Book Reviews
Here are reviews of books on topics germaine to naturalism, for instance free will, theism, atheism, bioethics, consciousness, spirituality and criminal justice. If you'd like to propose a book review, please be in touch via theContact page.
| Review Title | Review Author | Book Title | Book Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reason and Practice | Jim Farmelant | Reason and Practice: A Modern Introduction to Philosophy | Kai Nielson |
| Reason and Reverence | Tom Clark | Reason and Reverence: Religious Humanism for the 21st Century | William R. Murry |
| Tennis Without a Net: The Emptiness of the Supernatural Hypothesis | Tom Clark | The Recalcitrant Imago Dei: Human Persons and the Failure of Naturalism | J.P. Moreland |
| Abortion Rights as Religious Freedom | Tom Clark | Abortion Rights as Religious Freedom | Peter S. Wenz |
| Addiction Is a Choice | Tom Clark | Addiction Is a Choice | Jeffrey Schaler |
| Choosing Irrationality | Tom Clark | Addiction: A Disorder of Choice | Gene M. Heyman |
| Exchange on Waller's "Against Moral Responsibility" | Tom Clark | Against Moral Responsibility | Bruce Waller |
| Dennett Review of "Against Moral Responsibility" | Daniel Dennett | Against Moral Responsibility | Bruce Waller |
| Singling Out the Agent | Tom Clark | Against Moral Responsibility | Bruce Waller |
| Atheism: A Very Short Introduction | Tom Clark | Atheism: A Very Short Introduction | Julian Baggini |
| B.F. Skinner: A Reappraisal | Jim Farmelant | B.F. Skinner: A Reappraisal | Marc N. Richelle |
| Naturalizing Consciousness: Review of "Being You" by Anil Seth | Tom Clark | Being You: A New Science of Consciousness | Anil Seth |
| Bioethics and the Brain | Tom Clark | Bioethics and the Brain | Walter Glannon |
| Challenging Nature | Tom Clark | Challenging Nature: The Clash of Science and Spirituality at the New Frontiers of Life | Lee M. Silver |
| The Cost of Consciousness | Tom Clark | Conscious | Annaka Harris |
| Consciousness | Tom Clark | Conversations on Consciousness | Susan Blackmore |
| What's Wrong With Determinism? Review of "Determined" by Robert Sapolsky | Tom Clark | Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will | Robert M. Sapolsky |
| Causal Powers of the Natural Mind | Tom Clark | Did My Neurons Make Me Do It? | Nancey Murphy and Warren Brown |
| Rational Optimism: Steven Pinker's Enlightenment Now | Tom Clark | Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress | Steven Pinker |
| The Scandal of Compatibilism | Tom Clark | Four Views on Free Will | John Martin Fischer, Robert Kane, Derk Pereboom and Manuel Vargas |
| The Illusion of an Illusion | Juno Walker | Free Will | Sam Harris |
| Reflections on "Free Will" | Daniel Dennett | Free Will | Sam Harris |
| Freedom Without Responsibility | Tom Clark | Freedom Without Responsibility | Bruce Waller |
| Jailbreak: Ray Tallis and the Prison of Nature | Tom Clark | Freedom: An Impossible Reality | Raymond Tallis |
| Projecting God: The Psychology of Theological Justification | Tom Clark | God and the New Atheism | John F. Haught |
| Good and Real | Tom Clark | Good and Real: Demystifying Paradoxes from Physics to Ethics | Gary L. Drescher |
| Supernaturalism and Explanation | Tom Clark | Is Nature Enough? | by John Haught |
| Responsibility in Question: Caruso and Dennett's Just Deserts | Tom Clark | Just Deserts | Gregg Caruso and Daniel Dennett |
| Worldview Elements | Tom Clark | Living Without God | Ronald Aronson |
| No Competition for Naturalism: The Poverty of Supernatural Explanations | Tom Clark | Naturalism | Stewart Goetz and Charles Taliaferro |
| Exchange on Goetz and Taliaferro's Naturalism | Tom Clark | Naturalism | Stewart Goetz and Charles Taliaferro |
| Determinism and Desert: Caruso and Flanagan's Neuroexistentialism | Tom Clark | Neuroexistentialism: Meaning, Morals and Purpose in the Age of Neuroscience | Gregg D. Caruso & Owen Flanagan, Editors |
| Marmite and Metaphysics: Review of "Philosophers on Consciousness" by Jack Symes | Tom Clark | Philosophers on Consciousness: Talking about the Mind | Jack Symes |
| Against Retribution | Tom Clark | Placing Blame: A General Theory of Criminal Law | Michael Moore |
| Debunking Enlightenment | Tom Clark | Rational Mysticism: Dispatches from the Border Between Science and Spirituality | John Horgan |
| Criminal Justice As Social Justice: Review of Gregg Caruso's Rejecting Retributivism | Tom Clark | Rejecting Retributivism: Free Will, Punishment, and Criminal Justice | Gregg D. Caruso |
| Skeptics and True Believers | Tom Clark | Skeptics and True Believers: The Exhilarating Connection Between Science and Religion | Chet Raymo |
| Review of The Blind Spot, Part 1: The Ideal of Objectivity | Tom Clark | The Blind Spot | Robert Frank, Marcelo Gleiser, and Evan Thompson |
| Review of The Blind Spot, Part 2: Can Consciousness Be Naturalized? | Tom Clark | The Blind Spot | Robert Frank, Marcelo Gleiser, and Evan Thompson |
| Free Will Foretold: Review of Peter B. Clark on Compatibilism | Tom Clark | The Compatibility of Free Will and Determinism | Peter B. Clark |
| The Coalition of Inner Nations | Juno Walker | The Ego Trick | Julian Baggini |
| Consciousness Revolutions | Tom Clark | The Ego Tunnel | Thomas Metzinger |
| The Quality of Consciousness: Thomas Metzinger's "The Elephant and the Blind" | Tom Clark | The Elephant and the Blind | Thomas Metzinger |
| The Illusion of Conscious Will | Tom Clark | The Illusion of Conscious Will | Daniel Wegner |
| The Case for Naturalistic Spirituality | Tom Clark | The Little Book of Atheist Spirituality | Andre Comte-Sponville |
| The Natural Selection of Autonomy | Tom Clark | The Natural Selection of Autonomy | Bruce N. Waller |
| The New Atheism | Yonatan Fishman, Ph.D. | The New Atheism | Victor Stenger |
| The Rise of the New Determinists | Tom Clark | The Nonsense of Free Will | Richard Oerton |
| Sending the Self on Vacation: How to Naturalize Enlightenment | Tom Clark | The Power of Now; A New Earth | Eckhard Tolle |
| The Problem of the Soul | Tom Clark | The Problem of the Soul: Two Visions of the Mind and How to Reconcile Them | Owen Flanagan |
| The Robot's Rebellion | Tom Clark | The Robot's Rebellion | Keith Stanovich |
| Saving Secularism: The Open Interrogation of Faith | Tom Clark | The Secular Conscience | Austin Dacey |
| The View from the Center of the Universe | Joseph Hilbe | The View from the Center of the Universe | Joel R. Primack and Nancy Ellen Abrams |