Routledge Philosophy Companions
About the Book Series
Routledge Philosophy Companions offer thorough, high quality surveys and assessments of the major topics and periods in philosophy. Covering key problems, themes and thinkers, all entries are specially commissioned for each volume and written by leading scholars in the field. Clear, accessible and carefully edited and organised, Routledge Philosophy Companions are indispensable for anyone coming to a major topic or period in philosophy, as well as for the more advanced reader.
The Routledge Companion to Simone Weil
1st Edition
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By Deborah Casewell, Christopher Thomas
July 02, 2026
The remarkable life and work of the French philosopher and activist Simone Weil has fascinated scholars from many disciplines, with no less than Albert Camus calling her the 'only great spirit of our times'. Although contemporaneous with the rise of existentialism, and educated alongside ...
The Routledge Companion to Chinese Philosophy
1st Edition
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By Brook Ziporyn, Stephen C. Walker
October 20, 2025
The Routledge Companion to Chinese Philosophy features more than 40 chapter-length introductions to the concepts, claims, and arguments that animate the Chinese philosophical tradition. Taking a topic-by-topic rather than text-by-text approach, this Companion aims at helping contemporary Anglophone...
The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Time
1st Edition
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By Nina Emery
September 29, 2025
The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Time is a comprehensive and authoritative guide to a growing subfield of philosophical research, which spans traditional and contemporary debates about the nature of time, as well as a diverse set of historical, geographical, and cultural contexts. This book...
The Routledge Companion to Jewish Philosophy
1st Edition
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By Daniel Rynhold, Tyron Goldschmidt
May 01, 2025
The Routledge Companion to Jewish Philosophy is a deep and broad reference that brings diverse perspectives to bear on the key topics, problems, and debates in Jewish philosophy and philosophical theology. The 37 chapters were written by an international team of experts from different traditions in...
The Routledge Companion to the Philosophies of Painting and Sculpture
1st Edition
By Noël Carroll, Jonathan Gilmore
December 19, 2024
Comprising 45 chapters, written especially for this volume by an international team of leading experts, The Routledge Companion to the Philosophies of Painting and Sculpture is the first handbook of its kind. The editors have organized the chapters across eight broader sections: Artforms History ...
The Routledge Companion to Social and Political Philosophy
2nd Edition
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By Gerald Gaus, Fred D'Agostino, Ryan Muldoon
November 15, 2024
The Routledge Companion to Social and Political Philosophy, Second Edition, is a comprehensive, definitive reference work, providing an up-to-date survey of the field, charting its history and key figures and movements, and addressing enduring questions as well as contemporary research. Features ...
The Routledge Companion to Environmental Ethics
1st Edition
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By Benjamin Hale, Andrew Light, Lydia Lawhon
May 27, 2024
Written for a wide range of readers in environmental science, philosophy, and policy-oriented programs The Routledge Companion to Environmental Ethics is a landmark, comprehensive reference work in this interdisciplinary field. Not merely a review of theoretical approaches to the ethics of the ...
The Routledge Companion to Pragmatism
1st Edition
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By Scott F. Aikin, Robert B. Talisse
May 27, 2024
The Routledge Companion to Pragmatism offers 44 cutting-edge chapters—written specifically for this volume by an international team of distinguished researchers—that assess the past, present, and future of pragmatism. Going beyond the exposition of canonical texts and figures, the collection ...
The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Physics
1st Edition
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By Eleanor Knox, Alastair Wilson
May 31, 2023
The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Physics is a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the state of the art in the philosophy of physics. It comprisess 54 self-contained chapters written by leading philosophers of physics at both senior and junior levels, making it the most thorough and ...
The Routledge Companion to Shakespeare and Philosophy
1st Edition
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By Craig Bourne, Emily Caddick Bourne
May 31, 2023
Iago’s ‘I am not what I am’ epitomises how Shakespeare’s work is rich in philosophy, from issues of deception and moral deviance to those concerning the complex nature of the self, the notions of being and identity, and the possibility or impossibility of self-knowledge and knowledge of others. ...
The Routledge Companion to Thought Experiments
1st Edition
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By Michael T Stuart, Yiftach Fehige, James Robert Brown
May 31, 2023
Thought experiments are a means of imaginative reasoning that lie at the heart of philosophy, from the pre-Socratics to the modern era, and they also play central roles in a range of fields, from physics to politics. The Routledge Companion to Thought Experiments is an invaluable guide and ...
The Routledge Companion to Medieval Philosophy
1st Edition
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By Richard Cross, JT Paasch
January 09, 2023
Like any other group of philosophers, scholastic thinkers from the Middle Ages disagreed about even the most fundamental of concepts. With their characteristic style of rigorous semantic and logical analysis, they produced a wide variety of diverse theories about a huge number of topics.The ...