There have been several interesting reviews at Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews recently. These include some of the first reviews to come in since I joined the editorial board there. So far that’s involved suggesting potential reviewers and reading reviews that come in to check them over before publication. Don’t be surprised if you see a slight uptick in the proportion of Scotland-based reviews in the next few months!

But the three reviews I wanted to highlight weren’t ones I had anything to do with. They are

• Debra Satz, Rob Reich (eds.), “The Political Philosophy of Susan Moller Okin”:http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=18245, Reviewed by Ann E. Cudd, University of Kansas
• Richard Holton, “Willing, Wanting, Waiting”:http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=18225, Reviewed by Carl Ginet, Cornell University
• Galen Strawson, “Selves: An Essay in Revisionary Metaphysics”:http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=18205, Reviewed by Sydney Shoemaker, Cornell University

I hadn’t actually realised that Richard Holton had written up his work on will and intention into a book, and it’s something I’m looking forward to reading. I’ve learned a lot from Richard’s papers on these topics over the years. (Obviously much of “Deontology and Descartes’ Demon”:http://brian.weatherson.org/DDD.pdf draws on ideas that he developed, for instance.) And although it looks from the review that the book recapitulates a lot of what’s in the papers, seeing the ideas as a unified whole will I’m sure be valuable.