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Geoff Keeling and Winnie Street's book in the Cambridge Elements series sets out, in orderly fashion, a question with no answer yet: can an artificial intelligence system have welfare, and if it can, what follows for us? One author works at Google — a detail that explains where the book stands.
Amy Olberding, who works on Confucian ethics, meant to write a cool-headed book about grief when she took over the family farm in the Ozarks. She could not manage it. The book that emerged is also about the class mask that academic philosophy quietly demands — and the title comes from that mask.
Iulia Nistor's new book treats horror films not as a genre to be catalogued but as a means of philosophical thought. Her question is why anyone should choose to watch the thing that frightens him. The answer runs from Aristotle's catharsis to Kant's sublime and Kristeva's abject.
The philosopher who has pressed the most persistent objection to the moralising of political philosophy returns to the problem of orientation in a new collection from Polity. The title alludes to Heidegger's image of the forest path: most of them lead nowhere, but they become paths by being walked.
The Stanford philosopher's new book from Harvard University Press prises apart rationality and reasonableness. For Lawlor, the reasonable person is not merely the one who infers correctly but the one who can see what matters. The New Yorker named it among the year's best.
Goldstein's new book follows a single drive: the need to matter. On her account that need lies behind humanity's greatest achievements and behind its most stubborn afflictions — loneliness, polarisation and extremism alike.
Rebecca Goldstein
Columbia University Press published the first volume of Alain Badiou's seminars on anti-philosophy in June. For Badiou, Nietzsche is not a philosopher at all but an 'anti-philosopher' — a thinker who attacks philosophy from the outside.
Alain Badiou, Friedrich Nietzsche
Columbia University Press publishes in September the texts in which Richard Rorty looks for common ground between philosophy and religion. The introduction is by Gianni Vattimo, the foreword by Jeffrey Robbins.
The September-October lists of the university presses are out. Philippe Huneman's critique of profiling, Stephen Batchelor's comparison of the Buddha and Socrates, and Stanford's Nietzsche volume stand out.
