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Reviews

I have reviewed books for the Cambridge Review, Philosophy, New Society, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Mind, Philosophical Quarterly, Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science, Journal of Philosophy, Independent, Sunday Independent, Spectator, New Statesman, New Scientist, Nature, Economist, Guardian, Times Higher Educational Supplement, Times Literary Supplement, New York Times Book Review, Evening Standard, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Toronto Globe and Mail, Prospect, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, Observer, Literary Review and the Wall Street Journal.
 
Some of these reviews:
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Living on 
Earth by Peter Godfrey-Smith, Literary Review August 2024

On Giving Up by Adam Phillips , Wall Street Journal 26 April 2024

Trash Talk by Rafi Kohan, Wall Street Journal 16 December 2023

Being by Peter van Inwagen ,
Times Literary Supplement 30 June 2023
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Perspectival Realism by Michela Massimi, Times Literary Supplement, 12 August 2022

Vagueness and the Evolution of Consciousness by Michael Tye, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 31 July 2022

Freedom: An Impossible Reality by Raymond Tallis, 
Times Literary Supplement, 4 February 2022

Games People Played by Wray Vamplew, Wall Street Journal, 29 October 2021

Fans by Larry Olmsted, Wall Street Journal, 23 February 2021

Metazoa: Animal Minds and the Birth of Consciousness by Peter Godfrey-Smith, Times Literary Supplement, 4 February 2021
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Physical Intelligence by Scott Grafton, Wall Street Journal, 1 February 2020

Good Sport by Thomas H. Murray, Wall Street Journal, 8 February 2018

On Form by Mike Brearley, 
Times Literary Supplement, 22 December 2017

What We Think About When We Think About Soccer by Simon Critchley, Wall Street Journal, 18 November 2017

From Bacteria to Bach and Back by Daniel Dennett, Times Literary Supplement, 30 June 2017
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Women in Philosophy edited by Katrina Hutchison and Fiona Jenkins, Times Literary Supplement, 15 July 2015 (plus a letter Aug 7 in response to letters about the review by Kate Manne, Catherine Wilson, Paul Wallace and Amia Srinivasan)
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Frank Ramsey (1903-1930): A Sister's Memoir by Margaret Paul, Times Literary Supplement, 18 October 2013

Time Reborn by Lee Smolin, Times Literary Supplement, 13 September 2013

Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking by Daniel Dennett, Literary Review, July 2013

​The Tell-Tale Brain: Unlocking the Mysteries of Human Nature by VS Ramachandran, The Independent, 4 February 2011

The Rational Optimist by Matt Ridley, The Observer, 13 June 2010

The Eeerie Silence by Paul Davies, The Observer, 28 March 2010 

What Darwin Got Wrong by Jerry Fodor and Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini , Prospect Magazine, 24 February 2010

Scientific Representation, and Images of Empricism by Bas van Fraassen and edited by Bradley Monton resp, Times Literary Supplemnent, 24 July 2009

Don't Sleep There Are Snakes by Daniel Everett, Indepedent, 14 November 2008

The Possibility of Knowledge by Quassim Cassam, Times Literary Supplement, 30 May 2008

Memory: An Anthology edited by Harriet Harvey Wood and A.S. Byatt, The Independent, 25 January 2008

Freedom and Neurobiology by John Searle, Times Literary Supplement, 18 January 2008

The Stuff of Thought by Steven Pinker, Independent, 5 October 2007

Bigger Deal: A Year on the New Poker Circuit by Anthony Holden, Times Literary Supplement, 15 June 2007

Second Nature: Brain Science and Human Knowledge by Gerald M. Edelman, Nature, 5 April 2007

Ignorance and Imagination: The Epistemic Origin of the Problem of Consciousness by Daniel Stoljar, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 15 April 2007

Moral Minds: How Nature Designed Our Universal Sense of Right and Wrong by Mark D. Hauser, Independent, 2 February 2007

