Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
Towards a Philosophical Anthropology of Culture: Naturalism, Relativism, and Skepticism
1st Edition
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
1st Edition
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
1st Edition
Edited
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
1st Edition
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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
1st Edition
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 ...
The Indexical Point of View: On Cognitive Significance and Cognitive Dynamics
1st Edition
By Vojislav Bozickovic
August 01, 2022
This book argues that there is a common cognitive mechanism underlying all indexical thoughts, in spite of their seeming diversity. Indexical thoughts are mental representations, such as beliefs and desires. They represent items from a thinker's point of view or her cognitive perspective. We ...
The Philosophy of Reenchantment
1st Edition
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By Michiel Meijer, Herbert De Vriese
August 01, 2022
This book presents a philosophical study of the idea of reenchantment and its merits in the interrelated fields of philosophical anthropology, ethics, and ontology. It features chapters from leading contributors to the debate about reenchantment, including Charles Taylor, John Cottingham, Akeel ...
Toleration and the Challenges to Liberalism
1st Edition
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By Johannes Drerup, Gottfried Schweiger
August 01, 2022
This book explores the relationship between different versions of liberalism and toleration by focusing on their shared theoretical and political challenges. Toleration is among the most pivotal and the most contested liberal values and virtues. Debates about the conceptual scope, justification, ...
Consequences of Reference Failure
1st Edition
By Michael McKinsey
June 14, 2022
This book defends the Direct Reference (DR) thesis in philosophy of language regarding proper names and indexical pronouns. It uniquely draws out the significant consequences of DR when it is conjoined with the fact that these singular terms sometimes fail to refer.Even though DR is widely endorsed...
Philosophical Perspectives on Contemporary Ireland
1st Edition
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By Clara Fischer, Áine Mahon
June 14, 2022
This is the first book to bring a philosophical lens to issues of socio-political and cultural importance in twenty-first century Ireland. While the social, political, and economic landscape of contemporary Ireland has inspired extensive scholarly debate both within and well beyond the field of ...
Cross-Tradition Engagement in Philosophy: A Constructive-Engagement Account
1st Edition
By Bo Mou
June 13, 2022
This book presents a systematic unifying-pluralist account—a "constructive-engagement" account—of how cross-tradition engagement in philosophy is possible. The goal of this "constructive-engagement" account is, by way of reflective criticism, argumentation, and methodological guiding principles, to...
Inference and Consciousness
1st Edition
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By Timothy Chan, Anders Nes
June 13, 2022
Inference has long been a central concern in epistemology, as an essential means by which we extend our knowledge and test our beliefs. Inference is also a key notion in influential psychological accounts of mental capacities, ranging from problem-solving to perception. Consciousness, on the other ...