A Case for Necessitarianism by Amy Karofsky (Routledge, 2021). ISBN 9781032026169

Abstract

putting qualitiesor, at least, these apparently off-putting qualities did not get an airing.The elephant roaming between the lines of this review is that Richard J. Bernstein died in July 2022, at the age of ninety. From what he says in the Preface, he must have been working on the book at least into his (very) late eighties. The age of the author makes the book more impressive, but to dwell on that point risks a condescension it in no way merits. This is a wide-ranging, detailed andfor the most partaccessible book, whose author can find his way nimbly around seven very different thinkers. If I'm not sure who its readership will be, that has as much to do with my sense of what and how philosophers read, now, as it does about the merits of the book.