Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
Formal Epistemology and Cartesian Skepticism: In Defense of Belief in the Natural World
1st Edition
By Tomoji Shogenji
August 14, 2020
This book develops new techniques in formal epistemology and applies them to the challenge of Cartesian skepticism. It introduces two formats of epistemic evaluation that should be of interest to epistemologists and philosophers of science: the dual-component format, which evaluates a statement on ...
Isn’t that Clever: A Philosophical Account of Humor and Comedy
1st Edition
By Steven Gimbel
August 14, 2020
Isn’t That Clever provides a new account of the nature of humor – the cleverness account – according to which humor is intentional conspicuous acts of playful cleverness. By defining humor in this way, answers can be found to longstanding questions about humor ethics (Are there jokes that are wrong...
New Directions in the Philosophy of Memory
1st Edition
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By Kourken Michaelian, Dorothea Debus, Denis Perrin
August 14, 2020
Although philosophers have explored memory since antiquity, recent years have seen the birth of philosophy of memory as a distinct field. This book—the first of its kind—charts emerging directions of research in the field. The book’s seventeen newly commissioned chapters develop novel theories of ...
Taking the Measure of Autonomy: A Four-Dimensional Theory of Self-Governance
1st Edition
By Suzy Killmister
August 14, 2020
This book takes a radically different approach to the concept of autonomy. Killmister defends a theory of autonomy that is four-dimensional and constituted by what she calls ‘self-definition,’ ‘self-realisation,’ ‘self-unification,’ and 'self-constitution.' While sufficiently complex to inform a ...
The Legacy of Kant in Sellars and Meillassoux: Analytic and Continental Kantianism
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By Fabio Gironi
August 14, 2020
Contemporary interest in realism and naturalism, emerging under the banner of speculative or new realism, has prompted continentally-trained philosophers to consider a number of texts from the canon of analytic philosophy. The philosophy of Wilfrid Sellars, in particular, has proven remarkably able...
The Value and Limits of Academic Speech: Philosophical, Political, and Legal Perspectives
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By Donald Alexander Downs, Chris W. Surprenant
August 14, 2020
Free speech has been a historically volatile issue in higher education. In recent years, however, there has been a surge of progressive censorship on campus. This wave of censorship has been characterized by the explosive growth of such policies as "trigger warnings" for course materials; "safe ...
Toleration and Freedom from Harm: Liberalism Reconceived
1st Edition
By Andrew Jason Cohen
August 14, 2020
Toleration matters to us all. It contributes both to individuals leading good lives and to societies that are simultaneously efficient and just. There are personal and social matters that would be improved by taking toleration to be a fundamental value. This book develops and defends a full account...
Voicing Dissent: The Ethics and Epistemology of Making Disagreement Public
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By Casey Rebecca Johnson
August 14, 2020
Disagreement is, for better or worse, pervasive in our society. Not only do we form beliefs that differ from those around us, but increasingly we have platforms and opportunities to voice those disagreements and make them public. In light of the public nature of many of our most important ...
Using Words and Things: Language and Philosophy of Technology
1st Edition
By Mark Coeckelbergh
June 30, 2020
This book offers a systematic framework for thinking about the relationship between language and technology and an argument for interweaving thinking about technology with thinking about language. The main claim of philosophy of technology—that technologies are not mere tools and artefacts not mere...
Aspect Perception after Wittgenstein: Seeing-As and Novelty
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By Michael Beaney, Brendan Harrington, Dominic Shaw
December 10, 2019
This volume brings together new essays that consider Wittgenstein’s treatment of the phenomenon of aspect perception in relation to the broader idea of conceptual novelty; that is, the acquisition or creation of new concepts, and the application of an acquired understanding in unfamiliar or novel ...
Interactive Justice: A Proceduralist Approach to Value Conflict in Politics
1st Edition
By Emanuela Ceva
December 10, 2019
Contemporary societies are riddled with moral disputes caused by conflicts between value claims competing for the regulation of matters of public concern. This familiar state of affairs is relevant for one of the most important debates within liberal political thought: should institutions seek to ...
Nature and Normativity: Biology, Teleology, and Meaning
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By Mark Okrent
December 10, 2019
Nature and Normativity argues that the problem of the place of norms in nature has been essentially misunderstood when it has been articulated in terms of the relation of human language and thought, on the one hand, and the world described by physics on the other. Rather, if we concentrate on the ...