RichardGilbert Review. Skinner's quests. Toronto: Borden House Press, 2016, pp. 472.

YouvalRotman. Insanity and Sanctity in Byzantium: The Ambiguity of Religious Experience. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016. 256 pp., $39.95, ISBN 978674057616.

“…The more substantive issue, however, is the unsuitability of the names of single men for broad shifts of cultural outlook. Autonomous Nature reflects what specialists of non-Western traditions have characterized as the "resolutely Eurocentric" perspective of the discipline of philosophy (Garfield & Van Norden, 2016). Further, it perpetuates an intellectual history approach in which only cursory context is provided for the handful of figures considered.…”

CarolynMerchant. Autonomous nature: Problems of prediction and control from ancient times to the scientific revolution. New York, NY: Routledge, 2016. 196 pp. $43.95 (paper). ISBN 9781138931008.

“…Merchant's survey is organized around the terminological predecessors and conceptual legacy of two key phrases: Eurocentric" perspective of the discipline of philosophy (Garfield & Van Norden, 2016). Further, it perpetuates an intellectual history approach in which only cursory context is provided for the handful of figures considered.…”