Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
Reification and the Aesthetics of Music
1st Edition
By Jonathan Lewis
January 23, 2019
This innovative study re-evaluates the philosophical significance of aesthetics in the context of contemporary debates on the nature of philosophy. Lewis's main argument is that contemporary conceptions of meaning and truth have been reified, and that aesthetics is able to articulate why this is ...
Time and the Philosophy of Action
1st Edition
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By Roman Altshuler, Michael J. Sigrist
January 23, 2019
Although scholarship in philosophy of action has grown in recent years, there has been little work explicitly dealing with the role of time in agency, a role with great significance for the study of action. As the articles in this collection demonstrate, virtually every fundamental issue in the ...
Embodied Emotions: A Naturalist Approach to a Normative Phenomenon
1st Edition
By Rebekka Hufendiek
September 27, 2018
In this book, Rebekka Hufendiek explores emotions as embodied, action-oriented representations, providing a non-cognitivist theory of emotions that accounts for their normative dimensions. Embodied Emotions focuses not only on the bodily reactions involved in emotions, but also on the environment ...
On the Genealogy of Color: A Case Study in Historicized Conceptual Analysis
1st Edition
By Zed Adams
September 10, 2018
In On the Genealogy of Color, Zed Adams argues for a historicized approach to conceptual analysis, by exploring the relevance of the history of color science for contemporary philosophical debates about color realism. Adams contends that two prominent positions in these debates, Cartesian ...
Facts and Values: The Ethics and Metaphysics of Normativity
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By Giancarlo Marchetti, Sarin Marchetti
June 08, 2018
This collection offers a synoptic view of current philosophical debates concerning the relationship between facts and values, bringing together a wide spectrum of contributors committed to testing the validity of this dichotomy, exploring alternatives, and assessing their implications. The ...
Resisting Biopolitics: Philosophical, Political, and Performative Strategies
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By S.E. Wilmer, Audronė Žukauskaitė
March 07, 2018
The topic of biopolitics is a timely one, and it has become increasingly important for scholars to reconsider how life is objectified, mobilized, and otherwise bound up in politics. This cutting-edge volume discusses the philosophical, social, and political notions of biopolitics, as well as the ...
Democracy in Contemporary Confucian Philosophy
1st Edition
By David Elstein
February 12, 2018
This book examines democracy in recent Chinese-language philosophical work. It focuses on Confucian-inspired political thought in the Chinese intellectual world from after the communist revolution in China until today. The volume analyzes six significant contemporary Confucian philosophers in China...
Experiential Learning in Philosophy
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By Julinna Oxley, Ramona Ilea
February 12, 2018
In this volume, Julinna Oxley and Ramona Ilea bring together essays that examine and defend the use of experiential learning activities to teach philosophical terms, concepts, arguments, and practices. Experiential learning emphasizes the importance of student engagement outside the ...
The Essence of the Self: In Defense of the Simple View of Personal Identity
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By Geoffrey Madell
February 12, 2018
In this volume, Geoffrey Madell develops a revised account of the self, making a compelling case for why the "simple" or "anti-criterial" view of personal identity warrants a robust defense. Madell critiques recent discussions of the self for focusing on features which are common to all selves, and...
Mind, Language and Subjectivity: Minimal Content and the Theory of Thought
1st Edition
By Nicholas Georgalis
November 28, 2017
In this monograph Nicholas Georgalis further develops his important work on minimal content, recasting and providing novel solutions to several of the fundamental problems faced by philosophers of language. His theory defends and explicates the importance of ‘thought-tokens’ and minimal content and...
Realism, Science, and Pragmatism
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By Kenneth R. Westphal
November 28, 2017
This collection of original essays aims to reinvigorate the debate surrounding philosophical realism in relation to philosophy of science, pragmatism, epistemology, and theory of perception. Questions concerning realism are as current and as ancient as philosophy itself; this volume explores ...
Beyond the Analytic-Continental Divide: Pluralist Philosophy in the Twenty-First Century
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By Jeffrey A. Bell, Andrew Cutrofello, Paul M. Livingston
June 16, 2017
This forward-thinking collection presents new work that looks beyond the division between the analytic and continental philosophical traditions—one that has long caused dissension, mutual distrust, and institutional barriers to the development of common concerns and problems. Rather than rehearsing...