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.
Book Reviews
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Review Author | Book Title | Book Author |
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| Worldview Elements |
Living Without God |
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| The View from the Center of the Universe |
The View from the Center of the Universe |
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| The Scandal of Compatibilism |
Four Views on Free Will |
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| The Robot's Rebellion |
The Robot's Rebellion |
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| The Rise of the New Determinists |
The Nonsense of Free Will |
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| The Problem of the Soul |
The Problem of the Soul: Two Visions of the Mind and How to Reconcile Them |
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| The New Atheism |
The New Atheism |
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| The Natural Selection of Autonomy |
The Natural Selection of Autonomy |
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| The Illusion of Conscious Will |
The Illusion of Conscious Will |
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| The Illusion of an Illusion |
Free Will |
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| The Cost of Consciousness |
Conscious |
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| The Coalition of Inner Nations |
The Ego Trick |
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| The Case for Naturalistic Spirituality |
The Little Book of Atheist Spirituality |
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| Tennis Without a Net: The Emptiness of the Supernatural Hypothesis |
The Recalcitrant Imago Dei: Human Persons and the Failure of Naturalism |
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| Supernaturalism and Explanation |
Is Nature Enough? |
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| Skeptics and True Believers |
Skeptics and True Believers: The Exhilarating Connection Between Science and Religion |
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| Singling Out the Agent |
Against Moral Responsibility |
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| Sending the Self on Vacation: How to Naturalize Enlightenment |
The Power of Now; A New Earth |
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| Saving Secularism: The Open Interrogation of Faith |
The Secular Conscience |
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| Responsibility in Question: Caruso and Dennett's Just Deserts |
Just Deserts |
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| Reflections on "Free Will" |
Free Will |
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| Reason and Reverence |
Reason and Reverence: Religious Humanism for the 21st Century |
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| Reason and Practice |
Reason and Practice: A Modern Introduction to Philosophy |
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| Rational Optimism: Steven Pinker's Enlightenment Now |
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress |
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| Projecting God: The Psychology of Theological Justification |
God and the New Atheism |
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| No Competition for Naturalism: The Poverty of Supernatural Explanations |
Naturalism |
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| Naturalizing Consciousness: Review of "Being You" by Anil Seth |
Being You: A New Science of Consciousness |
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| Marmite and Metaphysics: Review of "Philosophers on Consciousness" by Jack Symes |
Philosophers on Consciousness: Talking about the Mind |
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| Jailbreak: Ray Tallis and the Prison of Nature |
Freedom: An Impossible Reality |
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| Good and Real |
Good and Real: Demystifying Paradoxes from Physics to Ethics |
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| Freedom Without Responsibility |
Freedom Without Responsibility |
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| Exchange on Waller's "Against Moral Responsibility" |
Against Moral Responsibility |
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| Exchange on Goetz and Taliaferro's Naturalism |
Naturalism |
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| Determinism and Desert: Caruso and Flanagan's Neuroexistentialism |
Neuroexistentialism: Meaning, Morals and Purpose in the Age of Neuroscience |
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| Dennett Review of "Against Moral Responsibility" |
Against Moral Responsibility |
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| Debunking Enlightenment |
Rational Mysticism: Dispatches from the Border Between Science and Spirituality |
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| Criminal Justice As Social Justice: Review of Gregg Caruso's Rejecting Retributivism |
Rejecting Retributivism: Free Will, Punishment, and Criminal Justice |
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| Consciousness Revolutions |
The Ego Tunnel |
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| Consciousness |
Conversations on Consciousness |
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| Choosing Irrationality |
Addiction: A Disorder of Choice |
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| Challenging Nature |
Challenging Nature: The Clash of Science and Spirituality at the New Frontiers of Life |
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| Causal Powers of the Natural Mind |
Did My Neurons Make Me Do It? |
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| Bioethics and the Brain |
Bioethics and the Brain |
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| B.F. Skinner: A Reappraisal |
B.F. Skinner: A Reappraisal |
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| Atheism: A Very Short Introduction |
Atheism: A Very Short Introduction |
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| Against Retribution |
Placing Blame: A General Theory of Criminal Law |
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| Addiction Is a Choice |
Addiction Is a Choice |
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| Abortion Rights as Religious Freedom |
Abortion Rights as Religious Freedom |