BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Mary Vetterling-Braggin, editor, Sexist Language: A Modern Philosophical Analysis (Littlefield, Adams and Co., 1981).
Fred R. Dallmayr, Beyond Dogma and Despair: Toward a Critical Phenomenology of Politics (Notre Dame and London, Notre Dame University Press, 1981).
Andrew Feenberg, Lukacs, Marx, and the Sources of Critical Theory, (Totowa, New Jersey: Rowman and Littlefield, 1981).
C. Dyke, Philosophy of Economics, Prentice-Hall (Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1981).
Alan Garfinkel, Forms of Explanation: Rethinking the Questions in Social Theory (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981).     

A review of professor mommy: finding work–family balance in academia

Rachel Connelly & Kristin Ghodsee. (2011). Professor Mommy: Finding Work–Family Balance in Academia. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group. 232 pages, $25.95 List. ISBN: 978‐1442208582.     

Epistemology: Classic Problems and Contemporary Responses

Book Information Epistemology: Classic Problems and Contemporary Responses. By Laurence BonJour. Rowman and Littlefield. Lanham MD. 2002. Pp. viii + 289. Hardback, US$75. Paperback, US$23.95.     

“The Environmental Presence of Ruins: On Zoltán Somhegyi’s Reviewing the Past: The Presence of Ruins”

Philosophia - Zoltán Somhegyi’s Reviewing the Past: The Presence of Ruins (Rowman & Littlefield, 2020) takes the reader on a captivating journey through the phenomenon of ruins....     

Necessary Goods: Our Responsibilities to Meet Others' Needs

Book Information Necessary Goods: Our Responsibilities to Meet Others' Needs. Edited by Gillian Brock. Rowman and Littlefield. Lanham, MD. 1998. Pp. ix + 238. Hardback, US$63.00. Paperback, US$23.95.     

BRIEFLY NOTED

Books reviewed:
Negative Campaigning: An Analysis of U.S. Senate Elections. By Richard R. Lau and Gerald M. Pomper. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004. 175 pp. Reviewed by Doris A. Graber University of Illinois, Chicago     

Intercultural Philosophy

Book Information Intercultural Philosophy. By Ram Adhar Mall. Rowman & Littlefield. 2000. Pp. xiii + 152. Hardback, US$62.00. Paperback, US$16.95.     

Meaning and criteria of application in ethics

Book Information Reading Peirce Reading. By Richard A. Smyth. Rowman and Littlefield. Maryland. 1997. Pp. ix + 327. Hardback, US$64.50. Paperback, US$24.95.     

Divulsion

Book Information Making Sense. A Theory of Interpretation. By Paul Thom. Rowman &; Littlefield. Lanham. 2000. Pp. vii + 117. Hardback, US$59.95. Paperback, US$17.95.     

Confessions of a Non-Evangelical

Book reviewed:
The Lost Soul of American Protestantism , D.G. Hart, Rowman & Littlefield 2002 (0-7425-0768-8), pp. xxxiv + 197, Hb $37.50/Pb $22.95
That Old-Time Religion in Modern America: Evangelical Protestantism in the Twentieth Century , D.G. Hart, Ivan R. Dee 2002 (1-56663-460-1), pp. 246, Hb $24.95
Deconstructing Evangelicalism: Conservative Protestantism in the Age of Billy Graham , D.G. Hart, Baker Academic 2004 (0-8010-2728-4), pp. 224, Hb $21.99     

Recent books

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Wyer, R.S., Jr., & Srull, T.K. (Eds.) (1993). Perspectives on anger and emotion: Advances in social cognition (Vol. VI). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc. ISBN 0–8058–1326–8 (hbk), 0–8058–1327–6 (pbk), 206 pp. £29.95 (hbk), £13.50 (pbk)

Mathes, E.W. (1993). Jealousy: The psychological data. New York: University Press of America. ISBN 0–8191–8521–3, 204 pp. £32.50

Solomon, R.C. (1994). Above love: Reinventing romance for our times. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 0–8226–3027–3, 352 pp. £14.95.     

Once More . . .

