Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
Pluralism and Liberal Politics
1st Edition
By Robert B. Talisse
March 21, 2013
In this book, Robert Talisse critically examines the moral and political implications of pluralism, the view that our best moral thinking is indeterminate and that moral conflict is an inescapable feature of the human condition. Through a careful engagement with the work of William James, Isaiah ...
Habermas and Rawls: Disputing the Political
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By James Gordon Finlayson, Fabian Freyenhagen
February 14, 2013
Habermas and Rawls are two heavyweights of social and political philosophy, and they are undoubtedly the two most written about (and widely read) authors in this field. However, there has not been much informed and interesting work on the points of intersection between their projects, partly ...
Intergenerational Justice: Rights and Responsibilities in an Intergenerational Polity
1st Edition
By Janna Thompson
February 14, 2013
In this timely study, Thompson presents a theory of intergenerational justice that gives citizens duties to past and future generations, showing why people can make legitimate demands of their successors and explaining what relationships between contemporary generations count as fair. What connects...
Truth and Speech Acts: Studies in the Philosophy of Language
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By Dirk Greimann, Geo Siegwart
April 17, 2012
Whereas the relationship between truth and propositional content has already been intensively investigated, there are only very few studies devoted to the task of illuminating the relationship between truth and illocutionary acts. This book fills that gap. This innovative collection addresses such...
Epistemology Modalized
1st Edition
By Kelly Becker
March 13, 2012
This book sets out first to explain how two fairly recent developments in philosophy, externalism and modalism, provide the basis for a promising account of knowledge, and then works through the different modalized epistemologies extant in the literature, assessing their strengths and weaknesses. ...
Einstein, Relativity and Absolute Simultaneity
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By William Lane Craig, Quentin Smith
February 09, 2011
Einstein, Relativity and Absolute Simultaneity is an anthology of original essays by an international team of leading philosophers and physicists who have come together to reassess the contemporary paradigm of the relativistic concept of time. A great deal has changed since 1905 when Einstein ...
Causation and Laws of Nature
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By Max Kistler
January 06, 2011
This is the first English translation of Causalite´ et Lois de La Nature, and is an important contribution to the theory of causation. Max Kistler reconstructs a unified concept of causation that is general enough to adequately deal with both elementary physical processes, and the macroscopic level...
Internalism and Epistemology: The Architecture of Reason
1st Edition
By Timothy McGrew, Lydia McGrew
December 13, 2010
This book is a sustained defence of traditional internalist epistemology. The aim is threefold: to address some key criticisms of internalism and show that they do not hit their mark, to articulate a detailed version of a central objection to externalism, and to illustrate how a consistent ...
Narrative Identity and Moral Identity: A Practical Perspective
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By Kim Atkins
November 03, 2010
This book is part of the growing field of practical approaches to philosophical questions relating to identity, agency and ethics--approaches which work across continental and analytical traditions and which Atkins justifies through an explication of how the structures of human embodiment ...
Aesthetic Experience
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By Richard Shusterman, Adele Tomlin
October 15, 2010
In this volume, a team of internationally respected contributors theorize the concept of aesthetic experience and its value. Exposing and expanding our restricted cultural and intellectual presuppositions of what constitutes aesthetic experience, the book aims to re-explore and ...
Practical Identity and Narrative Agency
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By Kim Atkins, Catriona Mackenzie
June 07, 2010
The essays collected in this volume address a range of issues that arise when the focus of philosophical reflection on identity is shifted from metaphysical to practical and evaluative concerns. They also explore the usefulness of the notion of narrative for articulating and responding to these ...
A Sense of the World: Essays on Fiction, Narrative, and Knowledge
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By John Gibson, Wolfgang Huemer, Luca Pocci
September 17, 2009
A team of leading contributors from both philosophical and literary backgrounds have been brought together in this impressive book to examine how works of literary fiction can be a source of knowledge. Together, they analyze the important trends in this current popular debate. The ...