Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
The Essence of History
1st Edition
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By Aaron Turner
September 24, 2025
This book brings together historical thinkers from diverse disciplinary backgrounds to offer original interpretations of the essence of history. It addresses why the essence of history itself cannot be so easily thematised or conceptualised. Restating the question of the essence of history is ...
Neurocognitive Foundations of Mind
1st Edition
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By Gualtiero Piccinini
September 17, 2025
This volume provides a cohesive and comprehensive case that cognitive neuroscience is maturing into an integrated, interdisciplinary science that is transforming our understanding of the mind. The rise of cognitive neuroscience has prompted a rethinking of levels, computation, representation, ...
The Ethics of Argumentation
1st Edition
By Katharina Stevens
August 21, 2025
This book offers a new approach to the theory of argumentation that conceptualizes argumentation as a fundamentally ethical activity whose norms are grounded in, and must be selected according to, moral reasons. Current normative approaches to argumentation do not treat ethics as an integral part ...
Against Aristotelian Character Education: Practical Wisdom, Flourishing, and Liberal Democracy
1st Edition
By Benjamin Miller
August 12, 2025
This book argues that Aristotelian character education cannot work in liberal democracies today. It shows that when we clearly understand the basic structure of Aristotle’s value theory and correctly grasp the core requirements of liberalism, we will see that they are incompatible with one another ...
Thought Experiments and Personal Identity: Finding Ourselves
1st Edition
By Simon Beck
August 07, 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
1st Edition
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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
1st Edition
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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
1st Edition
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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,...