Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
Global Justice and Recognition Theory: Dignifying the World’s Poor
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By Monica Mookherjee
November 28, 2024
In the light of intense international focus on ongoing forms of world poverty, this book examines the potential of the concept of recognition in contemporary political philosophy to respond morally to this dire condition. This book uses recognition theories to develop a two-tiered response to the ...
The Mind-Body Problem and Metaphysics: An Argument from Consciousness to Mental Substance
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By Ralph Stefan Weir
November 28, 2024
This book evaluates the widespread preference in philosophy of mind for varieties of property dualism over other alternatives to physicalism. It takes the standard motivations for property dualism as a starting point and argues that these lead directly to nonphysical substances resembling the soul ...
The Philosophy and Psychology of Delusions: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
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By Ana Falcato, Jorge Gonçalves
November 28, 2024
This book presents new philosophical work on delusions and their impact on everyday human behavior. It explores a cluster of related topics at the intersection of philosophy of mind and psychiatry, while also charting the historical development of work on delusions. Within psychiatry, there are ...
Naturalism and Its Challenges
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By Gary N. Kemp, Ali Hossein Khani, Hossein Sheykh Rezaee, Hassan Amiriara
November 25, 2024
This volume features new essays on the application, justification, and role of naturalism in philosophical inquiry. It serves as an important update on current controversies about naturalism. The contributors include leading figures who have written on naturalism and its relevance to a wide range ...
New Perspectives on Transparency and Self-Knowledge
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By Adam Andreotta, Benjamin Winokur
November 22, 2024
It is natural to think that self-knowledge is gained through introspection, whereby we somehow peer inward and detect our mental states. However, so-called transparency theories emphasize our capacity to peer outward at the world, hence beyond our minds, in the pursuit of self-knowledge. For all ...
Philosophy Across Borders: Perspectives from Contemporary Theory
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By Emma Ingala, Gavin Rae
November 14, 2024
This book brings into conversation geographically diverse theorists to question the meaning, purpose, and place of conceptual borders in philosophy. It shows how contemporary theory is constituted by a dynamic practice in which the boundaries created to define it are simultaneously overcome in...
The Philosophy of Transformative Experience
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By Michael Campbell
October 11, 2024
This volume examines the nature and significance of transformative experiences as they occur across a variety of contexts in human life. By treating these events as social as well as individual phenomena, the essays bring to light the various ways in which cultural and institutional forces ...
Philosophical Representation: Studies in Attitudinal Instrumentalism
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By Ori Simchen
October 09, 2024
This book focuses on how we should treat philosophy’s theoretical representations. It argues in favor of an instrumentalist attitude towards pivotal cases of theoretical representation in philosophy that are commonly regarded under a realist attitude. Philosophy is awash with theoretical ...
Free Will’s Value: Criminal Justice, Pride, and Love
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By John Lemos
October 08, 2024
This book defends an event-causal theory of libertarian free will and argues that the belief in such free will plays an important, if not essential, role in supporting certain important values. In the first part of the book, the author argues that possession of libertarian free will is necessary ...
Living with the Dead: On Death, the Dead, and Immortality
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By J. Jeremy Wisnewski
October 08, 2024
This book explores the moral place of the dead in our lives and in our afterlives. It argues that our lives are saturated by the past intentions and values of the dead, and that we offer the dead a form of modest immortality by fulfilling our obligations to remember them. In the first part of the ...
Emotional Self-Knowledge
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By Alba Montes Sánchez, Alessandro Salice
October 04, 2024
This volume sheds light on the affective dimensions of self-knowledge and the roles that emotions and other affective states play in promoting or obstructing our knowledge of ourselves. It is the first book specifically devoted to the issue of affective self-knowledge. The relation between ...
A Plea for Plausibility: Toward a Comparative Decision Theory
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By John R. Welch
August 26, 2024
This book develops an original theory of decision-making based on the concept of plausibility. The author advocates plausible reasoning as a general philosophical method and demonstrates how it can be applied to problems in argumentation theory, scientific theory choice, risk management, ethics, ...