text: Here’s the weekly report on new entries in online philosophical resources and new reviews of philosophy books.
  Below is a list of recent updates, if there have been any, to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP), Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (IEP), Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (NDPR), 1000-Word Philosophy, and Wireless Philosophy (Wi-Phi). There’s also a section listing recent reviews of philosophy books appearing in popular media.
  SEP
  New:
  Iamblichus, by Riccardo Chiaradonna (Università degli Studi Roma Tre) and Adrien Lecerf (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique).
  Revised:
  Transcendentalism, by Russell Goodman (New Mexico).
  Carl Schmitt, by Lars Vinx (Cambridge)
  Category Theory, by Jean-Pierre Marquis (Montreal).
  Social Epistemology, by Alvin Goldman (Rutgers) and Cailin O’Connor (California-Irvine).
  Otto Neurath, by Jordi Cat (Indiana).
  Interpretations of Probability, by Alan Hájek (Australian National University).
  Herbert Spencer, by David Weinstein (Wake Forest).
  Gratitude, by Tony Manela (Siena College).
  IEP ∅
  NDPR
  Paul M. Livingston (New Mexico) reviews Badiou and the German Tradition of Philosophy (Bloomsbury), by Jan Völker (ed.).
  Christopher Moore (Penn State) reviews Knowledge and Ignorance of Self in Platonic Philosophy (Cambridge), by James M. Ambury and Andy German (eds.).
  Jonah N. Schupbach (Utah) reviews Truth-Seeking by Abduction (Springer), by Ilkka Niniluoto.
  Todd Hedrick (Michigan State) reviews Critique of Forms of Life (Harvard), by Rahel Jaeggi.
  Brad Wray (Aarhus) reviews The Instrument of Science: Scientific Anti-Realism Revitalized (Routledge), by Darrell P. Rowbottom.
  1000-Word Philosophy ∅
  Wireless Philosophy ∅
  Recent Philosophy Book Reviews in Non-Academic Media ∅
  Compiled by Michael Glawson.
  BONUS: How to decide which moral theory is right.
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