Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
Philosophy in Schools: An Introduction for Philosophers and Teachers
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By Sara Goering, Nicholas J. Shudak, Thomas E. Wartenberg
July 16, 2015
All of us ponder the big and enduring human questions—Who am I? Am I free? What should I do? What is good? Is there justice? Is life meaningful?—but this kind of philosophical interrogation is rarely carefully explored or even taken seriously in most primary and secondary school settings. However, ...
Civic Virtue and the Sovereignty of Evil
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By Derek Edyvane
June 23, 2015
The last decade has witnessed a growing perception of ethical crisis in public life. Circumstances of political uncertainty, fueled by the rise of international terror and global financial crisis, have placed the practice of civic virtue under severe strain. Our turbulent times have prompted many ...
Knowledge, Virtue, and Action: Putting Epistemic Virtues to Work
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By Tim Henning, David P. Schweikard
June 08, 2015
This volume brings together recent work by leading and up-and-coming philosophers on the topic of virtue epistemology. The prospects of virtue-theoretic analyses of knowledge depend crucially on our ability to give some independent account of what epistemic virtues are and what they are for. The ...
Aesthetics After Metaphysics: From Mimesis to Metaphor
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By Miguel de Beistegui
May 21, 2015
This book focuses on a dimension of art which the philosophical tradition (from Plato to Hegel and even Adorno) has consistently overlooked, such was its commitment – explicit or implicit – to mimesis and the metaphysics of truth it presupposes. De Beistegui refers to this dimension, which unfolds ...
Contemporary Feminist Pragmatism
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By Maurice Hamington, Celia Bardwell-Jones
May 21, 2015
The notion of "feminist pragmatism" or "pragmatist feminism" has been around since Charlene Haddock Seigfried introduced it two decades ago. However, the bulk of the work in this field has been directed toward recovering the feminist strain of classical American philosophy, largely through renewed ...
Morality, Self Knowledge and Human Suffering: An Essay on The Loss of Confidence in the World
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By Josep Corbí
May 21, 2015
In this wholly original study, Josep Corbi asks how one should relate to a certain kind of human suffering, namely, the harm that people cause one another. Relying upon real life examples of human suffering--including torture, genocide, and warfare--as opposed to thought experiments, ...
Race, Philosophy, and Film
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By Mary K. Bloodsworth-Lugo, Dan Flory
May 21, 2015
This collection fills a gap in the current literature in philosophy and film by focusing on the question: How would thinking in philosophy and film be transformed if race were formally incorporated moved from its margins to the center? The collection’s contributors anchor their discussions of race...
Objectivity and the Language-Dependence of Thought: A Transcendental Defence of Universal Lingualism
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By Christian Barth
February 27, 2015
Does thought depend on language? Primarily as a consequence of the cognitive turn in empirical disciplines like psychology and ethology, many current empirical researchers and empirically minded philosophers tend to answer this question in the negative. This book rejects this mainstream view and ...
Philosophical Inquiries into Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Mothering: Maternal Subjects
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By Sheila Lintott, Maureen Sander-Staudt
February 27, 2015
Philosophical inquiry into pregnancy, childbirth, and mothering is a growing area of interest to academic philosophers. This volume brings together a diverse group of philosophers to speak about topics in this reemerging area of philosophical inquiry, taking up new themes, such as maternal ...
The Force of Argument: Essays in Honor of Timothy Smiley
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By Jonathan Lear, Alex Oliver
February 27, 2015
Timothy Smiley has made ground-breaking contributions to modal logic, free logic, multiple-conclusion logic, and plural logic. He has illuminated Aristotle’s syllogistic, the ideas of logical form and consequence, and the distinction between assertion and rejection, and has worked to debunk the ...
Authenticity as an Ethical Ideal
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By Somogy Varga
November 10, 2014
Authenticity has become a widespread ethical ideal that represents a way of dealing with normative gaps in contemporary life. This ideal suggests that one should be true to oneself and lead a life expressive of what one takes oneself to be. However, many contemporary thinkers have pointed out that ...
Metaphysics and the Representational Fallacy
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By Heather Dyke
August 12, 2014
This book is an investigation into metaphysics: its aims, scope, methodology and practice. Dyke argues that metaphysics should take itself to be concerned with investigating the fundamental nature of reality, and suggests that the ontological significance of language has been grossly exaggerated in...