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The article reviews two books "Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce: Science and Philosophy," Vol. VII and "Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce: Reviews, Correspondence and Bibliography," Vol. VIII, edited by Arthur W. Burks.

The article reviews the book "Paper Prophets: A Social Critique of Accounting," by Tony Tinker.

The article reviews the book "The Equity Funding Papers: the Anatomy of a Fraud," by Lee J. Seidler, Frederick Andrews and Marc J. Epstein.

The article presents a review of the book "The Collected Scientific Papers of Paul A. Samuelson," vol. 3, edited by Robert C. Merton.

The article reviews the book "Paper Basics: Forestry, Manufacture, Selection, Purchasing, Mathematics and Metrics, Recycling," by David Saltman.

The article reviews several books including "U.S. Food: Making the Most of a Global Resource," by David W. McClintock, "Worldwatch Paper 29: Resource Trends and Population Policy: A Time for Reassessment," by Lester R. Brown, and "U.S. International Population Policy: Third Annual Report of the NSC Ad Hoc Group on Population Policy," by the U.S. Department of State.

The article reviews the book "The Sociology of Emotions: Original Essays and Research Papers," edited by David D. Franks and E. Doyle McCarthy.

The article presents a review of the book "Papers on Social Science Utilisation," by Peter A. Clark, et al.

Maughn Rollins Gregory and Meghan Jane Laverty's Gareth B. Matthews, The Child's Philosopher explores the Philosophy for Children movement, and the way the work of Gareth B. Matthews carried forward its key components. In this paper, I consider the impact of Matthews' embeddedness within a Western philosophical tradition, even as he strives mightily to propose a broad-minded approach to P4C. I draw upon the work of Amasa Philip Ndofirepi to explore the tensions and possibilities in reconciling Western and non-Western approaches to P4C. I argue that the social contexts of culture, ethnicity, and nationality can serve to broaden P4C curricula and pedagogy, making it fit for schools in a liberal democratic society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In The Main Enterprise of the World , Philip Kitcher identifies an over-specialized and over-loaded curriculum as a particular affliction of education in our time. Kitcher criticizes a narrow view of education on which it is conceived as being no more than job training and proposes a more humane set of educational goals to be pursued in school. For Kitcher, the problem of the narrowness of the economic aims of education and the problem of the over-loaded curriculum are connected and, in Chapter 2 of the book, he presents a thoroughgoing critique of educational specialization as a distinguishing feature of education today. He holds that the economic value of education cannot capture education's full value and that true education should build children and young people's capacities for meaningful life and work. In this paper, I discuss Kitcher's critique of educational specialization. I note that Kitcher draws most of his inspiration from considerations about what makes a human life go well and therefore situates his thinking about education in the realm of ethics, rather than in his home discipline of the philosophy of science. Defending educational specialization, I turn to some of Kitcher's earlier work in the philosophy of science to show that the epistemic division of labour calls for a considerable degree of specialization in educational curricula on epistemic, rather than on economic, grounds. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper reviews Alec D. Walen's The Mechanics of Claims and Permissible Killing in War. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Paul Beatty, The Sellout (New York: Picador, 2015), 304 pp., $17 (paperback). Han Kang, The White Book (Edinburgh: Portobello Books, 2017), £10 (paper- back) V. S. Naipaul, The Enigma of Arrival (London: Penguin Books, 1987), 318 pp., £4.95 (paperback) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In Metaphysics of States of Affairs, Bo Meinertsen reviews and works out several underdeveloped points in the existing scholarly debate on states of affairs, and presents his own original account in detail. In this paper, we raise three problems for Meinertsen's account and draw attention to an alternative view that, though not discussed in the book, is not beset by these problems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reviews the book "The Mathematical Papers of Isaac Newton: 1664-1666," vol. 1, edited by D. T. Whiteside.

The article reviews several books related to nuclear physics including "The Collected Papers of Lord Rutherford of Nelson: Volume Two: Manchester," "Rutherford at Manchester," edited by J. B. Birks, and "Rutherford and the Nature of the Atom," by E. N. da C. Andrade.