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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">My name is David Sackris and I am the book reviews
editor for the journal </span><a href="https://www.pdcnet.org/teachphil/Editorial-Team" style="color:blue"><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Teaching Philosophy</span></i></a><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">.
I am looking for individuals interested in reviewing the following works (see
below). The aim would be to complete the review by 5/26, 2024. If you believe
you would be well-suited to review one of the books on this list, please
contact me and let me know. If you have any questions about performing a book
review for <i>Teaching Philosophy</i>,
please feel free to contact me on that front as well. I am also open to
suggestions of new books that might deserve to be reviewed in the journal,
given its aims. </span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(68,114,196)"> </span></p>

<h3 style="margin:7.5pt 0in 7.5pt 0.5in;line-height:16.8pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;break-after:avoid;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:rgb(31,55,99);font-weight:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">1)<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      </span></span><a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/aesthetic-life-and-why-it-matters-9780197748510?lang=en&cc=ca" target="_blank" style="color:blue"><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,112,192);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Aesthetic Life and Why It Matters</span></i></a><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,112,192)"> </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">by
Dominic McIver Lopes, Bence Nanay, and Nick Riggle—Oxford University Press </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:windowtext"></span></h3>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">As
the sunset swings into view, you think, "That's beautiful." You take
a bite of cake and you think, "Wow, that's sweet"-maybe too sweet.
You hear that new song and it blows you away. You play it for your friends. The
novel is wonderful, the movie disappoints, the dress looked better in the
store. <em>Aesthetic Life and Why It Matters</em> offers three new
answers to Socrates's great question about how we should live that focus on the
place of aesthetic engagement in well-being. Three philosophers offer their
perspectives on how aesthetic commitments move us through the world and shape
our well-being, our sense of self, and our connections to others. Aesthetic
engagement is a site for achievement, it cultivates individuality within a
context of community, and it satisfies a hunger for exploring our differences.
A closing dialogue between the authors probes some flash points in thinking
about value: disagreement, subjectivism, ethnocentrism, fads and fashions, and
ideology critique. Written in appealing prose, with vivid examples, a
comprehensive introduction, and suggestions for further reading, the book is
designed as a self-contained module in aesthetics for introductory courses in
philosophy.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt 0.5in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(31,55,99)">2)<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">     
</span></span><a href="https://broadviewpress.com/product/beyond-the-binary-thinking-about-sex-and-gender-second-edition/#tab-description" style="color:blue"><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Beyond the Binary</span></i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">by Shannon Dea—Broadview </span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(88,89,91);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">How are sex and gender
related? Are they the same thing? What exactly is gender? How many genders are
there? What is the science on all of this? Is gender a product of nature,
nurture, or both? This book introduces readers to fundamental questions about
sex and gender categories as they’ve been considered across the centuries and
through a wide array of disciplines and perspectives. From the Bible to Darwin,
from Enlightenment thinkers to contemporary trans philosophers, <em>Beyond
the Binary</em> offers an accessible survey of the wide range of views
about sex and gender. This revised and expanded edition uses updated
terminology and diagnostic criteria and offers new material with a greater
focus on trans, Indigenous, racialized, and subaltern thinkers. It includes
useful discussion questions and further reading recommendations at the end of
each chapter, as well as an extensive glossary of terms.</span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt 0.5in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(31,55,99)">3)<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">     
</span></span><a href="https://www.routledge.com/Logic-for-Justice-An-Introduction-to-Formal-Logic-with-an-Emphasis-on-Political/Wilhelm/p/book/9781003200970" style="color:blue"><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Logic for Justice: An Introduction
to Formal Logic with an Emphasis on Political Reform</span></i></a><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
by Isaac Wilhelm—Routledge </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">An introductory textbook, Logic for Justice covers, in
full detail, the language and semantics of both propositional logic and
first-order logic. It motivates the study of those logical systems by drawing
on social and political issues. Basically, Logic for Justice frames
propositional logic and first-order logic as two theories of the distinction
between good arguments and bad arguments. And the book explains why, for the
purposes of social justice and political reform, we need theories of that
distinction.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">In addition, Logic for Justice is extremely lucid,
thorough, and clear. It explains, and motivates, many different features of the
formalism of propositional logic and first-order logic, always connecting those
features back to real-world issues.</span></p>

