Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
A Referential Theory of Truth and Falsity
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By Ilhan Inan
August 26, 2024
This book proposes a novel theory of truth and falsity. It argues that truth is a form of reference and falsity is a form of reference failure. Most of the philosophical literature on truth concentrates on certain ontological and epistemic problems. This book focuses instead on language. By ...
Conservatism and Grace: The Conservative Case for Religion by Establishment
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By Sebastian Morello
August 26, 2024
This book offers a systematic and detailed examination of the conservative case for religion by establishment. In doing so, the author demonstrates that the conservative political tradition is rooted in an inescapably religious worldview, and in turn shows what the future of conservatism might be. ...
Epistemic Injustice and the Philosophy of Recognition
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By Paul Giladi, Nicola McMillan
August 26, 2024
This volume includes original essays that examine the underexplored relationship between recognition theory and key developments in critical social epistemology. Its aims are to explore how far certain kinds of epistemic injustice, epistemic oppression, and types of ignorance can be understood as ...
Evolutionary Debunking Arguments: Ethics, Philosophy of Religion, Philosophy of Mathematics, Metaphysics, and Epistemology
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By Diego E. Machuca
August 26, 2024
Recent years have seen an explosion of interest in evolutionary debunking arguments directed against certain types of belief, particularly moral and religious beliefs. According to those arguments, the evolutionary origins of the cognitive mechanisms that produce the targeted beliefs render these ...
Mental Action and the Conscious Mind
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By Michael Brent, Lisa Miracchi Titus
August 26, 2024
Mental action deserves a place among foundational topics in action theory and philosophy of mind. Recent accounts of human agency tend to overlook the role of conscious mental action in our daily lives, while contemporary accounts of the conscious mind often ignore the role of mental action and ...
Perspectives on Taste: Aesthetics, Language, Metaphysics, and Experimental Philosophy
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By Jeremy Wyatt, Julia Zakkou, Dan Zeman
August 26, 2024
This book offers a sustained, interdisciplinary examination of taste. It addresses a range of topics that have been at the heart of lively debates in philosophy of language, linguistics, metaphysics, aesthetics, and experimental philosophy. Our everyday lives are suffused with discussions about ...
The Ethics of Interpretation: From Charity as a Principle to Love as a Hermeneutic Imperative
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By Pol Vandevelde
August 26, 2024
This book discusses the ethical dimension of the interpretation of texts and events. Its purpose is not to address the neutrality or ideological biases of interpreters, but rather to discuss the underlying issue of the intervention of interpreters into the process of interpretation. The author ...
The Nature and Practice of Trust
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By Marc A. Cohen
August 26, 2024
Across the social sciences and even in philosophy, trust is most often characterized in terms of expectations and probabilities. This book defends an alternative conception of trust as a moral phenomenon. When one person trusts another to do something, the first relies on the second’s commitment(s...
The Philosophy of Exemplarity: Singularity, Particularity, and Self-Reference
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By Jakub Mácha
August 26, 2024
This book offers an original philosophical perspective on exemplarity. Inspired by Wittgenstein’s later work and Derrida’s theory of deconstruction, it argues that examples are not static entities but rather oscillate between singular and universal moments. There is a broad consensus that ...
The Theory and Practice of Recognition
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By Onni Hirvonen, Heikki J. Koskinen
August 26, 2024
This volume presents new essays on the theory and practice of recognition. In order to retain its overall plausibility as a critical social theory, contemporary recognition theory needs to be able to successfully combine theory with real-life perspectives, in both contemporary and historical ...
Unconscious Networks: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and Artificial Intelligence
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By Luca M. Possati
August 26, 2024
This book develops an original theoretical framework for understanding human-technology relations. The author’s approach, which he calls technoanalysis, analyzes artificial intelligence based on Freudian psychoanalysis, biosemiotics, and Latour’s actor-network theory. How can we communicate with AI...
Updating the Interpretive Turn: New Arguments in Hermeneutics
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By Michiel Meijer
August 26, 2024
This book explores the meaning of the interpretive turn in the philosophy of the human sciences for a variety of contemporary philosophical debates. While hermeneutics seems to be firmly established as a tradition and methodology in the human sciences, interpretive philosophy seems to be under ...