Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
Normativity, Moral Reasoning, and Human Rights: Engaging with Contemporary Chinese Moral and Political Theory
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By Philippe Brunozzi
December 15, 2025
This title explores the under-examined theoretical foundations of contemporary Chinese philosophical discourse on human rights. Through an interpretive, critical, and constructive approach, it analyzes key elements of the broader theoretical context and offers a new framework for understanding and ...
Digital Development: Technology, Ethics and Governance
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By Mirko Farina, Xiao Yu, Jin Chen
December 08, 2025
This volume offers a multidisciplinary reflection on the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies and digitalization in technology, epistemology, ethics, and governance. It aims to encourage inclusive and responsible digital development capable of bridging global digital divides. AI is ...
Exploring Suicidal Ambivalence: Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives
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By René Baston, Martin Weichold
December 08, 2025
This volume offers a comprehensive interdisciplinary exploration of ambivalence in suicidal agency, a phenomenon that, despite its significance in clinical psychology, remains under-conceptualized. Philosophers debate what ambivalence amounts to and whether ambivalence undermines practical ...
Reasoning in the Wild: The Public Works of Reason
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By Mariam Thalos
November 21, 2025
Philosophy has long wrongfully imprisoned reasoning within the isolated chambers of the individual mind. This book shatters this confinement, laying foundations of a groundbreaking framework that conceptualizes reasoning as protocol-articulated action governed by socially shared norms and unfolding...
Autobiographical Memory and Moral Agency: Interdisciplinary Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychology
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By Daniel Vanello
October 27, 2025
This volume brings together, for the first time, perspectives from philosophy and psychology to investigate the role of autobiographical memory in moral agency. Autobiographical memory is the ability to recollect events in one’s past as part of one’s personal history. Moral agency is the ability to...
The Phenomenology of Self-Awareness and the Nature of Conscious Subjects
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By Julien Bugnon, Martine Nida-Rümelin, Donnchadh O'Conaill
October 27, 2025
This volume explores the connections between the phenomenology of self-awareness and the metaphysical nature of subjects of experience, bringing together two important research areas in contemporary philosophy of mind into fruitful engagement with one another. The phenomenology of self-awareness ...
Indirect Freedom
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By Andrew J. Latham
September 30, 2025
This book advances a new kind of compatibilist account of free will: indirect compatibilism. It is the first sustained philosophical analysis of the idea that the ordinary concept of free will is a conditional one. Indirect compatibilism is the combination of two theses. The first is that the best ...
Shifting Paradigms of Evil in Philosophy: Reading the Armenian Genocide with the Shoah
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By İmge Oranlı
September 29, 2025
This book develops an interdisciplinary framework rooted in philosophy for addressing the political evils experienced around the world. Drawing on resources mainly from Continental philosophy and historical studies, it argues for the relationality and continuity between political evils, using the ...
The Essence of History
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By Aaron Turner
September 25, 2025
This book brings together historical thinkers from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds to offer original interpretations of the essence of history. It addresses why it is that the essence of history itself cannot be so easily thematised or conceptualised. Restating the question of the essence of ...
Neurocognitive Foundations of Mind
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By Gualtiero Piccinini
September 18, 2025
This volume provides a cohesive and comprehensive case that cognitive neuroscience is maturing into an integrated, interdisciplinary science that is transforming our understanding of the mind. The rise of cognitive neuroscience has prompted a rethinking of levels, computation, representation, ...
The Ethics of Argumentation
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By Katharina Stevens
August 22, 2025
This book offers a new approach to the theory of argumentation that conceptualizes argumentation as a fundamentally ethical activity whose norms are grounded in, and must be selected according to, moral reasons. Current normative approaches to argumentation do not treat ethics as an integral part ...
Against Aristotelian Character Education: Practical Wisdom, Flourishing, and Liberal Democracy
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By Benjamin Miller
August 13, 2025
This book argues that Aristotelian character education cannot work in liberal democracies today. It shows that when we clearly understand the basic structure of Aristotle’s value theory and correctly grasp the core requirements of liberalism, we will see that they are incompatible with one another ...