Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
Thought Experiments and Personal Identity: Finding Ourselves
1st Edition
By Simon Beck
August 08, 2025
This book provides an essential, comprehensive discussion on thought experiments and how they have featured throughout the history of the personal identity debate in analytic philosophy. Although many philosophical arguments employ thought experiments as a valuable methodological tool, there is a ...
Maintenance and Philosophy of Technology: Keeping Things Going
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By Mark Thomas Young, Mark Coeckelbergh
July 30, 2025
What can we learn about the nature of technology by studying practices of maintenance and repair? This volume addresses this question by bringing together scholarship from philosophers of technology working at the forefront of this emerging and exciting topic. The chapters in this volume explore ...
On Frege Puzzles: Why Propositions Are Not the Objects of Our Mental Attitudes
1st Edition
By Stefan Rinner
July 30, 2025
This book argues against the received view of propositional theory, according to which mental attitudes—such as believing, knowing, hoping, and wishing—are relations held between agents and propositions. Roughly speaking, propositions are primary bearers of truth that are neither sentences nor ...
Philosophy, Expertise, and the Myth of Neutrality
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By Mirko Farina, Andrea Lavazza
July 30, 2025
This volume offers a new framework for understanding expertise. It proposes a reconceptualization of the traditional notion of expertise and calls for the development of a new contextual and action-oriented notion of expertise, which is attentive to axiological values, intellectual virtues, and ...
Hybrid Societies: Living with Social Robots
1st Edition
By Piercosma Bisconti
June 26, 2025
This book explores how social robots and synthetic social agents will change our social systems and intersubjective relationships. It is obvious that technology influences societies. But how, and under what conditions do these changes occur? This book provides a theoretical foundation for the ...
Respect and Power: The Foundations of Critical Ethics and Politics
1st Edition
By Roberto Mordacci
May 29, 2025
This book presents a historically informed, theoretically systematic, and critically articulated theory of respect that challenges many of the presuppositions of the current debate in ethics and politics. It develops a theory of respect as the rule of power relations, which draws connections ...
Expected Experiences: The Predictive Mind in an Uncertain World
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By Tony Cheng, Ryoji Sato, Jakob Hohwy
May 05, 2025
This book brings together perspectives on predictive processing and expected experience. It features contributions from an interdisciplinary group of authors specializing in philosophy, psychology, cognitive science, and neuroscience. Predictive processing, or predictive coding, is the theory that ...
Exploring Extended Realities: Metaphysical, Psychological, and Ethical Challenges
1st Edition
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By Andrew Kissel, Erick José Ramirez
May 05, 2025
This volume highlights interdisciplinary research on the ethical, metaphysical, and experimental dimensions of extended reality technologies, including virtual and augmented realities. It explores themes connected to the nature of virtual objects, the value of virtual experiences and relationships,...
Historical Explanation: An Anti-Causalist Approach
1st Edition
By Gunnar Schumann
April 13, 2025
This book is concerned with the appropriate form of explanations in historiography and the social sciences. It combines action theory and philosophy of historiography and develops a theory of teleological explanations of human actions based on late-Wittgensteinian and Ordinary Language Philosophy ...
Philosophy of Mental Disorder: An Ability-Based Approach
1st Edition
By Sanja Dembić
April 13, 2025
This book offers an ability-based view of mental disorders. It develops a detailed analysis of the concept of inability that is relevant in the psychiatric and psychotherapeutic context by drawing on the most recent literature on the concepts of ability, reasons, and harm. What is it to have a ...
The Ontology of Ecological Cognition
1st Edition
By Konrad Werner
March 30, 2025
This book provides the first explicit examination of the underlying ontology of the ecological/embodied cognition philosophical project. More specifically, it examines the locative concepts used by defenders of representationalism and the more environmentally oriented, ecological/embodied views on ...
The Rise of Polarization: Affects, Politics, and Philosophy
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By Manuel Almagro
March 05, 2025
This book presents a philosophical analysis of affective polarization. It rejects the two-dimensional view of affective polarization and offers a multi-dimensional approach to it. An underlying philosophical issue throughout the book is that our political views are strongly influenced by purely ...