PhilReviews

A searchable index of philosophy book reviews

PhilReviews is a free research tool I built and maintain that indexes book reviews published in philosophy journals and intellectual magazines — over 228,000 reviews of more than 150,000 books, drawn from nearly 1,500 sources reaching back to the 1870s.

If you want to know what philosophers have said about a book — whether it was published last month or in 1911 — PhilReviews will find every review of it in one place, grouped by book and linked to the original source.

228,000+ reviews · 1,500 journals & outlets · 150 years of coverage · 1,000+ new reviews added monthly

What it does

• Comprehensive journal coverage — from Mind and The Philosophical Review to specialist and non-English journals, updated automatically every week.

• Beyond the academy — philosophy reviews from the London Review of Books (complete archive, 1979–present), The Guardian, The New York Times, and the major German and French intellectual press.

• Book symposia, reconstructed — précis, critical commentaries, and author replies grouped as linked symposia rather than scattered entries (3,400+ pieces).

• Browse by subfield — ethics, political philosophy, epistemology, metaphysics, history of philosophy, and eleven more.

• Weekly email digest — subscribers get new reviews in their chosen subfields every Sunday.

PhilReviews began with a simple frustration: there was no way to find out what reviewers had said about a philosophy book without checking a dozen journals one by one. Book reviews are where philosophers actually argue with each other about new work — but they are the least discoverable genre in the discipline. The index is built and updated by automated pipelines that scan journal databases, publisher feeds, and magazine archives weekly. It is free to use and carries no advertising.