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Forward into Fall: Philosophy

Edited by Dick Donahue Compiled by Alia Akkam, Robert Dahlin, Charles Hix, Natalie Danford, Liz Hartman, Lauren Joyce, Hilary Kayle, Suzanne Mantell, Diane Patrick, Karole Riippa, Judith Rosen, Oona Short, Skip Skwarek, Julie Stevenson and Michelle Wildge -- Publishers Weekly, 8/6/2007

Columbia Univ. Press

The Art of War (Dec., $19.95) by Sun Zi (Sun Tzu), trans. by Victor Mair, offers a new take on the Chinese classic for military strategists and scholars.

Harvard Univ. Press

A Secular Age (Sept., $39.95) by Charles Taylor provides a historical perspective on secularization and belief in the transcendent.

Hill & Wang

Irreligion: A Mathematician Explains Why the Arguments for God Just Don’t Add Up (Jan., $20) by John Allen Paulos contains 12 chapters that refute the 12 arguments most often put forward for believing in God’s existence.

MIT Press

The Really Hard Problem: Meaning in a Material World (Nov., $27.95) by Owen Flanagan seeks to balance science’s claim that there is no “free will” with the search for meaning.

Pegasus Books

(dist. by Consortium)

A Beginner’s Guide to Philosophy (Dec., $19.95) by Dominique Janicaud examines a range of philosophical theories and techniques, from pre-Socratic thinkers to Hegel and Nietzsche.

State Univ. of New York Press

Global Fragments: Globalizations, Latinamericanisms, and Critical Theory (Oct., $70) by Eduardo Mendieta offers a philosophical approach to the processes of globalization in the context of Latin America.

Sterling

The Middle Way: Finding Happiness in a World of Extremes (Sept., $24.95) by Lou Marinoff reveals the ABCs for finding the “middle” path of Aristotle, Buddha and Confucius.

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