New Books in April

Authors and/or publishers kindly sent me these new books this month:

Wondrous Truths:  The Improbable Triumph of Modern Science by J.D. Trout (Oxford University Press, 2016).

Aristotle, Metaphysics, translated with introduction & notes by C.D.C. Reeve (Hackett, 2016).

Applicative Justice:  A Pragmatic Empirical Approach to Racial Injustice by Naomi Zack (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016).

Victims' Stories and the Advancement of Human Rights by Diana Tietjens Meyers (Oxford University Press, 2016).

The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Literature edited by Noel Carroll & John Gibson (Routledge, 2016).

Moral and Intellectual Virtues in Western and Chinese Philosophy:  The Turn Toward Virtue edited by Chienkuo Mi, Michael Slote & Ernest Sosa (Routledge, 2016).

On Obama by Paul C. Taylor (Routledge, 2016).

Plotinus, Ennead IV.7:  On the Immorality of the Soul trans. with intro. & commentary by Barrie Fleet (Parmenides Publishing, 2016). 

Debates in Nineteenth-Century European Philosophy:  Essential Readings and Contemporary Responses edited by Kristin Gjesdal (Routledge, 2016).

Philosophy Coms to Dinner:  Arguments about the Ethics of Eating edited by Andrew Chignell, Terence Cuneo & Matthew C. Halteman (Routledge, 2016).

Markets Without Limits:  Moral Virtues and Commercial Interests by Jason Brennan & Peter M. Jaworski (Routledge, 2016).

Philosophy for Graduate Students:  Metaphysics and Epistemology by Alex Broadbent (Routledge, 2016).

Good Neighbors:  The Democracy of Everyday Life in America by Nancy L. Rosenblum (Princeton University Press, 2016).

Values and Vaccine Refusal:  Hard Questions in Ethics, Epistemology, and Health Care by Mark Navin (Routledge, 2016).

I want to add a special plug for Prof. Broadbent's book, which I've been reading around in for the last week.  What Martin Kusch (Vienna) says on the dustjacket is exactly right, so let me just quote Martin:

This is the kind of book I wish I had had access to when starting off as a graduate student in philosophy.  Broadbent gives wonderfully clear accounts of the central topics in contemporary epistemology and metaphysics  Every graduate student in the field will benefit from it--as will advanced undergraduates (and their teachers).

Let me add that singling out Broadbent is not to denigrate any of the other books this month--I just haven't gotten a chance to read any of the others, but was sufficiently impressed by the value of what Broadbent has done, that I wanted to flag it.