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New books in October

Authors and/or publishers kindly sent me these new books this month:

The Virtues:  Justice edited by Mark LeBar (Oxford University Press, 2018).

The Evil Within:  Why We Need Moral Philosophy by Diane Jeske (Oxford University Press, 2018).

Jewish Philosophy in the Middle Ages:  Science, Rationalism, and Religion by T.M. Rudavsky (Oxford University Press, 2018).

Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Law, Volume 3 edited by John Gardner, Leslie Green & Brian Leiter (Oxford University Press, 2018).

Law as Artifact edited by Luka Burazin, Kenneth Himma & Corrado Roversi (Oxford University Press, 2018).

Phenomenology in France:  A Philosophical and Theological Introduction by Steven DeLay (Routledge, 2019).

Pleasure:  A History edited by Lisa Shapiro (Oxford University Press, 2018).

Planning, Time, and Self-Governance:  Essays in Practical Rationality by Michael E. Bratman (Oxford University Press, 2018).

The Evolution of Moral Progress:  A Biocultural Theory by Allen Buchanan & Russell Powell (Oxford University Press, 2018).

What is Philosophy For? by Mary Midgley (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018).

Stoicism:  A Very Short Introduction by Brad Inwood (Oxford University Press, 2018).

How Fascism Works:  The Politics of US and THEM by Jason Stanley (Random House, 2018).

The Birth of Ethics:  Reconstructing the Role and Nature of Morality by Philip Pettit, edited by Kinch Hoekstra with Michael Tomasello (Oxford University Press, 2018).

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