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</span></span><a href="https://broadviewpress.com/product/ways-of-being-in-the-world/#tab-description" style="color:blue"><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Ways of Being in the World: An
Introduction to Indigenous Philosophies of Turtle Island</span></i></a><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
edited by Andrea Sullivan-Clarke—Broadview </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><em><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Ways of Being in the World</span></em><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> is an anthology of the Indigenous
philosophical thought of communities across Turtle Island, offering readings on
a variety of topics spanning many times and geographic locations. It was
created especially to meet the needs of instructors who want to add Indigenous
philosophy to their courses but are unsure where to begin—as well as for
students, Indigenous or otherwise, who wish to broaden their horizons with
materials not found in the typical philosophy course. This collection is an
invitation to embark on a relationship with Indigenous peoples through the
introduction of their unique philosophies.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><i><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691247823/changing-the-game" style="color:blue"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:107%;font-style:normal"></span></a></span></i></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink" style="color:blue;text-decoration-line:underline"><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691247823/changing-the-game" style="color:blue"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;color:rgb(31,55,99);font-style:normal;text-decoration-line:none">5)<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      </span></span>Changing
the Game: William G. Bowen and the Challenges of American Higher Education</a></span></i></span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
by Nancy Weiss Malkiel—Princeton University Press</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">As provost and then president of Princeton University,
William G. Bowen (1933–2016) took on the biggest and most complex challenges
confronting higher education: cost disease, inclusion, affirmative action,
college access, and college completion. Later, as president of the Andrew W.
Mellon Foundation, he took his vision for higher education—and the strategies
for accomplishing that vision—to a larger arena. Along the way, he wrote a
series of influential books, including the widely read The Shape of the River
(coauthored with Derek Bok), which documented the success of policies designed
to increase racial diversity at elite institutions. In Changing the Game,
drawing on deep archival research and hundreds of interviews, Nancy Weiss
Malkiel argues that Bowen was the most consequential higher education leader of
his generation.</span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt 0.5in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(31,55,99)">6)<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">     
</span></span><a href="https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691240503/begetting" style="color:blue"><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Begetting: What Does It Mean to
Create a Child?</span></i></a><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> By Mara van der Lugt—Princeton University
Press</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">“Do you want to have children?” is a question we
routinely ask each other. But what does it mean to create a child? Is this
decision always justified? Does anyone really have the moral right to create
another person? In Begetting, Mara van der Lugt attempts to fill in the moral
background of procreation. Drawing on both philosophy and popular culture, van
der Lugt does not provide a definitive answer on the morality of having a
child; instead, she helps us find the right questions to ask.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Most of the time, when we talk about whether to have
children, what we are really talking about is whether we want to have children.
Van der Lugt shows why this is not enough. To consider having children, she
argues, is to interrogate our own responsibility and commitments, morally and
philosophically and also personally. What does it mean to bring a new creature
into the world, to decide to perform an act of creation? What does it mean to
make the decision that life is worth living on behalf of a person who cannot be
consulted? These questions are part of a conversation we should have started
long ago. Van der Lugt does not ignore the problematic aspects of
procreation—ethical, environmental and otherwise. But she also acknowledges the
depth and complexity of the intensely human desire to have a child of our own
blood and our own making.</span></p>

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</span></span></i><a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/henry-david-thoreau-9780197684269?lang=en&cc=us" style="color:blue"><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Henry David Thoreau: Thinking
Disobediently</span></i></a><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> by Lawrence Buell—Oxford University Press<i></i></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was a leading figure
in the American Transcendentalist movement and the era of U. S. literary
emergence, an intellectual with worldwide influence as essayist, social
thinker, naturalist-environmentalist, and sage. Thoreau's Walden, an
autobiographical narrative of his two-year sojourn in a self-built lakeside
cabin, is one of the most widely studied works of American literature. It has
generated scores of literary imitations and thousands of neo-Walden experiments
in back-to-basics living, both rural and urban. Thoreau's great essay,
"Civil Disobedience," is a classic of American political activism and
a model for nonviolent reform movements around the world. Thoreau also stands
as an icon of modern American environmentalism, the father of American nature
writing, a forerunner of modern ecology, and a harbinger of freelance
spirituality combining the wisdom of west and east.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Thoreau is also a controversial figure. From his day
to ours, he has provoked sharply opposite reactions ranging from reverence to
dismissal. Scholars have regularly offered conflicting assessments of the
significance of his work, the evolution of his thought, even the facts of his life.
Some disagreements are in the eye of the beholder, but many follow from
challenges posed by his own cross-grained idiosyncrasies. He was an advocate
for individual self-sufficiency who never broke away from home, a
self-professed mystic now also acclaimed as a pioneer natural and applied
scientist, and a seminal theorist of nonviolent protest who defended the most
notorious guerrilla fighter of his day. All told, he remains a rather enigmatic
figure both despite and because we know so much about him, beginning with the
two-million-word journal he kept throughout his adult life. The esteemed
Thoreau scholar Lawrence Buell gives due consideration to all these aspects of
Thoreau's art and thought, framing key issues and complexities in historical
and literary context.</span></p>

