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5 stars for content, minus 2 for editing.

Very verbose and chatty, useful content per 1000 words low.

Fortunately each chapter has a summary.

The author seems to be addressing American college students, partly becayse psychologists use them for their experiments but also because he uses them for his imaginary dialogues, though he does use imaginary cave painters.

Awful.

It feels like he farmed it out to an undergrad.

Couldn't finish it.

Read Gazzaniga instead. An actual neuroscientist and a better philosopher than this philosophy professor.

I did a short review of the whole "Masters of Rome" series in my post for the first one "The First Man in Rome".

I did a short review of the whole "Masters of Rome" series in my post for the first one "The First Man in Rome".

I did a short review of the whole "Masters of Rome" series in my post for the first one "The First Man in Rome".

I did a short review of the whole "Masters of Rome" series in my post for the first one "The First Man in Rome".

I reviewed the whole series in my review of the first one, "The First Man in Rome"

I've been a big Marge Piercy fan since the mid 1970s when someone gave me "Woman on the Edge of Time".

So far, so good.

Funny but with interesting, believable characters.

A wicked satire on the English snob variant of billionaire business folks who think they're geniuses, with some minor characters like popular TV academics.