Book Reviews and Book Symposia

Comments on Property Versatility and Copredication

I’m one of the commentators at an Author Meets Critics on David Liebesman and Ofra Magidor’s book Property Versatility and Copredication at the 2026 Eastern APA. This is a slightly longer version of what I’m planning to say, including more worked out versions of some examples that I’ll have to cut for time.

2025

The Sporting Attitude

Contribution to a symposium on Steffen Borge’s “The Philosophy of Football”.

Brian Weatherson
2022

Review of “What do Philosophers Do”

Review of Penelope Maddy, “What Do Philosophers Do?: Skepticism and the Practice of Philosophy”. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017.

Brian Weatherson
2019

Centrality and Marginalisation

A commentary on Herman Cappelen’s “Philosophy without Intuitions”.

Brian Weatherson
2014

Explanation, Idealisation and the Goldilocks Problem

A contribution to a symposium on Michael Strevens’s book Depth.

Brian Weatherson
2012

Stalnaker on Sleeping Beauty

A contribution to a book symposium on Stalnaker’s Our Knowledge of the Internal World, focussing on the way his framework helps cast new light on the Sleeping Beauty problem.

Brian Weatherson
2011

No Royal Road to Relativism

A reponse to Relativism and Monadic Truth. I argue that while the Cappelen and Hawthorne have good responses to the deductive arguments for relativism, there are various good inductive arguments for relativism that their view can’t adequately respond to.

Brian Weatherson
2011

Review of “David Lewis”

A review of David Lewis by Daniel Nolan.

Brian Weatherson
2007

Doing Philosophy With Words

This paper discusses the coverage of ordinary language philosophy in Scott Soames’ “Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century”. After praising the book’s virtues, I raise three points where I dissent from Soames’ take on the history. First, I suggest that there is more to ordinary language philosophy than the rather implausible version of it that Soames sees to have been destroyed by Grice. Second, I argue that confusions between analyticity, necessity and priority are less important to the ordinary language period than Soames takes them to be. Finally, I claim that Soames’ criticisms of Ryle turn in part on attributing reductionist positions to Ryle that Ryle did not hold.

Brian Weatherson
2006

Review of “Lewisian Themes”

A review of Frank Jackson and Graham Priest (eds), “Lewisian Themes: The Philosophy of David K. Lewis”, Oxford University Press, 2004.

Brian Weatherson
2005

Review of “The Realm of Reason”

Review of Christopher Peacocke, “The Realm of Reason”. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2004

Brian Weatherson
2004

Review of “Real Conditionals”

Review of William Lycan, “Real Conditionals”. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2001.

Brian Weatherson
2003

Review of “Words Without Meaning”

Review of Christopher Gauker, “Words Without Meaning”. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002.

Brian Weatherson
2003

Review of “Theories of Vagueness”

Review of Rosanna Keefe, “Theories of Vagueness”. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Brian Weatherson
2003

Review of “Vagueness and Contradiction”

Review of Roy Sorensen, “Vagueness and Contradiction”. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Brian Weatherson
2003

Review of “Sameness and Substance Renewed”

Review of David Wiggins, “Sameness and Substance Renewed”. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Brian Weatherson
2002

Review of “Moral Uncertainty and Its Consequences”

Review of Ted Lockhart, “Moral Uncertainty and Its Consequences”. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Brian Weatherson
2002

Review of “Rethinking Intuition”

Review of Michael DePaul and William Ramsey, eds. “Rethinking Intuition: The Psychology of Intuition and Its Role in Philosophical Inquiry.” Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 1998.

Brian Weatherson
2002
No matching items