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Character education is having a heyday. Established in 2012 at the University of Birmingham, the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtue is just one among many organizations dedicated to furthering character education; the Centre claims to have influenced education in the UK and beyond, having formed partnerships with other character-focused organizations and individuals in o...

In this ambitious book, Fiocco defends two remarkable theses. The first is the claim that the world is ontologically flat, “that each thing is fundamental; that reality has no ontological levels and […] that no thing is grounded in or made to be by another” (xv). The second is a version of the presentist thesis that nothing exists that is not present. While promoting presenti...

The Diversity of Morals is a fascinating and richly interdisciplinary book. In it, Steven Lukes, professor emeritus of sociology at New York University, draws on philosophy, psychology, sociology, anthropology, political theory, history, and other social and human sciences to examine a broad range of essential questions about morality.

Chapter 1 focuses on dra...

Anderson & Belnap, in their monumental work, Entailment: the Logic of Relevance and Necessity, placed the entailment connective—a connective expressing the concept first introduced by G.E. Moore in ‘External and Internal Relations’ as the converse of deducibility—at the heart of logic. They argued that the entailment connective should be both relevant, avoiding t...

In Aquinas on the Ethics of Happiness, Joseph Stenberg sets out to offer the reader what he describes as a “big-picture reconstruction” of the fundamental elements of Aquinas’s ethics. Stenberg wishes to offer an account of Aquinas’s ethics, which—in his view—is distinctively different from, and at odds with, the “standard” description of it. Specifically, again...