Books for 2008

Philosophy (Ethics):

• Responsibility and the Moral Sentiments, R. Jay Wallace
• Reconciling Our Aims: In Search for Bases for Ethics, Allan Gibbard
• Ethics without Principles, Jonathan Dancy
• Moral Dimensions: Permissibility, Meaning, Blame, T.M. Scanlon
• The Collapse of the Fact/Value Distinction and Other Essays, Hilary Putnam
• Morality without Foundations, Mark Timmons
• Normativity and the Will, R. Jay Wallace
• Reasons and the Good, Roger Crisp
• Moral Realism: A Defense, Russ Shafer-Landau
• Getting Even: Forgiveness and Its Limits, Jeffrie Murphy
• Six Myths about the Good Life: Thinking about What Has Value, Joel Kupperman
• Experiments in Ethics, Anthony Appiah
• Bernard Williams, Edited by Alan Thomas
• The Second-Person Standpoint, Stephen Darwall
• 10 Moral Paradoxes, Saul Smilansky

Philosophy (Rationality and Action Theory):

• Reasons without Rationalism, Kieran Setiya
• Four Views on Free Will, John Martin Fischer, Robert Kane, Derk Pereboom, and Manuel Vargas
• The Possibility of Practical Reason, J. David Velleman
• Problems of Rationality, Donald Davidson
• A Contemporary Introduction to Free Will, Robert Kane
• Rationality in Action, John Searle

Philosophy (Applied Ethics, Political Philosophy, Legal Philosophy):

• Rawls, Catherine Audard
• Capitalism at the Crossroads: Aligning Business, Earth and Humanity, Stuart L. Hart
• Harvard Business Review on Corporate Responsibility
• Public Goods, Private Goods, Raymond Geuss
• Harvard Business Review on Business Ethics
  
• In the Beginning Was the Deed, Bernard Williams
• Rawls, Samuel Freeman
• The Ethics of What We Eat, Peter Singer
• Politics and Passion, Michael Walzer
• Moral Issues in Business, William Shaw and Vincent Barry
• Modern Liberty and the Limits of Government, Charles Fried
• Worth and Welfare in the Controversy over Abortion, Christopher Miles Coope

Philosophy (General):

• Hilary Putnam, Max De Gainford
• Ways of World Making, Nelson Goodman
• Realism with a Human Face, Hilary Putnam
• Reason, Truth, and History, Hilary Putnam
• Authority and Estrangement: An Essay on Self-Knowledge, Richard Moran
• Furnishing the Mind, Jesse Prinz
• Open Minded: Working Out the Logic of the Soul, Jonathan Lear
• Physicalism or Something Near Enough, Jaegwon Kim
• The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy: of Mind, Edited by Stephen Stich
• The View from Nowhere, Thomas Nagel
• Philosophy of Mathematics, James Robert Brown
• A Virtue Epistemology, Ernest Lepore
• Epistemology, Robert Audi

Philosophy (History):

• Demons, Dreamers, and Madmen, Harry Frankfurt
• Spinoza, Michael Della Rocca
• Hobbes and Republian Liberty, Quentin Skinner
• The Blackwell Guide to Descartes’ Meditations, Stephen Gaukroger
• An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals, David Hume
• Beyond Good and Evil, Friedrich Nietzsche
• Cosmopolis: The Hidden Agenda of Modernity, Stephen Toulmin
• The Cambridge Companion to Mill, John Skorupski (Editor)
• Rights, Welfare, and Mill’s Moral Theory, David Lyons
• William James in the Maelstrom of American Modernism, Robert D. Richardson

Criticism, Literary History, and Aesthetics:

• A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again, David Foster Wallace
• Rome: Art and Architecture, Brigitte Hintzen-Bohlen
• Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece, Ashley Kahn
• Consider the Lobster, David Foster Wallace
• Roman Literature and Society, Robert M. Ogilvie
• The Rest is Noise: Listening to the 20th Century, Alex Ross
• Art and Its Objects, Richard Wollheim
• The Curtain: An Essay in Seven Parts, Milan Kundera

Social Science:

