By the time this is published, the Central APA will have come and gone. More coverage of the conference is forthcoming, but the “What Are You Reading?” column seems like as good a place as any to spotlight the valuable works featured in the Author Meets Critics sessions. All told, twenty works were discussed on topics ranging from Humean skepticism, to white privilege, to human/animal relationships. In no particular order, they are:
- Hugh Benson, Clitophon’s Challenge: Dialectic in Plato’s Meno, Phaedo, and Republic
- Mark Bernstein, The Moral Equality of Humans and Animals
- Andrew Fiala (Ed.), R. Paul Churchill, and J. Jeremy Wisnewski, on The Bloomsbury Companion to Political Philosophy
- Donald C. Ainslie, Hume’s True Scepticism
- James Kreines, Reason in the World: Hegel’s Metaphysics and Its Philosophical Appeal
- Michael E. Bratman, Shared Agency: A Planning Theory of Acting Together
- Naomi Zack, White Privilege and Black Rights: The Injustice of U.S. Police Racial Profiling and Homicide
- Andrew Jason Cohen, Toleration
- James J. Winchester, Ethics in an Age of Savage Inequalities
- Julian Wuerth, Kant on Mind, Action, and Ethics
- Jeffrey E. Brower, Aquinas’s Ontology of the Material World: Change, Hylomorphism, and Material Objects
- Peter K. J. Park, Africa, Asia, and the History of Philosophy: Racism in the Formation of the Philosophical Canon, 1780–1830
- Jessica Moss, Aristotle on the Apparent Good: Perception, Phantasia, Thought, and Desire
- Jason Stanley, How Propaganda Works
- Bradford Skow, Objective Becoming
- John M. Doris, Talking to Our Selves: Reflection, Ignorance, and Agency
- Michael Bishop, The Good Life: Unifying the Philosophy and Psychology of Well-Being
- Predrag Cicovacki, Gandhi’s Footprints
- Fiona Woollard, Doing and Allowing Harm
- John MacFarlane, Assessment Sensitivity: Relative Truth and Its Applications
What are you reading?
