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New Books in May

Authors and/or publishers kindly sent me these new books in May:

The Harm in Hate Speech by Jeremy Waldron (Harvard University Press, 2012).

Introductions to Nietzsche edited by Robert Pippin (Cambridge University Press, 2012).  [I'm a contributor to this volume, I should note.]

An Introduction to Rights, 2nd edition by William A. Edmundson (Cambridge University Press, 2012).

An Introduction to Property Theory by Gregory S. Alexander & Eduardo M. Penalver (Cambridge University Press, 2012).

Reading Aristotle Physics VII.3:  What is Alteration? edited by Stefano Maso et al. (Parmenides Publishing, 2012).

Institutionalized Reason:  The Jurisprudence of Robert Alexy edited by Matthias Klatt (Oxford University Press, 2012).

Logic:  The Laws of Truth by Nicholas J.J. Smith (Princeton University Press, 2012).

 

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