• The Return of Depression Economics, Paul Krugman
• Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age, Larry M. Bartels
• The Logic of Life, Tim Harford
• Marx’s Revenge, Meghnad Desai
• Happiness: Lessons from a New Science, Richard Layard
• Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality, Sigmund Freud
• Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness, Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein
• Five Lectures on Psycho-Analysis, Sigmund Freud
• The Economic Naturalist: In Search of Explanations for Everyday Enigmas, Robert Frank
• Freud, Jonathan Lear
• Basic Freud, Michael Kahn
• Predictably Irrational, Dan Ariely
• The Psychopath: Emotion and the Brain, James Blair, Derek Mitchells, and Katrian Blair
• Discover Your Inner Economist, Tyler Cowen
• The Social Psychology of Good and Evil, Arthur G. Miller (Editor)
• Who Rules America?, G. William Domhoff

Novels:

• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Price, J.K. Rowling
• Baudolino, Umberto Eco
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, J.K. Rowling
• Falling Man, Don DeLillo
• The American, Henry James
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling
• Roderick Hudson, Henry James
• Persuasion Jane Austen
• Kidnapped, Robert Louis Stevenson
• Hard Times, Charles Dickens
• The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne

Short Fiction:

• Jesus’ Son, Dennis Johnson
• Shakespeare’s Memory, Jorge Luis Borges
• The Book of Sand, Jorge Luis Borges
• The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon
• The Third Policeman, Flan O’Brien
• The Oxford Murders, Guillermo Martinez
• The Secret Sharer, Joseph Conrad
• Typhoon, Joseph Conrad
• Youth: A Narrative, Joseph Conrad
• The Wife, Anton Chekhov

Drama and Poetry:

• The Complete Odes and Epodes of Horace, Translated by W.G. Shepherd
• Tartuffe, Translated by Richard Wilbur
• Selected Poems, Robert Frost

Religion and Theology:

• Islam: A Short History, Karen Armstrong
• Misquoting Jesus, Bart Ehrman

History:

• The Oxford History of Britain, Kenneth Morgan
• The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of History, Philip Bobbitt
• The Rites of Peace: The Fall of Napoleon and the Conference of Vienna, Adam Zamoyski
• Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, Doris Kearns Goodwin
• Pax Britannica, James Morris
• The Crusades, Richard Newhall
• The Pursuit of Glory: Five Revolutions That Made Modern Europe 1648-1815, Tim Blanning
• The War That Made America: A Short History of the French and Indian War, Fred Anderson
  
• From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life 1500 to the Present, Jacques Barzun
• The Summer of ‘49, David Halberstam
• An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa 1942-1943, Rick Atkinson
• In The Wake Of The Plague: The Black Death and The World It Made, Norman Cantor
  
• American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic, Joseph J. Ellis
• Arsenals of Folly: The History of the Nuclear Arms Race, Robertson Dean
• The War: An Intimate History, 1941-1945, Geoffrey C. Ward
• Paris: 1919, Margaret Macmillan

Biography:

• American Prometheus, Kai Bird
• Born Standing Up, Steve Martin
• Eminent Victorians, Lytton Stratchy
• Machiavelli in Hell, Sebastian De Grazia
• The Bush Tragedy, Jacob Weisberg
• The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century, Steven Coll
• Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, John Perkins
• Voltaire Almighty: A Life in Pursuit of Reason, Roger Pearson
• FDR, Jean Edward Smith

Current Events and Political/Legal Affairs:

• The War within: A Secret White House History: 2006-2008, Bob Woodward
• The Way of the World, Ron Suskind
• The End of Poverty, Robert Sachs
• American Theocracy, Kevin Phillips
• The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Became a War on American Ideals, Jane Mayer
• Standard Operating Procedure, Philip Gourevitch and Errol Morris
• The Age of American Unreason, Susan Jacoby
• Of Power and Paradise: America and Europe in the New World Order, Robert Kagan
• Supreme Conflict: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Control of the United States Supreme Court, Jan Crawford Greenburg
• Murder in Amsterdam: Liberal Europe, Islam, and the Limits of Tolerance, Ian Buruma

Odds and Ends:

• The MIDI Companion, Jeffrey Rona
• When You Are Engulfed in Flames, David Sedaris
• Earth: The Sequel, Fred Krupp and Miriam Horn
• Change Your Career: Transitioning to the Nonprofit Sector, Laura Gassner Otting
• Getting Things Done, David Allen
• In Defence of Food, Michael Pollan
• A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson
• Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris