Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy
The Routledge Handbook of Essence in Philosophy
1st Edition
Edited
By Kathrin Koslicki, Michael J. Raven
May 15, 2024
Essences have been assigned important but controversial explanatory roles in philosophical, scientific, and social theorizing. Is it possible for the same organism to be first a caterpillar and then a butterfly? Is it impossible for a human being to transform into an insect like Gregor Samsa does ...
The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Existentialism
1st Edition
Edited
By Kevin Aho, Megan Altman, Hans Pedersen
April 18, 2024
Of the philosophical movements of the twentieth century existentialism is one of the most powerful and thought-provoking. Its engagement with the themes of authenticity, freedom, bad faith, nihilism, and the death of God captured the imagination of millions. However, in the twenty-first century ...
The Routledge Handbook of Women and Ancient Greek Philosophy
1st Edition
Edited
By Sara Brill, Catherine McKeen
March 29, 2024
The Routledge Handbook of Women and Ancient Greek Philosophy is an essential reference source for cutting-edge scholarship on women, gender, and philosophy in Greek antiquity. The volume features original research that crosses disciplines, offering readers an accessible guide to new methods, new ...
The Routledge Handbook of Liberal Naturalism
1st Edition
Edited
By Mario De Caro, David Macarthur
January 29, 2024
The central question of naturalism - the relation of philosophy to science - was one of the defining strands of twentieth-century thought and remains a major source of debate and controversy. Today many argue that philosophy should fold itself into the sciences, especially the natural sciences. ...
The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Agency
1st Edition
Edited
By Luca Ferrero
January 29, 2024
One of the most basic and important distinctions we draw is between those entities with the capacity of agency and those without. As humans we enjoy agency in its full-blooded form and therefore a proper understanding of the nature of agency is of great importance to appreciate who we are and what ...
The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Sex and Sexuality
1st Edition
Edited
By Brian D. Earp, Clare Chambers, Lori Watson
January 29, 2024
This Handbook covers the most urgent, controversial, and important topics in the philosophy of sex. It is both philosophically rigorous and yet accessible to specialists and non-specialists, covering ethics, political philosophy, metaphysics, the philosophy of science, and the philosophy of ...
The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy, Politics, and Economics
1st Edition
Edited
By C.M. Melenovsky
January 29, 2024
This handbook advances the interdisciplinary field of Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) by identifying thirty-five topics of ongoing research. Instead of focusing on historically significant texts, it features experts talking about current debates. Individually, each chapter provides a ...
The Routledge Handbook of Logical Empiricism
1st Edition
Edited
By Thomas Uebel, Christoph Limbeck-Lilienau
September 25, 2023
Logical empiricism is a philosophical movement that flourished in the 1920s and 30s in Central Europe and in the 1940s and 50s in the United States. With its stated ambition to comprehend the revolutionary advances in the empirical and formal sciences of their day and to confront anti-modernist ...
The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Economics
1st Edition
By Conrad Heilmann, Julian Reiss
September 25, 2023
The most fundamental questions of economics are often philosophical in nature, and philosophers have, since the very beginning of Western philosophy, asked many questions that current observers would identify as economic. The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Economics is an outstanding reference...
The Routledge Handbook of Dehumanization
1st Edition
Edited
By Maria Kronfeldner
May 31, 2023
A striking feature of atrocities, as seen in genocides, civil wars, or violence against certain racial and ethnic groups, is the attempt to dehumanize — to deny and strip human beings of their humanity. Yet the very nature of dehumanization remains relatively poorly understood. The Routledge ...
The Routledge Handbook of Idealism and Immaterialism
1st Edition
Edited
By Joshua Farris, Benedikt Paul Göcke
May 31, 2023
The influence of materialist ontology largely dominates philosophical and scientific discussions. However, there is a resurgent interest in alternative ontologies from panpsychism (the view that at the base of reality exists potential minds, minds, or mind-lets) to idealism and dualism (the view ...
The Routledge Handbook of Metametaphysics
1st Edition
Edited
By Ricki Bliss, J.T.M. Miller
May 31, 2023
Philosophical questions regarding the nature and methodology of philosophical inquiry have garnered much attention in recent years. Perhaps nowhere are these discussions more developed than in relation to the field of metaphysics. The Routledge Handbook of Metametaphysics is an outstanding ...