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New Books in January

Authors and/or publishers were kind enough to send me the following books this month:

A Moral Theory of Political Reconciliation by Colleen Murphy (Cambridge University Press, 2010).

What Should I Do?  Philosophers on the Good, the Bad, and the Puzzling edited by Alexander George (Oxford University Press, 2011).

Essays and Aphorisms on the Higher Man by Emile Benoit (Eudaimon Press, 2010).

On the Currency of Egalitarian Justice, and Other Essays in Political Philosophy by G.A. Cohen, edited by Michael Otsuka (Princeton University Press, 2011).

La dignidad humana:  Sus origenes en el pensamiento clasico by Antonio Pele (Dykinson, 2010). 

Legality by Scott J. Shapiro (Harvard University Press, 2011).

Perpetual Euphoria:  On the Duty to be Happy by Pascal Bruckner (Princeton University Press, 2010).

Why everyone (else) is a hypocrite:  Evolution and the Modular Mind by Robert Kurzban (Princeton University Press, 2010).  (Kurzban is a fairly dogmatic evolutionary psychologist, not a philosopher, but I have not read this book, so can not comment on its particular merits or demerits.)

Analytic versus Continental:  Arguments on the Methods and Value of Philosophy by James Chase & Jack Reynolds (Durham:  Acumen, 2011).

Knowing Full Well by Ernest Sosa (Princeton University Press, 2011).

All Things Shining:  Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age by Hubert Dreyfus and Sean Dorrance Kelly (Free Press, 2011).

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