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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.
Science and Virtue: An Essay on the Impact of the Scientific Mentality on Moral Character
1st Edition
By Louis Caruana
October 19, 2016
Charting new territory in the interface between science and ethics, Science and Virtue is a study of how the scientific mentality can affect the building of character, or the attainment of virtue by the individual. Drawing on inspiration from virtue-ethics and virtue-epistemology, Caruana argues ...
Spinoza and Deep Ecology: Challenging Traditional Approaches to Environmentalism
1st Edition
By Eccy de Jonge
October 19, 2016
Spinoza and Deep Ecology explores the philosophical, psychological and political assumptions that underpin a concern for nature, offering specific suggestions how the domination of humans and nature may be overcome. It is primarily intended as an introduction to the philosophy of ecology, known as ...
From Concept to Objectivity: Thinking Through Hegel's Subjective Logic
1st Edition
By Richard Dien Winfield
August 03, 2016
From Concept to Objectivity uncovers the nature and authority of conceptual determination by critically thinking through neglected arguments in Hegel’s Science of Logic pivotal for understanding reason and its role in philosophy. Winfield clarifies the logical problems of presuppositionlessness and...
Thomas Kuhn's 'Linguistic Turn' and the Legacy of Logical Empiricism: Incommensurability, Rationality and the Search for Truth
1st Edition
By Stefano Gattei
November 28, 2008
Presenting a critical history of the philosophy of science in the twentieth century, focusing on the transition from logical positivism in its first half to the "new philosophy of science" in its second, Stefano Gattei examines the influence of several key figures, but the main focus of the book ...
Davidson and Spinoza: Mind, Matter and Morality
1st Edition
By Floris van der Burg
June 28, 2007
Baruch Spinoza a Dutch rationalist philosopher of the 17th century and Donald Davidson one of the most distinguished contemporary American analytic philosophers, are two thinkers not usually analysed in conjunction with each other in the philosophical literature yet there are remarkable parallels ...
Kristeva, Psychoanalysis and Culture: Subjectivity in Crisis
1st Edition
By Sylvie Gambaudo
June 28, 2007
Examining Julia Kristeva's contention that contemporary Western society is witnessing a crisis of subjectivity due to the failure of the paternal function, Gambaudo places Kristeva's thesis within the context of Freudian psychoanalytic thought and shows how Kristeva defends her position against a ...
Logic & Natural Language: On Plural Reference and Its Semantic and Logical Significance
1st Edition
By Hanoch Ben-Yami
March 28, 2004
Frege's invention of the predicate calculus has been the most influential event in the history of modern logic. The calculus’ place in logic is so central that many philosophers think, in fact, of it when they think of logic. This book challenges the position in contemporary logic and philosophy of...
Dispositional Theories of Knowledge: A Defence of Aetiological Foundationalism
1st Edition
By Lars Bo Gundersen
August 20, 2003
This book offers an original examination of human cognition, arguing that cognitive skills are dispositional in nature. Opposing influential views in modern Anglo-American philosophy, Gundersen starts from the received premis that knowledge is analyzable in terms of belief, justification and truth,...
Self-Intellection and its Epistemological Origins in Ancient Greek Thought
1st Edition
By Ian M. Crystal
October 23, 2002
Can the intellect or the intellectual faculty be its own object of thought, or can it not think or apprehend itself? This book explores the ancient treatments of the question of self-intellection - an important theme in ancient epistemology and of considerable interest to later philosophical ...