Just about one year ago, I started reading Adrienne Martin’s book, How We Hope: A Moral Psychology, which I had been asked to review for the journal Mind. I really enjoyed reading it, especially Martin’s dualist theory of motivation, and the book review was a good project to work on during my stay in Seattle that summer. Over these last months, I had nearly forgotten about my book review, but then I got an email this week saying that it is now available via advance access. You can read the full text here, or a pdf here. You don’t have to be a Mind subscriber to access the review for free via these links (thank you, Mind)!
Category Archives: book recommendations
Book recommendation: The Peripheral
I’ve never met a William Gibson book I didn’t like, and The Peripheral is no exception! I don’t feel like I can do it justice in a short post, so why don’t you take a look at Gibson’s website, which has an excerpt from the beginning of the book to get you started?
Book recommendation: Dear Committee Members
If you are (or care about) an academic, Julie Schumacher’s Dear Committee Members is a bit of fiction that can be read quickly and that reminds one of the less savory / reasonable elements of our profession while provoking loud bursts of laughter. I strongly recommend it for a summer read!