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1,097 reviews · 1979–2026
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| Book Title | Author | Reviewer | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Essays on Berkeley: A Tercentennial Celebration | John Foster | David Pears | 1986-06-05 |
| Berkeley: The Central Arguments | A.C. Grayling | David Pears | 1986-06-05 |
| Philosophical Profiles | Richard Bernstein | Alexander Nehamas | 1986-05-22 |
| Contest of Faculties: Philosophy and Theory after Deconstruction | 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 | Ronald Dworkin | Bernard Williams | 1986-04-17 |
| The View from Afar | Claude Lévi-Strauss | Edmund Leach | 1986-03-20 |
| Philosophy in History: Essays in the Historiography of Philosophy | Richard Rorty | Hilary Putnam | 1986-03-20 |
| Rabelais and his World | 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 | 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 | Roger Scruton | John Ryle | 1986-02-20 |
| Virtue, Commerce and History | J.G.A. Pocock | Alan Ryan | 1986-01-23 |
| The Freud Scenario | 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 | A.C. Grayling | Alexander Nehamas | 1985-10-03 |
| Hume’s Skepticism in the ‘Treatise of Human Nature’ | Robert Fogelin | Alexander Nehamas | 1985-10-03 |
| Skepticism and Naturalism: Some Varieties | P.F. Strawson | Alexander Nehamas | 1985-10-03 |
| The Modes of Scepticism: Ancient Texts and Modern Interpretations | Julia Annas | Alexander Nehamas | 1985-10-03 |
| The Skeptical Tradition | 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 | R.J. Delahunty | Stuart Hampshire | 1985-09-05 |
| Essays on Davidson: Actions and Events | Bruce Vermazen | Colin McGinn | 1985-09-05 |
| Spheres of Justice: A Defence of Pluralism and Equality | Michael Walzer | T.M. Scanlon | 1985-09-05 |
| Morality and Conflict | Stuart Hampshire | T.M. Scanlon | 1985-09-05 |
| Dialectic of Nihilism: Post-Structuralism and Law | Gillian Rose | Christopher Norris | 1985-07-18 |
| Understanding Wittgenstein: Studies of ‘Philosophical Investigations’ | J.M.F. Hunter | Barry Stroud | 1985-07-18 |
| Wittgenstein on Meaning | Colin McGinn | Barry Stroud | 1985-07-18 |
| The Legacy of Wittgenstein | Anthony Kenny | Barry Stroud | 1985-07-18 |
| Wittgenstein | 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 | Michael Ignatieff | Paul Seabright | 1985-07-04 |
| Passion: An Essay on Personality | Roberto Mangabeira Unger | Paul Seabright | 1985-07-04 |
| Science and the Modern World | A.N. Whitehead | Brian Pippard | 1985-06-06 |
| The Limits of Science | Peter Medawar | M.F. Perutz | 1985-06-06 |
| Ordinary Vices | Judith Shklar | Bernard Williams | 1985-06-06 |
| Resources, Values and Development | Amartya Sen | Robert Cassen | 1985-05-23 |
| Objections to Nuclear Defence: Philosophers on Deterrence | Nigel Blake | Keith Kyle | 1985-04-18 |
| The Foundations of Psychoanalysis: A Philosophical Critique | Adolf Grünbaum | Adam Morton | 1985-04-18 |
| The Sexual Politics of Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Joel Schwartz | Christopher Norris | 1985-04-04 |
| Hélène Cixous: Writing the Feminine | Verena Andermatt Conley | Christopher Norris | 1985-04-04 |
| Women: The Longest Revolution | Juliet Mitchell | Christopher Norris | 1985-04-04 |