Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
Epistemic Uses of Imagination
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By Christopher Badura, Amy Kind
May 31, 2023
This book explores a topic that has recently become the subject of increased philosophical interest: how can imagination be put to epistemic use? Though imagination has long been invoked in contexts of modal knowledge, in recent years philosophers have begun to explore its capacity to play an ...
Examples and Their Role in Our Thinking
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By Ondřej Beran
May 31, 2023
This book investigates the role and significance that examples play in shaping arguments and thought, both in philosophy and in everyday life. It addresses questions about how our moral thinking is informed by our conceptual practices, especially in ways related to the relationship between ethics ...
Modes of Truth: The Unified Approach to Truth, Modality, and Paradox
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By Carlo Nicolai, Johannes Stern
May 31, 2023
The aim of this volume is to open up new perspectives and to raise new research questions about a unified approach to truth, modalities, and propositional attitudes. The volume’s essays are grouped thematically around different research questions. The first theme concerns the tension between the ...
Social Trust
1st Edition
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By Kevin Vallier, Michael Weber
May 31, 2023
With increasingly divergent views and commitments, and an all-or-nothing mindset in political life, it can seem hard to sustain the level of trust in other members of our society necessary to ensure our most basic institutions work. This book features interdisciplinary perspectives on social trust....
Extimate Technology: Self-Formation in a Technological World
1st Edition
By Ciano Aydin
January 09, 2023
This book investigates how we should form ourselves in a world saturated with technologies that are profoundly intruding in the very fabric of our selfhood. New and emerging technologies, such as smart technological environments, imaging technologies and smart drugs, are increasingly shaping who ...
Language and Phenomenology
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By Chad Engelland
January 09, 2023
At first blush, phenomenology seems to be concerned preeminently with questions of knowledge, truth, and perception, and yet closer inspection reveals that the analyses of these phenomena remain bound up with language and that consequently phenomenology is, inextricably, a philosophy of language. ...
The Philosophy and Psychology of Ambivalence: Being of Two Minds
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By Berit Brogaard, Dimitria Electra Gatzia
January 09, 2023
This book collects original essays by top scholars that address questions about the nature, origins, and effects of ambivalence. While the nature of agency has received an enormous amount of attention, relatively little has been written about ambivalence or how it relates to topics such as agency, ...
Towards a Philosophical Anthropology of Culture: Naturalism, Relativism, and Skepticism
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By Kevin M. Cahill
January 09, 2023
This book explores the question of what it means to be a human being through sustained and original analyses of three important philosophical topics: relativism, skepticism, and naturalism in the social sciences. Kevin M. Cahill’s approach involves an original employment of historical and ...
Non-Ideal Foundations of Language
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By Jessica Keiser
December 13, 2022
This book argues that the major traditions in the philosophy of language have mistakenly focused on highly idealized linguistic contexts. Instead, it presents a non-ideal foundational theory of language that contends that the essential function of language is to direct attention for the purpose of ...
Caring for Liberalism: Dependency and Liberal Political Theory
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By Asha Bhandary, Amy R. Baehr
August 01, 2022
Caring for Liberalism brings together chapters that explore how liberal political theory, in its many guises, might be modified or transformed to take the fact of dependency on board. In addressing the place of care in liberalism, this collection advances the idea that care ethics can help respond ...
Perception and the Inhuman Gaze: Perspectives from Philosophy, Phenomenology, and the Sciences
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By Anya Daly, Fred Cummins, James Jardine, Dermot Moran
August 01, 2022
The diverse essays in this volume speak to the relevance of phenomenological and psychological questioning regarding perceptions of the human. This designation, human, can be used beyond the mere identification of a species to underwrite exclusion, denigration, dehumanization and demonization, and ...
Revising Fiction, Fact, and Faith: A Philosophical Account
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By Nathaniel Goldberg, Chris Gavaler
August 01, 2022
This book addresses how our revisionary practices account for relations between texts and how they are read. It offers an overarching philosophy of revision concerning works of fiction, fact, and faith, revealing unexpected insights about the philosophy of language, the metaphysics of fact and ...