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The Metaphysics of Margaret Cavendish and Anne Conway: Monism, Vitalism, and Self-Motion
 2025.01.11 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Marcy P. Lascano, The Metaphysics of Margaret Cavendish and Anne Conway: Monism, Vitalism, and Self-Motion, Oxford University Press, 2023, 200pp., $98.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780197651636. Reviewed by Jonathan L. Shaheen, Uppsala University This welcome volume examines Margaret Cavendish and Anne Conway, two mid-17th century British […]
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Crossing the Stream, Leaving the Cave: Buddhist-Platonist Philosophical Inquiries
 2025.01.11 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Amber D. Carpenter and Pierre-Julien Harter (eds.), Crossing the Stream, Leaving the Cave: Buddhist-Platonist Philosophical Inquiries, Oxford University Press, 2024, 299pp., $105.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780198880844. Reviewed by Alexander Englert and Jonathan C. Gold, Princeton University This essay collection is the result of a years-long conversation […]
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Quantum Mechanics
 [Revised entry by Jenann Ismael on January 18, 2025. Changes to: Bibliography] Quantum mechanics is, at least at first glance and at least in part, a mathematical machine for predicting the behaviors of microscopic particles - or, at least, of the measuring instruments we use to explore those behaviors - and in that capacity, it […]
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The Increasing Global Biosecurity Threat: Room for Philosophical Input
 According to the World Health Organization, the global biosecurity threat is increasing. One reason is that genetic editing and synthesis technologies are advancing and becoming more widely accessible. Another is the continuing characterization of the genetic makeup that would make a pathogen especially lethal, exceptionally communicable, and otherwise dangerous to human populations. Almost no country […]
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Thick Ethical Concepts
 [Revised entry by Pekka Väyrynen on January 21, 2025. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography, supplement.html] Evaluative terms and concepts are often divided into "thin" and "thick". We don't evaluate actions and persons merely as good or bad, or right or wrong, but also as kind, courageous, tactful, selfish, boorish, and cruel. The latter are examples […]
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Living with the Dead: On Death, the Dead, and Immortality
 2025.01.13 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews J. Jeremy Wisnewski, Living with the Dead: On Death, the Dead, and Immortality, Routledge, 2023, 264pp., $54.99 (pbk), ISBN 9781032293868. Reviewed by John Martin Fischer, University of California, Riverside In Living with the Dead, J. Jeremy Wisnewski explains how we do in fact live with the […]
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Luther’s Influence on Philosophy
 [Revised entry by Robert Stern and Volker Leppin on January 16, 2025. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] The aim of this entry is to outline the impact of Martin Luther (1483 - 1546) on the philosophical tradition which came after him. The Protestant Reformation as a whole undoubtedly had considerable influence in philosophy and not […]
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APA Member Interview: Robert Engelman
 Robert Engelman is a Ph.D. candidate in Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. His research interests are in social and political philosophy, 19th and 20th century philosophy, and aesthetics. 1. What excites you about philosophy? Philosophizing well increasingly strikes me as involving creative practices of carefully and honestly attending to and reflecting upon one’s experience and its […]
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2018 Central Division Dewey Lecture: Five Decades of Philosophy
Below is the audio recording of Robert Audi’s John Dewey Lecture, “Five Decades of Philosophy,” given at the 2018 Central Division Meeting. The full text is available on the APA website (member sign-in is required) as well as on JSTOR. The audio of the lecture is available here: “Five Decades of Philosophy” by Robert Audi […]
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Moral Luck
 [Revised entry by Dana K. Nelkin on January 20, 2025. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Moral luck occurs when an agent can be correctly treated as an object of moral judgment despite the fact that a significant aspect of what she is assessed for depends on factors beyond her control. Bernard Williams writes, "when I […]
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