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The Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Philosophy series brings high quality research monograph publishing into focus for authors, the international library market, and student, academic and research readers. Headed by an international editorial advisory board of acclaimed scholars from across the philosophical spectrum, this monograph series presents cutting-edge research from established as well as exciting new authors in the field. Spanning the breadth of philosophy and related disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Philosophy takes contemporary philosophical research into new directions and debate.
Schopenhauer, Religion and Morality: The Humble Path to Ethics
1st Edition
By Gerard Mannion
November 15, 2016
This work challenges the textbook assessment of Schopenhauer as militant atheist and absolute pessimist. In examining Schopenhauer's grappling with religion, theology and Kant's moral philosophy, Mannion suggests we can actually discern a 'religious' humility in method in Schopenhauer's work, ...
Truth and Normativity: An Inquiry into the Basis of Everyday Moral Claims
1st Edition
By Iain Brassington
November 15, 2016
Beginning by posing the question of what it is that marks the difference between something like terrorism and something like civil society, Brassington argues that commonsense moral arguments against terrorism or political violence tend to imply that the modern democratic polis might also be ...
Two Orientations Toward Human Nature
1st Edition
By Rony Guldmann
November 15, 2016
Our culture entertains a schizophrenic attitude towards human nature. On the one hand, egoism is held to be our most powerful motive, playing a crucial cultural role by explaining the appeal of capitalism and providing a foundation for individualism. By contrast much of the continental intellectual...
Ethical Issues in Mental Illness
1st Edition
By Caroline Dunn
November 10, 2016
This book is an attempt to address the ethical issues raised by mental illness and its treatment by focusing on the question of autonomy. The mentally ill may be regarded as non-autonomous by virtue of irrationality, which may result in treatment models which deny them a voice. As a counter to ...
Protagoras and the Challenge of Relativism: Plato's Subtlest Enemy
1st Edition
By Ugo Zilioli
November 10, 2016
Protagoras was an important Greek thinker of the fifth century BC, the most famous of the so called Sophists, though most of what we know of him and his thought comes to us mainly through the dialogues of his strenuous opponent Plato. In this book, Ugo Zilioli offers a sustained and philosophically...
Subjectivity and Irreligion: Atheism and Agnosticism in Kant, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche
1st Edition
By Matthew Alun Ray
November 10, 2016
This book asks specific philosophical questions about the underlying structure of Kant, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche's thoughts on atheism and agnosticism; thoughts that represent one of the most concerted attacks on monotheistic religion in modern philosophy. Yet commentators interested in ...
The Politics of Agency: Toward a Pragmatic Approach to Philosophical Anthropology
1st Edition
By J. Jeremy Wisnewski
November 10, 2016
Debates about individualism and holism, reductionism and phenomenology, and naturalism and humanism all turn on how we answer the basic questions about the nature of human agency. This book argues that the traditional emphasis on the accuracy of a given theory of human agency has systematically ...
The Logic of Expression: Quality, Quantity and Intensity in Spinoza, Hegel and Deleuze
1st Edition
By Simon Duffy
October 31, 2016
Engaging with the challenging and controversial reading of Spinoza presented by Gilles Deleuze in Expressionism in Philosophy (1968), this book focuses on Deleuze's redeployment of Spinozist concepts within the context of his own philosophical project of constructing a philosophy of difference as ...
The Stoics on Determinism and Compatibilism
1st Edition
By Ricardo Salles
October 31, 2016
The Stoics on Determinism and Compatibilism is an important book which reconstructs the arguments deployed by the Stoics in favour of the view that everything is necessary and examines the development of the different arguments given by the Stoics that this is compatible with moral responsibility ...
Meaning and Structure: Structuralism of (Post)Analytic Philosophers
1st Edition
By Jaroslav Peregrin
October 26, 2016
In Meaning and Structure, Peregrin argues that recent and contemporary (post)analytic philosophy, as developed by Quine, Davidson, Sellars and their followers, is largely structuralistic in the very sense in which structuralism was originally tabled by Ferdinand de Saussure. The author reconstructs...
Preference and Information
1st Edition
By Dan Egonsson
October 26, 2016
Is it important to our quality of life that the preferences we satisfy are rational and well-informed? Standard preferentialist theories allege that a person's preferences and their satisfaction are the correct measure of well-being. In preference-sensitive theories, preferences are important but ...
The Problem of Existence
1st Edition
By Arthur Witherall
October 26, 2016
This book explores the question of why there is something instead of nothing. Several responses to this question are possible, but only some of them address the question seriously, respecting its emotional aspects as well as its cognitive dimension. The author carefully distinguishes those answers ...