The Goldilocks Enigma: Why Is the Universe Just Right for Life? by Paul Davies, Independent, 13 October 2006

The New Brain Scienes: Perils and Prospects edited by Dai Rees and Stephen Rose, Nature, 24 February 2005

The Physiology of Truth: Neuroscience and Human Knowledge by Jean-Pierre Changeux, Nature, 3 June 2004

The Genome War: How Craig Venter Tried to Capture the Code of Life and Save the World by James Shreeve, New York Times Book Review, 15 Feb 2004

Everything and More: A Compact History of ∞ by David Foster Wallace, New York Times Book Review, 16 November 2003

The Sense of Being Stared At by Rupert Sheldrake, Toronto Globe and Mail, 24 May 2003

Reference and Consciousness by John Campbell, Times Literary Supplement, 14 February 2003

Time Traveller by Michael Novacek, New York Times Book Review, 21 April 2002

Leonardo da Vinci by Sherwin B. Nuland, New York Times Book Review, 26 November 2000

Karl Popper: The Formative Years, 1902-1945 by Malachi Haim Hacohen, New York Times Book Review, 12 November 2000

The Private Life of the Brain by Susan Greenfield, Independent, 10 June 2000

Iceman: Uncovering the Life and Times of a Prehistoric Man Found in an Alpine Glacier by Brenda Fowler, New York Times Book Review, 21 May 2000

Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 by Gina Kolata, New York Times Books Review, 21 November 1999

Mind in a Physical World, and The Mysterious Flame by Jaegwon Kim and Colin McGinn resp, The Economist, 29 April 1999

I See a Voice: A Philosophical History of Language, Deafness and the Senses by Jonathan Ree, Independent, 21 February 1999

​Brave New Worlds by Brian Appleyard, Independent, 20 January 1999

Phantoms in the Brain by V.S. Ramachandran and Sandra Blakeslee, New Scientist, 26 September 1998

Clones, and Clones and The Ethics of Human Cloning edited by Martha C. Nussbaum and Cass R. Sunstein, and edited by Leon R. Kass and James Q. Wilson resp, New York Times Book Review, 6 September 1998

Habitus by James Flint, Independent, 15 August 1998

The Hand by Frank R. Wilson, New York Times Book Review, 19 July 1998

Lifelines: Biology Beyond Determinism by Steven Rose, New York Times Book Review, 18 January 1998

Time's Arrow and Archimedes' Point by Huw Price, Times Literary Supplement, 13 June 1997 

The Origins of Virtue, and Bonobo: The Forgotten Ape by Matt Ridley and by Frans de Waal resp, New York Times Book Review, 11 May 1997

Life Itself: Exploring the Realm of the Living Cell by Boyce Rensberger, New York Times Book Review, 23 February 1997


Not Yet Home by Justin Cartwright, Times Literary Supplement, 11 October 1996

Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin by Stephen Jay Gould, New York Times Book Review, 22 September 1996

The Conscious Mind by David Chalmers, The Times Literary Supplement, 21 June 1996

The Esquire Book of Sportswriting edited by Greg Williams, Sunday Independent, 7 January 1996 

Terrors and Experts by Adam Phillips, Guardian, 3 November 1995

In Every Face I Meet by Justin Cartwright, 
Times Literary Supplement, 15 September 1995

​Knowledge and the Mind-Body Problem, and The Myth of the Framework by Karl Popper, Times Literary Supplement, 23 June 1995

Reinventing Darwin, River out of Eden, and Darwin's Dangerous Idea by Niles Eldredge, Richard Dawkins and Daniel C. Dennett resp, New York Times Book Review, 14 May 1995

The Trouble with Science by Robin Dunbar, Sunday Independent, 26 March 1995

The Commodore by Patrick O'Brian, 
Sunday Independent, 15 January 1995

How the Leopard Changed its Spots: The Evolution of Complexity by Brian Goodwin, New York Times Book Review, 18 December 1994

