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Sergio Tenenbaum Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Toronto-Brazilian-Jewish Philosopher with Kantian leanings. Tweets mostly about stuff. Opinions expressed here are correct.

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Book Cover for: Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life, Clare Mac Cumhaill

Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life

Clare Mac Cumhaill
Sergio TenenbaumSergio Tenenbaum

@pschofie79 Did you count this one: Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life https://t.co/vY6QNleq2o

Paperback, 2023

$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History, Lea Ypi

Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History

Lea Ypi
Sergio TenenbaumSergio Tenenbaum

@lea_ypi I'm listening to the FREE audiobook right now (and loving it!), and the Kant book is in my to read list. Good to know about this reimbursement option, but I doubt I'll use it.

Hardcover, 2022

$27.95$13.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Philosophy: Philosophy: Who Needs It, Ayn Rand

Philosophy: Philosophy: Who Needs It

Ayn Rand
Sergio TenenbaumSergio Tenenbaum

@MikeJacovides I was asked to be an external reader in a dissertation committee in another department in which a very similar claim was made. It turned out that his "knowledge" of philosophy came from an Ayn Rand institute at Columbia. I wonder whether there's a similar source here.

Paperback, Mass Market, 1984

$9.99$4.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Negative Actions: Events, Absences, and the Metaphysics of Agency, Jonathan D. Payton

Negative Actions: Events, Absences, and the Metaphysics of Agency

Jonathan D. Payton
Sergio TenenbaumSergio Tenenbaum

@s_everson @m_j_kremer I think the most common view is that negative 'actions' are not particulars; a possible view, for instance, is that negative action sentences are negative existentials. Jonathan Payton defends the view that they are particulars here: https://t.co/uBWFTzKq4q

Paperback, 2022

$35.00$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Rational Powers in Action: Instrumental Rationality and Extended Agency, Sergio Tenenbaum

Rational Powers in Action: Instrumental Rationality and Extended Agency

Sergio Tenenbaum
Sergio TenenbaumSergio Tenenbaum

Very pleased to see this incredibly thoughtful review of "Ratonal Powers in Action" by the excellent Erasmus Mayr https://academic.oup.com/mind/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mind/fzac015/6582971

Paperback, 2023

$25.00$12.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Dangers of Smoking in Bed: Stories, Mariana Enriquez

The Dangers of Smoking in Bed: Stories

Mariana Enriquez
Sergio TenenbaumSergio Tenenbaum

I'm not a fan of gothic fiction but I'm finding Mariana Enriquez's "The Dangers of Smoking in Bed" truly fascinating.

Paperback, 2022

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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