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Here’s the report on new and revised entries in online philosophy resources and new reviews of philosophy books.

(This edition of the report covers the past two weeks.)

SEP

New:

1. Gaṅgeśa, by Stephen Phillips.
2. Climate Justice, by Simon Caney.

Revised:

1. The Disjunctive Theory of Perception, by Matthew Soteriou.
2. The Early Development of Set Theory, by José Ferreirós.
3. Panentheism, by John Culp.
4. Language and Testimony in Classical Indian Philosophy, by Madhav Deshpande.
5. Time Machines, by John Earman, Christian Wüthrich, and JB Manchak.
6. Existentialism, by Steven Crowell.
7. Intuitionistic Type Theory, by Peter Dybjer and Erik Palmgren.
8. Feminist Moral Psychology, by Anita Superson.

IEP 

1. Immanuel Kant: Logic, by Srećko Kovač (Institute of Philosophy, Zagreb).
2. Time, by Bradley Dowden (California State-Sacramento).

NDPR

1. Laura McMahon reviews Merleau-Ponty between Philosophy and Symbolism: The Matrixed Ontology (SUNY), by Rajiv Kaushik.
2. Bin Song reviews A History of Classical Chinese Thought (Routledge), by Li Zehou.
3. Robert Shaver reviews Sacrifice Regained: Morality and Self-interest in British Moral Philosophy from Hobbes to Bentham (Oxford), by Roger Crisp.
4. John H. Zammito reviews The Philosophical Structure of Historical Explanation (Northwestern), by Paul A. Roth.
5. Robert Kraut reviews Pragmatism, Objectivity, and Experience (Cambridge), by Steven Levine.
6. Paul M. Livingston reviews Georges Canguilhem and the Problem of Error (Palgrave MacMillan), by Samuel Talcott.
7. Heath Massey reviews Interpreting Bergson: Critical Essays (Cambridge), by Alexandre Lefebvre and Nils F. Schott (eds.).
8. Matthew J. Kisner reviews The Ethics of Joy: Spinoza on the Empowered Life (Oxford), by Andrew Youpa.
9. David Morris reviews Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Language (Rowman and Littlefield), by Dimitris Apostolopoulos.
10. Rahul Kumar reviews The Moral Nexus (Princeton), by R. Jay Wallace.

Wireless Philosophy ∅

1000-Word Philosophy

1. Removing Confederate Monuments, by Travis Timmerman.

Recent Philosophy Book Reviews in Non-Academic Media 

1. The Scientific Method: An Evolution of Thinking from Darwin to Dewey by Henry M. Cowles, reviewed by Jessica Riskin at The New York Review of Books.
2. This Too a History of Philosophy (Auch eine Geschichte der Philosophie), The Occidental Constellation of Faith and Knowledge (Vol. 1, Die okzidentale Konstellation von Glauben und Wissen), and Rational Liberty: Traces of the Discourse on Faith and Knowledge (Vol. 2, Vernünftige Freiheit. Spuren des Diskurses über Glauben und Wissen) by Jürgen Habermas, reviewed by Brandon Bloch at Boston Review.
3. Visual Thought in Russian Religious Philosophy: Pavel Florensky’s Theory of the Icon by Clemena Antonova, reviewed by Christoph Schneider at the Los Angeles Review of Books.

Compiled by Michael Glawson.

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