the enduring mystery of consciousness.

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The Perpetual Rose and Its Reader

Dr. Fateh Bazerbachi

[short_description] Fateh Bazerbachi reads David Berlinski’s The Perpetual Rose as an inquiry into mathematics, naming, and consciousness. Moving through Kant, Gödel, Kripke, and ancient traditions, he asks whether the witnessing mind ultimately escapes the catalogue of things it names.

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On Doing Otherwise

David Berlinski

[short_description] David Berlinski subjects to logical analysis the reigning claim that to act freely is to be able to do otherwise, and concludes that free action is a matter of how one acts, not of what one might instead have done.

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Songlines

Sheldon Lee Glashow

[short_description] Jeremy Bernstein’s book A Song for Molly is a fantasy in the form of fictional autobiography. He weaves around many seminal intellectual achievements in a delightful example of episodic storytelling.

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Beyond Dignity

Sophia Catalano

[short_description] Pico della Mirandola is today wrongly considered “a prophet of human dignity”—a title that Brian Copenhaver believes was thrust upon the Renaissance philosopher through the lens of subsequent ideas.

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The Restless Cosmopolitan

George Scialabba

[short_description] From the Cynics to Adam Smith to today, Martha Nussbaum has followed one question through the history of moral philosophy: Are basic material and social resources essential to human dignity?

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The Rise of the Architectural Cult

Nikos Salingaros

[short_description] In Making Dystopia: The Strange Rise and Survival of Architectural Barbarism, James Stevens Curl argues that modernist architecture is ill-adapted to human needs.

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Past Masters of the Postmodern

Simon Blackburn

[short_description] There is a widespread sense, Simon Blackburn observes, that a number of philosophical theories have escaped the academic world, and, in the wild, are doing great harm. Chief among them: postmodernism.

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Dialectics of Darkness

Egil Asprem

[short_description] On the persistence of magic in modernity: Egil Asprem reviews The Myth of Disenchantment: Magic, Modernity, and the Birth of the Human Sciences by Jason Josephson-Storm.

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Nature and the Babylonians

Daryn Lehoux

[short_description] How did the ancient Mesopotamians conceive of nature and science? Daryn Lehoux reviews a new account, Before Nature: Cuneiform Knowledge and the History of Science, by Francesca Rochberg.

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The Grand Illusion

Michael Tye

[short_description] Daniel Dennett has a knack for telling many scientists what they want to hear: nothing in philosophy might cause them to lose sleep. They are right not to lose sleep, but not for the reasons provided.

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Gödel: The Third Degree

Graham Oppy

[short_description] Formulations of Gödel’s ontological argument in third-order modal logic, Grapham Oppy argues, allow us to decide between theistic and naturalistic positions.

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