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New Books in January

Brian Leiter

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

Interpreting Bergson:  Critical Essays edited by Alexander Lefebvre & Nils F. Schott (Cambridge University Press, 2020).

An Ethical Guidebook to the Zombie Apocalypse:  How to Keep Your Brain without Losing Your Heart by Bryan Hall (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020).

Free Will, Responsibility, and Crime:  An Introduction by Ken M. Levy (Routledge, 2020).

The Evolution of Science:  Rethinking Science for the Anthropocene by Jürgen Renn (Princeton University Press, 2020).

The Palgrave Handbook of the Philosophy of Film and Motion Pictures edited by Noel Carroll, Laura T. DiSumma & Shawn Loht (Palgrave MacMillan, 2019).

How to be a Failure and Still Live Well:  A Philosophy by Beverley Clark (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020).

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