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Review of the book 'The Nature of Desert Claims: Rethinking What It Means to Get One's Due' (2021) by Kevin Kinghorn
Brouwer,Huub Andersson,Alexander
Brouwer,Huub
Andersson,Alexander
Abstract
Many philosophical books about desert start with the same observation: desert-talk is prevalent in our everyday conversations, but desert plays second fiddle in the philosophical literature. To this regularity, Kevin Kinghorn's new book about deserts is no exception. He notes in the introduction that ‘it remains a surprise to me that not more philosophers have explored why it is that people think desert does so much normative work—as well as exploring the meaning and nature of desert’ (p. 2). Kinghorn's aim in this book is to remedy the gap between people's intuitions about desert and the philosophical literature by offering a new, general account of desert that explains the common ‘concern’ that ‘people have in mind when making desert claims’ (p. 2). Given the variety of contexts in which desert claims are made, this is an admirably ambitious project that results in one of the most significant contributions to the desert literature in recent years.
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This research was in part made possible by generous funding from Vetenskapsrådet, grant number: 2022-00265. © The Author(s) 2023. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Scots Philosophical Association and the University of St Andrews. This article is published and distributed under the terms of the Oxford University Press, Standard Journals Publication Model (https://academic.oup.com/journals/pages/open_access/funder_policies/chorus/standard_publication_model)
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2023-06-12
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Book Review, Desert, Philosophical Literature
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Brouwer, H & Andersson, A 2023, 'Review of the book 'The Nature of Desert Claims: Rethinking What It Means to Get One's Due' (2021) by Kevin Kinghorn', The Philosophical Quarterly, vol. 73, no. 3, pp. 814-817. https://doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqad040
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