Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
Rethinking Punishment in the Era of Mass Incarceration
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By Chris Surprenant
December 10, 2019
One of the most important problems faced by the United States is addressing its broken criminal justice system. This collection of essays offers a thorough examination of incarceration as a form of punishment. In addition to focusing on the philosophical aspects related to punishment, the ...
Self-Reflection for the Opaque Mind: An Essay in Neo-Sellarsian Philosophy
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By T. Parent
December 10, 2019
This volume attempts to solve a grave problem about critical self-reflection. The worry is that we critical thinkers are all in "epistemic bad faith" in light of what psychology tells us. After all, the research shows not merely that we are bad at detecting "ego-threatening" thoughts à la Freud. It...
The Cognitive Basis of Aesthetics: Cassirer, Crowther, and the Future
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By Elena Fell, Ioanna Kopsiafti
December 10, 2019
This book seeks to fill a void in contemporary aesthetics scholarship by considering the cognitive features that make the aesthetic and artistic worthy of philosophical study. Aesthetic cognition has been largely abandoned by analytical philosophy, which instead tends to focus its attention on the ...
A Social Theory of Freedom
1st Edition
By Mariam Thalos
September 05, 2019
In A Social Theory of Freedom, Mariam Thalos argues that the theory of human freedom should be a broadly social and political theory, rather than a theory that places itself in opposition to the issue of determinism. Thalos rejects the premise that a theory of freedom is fundamentally a theory of ...
Aesthetic Disinterestedness: Art, Experience, and the Self
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By Thomas Hilgers
September 05, 2019
The notion of disinterestedness is often conceived of as antiquated or ideological. In spite of this, Hilgers argues that one cannot reject it if one wishes to understand the nature of art. He claims that an artwork typically asks a person to adopt a disinterested attitude towards what it shows, ...
The Concept of Violence
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By Mark Vorobej
September 05, 2019
This study focuses on conceptual questions that arise when we explore the fundamental aspects of violence. Mark Vorobej teases apart what is meant by the term ‘violence,’ showing that it is a surprisingly complex, unwieldy and highly contested concept. Rather than attempting to develop a fixed ...
Philosophical and Scientific Perspectives on Downward Causation
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By Michele Paolini Paoletti, Francesco Orilia
July 12, 2019
Downward causation plays a fundamental role in many theories of metaphysics and philosophy of mind. It is strictly connected with many topics in philosophy, including but not limited to: emergence, mental causation, the nature of causation, the nature of causal powers and dispositions, laws of ...
McTaggart's Paradox
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By R.D. Ingthorsson
March 05, 2019
McTaggart’s argument for the unreality of time, first published in 1908, set the agenda for 20th-century philosophy of time. Yet there is very little agreement on what it actually says—nobody agrees with the conclusion, but still everybody finds something important in it. This book presents the ...
Science and the Self: Animals, Evolution, and Ethics: Essays in Honour of Mary Midgley
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By Ian James Kidd, Liz McKinnell
March 05, 2019
Mary Midgley is one of the most important moral philosophers working today. Over the last thirty years, her writings have informed debates concerning animals, the environment and evolutionary theory. The invited essays in this volume offer critical reflections upon Midgley’s work and further ...
The Social Contexts of Intellectual Virtue: Knowledge as a Team Achievement
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By Adam Green
March 05, 2019
This book reconceives virtue epistemology in light of the conviction that we are essentially social creatures. Virtue is normally thought of as something that allows individuals to accomplish things on their own. Although contemporary ethics is increasingly making room for an inherently social ...
Normativity and Naturalism in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences
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By Mark Risjord
February 05, 2019
Normativity and Naturalism in the Social Sciences engages with a central debate within the philosophy of social science: whether social scientific explanation necessitates an appeal to norms, and if so, whether appeals to normativity can be rendered "scientific." This collection brings together ...
Domination and Global Political Justice: Conceptual, Historical and Institutional Perspectives
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By Barbara Buckinx, Jonathan Trejo-Mathys, Timothy Waligore
January 23, 2019
Domination consists in subjection to the will of others and manifests itself both as a personal relation and a structural phenomenon serving as the context for relations of power. Domination has again become a central political concern through the revival of the republican tradition of political ...