Greg Bognar (NYU) and Samuel J. Kerstein (Maryland): Saving Lives and Respecting Persons. A review of What Is a Person? Rethinking Humanity, Social Life, and the Moral Good from the Person Up by Christian Smith. Sociality and Solitude: J. David Velleman on the various ways of valuing personhood. From BMCR, a review of Bitter Knowledge: Learning Socratic Lessons of Disillusion and Renewal by Thomas Eisele; and a review of The Drama of Ideas: Platonic Provocations in Theater and Philosophy by Martin Puchner. An interview with Graham Priest, author of An Introduction to Non-Classical Logic (and part 2). A review of Death and Mortality in Contemporary Philosophy by Bernard Schumacher. A review of After Finitude: An Essay on the Necessity of Contingency by Quentin Meillassoux. A review of Postanalytic and Metacontinental: Crossing Philosophical Divides. A review of An Introduction to Philosophical Methods by Chris Daly. A review of The Nature and Future of Philosophy by Michael Dummett. A review of Wittgenstein in Exile by James C. Klagge. An article on David Hume’s tercentenary: So when do the celebrations start? (and more) Philosopher in love: David Hume proved himself equal to his philosophy. Can the great classical thinkers still advise us on how to live? A host of new books shows how philosophers of the past can help us find wisdom and meaning in the present. Whether or not being moral is instrumental to personal good, does being moral itself somehow constitute an element of personal good? Philosophy that’s not for the masses: James Ladyman argues that philosophy’s inaccessibility is actually a good thing. On beer and thought: An interview with Matt Lawrence, author of Philosophy on Tap: Pint-Sized Puzzles for the Pub Philosopher. Why have philosophers not had more to say about the phenomenology and social, political, legal, economic, and medical aspects of cannabis?
