Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
Stupidity and Self-Absorption
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By Thomas J. Spiegel
September 16, 2026
Stupidity and Self-Absorption offers the first full-length philosophical exploration of human stupidity, reinterpreting it as a pervasive existential condition rooted in self-absorption. It argues that stupidity is not merely a cognitive or moral failing but a habitual resistance to reality, where ...
Wildness, Justice, and Aesthetics: Imaginaries of Future Urban Natures
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By Tea Lobo
August 11, 2026
This book analyzes the intrinsic value of urban environments in a world where the boundary between the city and the wild is increasingly dissolving. It provides the analytical tools for regarding the city as simultaneously a wild and a civil space. Due to rapid urbanization, the city is becoming ...
Silence in Mood Disorders: A Philosophical Investigation
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By Dan Degerman
July 21, 2026
We live in a society that valorises speech and treats silence as a harm to be broken. In mental health discourse, this assumption runs especially deep. Silence is medicalised as a symptom, pathologised as a cause, and targeted by campaigns urging people to open up. Silence in Mood Disorders ...
Oppressive Speech and Society: Philosophical Perspectives
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By Mihaela Popa-Wyatt
July 10, 2026
This volume offers theoretical frameworks for thinking about the relationship between oppressive speech and oppressive social structures. Central to the volume is the fact that oppressive speech doesn’t just harm the target during a conversation; it serves to establish and maintain oppressive norms...
Equilibrism in Metaphilosophy
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By László Kocsis, János Tőzsér
May 26, 2026
This volume presents new perspectives on the metaphilosophical view of equilibrism. It features original contributions from leading epistemologists who specialize in metaphilosophical issues. Philosophers have always been interested in the true nature and ultimate goals of their own enterprise. ...
Naturalism and Its Challenges
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By Gary N. Kemp, Ali Hossein Khani, Hossein Sheykh Rezaee, Hassan Amiriara
May 21, 2026
This volume features new essays on the application, justification, and role of naturalism in philosophical inquiry. It serves as an important update on current controversies about naturalism. The contributors include leading figures who have written on naturalism and its relevance to a wide range ...
New Perspectives on Transparency and Self-Knowledge
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By Adam Andreotta, Benjamin Winokur
May 21, 2026
It is natural to think that self-knowledge is gained through introspection, whereby we somehow peer inward and detect our mental states. However, so-called transparency theories emphasize our capacity to peer outward at the world, hence beyond our minds, in the pursuit of self-knowledge. For all ...
Phenomenologies of the Digital Age: The Virtual, the Fictional, the Magical
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By Marco Cavallaro, Nicolas de Warren
May 21, 2026
This volume explores the broad and rich spectrum of contemporary phenomenological engagement with digital technologies. By focusing on plural forms of the digital, it offers arobust and flexible framework for contemporary phenomenological investigations in the digital age. It contends that the ...
Philosophy Across Borders: Perspectives from Contemporary Theory
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By Emma Ingala, Gavin Rae
May 21, 2026
This book brings into conversation geographically diverse theorists to question the meaning, purpose, and place of conceptual borders in philosophy. It shows how contemporary theory is constituted by a dynamic practice in which the boundaries created to define it are simultaneously overcome in...
Rethinking Self-Control
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By Matthew C. Haug
May 21, 2026
Research on self-control in both philosophy and psychology is thriving. Yet, despite a wealth of recent philosophical work on the exercise of self-control, there has been surprisingly little empirically informed work in philosophy on self-control as a psychological trait. This book aims to fill ...
Scripts and Social Cognition: How We Interact with Others
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By Gen Eickers
May 21, 2026
This book argues that our success in navigating the social world depends heavily on scripts. Scripts play a central role in our ability to understand social interactions shaped by different contextual factors. In philosophy of social cognition, scholars have asked what mechanisms we employ when ...
The Philosophy of Environmental Emotions: Grief, Hope, and Beyond
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By Ondřej Beran, Laura Candiotto, Niklas Forsberg, Antony Fredriksson, David Rozen
May 21, 2026
This volume presents new philosophical perspectives on environmental emotions. It explores the motivating nature of emotions such as anger, grief, and hope in relation to the current climate crisis. Many of our emotional responses to the climate crisis take a distressed form like anxiety, despair, ...