Subject archive: philosophy

Below is a list of all book reviews under the subject heading of philosophy published to date in reverse chronological order. Click here to return to the subject menu or click here to return to the list of all reviews.

  1. Kingdoms, Empires, & Domains: The History of High-Level Biological Classification
  2. Playing Possum: How Animals Understand Death
  3. Living on Earth: Life, Consciousness and the Making of the Natural World
  4. Biocivilisations: A New Look at the Science of Life
  5. Alfie & Me: What Owls Know, What Humans Believe
  6. Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will
  7. Determined: Life Without Free Will
  8. A Philosophy for the Science of Animal Consciousness
  9. The Gaia Hypothesis: Science on a Pagan Planet
  10. The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is: A History, a Philosophy, a Warning
  11. Metazoa: Animal Minds and the Birth of Consciousness
  12. Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life
  13. Irrationality: A History of the Dark Side of Reason
  14. Natural: The Seductive Myth of Nature’s Goodness
  15. How to Predict Everything: The Formula Transforming What We Know About Life and the Universe
  16. Time and the Generations: Population Ethics for a Diminishing Planet
  17. The Case Against Reality: How Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes
  18. The Selfish Ape: Human Nature and Our Path to Extinction
  19. Through a Glass Brightly: Using Science to See Our Species as We Really Are
  20. Everything is Fucked: A Book about Hope
  21. Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk (Second Edition)
  22. Anti-Science and the Assault on Democracy: Defending Reason in a Free Society
  23. The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge
  24. The Demon in the Machine: How Hidden Webs of Information Are Finally Solving the Mystery of Life
  25. How Scientific Progress Occurs: Incrementalism and the Life Sciences
  26. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (50th Anniversary Edition)
  27. Science Unlimited? The Challenges of Scientism
  28. The Enlightened Gene: Biology, Buddhism, and the Convergence That Explains the World
  29. Evolving Brains, Emerging Gods: Early Humans and the Origins of Religion
  30. Understanding Ignorance: The Surprising Impact of What We Don’t Know
  31. Getting Science Wrong: Why the Philosophy of Science Matters
  32. Stepping in the Same River Twice: Replication in Biological Research