Book Reviews

Here are reviews of books on topics germaine to naturalism, for instance free will, theism, atheism, bioethics, consciousness, spirituality and criminal justice. If you'd like to propose a book review, please be in touch via the Contact page. 

Review Title Review Author Book Titlesort ascending Book Author
The View from the Center of the Universe
Joseph Hilbe
The View from the Center of the Universe
Joel R. Primack and Nancy Ellen Abrams
Saving Secularism: The Open Interrogation of Faith
Tom Clark
The Secular Conscience
Austin Dacey
The Robot's Rebellion
Tom Clark
The Robot's Rebellion
Keith Stanovich
The Problem of the Soul
Tom Clark
The Problem of the Soul: Two Visions of the Mind and How to Reconcile Them
Owen Flanagan
Sending the Self on Vacation: How to Naturalize Enlightenment
Tom Clark
The Power of Now; A New Earth
Eckhard Tolle
The Rise of the New Determinists
Tom Clark
The Nonsense of Free Will
Richard Oerton
The New Atheism
Yonatan Fishman, Ph.D.
The New Atheism
Victor Stenger
The Natural Selection of Autonomy
Tom Clark
The Natural Selection of Autonomy
Bruce N. Waller
The Case for Naturalistic Spirituality
Tom Clark
The Little Book of Atheist Spirituality
Andre Comte-Sponville
The Illusion of Conscious Will
Tom Clark
The Illusion of Conscious Will
Daniel Wegner
The Quality of Consciousness: Thomas Metzinger's "The Elephant and the Blind"
Tom Clark
The Elephant and the Blind
Thomas Metzinger
Consciousness Revolutions
Tom Clark
The Ego Tunnel
Thomas Metzinger
The Coalition of Inner Nations
Juno Walker
The Ego Trick
Julian Baggini
Free Will Foretold: Review of Peter B. Clark on Compatibilism
Tom Clark
The Compatibility of Free Will and Determinism
Peter B. Clark
Review of The Blind Spot, Part 1: The Ideal of Objectivity
Tom Clark
The Blind Spot
Robert Frank, Marcelo Gleiser, and Evan Thompson
Review of The Blind Spot, Part 2: Can Consciousness Be Naturalized?
Tom Clark
The Blind Spot
Robert Frank, Marcelo Gleiser, and Evan Thompson
Skeptics and True Believers
Tom Clark
Skeptics and True Believers: The Exhilarating Connection Between Science and Religion
Chet Raymo
Criminal Justice As Social Justice: Review of Gregg Caruso's Rejecting Retributivism
Tom Clark
Rejecting Retributivism: Free Will, Punishment, and Criminal Justice
Gregg D. Caruso
Debunking Enlightenment
Tom Clark
Rational Mysticism: Dispatches from the Border Between Science and Spirituality
John Horgan
Against Retribution
Tom Clark
Placing Blame: A General Theory of Criminal Law
Michael Moore
Marmite and Metaphysics: Review of "Philosophers on Consciousness" by Jack Symes
Tom Clark
Philosophers on Consciousness: Talking about the Mind
Jack Symes
Determinism and Desert: Caruso and Flanagan's Neuroexistentialism
Tom Clark
Neuroexistentialism: Meaning, Morals and Purpose in the Age of Neuroscience
Gregg D. Caruso & Owen Flanagan, Editors
Exchange on Goetz and Taliaferro's Naturalism
Tom Clark
Naturalism
Stewart Goetz and Charles Taliaferro
No Competition for Naturalism: The Poverty of Supernatural Explanations
Tom Clark
Naturalism
Stewart Goetz and Charles Taliaferro
Worldview Elements
Tom Clark
Living Without God
Ronald Aronson
Responsibility in Question: Caruso and Dennett's Just Deserts
Tom Clark
Just Deserts
Gregg Caruso and Daniel Dennett
Supernaturalism and Explanation
Tom Clark
Is Nature Enough?
by John Haught
Good and Real
Tom Clark
Good and Real: Demystifying Paradoxes from Physics to Ethics
Gary L. Drescher
Projecting God: The Psychology of Theological Justification
Tom Clark
God and the New Atheism
John F. Haught
Jailbreak: Ray Tallis and the Prison of Nature
Tom Clark
Freedom: An Impossible Reality
Raymond Tallis
Freedom Without Responsibility
Tom Clark
Freedom Without Responsibility
Bruce Waller
The Illusion of an Illusion
Juno Walker
Free Will
Sam Harris
Reflections on "Free Will"
Daniel Dennett
Free Will
Sam Harris
The Scandal of Compatibilism
Tom Clark
Four Views on Free Will
John Martin Fischer, Robert Kane, Derk Pereboom and Manuel Vargas
Rational Optimism: Steven Pinker's Enlightenment Now
Tom Clark
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
Steven Pinker
Causal Powers of the Natural Mind
Tom Clark
Did My Neurons Make Me Do It?
Nancey Murphy and Warren Brown
What's Wrong With Determinism? Review of "Determined" by Robert Sapolsky
Tom Clark
Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will
Robert M. Sapolsky
Consciousness
Tom Clark
Conversations on Consciousness
Susan Blackmore
The Cost of Consciousness
Tom Clark
Conscious
Annaka Harris
Challenging Nature
Tom Clark
Challenging Nature: The Clash of Science and Spirituality at the New Frontiers of Life
Lee M. Silver
Bioethics and the Brain
Tom Clark
Bioethics and the Brain
Walter Glannon
Naturalizing Consciousness: Review of "Being You" by Anil Seth
Tom Clark
Being You: A New Science of Consciousness
Anil Seth
B.F. Skinner: A Reappraisal
Jim Farmelant
B.F. Skinner: A Reappraisal
Marc N. Richelle
Atheism: A Very Short Introduction
Tom Clark
Atheism: A Very Short Introduction
Julian Baggini
Dennett Review of "Against Moral Responsibility"
Daniel Dennett
Against Moral Responsibility
Bruce Waller
Singling Out the Agent
Tom Clark
Against Moral Responsibility
Bruce Waller
Exchange on Waller's "Against Moral Responsibility"
Tom Clark
Against Moral Responsibility
Bruce Waller
Choosing Irrationality
Tom Clark
Addiction: A Disorder of Choice
Gene M. Heyman
Addiction Is a Choice
Tom Clark
Addiction Is a Choice
Jeffrey Schaler
Abortion Rights as Religious Freedom
Tom Clark
Abortion Rights as Religious Freedom
Peter S. Wenz
Tennis Without a Net: The Emptiness of the Supernatural Hypothesis
Tom Clark
The Recalcitrant Imago Dei: Human Persons and the Failure of Naturalism
J.P. Moreland
Reason and Reverence
Tom Clark
Reason and Reverence: Religious Humanism for the 21st Century
William R. Murry
Reason and Practice
Jim Farmelant
Reason and Practice: A Modern Introduction to Philosophy
Kai Nielson