New Books at PEOSTA

Reviewed: NYRB 24 Nov. 2016 p. 45; FA Jan/Feb 2017 p. 169; TLS 3 Mar. 2017 p. 32; LRB 1 June 2017 p. 21.

Reviewed: LR Nov. 2016 p. 17
<>b<>uHoldings: NICC (Peosta) has vol. 1, The Dream of Reason: A History of Western Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance (WW Norton, 2000); call no. 180 Got.

Note: 1st ed. (2007) not held at NICC.

Note: Originally published as: Eine Art zu Leben: Über die Vielfalt Menschlicher Würde (Munich: Hanser, 2013).

Reviewed: Choice Jul 2016 vol. 53 no. 11 (Essential; Outstanding Academic Title)

Reviewed: PW 07/11/2016; LJ 10/01/2016

Reviewed: NPR; TLS 8 June 2018 p. 3.
Note: Author interviewed on NPR’s “Fresh Air” by host Terry Gross; 30 Jan. 2017 (“Doctor Considers The Pitfalls Of Extending Life And Prolonging Death”).
Description: (publ.) Dr. Haider Warraich is a young and brilliant new voice in the conversation about death and dying started by Dr. Sherwin Nuland’s classic How We Die: Reflections on Life’s Final Chapter, and Atul Gawande’s recent sensation, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End. Dr. Warraich takes a broader look at how we die today, from the cellular level up to the very definition of death itself.

Reviewed: The Economist 25 Mar. 2017 p. 73

Reviewed: TLS 25 May 2018 p. 13.

Reviewed: WSJ 8/9 April 2017 p. C12; TLS 28 Apr. 2017 p. 15

Reviewed: TLS 16 Dec. 2016 p. 25

Reviewed: TLS 2 Dec. 2016 p. 26

Reviewed: CHE 20 Jan. 2017

Description: This new edition of Kuhn’s work in the history of science includes an introduction by Ian Hacking, which clarifies terms popularized by Kuhn, including paradigm and incommensurability, and applies Kuhn’s ideas to the science of today. Keyed to the separate sections of the book, Hacking’s introduction provides important background information as well as a contemporary context. Newly designed, with an expanded index.

Reviewed: Choice May 2017 vol. 54 no. 9 (Essential)

Reviewed: TLS 13 Jan. 2017 p. 26
Description: James Griffin explores the question what philosophers can reasonably expect to contribute to normative ethics or to the ethics of a culture. He argues that moral philosophers must tailor their work to what ordinary humans’ motivational capabilities, and he offers a new account of moral deliberation.