The Astonishing Hypothesis by Francis Crick, 
Sunday Independent, 8 May 1994

Reason not the Breed by Henry Plotkin, Sunday Independent, 17 April 1994

Shadows of the Mind by Roger Penrose 
[written for a new supplement to The Economist in 1994 but not published as the supplement was never launched]

The Future Lasts a Long Time by Louis Althusser, Sunday Independent,14 November 1993

The Private Lived of Albert Einstein, and Einstein: A Life in Science by 
Roger Highfield and Paul Carter, and  Michael White and John Gribbin, resp. Sunday Independent, c June 1993

The Love Songs of Nathan J. Swirsky by Christopher Hope, Times Literary Supplement, 11July 1993

The Diversity of Life by E. O. Wilson, New York Times Book Review, 4 October 1992

Britons by Linda Colley, Sunday Independent, 27 September 1992

Objectivity, Relativism and Truth and Essays on Heidegger and Others, Philosophical Papers vols 1 & 2 by Richard Rorty, 
Sunday Independent, 2 June 1991
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The Space Trap by Colin McGinn, Times Literary Supplement, 10 July 1992

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Get Shorty, and Stardust by Elmore Leonard and Robert B. Parker resp, Times Literary Supplement, 30 November 1990

 My Traitor's Heart, and White Tribe Dreaming by Rian Malan and Marq de Villiers resp, Times Literary Supplement, 4 May 1990

Mind, Brain and the Quantum, and The Quantum Self by Michael Lockwood and Danah Zohar resp, 
Times Literary Supplement, 23 February 1990

Another Time by Ronald Harwood, 
Times Literary Supplement, 13 October 1989

Middlepost by Anthony Sher, Times Literary Supplement, 30 September 1988

Journey Continued and The Essential Gesture by Alan Paton and Nadine Gordimer resp, Times Literary Supplement, 23 September 1988

Hello and Goodbye by Athol Fugard, Times Literary Supplement, 26 August 1988

The Intentional Stance by Daniel Dennett, 
Times Literary Supplement, 19 August 1988

Sport in Britain and How to Win at Cricket by Tony Mason and E. M. Rose resp, Times Literary Supplement, 22 July 1988

Old Year's Eve by Peter Speyer, Times Literary Supplement, 11 December 1987

Asymmetries in Time by Paul Horwich, Times Literary Supplement, 6 November 1987

Crossing the Line, An Act of Immorality, and Kaffir Boy by Willian Finnegan, John Carr and Mark Mathabane resp, 
Times Literary Supplement, 27 August 1987

Epistemology and Cognition by Alvin Goldman, 
Times Literary Supplement, 20 March 1987

The Rationality of Induction by David Stove, Times Literary Supplement, 19 December 1986

The Social Science Encyclopedia edited by Adam Kuper and Jessica Kuper, Times Literary Supplement, 9 May 1986

Revolution in Science by I. Bernard Cohen, Times Literary Supplement, 13 September 1985

Minds, Brains and Science by John Searle,Times Literary Supplement, 14 December 1984

The Extended Phenotype by Richard Dawkins, Times Literary Supplement, 20 July 1984

​The Need for Interpretation edited by Sollace Mitchell and Michael Rosen, Times Literary Supplement, 4 November 1983

Popper and After by David Stove, Times Literary Supplement, 1 July 1983

The Possibility of Naturalism by Roy Bhaskar,  
British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, December 1982

Philosophical Papers vols 1 & 2 by Paul Feyerabend, Times Literary Supplement, 29 October 1982 

Philosophical Subjects: Essays Presented to P. F. Strawson edited by Zak van Straaten, 
Times Literary Supplement, 19 February 1982

Theory and Evidence by Clark Glymour, Times Literary Supplement, 17 October 1980

Essays on Explanation and Understanding edited by Juha Manninen and Raimo Tuomela, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, September 1978
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