{"id":80,"date":"2013-01-08T14:01:29","date_gmt":"2013-01-08T03:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/?p=80"},"modified":"2013-01-08T14:16:38","modified_gmt":"2013-01-08T03:16:38","slug":"best-philosophy-books-of-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/2013\/01\/08\/best-philosophy-books-of-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Best philosophy books of 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Philosophers&#8217; Magazine<\/em> has listed the best, or &#8220;best&#8221;,\u00a0philosophy books of (late 2011 and) 2012, as chosen by a rather formidable list of contributors &#8211; myself among them, although some of these folks are a lot more academically formidable than I am. <a href=\"http:\/\/philosophypress.co.uk\/?p=1109\">Check it out! <\/a>My choice was Bruce N. Waller, <em>Against Moral Responsibility<\/em>, which I&#8217;ve also\u00a0discussed &#8211;\u00a0at slightly more length &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/metamagician3000.blogspot.com.au\/2012\/11\/free-will-and-moral-responsibility.html\">here (on the old Hellfire Club site)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dammit, no one listed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0470674032\/ref=s9_simh_bw_p14_d3_i1?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&amp;pf_rd_s=merchandised-search-6&amp;pf_rd_r=EC4793315ED94C2596E8&amp;pf_rd_t=101&amp;pf_rd_p=1401487722&amp;pf_rd_i=283155\"><em>Freedom of Religion and the Secular State<\/em><\/a>\u00a0but I&#8217;ll shamelessly plug it anyway.<\/p>\n<p>I did say in an earlier post (also on the old site)\u00a0that my strictly philosophical book of the year would be announced in TPM. <a href=\"http:\/\/metamagician3000.blogspot.com.au\/2012\/12\/book-of-year-eric-anderson-monogamy-gap.html\">Go to that post for my book of the year <\/a>without the caveat (i.e., &#8220;strictly philosophical&#8221;) attached to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Philosophers&#8217; Magazine has listed the best, or &#8220;best&#8221;,\u00a0philosophy books of (late 2011 and) 2012, as chosen by a rather formidable list of contributors &#8211; myself among them, although some of these folks are a lot more academically formidable than I am. Check it out! My choice was Bruce N. Waller, Against Moral Responsibility, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11],"tags":[40],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-philosophy","tag-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}