Authors and/or publishers kindly sent me these new books this month (it was a busy month for new books!):

Pretense and Pathology:  Philosophical Fictionalism and Its Applications by Bradley Armour-Garb & James A. Woodbridge (Cambridge University Press, 2015).

Testimony:  A Philosophical Introduction by Joseph Shieber (Routledge, 2015).

Philosophy of Song and Singing:  An Introduction by Jeanette Bicknell (Routledge, 2015).

Current Controversies in Political Philosophy edited by Thom Brooks (Routledge, 2015).

Metaethics:  A Contemporary Introduction by Mark van Roojen (Routledge, 2015).

Classical Confucian Political Thought:  A New Interpretation by Loubna El Amine (Princeton University Press, 2015).

Kierkegaard's Journals and Notebooks, Volume 8:  Journals NB21-NB25 edited by Niels Cappelorn et al. (Princeton University Press, 2015).

Strange Drowning:  Grappling with Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Overpowering Urge to Help by Larissa MacFarquhar (Penguin, 2015).

How Many Is Too Many?  The Progressive Argument for Reducing Immigration into the United States by Philip Cafaro (University of Chicago Press, 2015).

Permissible Progeny?  The Morality of Procreation and Parenting edited by Sarah Hannah, Samantha Brennan & Richard Vernon (Oxford University Press, 2015).

A Moral Defense of Recreational Drug Use by Rob Lovering (Palgrave Macmilan, 2015).

The Ant Trap:  Rebuilding the Foundations of the Social Sciences by Brian Epstein (Oxford University Press, 2015).

American Philosophy before Pragmatism by Russell B. Goodman (Oxford University Press, 2015).

Taking Life:  Three Theories on the Ethics of Killing by Torbjorn Tannsjo (Oxford University Press, 2015).

Henri Bergson by Vladimir Jankelevitch, trans. by N.F. Schott (Duke University Press, 2015).

On Inequality by Harry G. Frankfurt (Princeton University Press, 2015).

The Meaning of 'Ought':  Beyond Descriptivism and Expressivism in Metaethics by Matthew Chrisman (Oxford University Press, 2015).