A comprehensive index of philosophy book reviews
1,098 reviews · 1979–2026
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| Book Title | Author | Reviewer | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Moral Dilemmas in Modern Medicine 3 reviews | Michael Lockwood | Philippa Foot | 1986-08-07 |
| Voluntary Euthanasia: Experts Debate the Right to Die 4 reviews | A.B. Downing | Philippa Foot | 1986-08-07 |
| The End of Life: Euthanasia and Morality 6 reviews | James Rachels | Philippa Foot | 1986-08-07 |
| The World of Thought in Ancient China 2 reviews | Benjamin Schwartz | Jonathan Barnes | 1986-07-24 |
| The Conscience of Words 2 reviews | Elias Canetti | J.P. Stern | 1986-07-03 |
| Essays on Berkeley: A Tercentennial Celebration 4 reviews | John Foster | David Pears | 1986-06-05 |
| Berkeley: The Central Arguments 7 reviews | A.C. Grayling | David Pears | 1986-06-05 |
| Philosophical Profiles 2 reviews | Richard Bernstein | Alexander Nehamas | 1986-05-22 |
| Contest of Faculties: Philosophy and Theory after Deconstruction 2 reviews | Christopher Norris | Alexander Nehamas | 1986-05-22 |
| Freedom of Speech | Eric Barendt | Lord Goodman | 1986-05-08 |
| Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern | Douglas Hofstadter | Andrew Hodges | 1986-04-17 |
| A Matter of Principle 7 reviews | Ronald Dworkin | Bernard Williams | 1986-04-17 |
| The View from Afar | Claude Lévi-Strauss | Edmund Leach | 1986-03-20 |
| Philosophy in History 7 reviews | Richard Rorty | Hilary Putnam | 1986-03-20 |
| Rabelais and His World 2 reviews | Mikhail Bakhtin | John Sturrock | 1986-02-20 |
| The Dialogical Principle | Tzvetan Todorov | John Sturrock | 1986-02-20 |
| Signéponge/Signsponge | Jacques Derrida | Christopher Norris | 1986-02-20 |
| The Idea of Liberalism: Studies for a New Map of Politics | George Watson | Peter Pulzer | 1986-02-20 |
| Thinkers of the New Left 2 reviews | Roger Scruton | Peter Pulzer | 1986-02-20 |
| The Redefinition of Conservatism: Politics and Doctrine | Charles Covell | Peter Pulzer | 1986-02-20 |
| The History of Sexuality. Vol. II: The Use of Pleasure | Michel Foucault | John Ryle | 1986-02-20 |
| Sexual Desire: A Moral Philosophy of the Erotic 4 reviews | Roger Scruton | John Ryle | 1986-02-20 |
| Virtue, Commerce, and History: Essays on Political Thought and History, Chiefly in the Eighteenth Century 4 reviews | J.G.A. Pocock | Alan Ryan | 1986-01-23 |
| The Freud Scenario 3 reviews | Jean-Paul Sartre | Michael Ignatieff | 1985-12-19 |
| Capitalism and Social Democracy | Adam Przeworksi | Geoffrey Hawthorn | 1985-11-21 |
| Pope’s ‘Essay on Man’ | A.D. Nuttall | Barbara Everett | 1985-10-17 |
| The Good Apprentice | Iris Murdoch | Nicholas Spice | 1985-10-17 |
| The Refutation of Scepticism 7 reviews | A.C. Grayling | Alexander Nehamas | 1985-10-03 |
| Hume's Skepticism in the Treatise of Human Nature 7 reviews | Robert Fogelin | Alexander Nehamas | 1985-10-03 |
| Skepticism and Naturalism: Some Varieties 8 reviews | P.F. Strawson | Alexander Nehamas | 1985-10-03 |
| The Modes of Scepticism 5 reviews | Julia Annas | Alexander Nehamas | 1985-10-03 |
| The Skeptical Tradition 4 reviews | Myles Burnyeat | Alexander Nehamas | 1985-10-03 |
| Philosophy and the Human Science. Philosophical Papers: Vol II | Charles Taylor | Jonathan Lear | 1985-09-19 |
| Human Agency and Language. Philosophical Papers: Vol I | Charles Taylor | Jonathan Lear | 1985-09-19 |
| Spinoza 3 reviews | R.J. Delahunty | Stuart Hampshire | 1985-09-05 |
| Essays on Davidson: Actions and Events 3 reviews | Bruce Vermazen | Colin McGinn | 1985-09-05 |
| Spheres of Justice: A Defence of Pluralism and Equality 3 reviews | Michael Walzer | T.M. Scanlon | 1985-09-05 |
| Morality and Conflict 8 reviews | Stuart Hampshire | T.M. Scanlon | 1985-09-05 |
| Dialectic of Nihilism: Post-Structuralism and Law 3 reviews | Gillian Rose | Christopher Norris | 1985-07-18 |
| Understanding Wittgenstein: Studies of Philosophical Investigations 4 reviews | J.M.F. Hunter | Barry Stroud | 1985-07-18 |
| Wittgenstein on Meaning 8 reviews | Colin McGinn | Barry Stroud | 1985-07-18 |
| The Legacy of Wittgenstein 12 reviews | Anthony Kenny | Barry Stroud | 1985-07-18 |
| Wittgenstein 3 reviews | A.J. Ayer | Barry Stroud | 1985-07-18 |
| Bricabracomania: The Bourgeois and the Bibelot | Rémy de Saisselin | Peter Campbell | 1985-07-04 |
| The Needs of Strangers 3 reviews | Michael Ignatieff | Paul Seabright | 1985-07-04 |
| Passion: An Essay on Personality 2 reviews | Roberto Mangabeira Unger | Paul Seabright | 1985-07-04 |
| Science and the Modern World 4 reviews | A.N. Whitehead | Brian Pippard | 1985-06-06 |
| The Limits of Science 3 reviews | Peter Medawar | M.F. Perutz | 1985-06-06 |
| Ordinary Vices 5 reviews | Judith Shklar | Bernard Williams | 1985-06-06 |
| Resources, Values and Development 2 reviews | Amartya Sen | Robert Cassen | 1985-05-23 |