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<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt 0.5in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><i><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(31,55,99)">8)<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">     
</span></span></i><a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262549752/re-reasoning-ethics/" style="color:blue"><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Re-Reasoning Ethics: The
Rationality of Deliberation and Judgment in Ethics</span></i></a><i><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></i></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">By Barry Hoffmaster and Cliff Hooker—MIT Press</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">In Re-Reasoning Ethics, Barry Hoffmaster and Cliff
Hooker enhance and empower ethics by adopting a non-formal paradigm of rational
deliberation as intelligent problem-solving and a complementary non-formal
paradigm of ethical deliberation as problem-solving design to promote human
flourishing. The non-formal conception of reason produces broader and richer
ethical understandings of human situations, not the simple, constrained
depictions provided by moral theories and their logical applications in medical
ethics and bioethics. Instead, it delivers and vindicates the moral judgment
that complex, contextual, and dynamic situations require.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Hoffmaster and Hooker demonstrate how this more
expansive rationality operates with examples, first in science and then in
ethics. Non-formal reason brings rationality not just to the empirical world of
science but also to the empirical realities of human lives. Among the many real
cases they present is that of how women at risk of having children with genetic
conditions decide whether to try to become pregnant. These women do not apply
the formal principle of maximizing expected utility (as advised by genetic
counselors) and instead imagine scenarios of what their lives could be like
with an affected child and assess whether they could accept the worst of these
scenarios.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Hoffmaster and Hooker explain how moral compromise and
a liberated, extended, and enriched reflective equilibrium expand and augment
rational ethical deliberation and how that deliberation can rationally design
ethical practices, institutions, and policies</span></p>

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<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt 0.5in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><i><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(31,55,99)">9)<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">     
</span></span></i><a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262549202/truly-human-enhancement/" style="color:blue"><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Truly Human Enhancement: A
Philosophical Defense of Limits</span></i></a><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> By Nicholas Agar—MIT
Press<i></i></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The transformative potential of genetic and cybernetic
technologies to enhance human capabilities is most often either rejected on
moral and prudential grounds or hailed as the future salvation of humanity. In
this book, Nicholas Agar offers a more nuanced view, making a case for moderate
human enhancement—improvements to attributes and abilities that do not
significantly exceed what is currently possible for human beings. He argues
against radical human enhancement, or improvements that greatly exceed current
human capabilities.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Agar explores notions of transformative change and
motives for human enhancement; distinguishes between the instrumental and
intrinsic value of enhancements; argues that too much enhancement undermines
human identity; considers the possibility of cognitively enhanced scientists;
and argues against radical life extension. Making the case for moderate
enhancement, Agar argues that many objections to enhancement are better
understood as directed at the degree of enhancement rather than enhancement
itself. Moderate human enhancement meets the requirement of truly human
enhancement. By radically enhancing human cognitive capabilities, by contrast,
we may inadvertently create beings (“post-persons”) with moral status higher
than that of persons. If we create beings more entitled to benefits and protections
against harms than persons, Agar writes, this will be bad news for the
unenhanced. Moderate human enhancement offers a more appealing vision of the
future and of our relationship to technology.</span></p>

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</span></span><a href="https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/F/bo198592752.html" style="color:blue"><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Foundations of Logic: Completeness,
Incompleteness, Computability</span></i></a><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> by Dag
Westerståhl—University of Chicago Press</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">This book provides a concise but detailed account of
modern logic’s three cornerstones: the completeness of first-order logic,
Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems, and Turing’s analysis of computability. In
addition to the central text, an appendix explains the required technical
terminology and facts. The main ideas behind the three cornerstones are
explained in a simple, easy-to-grasp manner, and it is possible to select among
the chapters and sections so that the reader becomes familiar with these ideas,
even if some technicalities are skipped or postponed. A wealth of exercises accompany
a wide selection of materials, including the histories and philosophical
implications of the three main premises, making it useful as a textbook for
undergraduate or graduate courses focusing on any of the three main themes. The
material is rigorous and detailed but keeps the main ideas in sight, and there
are numerous excursions into more advanced material for curious readers to
explore.</span></p></div>