Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
Kant and Education: Interpretations and Commentary
1st Edition
Edited
By Klas Roth, Chris Surprenant
July 03, 2014
Immanuel Kant’s moral philosophy, political philosophy, and philosophy of judgement have been and continue to be widely discussed among many scholars. The impact of his thinking is beyond doubt and his ideas continue to inspire and encourage an on-going dialogue among many people in our world today...
The Pittsburgh School of Philosophy: Sellars, McDowell, Brandom
1st Edition
By Chauncey Maher
July 03, 2014
In this volume, Maher contextualizes the work of a group of contemporary analytic philosophers—The Pittsburgh School—whose work is characterized by an interest in the history of philosophy and a commitment to normative functionalism, or the insight that to identify something as a manifestation of ...
Hillel Steiner and the Anatomy of Justice: Themes and Challenges
1st Edition
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By Stephen De Wijze, Matthew H. Kramer, Ian Carter
April 22, 2014
Throughout the English-speaking world, and in the many other countries where analytic philosophy is studied, Hillel Steiner is esteemed as one of the foremost contemporary political philosophers. This volume is designed as a festschrift for Steiner and as an important collection of philosophical ...
Rawls, Citizenship, and Education
1st Edition
By Victoria Costa
April 09, 2014
This book develops and applies a unified interpretation of John Rawls’ theory of justice as fairness in order to clarify the account of citizenship that Rawls relies upon, and the kind of educational policies that the state can legitimately pursue to promote social justice. Costa examines the role ...
Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and Maternal Subjectivity
1st Edition
By Alison Stone
March 19, 2014
In this book, Alison Stone develops a feminist approach to maternal subjectivity. Stone argues that in the West the self has often been understood in opposition to the maternal body, so that one must separate oneself from the mother and maternal care-givers on whom one depended in childhood to ...
Email and Ethics: Style and Ethical Relations in Computer-Mediated Communications
1st Edition
By Emma Rooksby
February 25, 2014
E-mail and Ethics explores the ways in which interpersonal relations are affected by being conducted via computer-mediated communication.The advent of this channel of communication has prompted a renewed investigation into the nature and value of forms of human association. Rooksby addresses these ...
The Politics of Logic: Badiou, Wittgenstein, and the Consequences of Formalism
1st Edition
By Paul Livingston
February 14, 2014
In this book, Livingston develops the political implications of formal results obtained over the course of the twentieth century in set theory, metalogic, and computational theory. He argues that the results achieved by thinkers such as Cantor, Russell, Godel, Turing, and Cohen, even when they ...
Epistemology and the Regress Problem
1st Edition
By Scott Aikin
October 14, 2013
In the last decade, the familiar problem of the regress of reasons has returned to prominent consideration in epistemology. And with the return of the problem, evaluation of the options available for its solution is begun anew. Reason’s regress problem, roughly put, is that if one has good reasons ...
Autonomy and Liberalism
1st Edition
By Ben Colburn
July 08, 2013
This book concerns the foundations and implications of a particular form of liberal political theory. Colburn argues that one should see liberalism as a political theory committed to the value of autonomy, understood as consisting in an agent deciding for oneself what is valuable and living life in...
Philosophy of Personal Identity and Multiple Personality
1st Edition
By Logi Gunnarsson
April 24, 2013
As witnessed by recent films such as Fight Club and Identity, our culture is obsessed with multiple personality—a phenomenon raising intriguing questions about personal identity. This study offers both a full-fledged philosophical theory of personal identity and a systematic account of multiple ...
Philosophical Delusion and its Therapy: Outline of a Philosophical Revolution
1st Edition
By Eugen Fischer
April 09, 2013
Philosophical Delusion and its Therapy provides new foundations and methods for the revolutionary project of philosophical therapy pioneered by Ludwig Wittgenstein. The book vindicates this currently much-discussed project by reconstructing the genesis of important philosophical problems: With the ...
Habermas and Literary Rationality
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By David L. Colclasure
March 21, 2013
Literary scholarship has paid little serious attention to Habermas' philosophy, and, on the other hand, the reception of Habermas has given little attention to the role that literary practice can play in a broader theory of communicative action. David Colclasure's argument sets out to demonstrate ...