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Routledge Philosophy Companions

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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.

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Routledge Companion to Sixteenth Century Philosophy

Routledge Companion to Sixteenth Century Philosophy

1st Edition

Edited By Henrik Lagerlund, Benjamin Hill
January 10, 2019

Sixteenth century philosophy was a unique synthesis of several philosophical frameworks, a blend of old and new, including but not limited to Scholasticism, Humanism, Neo-Thomism, Aristotelianism, and Stoicism. Unlike most overviews of this period, The Routledge Companion to Sixteenth Century ...

The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Literature

The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Literature

1st Edition

Edited By Noël Carroll, John Gibson
January 10, 2019

The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Literature is an in-depth examination of literature through a philosophical lens, written by distinguished figures across the major divisions of philosophy. Its 40 newly-commissioned essays are divided into six sections: historical foundations what is ...

Routledge Companion to Ancient Philosophy

Routledge Companion to Ancient Philosophy

1st Edition

Edited By Frisbee Sheffield, James Warren
January 12, 2018

The Routledge Companion to Ancient Philosophy is a collection of new essays on the philosophy and philosophers of the ancient Greek and Roman worlds. Written by a cast of international scholars, it covers the full range of ancient philosophy from the sixth century BC to the sixth century AD and ...

The Routledge Companion to Bioethics

The Routledge Companion to Bioethics

1st Edition

Edited By John D. Arras, Elizabeth Fenton, Rebecca Kukla
January 12, 2018

The Routledge Companion to Bioethics is a comprehensive reference guide to a wide range of contemporary concerns in bioethics.  The volume orients the reader in a changing landscape shaped by globalization, health disparities, and rapidly advancing technologies.  Bioethics has begun a turn toward a...

The Routledge Companion to Islamic Philosophy

The Routledge Companion to Islamic Philosophy

1st Edition

Edited By Richard C. Taylor, Luis Xavier López-Farjeat
January 12, 2018

This valuable reference work synthesizes and elucidates traditional themes and issues in Islamic philosophy as well as prominent topics emerging from the last twenty years of scholarship. Written for a wide readership of students and scholars, The Routledge Companion to Islamic Philosophy is unique...

The Routledge Companion to Virtue Ethics

The Routledge Companion to Virtue Ethics

1st Edition

Edited By Lorraine Besser-Jones, Michael Slote
January 12, 2018

Virtue ethics is on the move both in Anglo-American philosophy and in the rest of the world. This volume uniquely emphasizes non-Western varieties of virtue ethics at the same time that it includes work in the many different fields or areas of philosophy where virtue ethics has recently spread its ...

The Routledge Companion to Eighteenth Century Philosophy

The Routledge Companion to Eighteenth Century Philosophy

1st Edition

Edited By Aaron Garrett
October 12, 2017

The Eighteenth century is one of the most important periods in the history of Western philosophy, witnessing philosophical, scientific, and social and political change on a vast scale. In spite of this, there are few single volume overviews of the philosophy of the period as a whole. The Routledge ...

The Routledge Companion to Hermeneutics

The Routledge Companion to Hermeneutics

1st Edition

Edited By Jeff Malpas, Hans-Helmuth Gander
October 12, 2017

Hermeneutics is a major theoretical and practical form of intellectual enquiry, central not only to philosophy but many other disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. With phenomenology and existentialism, it is also one of the twentieth century’s most important philosophical movements ...

The Routledge Companion to Social and Political Philosophy

The Routledge Companion to Social and Political Philosophy

1st Edition

Edited By Gerald Gaus, Fred D'Agostino, Ryan Muldoon
April 27, 2017

The Routledge Companion to Social and Political Philosophy 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 unique to the ...

The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Law

The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Law

1st Edition

Edited By Andrei Marmor
November 07, 2014

The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Law provides a comprehensive, non-technical philosophical treatment of the fundamental questions about the nature of law. Its coverage includes law’s relation to morality and the moral obligations to obey the law, the main philosophical debates about ...

Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Language

Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Language

1st Edition

Edited By Gillian Russell, Delia Graff Fara
June 25, 2014

Philosophy of language is the branch of philosophy that examines the nature of meaning, the relationship of language to reality, and the ways in which we use, learn, and understand language. The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Language provides a comprehensive and up-to-date survey of the ...

The Routledge Companion to Epistemology

The Routledge Companion to Epistemology

1st Edition

Edited By Sven Bernecker, Duncan Pritchard
September 26, 2013

Epistemology, the philosophy of knowledge, is at the core of many of the central debates and issues in philosophy, interrogating the notions of truth, objectivity, trust, belief and perception. The Routledge Companion to Epistemology provides a comprehensive and the up-to-date survey of ...

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