Philosophical review goes open source.

January 26, 2008 7:48 AM

Notre Dame publishes reviews of recent philosophy books online.

A sampling:
Benedict de Spinoza, Theological-Political Treatise
Claude Lefort, Le temps present. Écrits 1945-2005
Robert C. Solomon, True to Our Feelings: What Our Emotions Are Really Telling Us
Robert C. Roberts and W. Jay Wood, Intellectual Virtues: An Essay in Regulative Epistemology
Sergio Tenenbaum, Appearances of the Good: An Essay on the Nature of Practical Reason
Martin Heidegger, Mindfulness (Besinnung)
Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, Why Arendt Matters
Brian Leiter and Neil Sinhababu (eds.), Nietzsche and Morality
Alain Renaut, Qu'est-ce qu'un peuple libre?: Libéralisme ou républicanisme
Lorraine Code, Ecological Thinking: The Politics of Epistemic Location
James J. O'Donnell, Augustine: A New Biography
Peter Unger, All the Power in the World
Leslie Paul Thiele, The Heart of Judgment: Practical Wisdom, Neuroscience, and Narrative
Maeve Cooke, Re-Presenting the Good Society
Alan D. Schrift, Twentieth Century French Philosophy: Key Themes and Thinkers
McInerny, Ralph, Characters in Search of Their Author: The Gifford Lectures, 1999-2000
F.W.J. Schelling, Philosophical Inquiries into the Essence of Human Freedom

posted by anotherpanacea (10 comments total)

It thrills me that there is a publishing academic named Frisbee.
posted by everichon at 8:33 AM on January 26, 2008

Very useful, thanks anotherpanacea!
posted by carter at 10:52 AM on January 26, 2008

From the front-page Heidegger review:

There is a well-known short story by Borges concerning one Pierre Menard, a scholar who spends a lifetime on attempting to translate Don Quixote in such a way, if possible, as to surpass the original. Finally, he succeeds -- succeeds by re-creating, line-for-line and word-for-word, the exact text of the original.

Note to philosophy journal reviewers: don't try to look smart by making references to Borges when you clearly haven't read the story you're talking about.
posted by nasreddin at 11:16 AM on January 26, 2008 [2 favorites has favorites]

Were they not open access before? I don't even remember.
posted by LobsterMitten at 11:37 AM on January 26, 2008

Were they not open access before? I don't even remember.

Might have been. They're new to me, though, and to metafilter.
posted by anotherpanacea at 11:55 AM on January 26, 2008

Thanks anotherpanacea, there look very interesting.
posted by treesarefree at 12:52 PM on January 26, 2008

Thanks!
posted by joe lisboa at 3:24 PM on January 26, 2008

this is why i read metafilter.

thank you.
posted by Kudos at 7:53 PM on January 26, 2008

Were they not open access before? I don't even remember.

It looks like they're commissioned specifically by Notre Dame for this site.
posted by carter at 8:17 PM on January 26, 2008

They're new to me, though, and to metafilter.

Yeah, I didn't mean to suggest otherwise. A good place to point people, absolutely.

I was just wondering about the factual question; I think of them as having been open access for as long as I've been aware of them, but can't actually remember if that's true or if I've just been getting access through my university library.
posted by LobsterMitten at 11:54 PM on January 26, 2008