Routledge Studies in American Philosophy
About the Book Series
This series is dedicated to monographs and essay collections that examine, from diverse theoretical perspectives, any aspects of America’s rich web of philosophical traditions, from the 17th Century onwards. Frequently associated with pragmatism, particularly in the United States, American philosophy also encompasses many other schools of thought, and has had a significant impact on the development of contemporary epistemology, ethics, metaphysics, philosophy of language, philosophy of science, and political philosophy. By publishing outstanding treatments of its many diverse threads, this series aims to become the default resource for scholars and students interested in a full picture of American philosophy.
Emerson’s Affinities: Father of the American Mind
1st Edition
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By Emile Alexandrov, Steve Stakland
November 07, 2025
This volume presents Ralph Waldo Emerson’s engagement with diverse philosophical traditions with the concurrent aim of showing the contemporary relevance of his Transcendentalism. As scholarship increasingly centres on Emerson’s place within American philosophy, this collection offers fresh ...
Sellars and Davidson in Dialogue: Truths, Meanings, and Minds
1st Edition
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By Willem A. deVries, Marc A. Joseph
June 26, 2025
Wilfrid Sellars and Donald Davidson were two of the most influential American philosophers of the 20th century. This volume explores the deep similarities and differences between these two philosophers. Both Sellars and Davidson worked through the mid-to-late 20th-century re-evaluation of the ...
McDowell and the Hermeneutic Tradition
1st Edition
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By Daniel Martin Feige, Thomas J. Spiegel
May 05, 2025
This volume explores the connections between John McDowell’s philosophy and the hermeneutic tradition. The contributions not only explore the hermeneutical aspects of McDowell’s thought but also ask how this reading of McDowell can inform the hermeneutical tradition itself. John McDowell has made ...
Reading Kant with Sellars: Reconceiving Kantian Themes
1st Edition
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By Mahdi Ranaee, Luz Christopher Seiberth
December 16, 2024
This book considers Wilfrid Sellars’ engagement with Kantian philosophy—both theoretical and practical—in his exegetical work in reading Kant as well as in his own systematic development of Kantian philosophy. Despite the spate of new publications on Wilfrid Sellars’ role in 20th-century philosophy...
Wilfrid Sellars on Truth: Between Immanence and Transcendence
1st Edition
By Stefanie Dach
December 11, 2024
This book offers an innovative defense of Wilfrid Sellars’s notion of ideal truth. Sellars adopts two attractive ideas about truth: the pragmatist idea that the concept of truth cannot be understood independently from the norms and practices we find ourselves with and the realist idea that there is...
John Dewey and Contemporary Challenges to Democratic Education
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By Michael G. Festl
September 23, 2024
This book reconsiders pragmatist conceptions of democratic education, especially those of John Dewey. It addresses what democratic education can mean in the face of current threats that are undermining democracy. Since the mid-twentieth century, liberal philosophers have been skeptical of fostering...
Pragmatic Reason: Christopher Hookway and the American Philosophical Tradition
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By Robert Talisse, Paniel Reyes Cárdenas, Daniel Herbert
August 26, 2024
Christopher Hookway has been influential in promoting engagement with pragmatist and naturalist perspectives from classical and contemporary American philosophy. This book reflects on Hookway’s work on the American philosophical tradition and its significance for contemporary discussions of the ...
The Ethics of Richard Rorty: Moral Communities, Self-Transformation, and Imagination
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By Susan Dieleman, David E. McClean, Paul Showler
August 26, 2024
This book contains diverse and critical reflections on Richard Rorty’s contributions to ethics, an aspect of his thought that has been relatively neglected. Together, they demonstrate that Rorty offers a compelling and coherent ethical vision. The book's chapters, grouped thematically, explore ...
William James and the Moral Life: Responsible Self-Fashioning
1st Edition
By Todd Lekan
August 26, 2024
This book offers a compelling new interpretation of James’ moral philosophy: an "ethics of responsible self-fashioning." James’ performative writing style articulates this conception by showing how moral inquiry serves both social and personal transformation. James the social moral philosopher ...
Disability and American Philosophies
1st Edition
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By Nate Whelan-Jackson, Daniel J. Brunson
May 27, 2024
Given basic commitments to philosophize from lived experience and a shared underlying meliorist impulse, American philosophical traditions seem well-suited to develop nascent philosophical engagement with disability studies. To date, however, there have been few efforts to facilitate research at ...
Intentionality in Sellars: A Transcendental Account of Finite Knowledge
1st Edition
By Luz Christopher Seiberth
May 27, 2024
This book argues that Sellars’ theory of intentionality can be understood as an advancement of a transcendental philosophical approach. It shows how Sellars develops his theory of intentionality through his engagement with the theoretical philosophy of Immanuel Kant. The book delivers a provocative...
C.I. Lewis: The A Priori and the Given
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By Quentin Kammer, Jean-Philippe Narboux, Henri Wagner
September 25, 2023
This edited collection explores the philosophy of Clarence Irving Lewis through two major concepts that are integral to his conceptual pragmatism: the a priori and the given. The relation between these two elements of knowledge forms the core of Lewis’s masterpiece Mind and the World Order . While ...