Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason and the Gap Between Us and Them, by Joshua Greene Is utilitarianism the best way to resolve disputes in the global village? Natalie Gold investigates 9 January
50 Great Myths About Atheism, by Russell Blackford and Udo Schüklenk Martin Cohen on a mishmash of well-intentioned ideas 2 January
Ezra Pound’s Fascist Propaganda, 1935-45, by Matthew Feldman Richard Bosworth on an exploration of Pound’s activism before and during the Second World War 12 December
The Hamlet Doctrine, by Simon Critchley and Jamieson Webster Peter J. Smith on non-Lit Crit efforts to find the method in the Danish prince’s madness 28 November
Abandoned to Ourselves, by Peter Alexander Meyers Biancamaria Fontana on a mannered criticism of Enlightenment thought 28 November
Would You Kill the Fat Man?, by David Edmonds Martin Cohen on a history of moral philosophy interwoven with proponents’ biographical details 14 November
Political Emotions: Why Love Matters for Justice, by Martha Nussbaum Geraldine Van Bueren lauds a plea to put our passions to work in building a more just society 7 November
Our Bodies: Whose Property?, by Anne Phillips Maureen McNeil praises a short overview of the challenges of recent body politics 19 September
If A then B: How the World Discovered Logic, by Michael Shenefelt and Heidi White Martin Cohen on logic and its place at philosophy’s core 19 September
The Philosopher, the Priest, and the Painter: A Portrait of Descartes, by Steven Nadler Erik-Jan Bos finds that the mystery surrounding a famous painting opens a new window on the French philosopher’s world and life 22 August
Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking, by Daniel C. Dennett Constantine Sandis on Darwin’s dangerous ideas man 25 July
Isaac and Isaiah: The Covert Punishment of a Cold War Heretic, by David Caute Roger Morgan on how a liberal doyen blackballed a Red rival 18 July
Surfaces and Essences: Analogy As the Fuel and Fire of Thinking, by Douglas R. Hofstadter and Emmanuel Sander Martin Cohen on an analysis of thought and how concepts are understood through the use of analogies 18 July
Anywhere or Not at All: Philosophy of Contemporary Art by Peter Osborne K. E. Gover finds an explanation of modern art fails to enlighten 27 June
Tocqueville: The Aristocratic Sources of Liberty by Lucien Jaume, translated by Arthur Goldhammer Biancamaria Fontana on the influences that shaped a French aristocrat’s ambiguous view of democracy from his studies of the American model 16 May
On Love: A Philosophy for the Twenty-first Century by Luc Ferry, translated by Andrew Brown Jane O’Grady on how the rise of love as a central value of modern society is leading us to the brink of second humanism 16 May
Karl Marx: A Nineteenth Century Life by Jonathan Sperber Sheila Rowbotham on a crisp portrait of a restless thinker who was neither infallible nor prophetic 25 April
The God Argument: The Case Against Religion and For Humanism by A. C. Grayling Martin Cohen asks what is the point of using logic to dismantle religious belief? 21 March
Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman by Jeremy Adelman Andreas Hess discusses the incredible life of an artist of ‘possibilism’ 14 March
The Silence of Animals: On Progress and Other Modern Myths by John Gray Shahidha Bari on Straw Dogs’ author’s new tricks 21 February
Hitler’s Philosophers, by Yvonne Sherratt An effort to blame German thinkers for Nazism revives a discredited tradition, says Richard J. Evans 21 February
Henri Poincaré: A Scientific Biography by Jeremy Gray Madeline Muntersbjorn reviews a guide to the oeuvres of a mathematical genius 7 February
Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False 3 January
The Last Walk: Reflections on Our Pets at the End of Their Lives Erika Cudworth considers the ethical dilemmas posed by the decline and death of a beloved ‘pet’ 22 November
Blond vision of a just society has the Tories swooning An Anglican academic is urging the party to discard the Thatcher legacy, writes Melanie Newman 9 October
Book of the Week: Loneliness as a Way of Life Fred Inglis is moved by a meditation on loss that transforms into an unforgettable study of America's soul 9 October
Kiss goodbye to freedom Raymond Geuss foresees a future of strict controls or war over resources. Matthew Reisz meets the radical philosopher and traces his intellectual development By Matthew Reisz 11 September
