Voting list June 2026–Sunday Philosophers

[michael brewer]

Folks,

Please find attached a spreadsheet with nominated books.  I have also pasted the list into the body of the email. If you can respond by populating the spreadsheet, that is optimal.  But you can send votes any way that is convenient for you.

Voting works like this:  Each member can assign a value to each book.  Values range from -5 (very low enthusiasm for the  book) up to +5 (strong enthusiasm for the book). Any number in that range can be assigned to a given book.  Once I've received the votes, I add them all up, and rank the books.  This time we will select about 12 books , which I will then assign to our schedule. 

Let's allow two weeks for voting, so Tuesday (July 13) at midnight is the deadline for submitting your votes.  As always, you can send votes directly to me, in which case they are confidential, or to the entire group.

A final note. Two weeks is ample time to research the books on the list. We are fortunate to have access to reviews, or even samples of the books. Let’s all perform our due diligence, and be informed voters!

Thanks

Michael Brewer

https://sites.google.com/site/sundayphilosophersgroup/books-for-discussion

	Sunday Philosopher nominations July 2026
	Vote range (-5 through 5). Blank is the same as 0.
	Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding	Daniel Lieberman
	Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future	Dan Wang
	Mama's Last Hug	Frans de Waal
	The Good Life	Robert Waldinger Marc Schulz
	Philosopher of the Heart: The Restless Life of Søren Kierkegaard	Clare Carlisle
	It's Considerate to Be Literate about Religion: Poetry and Prose about Religion, Conflict, and Peace in Our World	Steve Cunningham
	What Is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics	Adam Becker
	Democracy's Discontent	Michael J. Sandel
	The Light That Failed: Why the West Is Losing the Fight for Democracy	Stephen Holmes
	Political Philosophy: The Puzzle of Legitimate Injustice	Jonathan Quong
	Democratic Socialism explained	Levi D. Kava
	A Book forged in Hell:  Spinoza's Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Secular Age	Steen Nadler
	Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics	Stephen Greenblatt
	Heidegger: A Very Short Introduction	Michael Inwood
	The Essential Chomsky	Noam Chomsky and Anthony Arnove
	Darwin's Dangerous Idea	Daniel Dennet
	A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness	Michael Pollan
	I Heard There Was a Secret Chord: Music as Medicine	Daniel J. Levitin
	What is it like to be a bat?	Thomas Nagel
	The World of Perception	Maurice Merleau-Pont
	On Tyranny	Timothy Snyder

[michael brewer]

Reminder to vote! Deadline is in a week (correction from below: Tuesday July 14).  We have an impressive group of books from which to select.

Mike B

[michael brewer]

Midnight tonight is the deadline. If you haven’t voted yet, here’s your chance!

Mike B

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[Steven Clark Cunningham]

Hi, Mike!  Sorry for the last-minute responses, but here are my votes:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ez33pWbsQAoJ2DfwGz3z43x21t2LI9_Y/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=113127529607177324583&rtpof=true&sd=true.

and here is a screenshot in case the link doesn't work:

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