A close friend recently pointed me to this list of books on Augustana College’s website. As part of the celebration of the college’s Sesquicentennial, they have published a list of 150 faculty recommendations for books to read in your lifetime. I thought it would be fun to do a quick rundown of the books I […]
recommended listening: Low’s “A Little Argument with Myself”, from the album Trust (hear it on Youtube or buy it at Insound) I recently took it upon myself to read Charles Taliaferro and Stewart Goetz‘s work Naturalism ([amazonify]0802807682::text::::for sale here[/amazonify]). I highly recommend the book for anyone looking for a good summary of some considerations of […]
I’ve finished preparing my “summary” of Kwame Anthony Appiah‘s [amazonify]0674026098::text::::Experiments in Ethics[/amazonify]. I ended up deviating a bit too much to call my work a real summary, but I think many of the points will make for useful discussion. A lot of material has been intentionally left out, particularly after the situational examples illustrated, because […]
Please forgive my first ever attempt at a book review; this review is for Steve Long’s The Climbing Handbook [Firefly Books, 2007]. As a disclaimer to this review, I ought to mention that Steve Long’s book is the first I’ve read on the subject of rock climbing, and I am an extremely callow climber. That […]