Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
Recognition and the Human Life-Form: Beyond Identity and Difference
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By Heikki Ikäheimo
January 29, 2024
What is recognition and why is it so important? This book develops a synoptic conception of the significance of recognition in its many forms for human persons by means of a rational reconstruction and internal critique of classical and contemporary accounts. The book begins with a clarification of...
Time in Action: The Temporal Structure of Rational Agency and Practical Thought
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By Carla Bagnoli
January 29, 2024
This book explores the role of time in rational agency and practical reasoning. Agents are finite and often operate under severe time constraints. Action takes time and unfolds in time. While time is an ineliminable constituent of our experience of agency, it is both a theoretical and a practical ...
Autonomy and Equality: Relational Approaches
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By Natalie Stoljar, Kristin Voigt
September 25, 2023
This book draws connections and explores important questions at the intersection of the debates about relational autonomy and relational equality. Although these two research areas share several common assumptions and concerns, their connections have not been systematically explored. The essays in ...
Practices of Reason: Fusing the Inferentialist and Scientific Image
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By Ladislav Koreň
September 25, 2023
This book offers new insights into the nature of human rational capacities by engaging inferentialism with empirical research in the cognitive sciences. Inferentialism advocates that humans’ unique kind of intelligence is discursive and rooted in competencies to make, assess and justify claims. ...
The Single-Minded Animal: Shared Intentionality, Normativity, and the Foundations of Discursive Cognition
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By Preston Stovall
September 25, 2023
This book provides an account of discursive or reason-governed cognition, by synthesizing research in the philosophy of language, the philosophy of mind, and evolutionary anthropology. Using the grasp of a natural language as a model for the autonomous or self-governed rationality of discursive ...
The Social Institution of Discursive Norms: Historical, Naturalistic, and Pragmatic Perspectives
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By Leo Townsend, Preston Stovall, Hans Bernhard Schmid
September 25, 2023
The essays in this collection explore the idea that discursive norms—the norms governing our thought and talk—are profoundly social. Not only do these norms govern and structure our social interactions, but they are sustained by a variety of social and institutional structures. The chapters ...
Concepts in Thought, Action, and Emotion: New Essays
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By Christoph Demmerling, Dirk Schröder
May 31, 2023
In recent years, the idea of a concept has become increasingly central to different areas of philosophy. This collection of original essays presents philosophical perspectives on the link between concepts and language, concepts and experience, concepts and know-how, and concepts and emotion. The ...
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
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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
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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 ...