Book Reviews


 

Jeff Malpas (ed),The Place of Landscape: Concepts, Contexts, Studies (MIT Press, 2011)

A collection of new essays on landscape.

Reviewed in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, February 2012

 

 

 


Jennifer McMahon, Aesthetics and Material Beauty (Routledge, 2007)

A reinterpretation of Kant's aesthetics in light of contemporary neuroscience.

Reviewed in Mind (2010) 119: 827-830.

 


Natural BeautyRonald Moore, Natural Beauty (Broadview Press, 2007)

There are only a handful of book-length studies of the aesthetics of nature by analytic philosophers. The latest of these, Moore’s volume develops his ‘syncretic aesthetics’ in detail .

Reviewed in Environmental Ethics, 31 (2009) 93-95.



Destination ArtTopographiesAmy Dempsey, Destination Art (University of California, 2006), John Sallis, Topographies (Indiana University Press, 2006)

Two travel books with interesting approaches to natural sites.

Reviewed in The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 66 (2008) 321-3 .


 A History of Science in Society: From Philosophy to UtilityAndrew Ede and Lesley Cormack, A History of Science in Society: From Philosophy to Utility (Broadview Press, 2004)

Introduction to the history of science with an emphasis on the practical implications of scientific advance.

Reviewed in History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 27 (2005) 545-6


The Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature Malcolm Budd, The Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature (Oxford University Press, 2002)

Collection of Budd’s important essays on the aesthetics of nature, including his detailed study of Kant’s view of natural beauty.

Reviewed in Mind 113 (2004) 741-744



Metaphorically Speaking Patti Nogales, Metaphorically Speaking (CSLI, 1999)

A new theory of metaphor.

Reviewed in The Review of Metaphysics 57 (2004) 169-170

 



Art and Knowledge James O. Young, Art and Knowledge (Routledge, 2001)

Provocative argument for the view that artworks can furnish us with knowledge.

Reviewed in Philosophy in Review 23 (2003) 305-30 .



Norms of Nature: Naturalism and the Nature of Functions Paul Sheldon Davies, Norms of Nature: Naturalism and the Nature of Functions (MIT Press, 2002)

Argues for a rejection of etiological theories of natural function in favour of Cummins-style analyses.

Reviewed in Philosophy in Review 22 (2002) 24-26.



The Metaphysics of BeautyNick Zangwill, The Metaphysics of Beauty (Cornell University Press, 2001)

Collection of Zangwill’s papers on various topics in philosophical aesthetics.

Reviewed in Philosophy in Review 22 (2002) 76-78.

 

 


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