Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
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
1st Edition
By Manuel Almagro
March 05, 2025
Shortlisted for the 2025 Nayef Al-Rodhan International Prize in Transdisciplinary Philosophy 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 ...
Feminist Philosophy and Emerging Technologies
1st Edition
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By Mary L. Edwards, S. Orestis Palermos
January 30, 2025
This volume explores urgent questions surrounding the bidirectional relationship between feminist philosophy and emerging technologies. It underlines the exigency of feminist philosophical reflections on the design, use, and understanding of emerging technologies and at the same time accentuates ...
Normative Species: How Naturalized Inferentialism Explains Us
1st Edition
By Jaroslav Peregrin
January 30, 2025
This book is about rules, and especially about human capability to create, maintain and follow rules, as a root of what makes us humans different from other animals. The leading idea is that scrutinizing this capability is able to tell us who we humans are and what kinds of lives we live. It ...
Rethinking Self-Control
1st Edition
By Matthew C. Haug
December 31, 2024
Research on self-control in both philosophy and psychology is thriving. Yet, despite a wealth of recent philosophical work on the exercise of self-control, there has been surprisingly little empirically informed work in philosophy on self-control as a psychological trait. This book aims to fill ...
Cosmopolitan Norms and European Values: Ethical Perspectives on Europe's Refugee Policy
1st Edition
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By Marie Göbel, Andreas Niederberger
December 18, 2024
This volume offers a systematic philosophical analysis of the normative challenges facing European refugee policy, focusing on whether the response to it can be based on European values. By considering the refugee policy through the lens of European values, cosmopolitan norms and universal human ...
Empathy’s Role in Understanding Persons, Literature, and Art
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By Thomas Petraschka, Christiana Werner
December 18, 2024
This volume critically discusses the role empathy plays in different processes of understanding. More precisely, it clarifies empathy’s role in interpersonal understanding and appreciating works of literature and art. The volume also includes a section on historical theories of empathy’s role in ...
Phenomenologies of the Digital Age: The Virtual, the Fictional, the Magical
1st Edition
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By Marco Cavallaro, Nicolas de Warren
December 18, 2024
This volume explores the broad and rich spectrum of contemporary phenomenological engagement with digital technologies. By focusing on plural forms of the digital, it offers arobust and flexible framework for contemporary phenomenological investigations in the digital age. It contends that the ...
The Politics of Recognition in the Age of Digital Spaces: Appearing Together
1st Edition
By Benjamin JJ Carpenter
December 18, 2024
This book provides a philosophical analysis of the notion of selfhood that underlies identity politics. It offers a unique theory of the self that combines previous scholarly work on recognition and the phenomenology of space. The politics of identity occupy the centre of a contested terrain. ...
Scripts and Social Cognition: How We Interact with Others
1st Edition
By Gen Eickers
December 09, 2024
This book argues that our success in navigating the social world depends heavily on scripts. Scripts play a central role in our ability to understand social interactions shaped by different contextual factors. In philosophy of social cognition, scholars have asked what mechanisms we employ when ...