Abstract

© The Author 2017. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Scots Philosophical Association and the University of St Andrews. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: [email protected] Wolf's recent collection of essays, The Variety of Values, makes clear that she is a hedgehog in Isaiah Berlin's well-known sense of the term. That is, she is engaged with an overarching problematic rather than a series of disconnected inquiries. The reader is presented with a rich tapestry of interwoven motifs that offer a complex portrait of the mind of an important figure in contemporary moral philosophy. The greatest virtue of this volume lies in the Gestalt that emerges from essays written over the course of a fruitful philosophical career. In the semi-autobiographical introduction, itself one of the gems of the volume, Wolf acknowledges the deep unity of her thought. As she lightheartedly jests, ‘I wonder whether I...