Books reviewed:
Allegory and Event: A Study of the Sources and Significance of Origen's Interpretation of Scripture , R.P.C. Hanson, with an introduction by Joseph W. Trigg, Westminster John Knox Press 2003 (0-664-22444-X), pp. xxv + 400, Pb £30
The Shade of Swords: Jihad and the Conflict between Islam and Christianity , M.J. Akbar, Routledge 2003 (0-415-32814-4), pp. xxv + 338, Pb £9.99
Ads, Fads, and Consumer Culture: Advertising's Impact on American Character and Society , Arthur A. Berger, Rowman and Littlefield 2004, Second Edition (0-7425-2724-7), pp. xviii + 174, Pb $21.95     

Book reviews

Socializing Epistemology: The Social Dimensions of Knowledge, Frederick F. Schmitt, Ed., 1994. Lanham, MD, Rowman and Littlefield, ix + 315 pp., US$22.95, ISBN: 0847679594

A Dynamic Systems Approach to the Development of Cognition and Action, Esther Thelen & Linda B. Smith. Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, xxii + 376 pp., $50, ISBN 0–262–20095–3 cloth

From Kant to Hilbert: A Source Book in the Foundations of Mathematics, William B. Ewald, Ed., 1996. Oxford, Oxford University Press. xviii+ 1340 pp., £195.00, two volumes, ISBN 0–19–853271–7 (the set)     

Better communication between engineers and managers

This article is concerned with ways better communication between engineers and their managers might help prevent engineers being faced with some of the ethical problems that make up the typical course in engineering ethics. Beginning with observations concerning the Challenger disaster, the article moves on to report results of empirical research on the way technical communication breaks down, or doesn’t break down, between engineers and managers. The article concludes with nine recommendations for organizational change to help prevent communications breakdown. The author holds a National Science Foundation grant to integrate ethics into technical courses. Among his recent publications are: To Make the Punishment Fit the Crime (Westview, 1992), AIDS: Crisis in Professional Ethics (Temple, 1994), and Justice in the Shadow of Death (Rowman and Littlefield, 1996).     

Reciprocity and Reasonable Disagreement: From Liberal to Democratic Legitimacy

At the center of Rawls’s work post-1980 is the question of how legitimate coercive state action is possible in a liberal democracy under conditions of reasonable disagreement. And at the heart of Rawls’s answer to this question is his liberal principle of legitimacy. In this paper I argue that once we attend carefully to the depth and range of reasonable disagreement, Rawls’s liberal principle of legitimacy turns out to be either wildly utopian or simply toothless, depending on how one reads the ideal of reciprocity it is meant to embody. To remedy this defect in Rawls’s theory, I␣undertake to develop the outlines of a democratic conception of legitimacy, drawing first on Rawls’s generic conception of legitimacy in The Law of Peoples and second on a revised understanding of reciprocity between free and equal citizens. On this revised understanding, what free and equal citizens owe one another is not reciprocity in judgment, but reciprocity of interests. David A. Reidy, J.D. (Indiana University-Bloomington), Ph.D. (Philosophy, University of Kansas) is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tennessee. He works in political philosophy and philosophy of law. He has published essays in journals such as Political Theory, Journal of Social Philosophy, Res Publica, Southern Journal of Philosophy, Public Affairs Quarterly, Polis, Journal of Value Inquiry, Kantian Review, Economics and Philosophy, Legal Studies Forum, as well as in various anthologies. He is the co-editor (with Mortimer Sellers) of Universal Human Rights: Moral Order in a Divided World (Rowman and Littlefield, 2005) and (with Rex Martin) of A Realistic Utopia: Essays on Rawls’s ‘The Law of Peoples’ (Blackwell, forthcoming 2005).     

Honesty about God: Theological reflections on violence in an evolutionary universe

Theodicy has become problematic in light of scientific theories of evolution, and all theologies are doomed to failure unless and until they are “honest, and ever-vigilant against the temptation … to excise from [nature] … violence and indifference to suffering” simply because it does not suit our theological systems or political goals.1 1 B. Jill Carroll, The Savage Side: Reclaiming Violent Models of God (New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001), 116. View all notes In this theological attempt to deal directly with the violence inherent in the evolutionary process, I suggest a cautious retrieval of Martin Luther's God Hidden/God Revealed in order to allow for a more honest appraisal of suffering in this evolutionary universe.     

