Summer reading?

Congratulations to our graduates and to the rest of our majors for completing another year toward your degree! We asked your professors for the book they are most looking forward to reading this summer. Here's what we got. (Some of it's philosophy, some of it's not.)

Matt McCormick

• Behave: The Biology of Humans at our Best and Worst, by Robert Sapolsky

Joshua Carboni

• Barbarian Days, by William Finnegan

Kyle Swan

• Norms in the Wild: How to Diagnose, Measure, and Change Social Norms, by Cristina Bicchieri

Scott Merlino

• Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk, by Peter L. Bernstein

Christina Bellon

• The Undoing Project, by Michael Lewis

Randy Mayes

• A Prayer for Owen Meany, by John Irving

Clovis Karam

• Hymn of the Universe, by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Chong Choe-Smith

• Dignity in Adversity, by Seyla Benhabib

Saray Ayala-López

• Beyond Speech: Pornography and Analytic Feminist Philosophy, by Maria Mikkola 

Kevin Vandergriff

• Choice and Chance: An Introduction to Inductive Logic, by Bryan Skyrms

Russell DiSilvestro

• An Introduction to Probability and Inductive Logic, by Ian Hacking

Christian Bauer

• The Reign of the Phallus: Sexual Politics in Ancient Athens, by Eva C. Keuls

Patrick Smith

• William James at the Boundaries: Philosophy, Science and the Geography of Knowledge, by Francesca Bordogna

Phillip Barron

• Aping Mankind: Neuromania, Darwinitis and the Misrepresentation of Humanity, by Raymond Tallis

Brad Dowden

• 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, by Peter Boxal

Tom Pyne

• The Metaphysics of Powers: Their Groundings and their Manifestations, Anna Marmodoro, ed.

Jonathan Chen

• Han Feizi: Basic Writings, by Han Feizi

David Corner

• Pretense and Pathology: Philosophical Fictionalism and its Applications, by Bradley Armour-Garb and James A. Woodbridge

Lynne Fox

• We Have No Idea: A Guide to the Unknown Universe, by Jorge Cham and  Daniel Whiteson 

Mathias Warnes

• The Slow Professor: Challenging the Culture of Speed in the Academy, by Maggie Berg and Barbara Seeber