Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
Philosophy of Plant Cognition: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
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By Gabriele Ferretti, Peter Schulte, Markus Wild
August 22, 2024
This volume features new research about the philosophy of plant intelligence and plant cognition, one of the most intriguing and complex current debates at the intersection of biology, cognitive science and philosophy. The debate about plant cognition is marked by deep disagreements. Some theorists...
The Rhetoricity of Philosophy: Audience in Perelman and Ricoeur after the Badiou-Cassin Debate
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By Blake D. Scott
August 02, 2024
This book aims to recast the way that philosophers understand rhetoric. Rather than follow most philosophers in conceiving rhetoric as a specific way of speaking or writing, it shows that rhetoric is better understood as a dimension of all human discourse and action—what the author calls “...
Descent of the Dialectic: Phronetic Criticism in an Age of Nihilism
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By Michael J. Thompson
August 01, 2024
This book reconstructs the concept and practice of dialectics as a means of grounding a critical theory of society. At the center of this project is the thesis of phronetic criticism or a form of reason that is able to synthesize human value with objective rationality. This book argues that defects...
Imagination and Experience: Philosophical Explorations
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By Íngrid Vendrell Ferran, Christiana Werner
July 16, 2024
This volume brings together two philosophical research areas that have been subject to increased attention: work regarding the unique character of having an experience and studies on the nature and powers of imagination. The importance of imagination seems to stand in tension with the assumed ...
Intentionality as Constitution
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By Alberto Voltolini
June 28, 2024
This book develops a novel theory of intentionality. It argues that intentionality is an internal essential relation of constitution between an intentional state and an object, or between such a state and a possible state of affairs as subsisting. The author’s main claim is that intentionality is a...
Cross-Tradition Engagement on the Laws of Logic: Approaching Identity and Reference from Classical Chinese Philosophy to Modern Logic
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By Bo Mou
June 14, 2024
This book demonstrates how, through cross-tradition engagement, insights and engaging treatments from the Chinese philosophical tradition can work with relevant resources from modern logic and contemporary philosophy to enhance our understanding of two basic principles of logic: the law of identity...
The Hope and Horror of Physicalism: An Existential Treatise
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By Christopher Devlin Brown
June 14, 2024
This book assesses the existentially relevant consequences of physicalism. It argues that accepting physicalism is the healthiest stance we can take in the face of an account of the self and world which offers no metaphysical assurances. Why should we care about physicalism? On one hand, the view ...
New Perspectives on the Ontology of Social Identities
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By Alejandro Arango, Adam Burgos
June 03, 2024
This volume presents new research in social ontology by focusing on questions related to the characteristics, categories, and conceptual methodologies surrounding social identities, in general, and specific social identities, in particular. The volume contains eight original essays, plus a foreword...
Autonomy, Enactivism, and Mental Disorder: A Philosophical Account
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By Michelle Maiese
May 27, 2024
This book brings together insights from the enactivist approach in philosophy of mind and existing work on autonomous agency from both philosophy of action and feminist philosophy. It then utilizes this proposed account of autonomous agency to make sense of the impairments in agency that commonly ...
Contractarianism, Role Obligations, and Political Morality
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By Benjamin Sachs
May 27, 2024
This book argues that contractarianism is well suited as a political morality and explores the implications of deploying it in this way. It promises to revive contractarianism as a viable political theory, breaking it free from its Rawlsian moorings while taking seriously the long-standing ...
Existentialism and the Desirability of Immortality
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By Adam Buben
May 27, 2024
This book looks to existential thinkers for reasons to hope immortal life could be worth living. It injects new arguments and insights into the debate about the desirability of immortality, and tackles related issues such as boredom, personal identity, technological progress, and the meaning of ...
Philosophical Perspectives on Memory and Imagination
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By Anja Berninger, Íngrid Vendrell Ferran
May 27, 2024
This book explores the structure and function of memory and imagination, as well as the relation and interaction between the two states. It is the first book to offer an integrative approach to these two emerging areas of philosophical research. The essays in this volume deal with a variety of ...