Privacy and the encryption debate

Conclusion Robert Heinlein, author of Stranger in a Strange Land as well as countless other science fiction stories, once claimed that "The sole thing achieved by any privacy law is to make the bugs smaller." Heinlein may be correct, but that travesties will happen does not sanction them—and maybe we will invent bugs to root out and foil other bugs. I have argued for individual privacy rights or rights to control sensitive personal information. The explosion of digital technology has made possible severe violations of individual privacy by corporations, news agencies, and the government. If I am correct about all of this, one commonly used "public interest" argument given for limiting privacy rights has been undermined. It is also far from true to claim that the prevalence of strong encryption technology will lead to disaster. While I do not adhere to the view that "rights hold, though the heavens may fall," in this article I have maintained that the security arguments of law enforcement do not come close to meeting the threshold for violating privacy rights. The heavens are far from falling. He is the author of, "Employee Monitoring and Computer Technology" (forthcoming in Business Ethics Quarterly), "Intangible Property: Privacy, Power, and Information Control," American Philosophical Quarterly 35 (October 1998) and is the editor of Intellectual Property: Moral, Legal, and International Dilemmas (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1997), in which he contributes "Introduction to Intellectual Property" and "Toward A Lockean Theory of Intellectual Property."     

Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Moral Luck, Philosophical Papers 1973–1980 by Bernard Williams
Russell Keat. The Politics of Social Theory: Habermas, Freud and the Critique ofPositivism.
Graham MacDonald and Philip Pettit. Semantics and Social Science.     

BOOK REVIEWS

MAKING THE AMERICAN RELIGIOUS FRINGE: EXOTICS, SUBVERSIVES, AND JOURNALISTS, 1955–1993. By Sean McCloud. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. 256 pp. $49.95 cloth, $19.95 paper.
FROM ANGELS TO ALIENS: TEENAGERS, THE MEDIA, AND THE SUPERNATURAL. By Lynn Schofield Clark. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. x + 292 pp. $29.95 cloth.
FREEING GOD'S CHILDREN: THE UNLIKELY ALLIANCE FOR GLOBAL HUMAN RIGHTS. By Allen D. Hertzke. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2004. xiii + 421 pp. $27.95 cloth.
PEACE AND PERSISTENCE: TRACING THE BRETHREN IN CHRIST PEACE WITNESS THROUGH THREE GENERATIONSPEACE AND PERSISTENCE: TRACING THE BRETHREN IN CHRIST PEACE WITNESS THROUGH THREE GENERATIONS. By M. J. Heisey. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2003. xvi + 280 pp. $45.00 cloth.
SOFT PATRIARCHS, NEW MEN: HOW CHRISTIANITY SHAPES FATHERS AND HUSBANDS. By W. Bradford Wilcox. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. ix + 337 pp. $62.00 cloth, $20.00 paper.
WEATHERING CHANGE: GAYS AND LESBIANS, CHRISTIAN CONSERVATIVES, AND EVERYDAY HOSTILITIES. By Thomas J. Linneman. New York: New York University Press, 2003. x + 266 pp. $55.00 cloth, $19.00 paper.
NEW AGE, A GUIDE: ALTERNATIVE SPIRITUALITIES FROM AQUARIAN CONSPIRACY TO NEXT AGE. By Daren Kemp. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2004. x + 211 pp. $22.50 paper.
JEWISH PASSAGES: CYCLES OF JEWISH LIFE. By Harvey E. Goldberg. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. xiii + 379 pp. $27.50 cloth.
THE FORMATION OF CHRISTIANITY IN ANTIOCH: A SOCIAL-SCIENTIFIC APPROACH TO THE SEPARATION BETWEEN JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY. By Magnus Zetterholm. London: Routledge, 2003. xiv + 272 pp. $92.95 cloth.     

Learning to Live in the Anthropocene: Our Children and Ourselves

This essay responds to recent philosophical interest in the Anthropocene by asking (Trachtenberg in Inhabiting the Anthropocene: how we live changes everything, 2016): Can and should educators adopt, form, transmit, teach ways of living to maintain, if not enhance Earth’s habitability, especially its habitability for diverse children? This inquiry therefore calls for conceptual study of learning to live through the Anthropocene—with, despite, after, before, amid, among, away from, and against its myriad harms, possible and actual, especially its harms to children. Examining cases of environmental racism in Checker’s Polluted Promises (2005), and other cases of environmental threats to children’s health, in Steingraber’s Raising Elijah (2011), this study begins by proposing the ecological gap in philosophy of education consequential for children resides within another epistemological gap, variously designated gender gap, love gap, care gap (Martin in The schoolhome: rethinking schools for changing families. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1992; Education reconfigured: culture, encounter, and change. Routledge, New York, 2011; Warren in Ecofeminist philosophy: a Western persepctive on what it is and why it matters. Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, 2000). Ruddick’s maternal thinking (1984, 1988) provides a conceptual frame for theorizing three moral aims of learning to live in the Anthropocene that might inform public schooling.