Examples and Their Role in Our Thinking

Ondřej Beran

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
• This book investigates the role and significance that examples play in shaping arguments and thought, both in philosophy and in everyday life. It addr... Lees meer

Rethinking Punishment in the Era of Mass Incarceration

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
• One of the most important problems faced by the United States is addressing its broken criminal justice system. This collection of essays offers a tho... Lees meer

The Epistemological Skyhook

Jim Slagle

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
• Throughout philosophical history, there has been a recurring argument to the effect that determinism, naturalism, or both are self-referentially incoh... Lees meer

Cosmopolitan Norms and European Values

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
• This volume offers a systematic philosophical analysis of the normative challenges facing European refugee policy, focusing on whether the response to... Lees meer

Epistemology and the Regress Problem

Scott Aikin

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy | nr. 25
• In the last decade, the familiar problem of the regress of reasons has returned to prominent consideration in epistemology. And with the return of the... Lees meer

Knowledge, Virtue, and Action

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy | nr. 51
• This volume brings together recent work by leading and up-and-coming philosophers on the topic of virtue epistemology. The prospects of virtue-theoret... Lees meer

Digital Hermeneutics

Alberto Romele

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• This is the first monograph to develop a hermeneutic approach to the digital-as both a technological milieu and a cultural phenomenon. While philosoph... Lees meer

Reference and Structure in the Philosophy of Language

Arthur Sullivan

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy | nr. 43
• This volume investigates the precise contours of the connections between two foundational concepts: reference (the means of semantically expressing si... Lees meer

Pragmatism, Law, and Language

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
• This volume puts leading pragmatists in the philosophy of language, including Robert Brandom, in contact with scholars concerned with what pragmatism ... Lees meer

The Social Contexts of Intellectual Virtue

Adam Green

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
• This book reconceives virtue epistemology in light of the conviction that we are essentially social creatures. Virtue is normally thought of as someth... Lees meer

Civil Society in Liberal Democracy

Mark Jensen

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy | nr. 26
• In this contribution to contemporary political philosophy, Jensen aims to develop a model of civil society for deliberative democracy. In the course o... Lees meer

Disagreement and Skepticism

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
• The thirteen essays in this volume explore for the first time the possible skeptical implications of disagreement in different areas and from differen... Lees meer

Self-Realization and Justice

Julia Maskivker

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• In this book, Maskivker argues that there ought to be a right not to participate in the paid economy in a new way; not by appealing to notions of fair... Lees meer

Transhumanism, Nature, and the Ends of Science

Robert Frodeman

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
• This book offers a social, political, and aesthetic critique of transhumanism and of the accelerating growth of scientific knowledge generally. Rather... Lees meer

Emotional Self-Knowledge

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
• This volume sheds light on the affective dimensions of self-knowledge and the roles that emotions and other affective states play in promoting or obst... Lees meer

Expected Experiences

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
• This book brings together perspectives on predictive processing and expected experience. It features contributions from an interdisciplinary group of ... Lees meer

Domination and Global Political Justice

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
• Domination consists in subjection to the will of others and manifests itself both as a personal relation and a structural phenomenon serving as the co... Lees meer

Perspectives on Ignorance from Moral and Social Philosophy

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
• This edited collection focuses on the moral and social dimensions of ignorance--an undertheorized category in analytic philosophy. Contributors addres... Lees meer

Hillel Steiner and the Anatomy of Justice

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
• In this volume, essays by an international roster of contributors evaluate the political philosophy of contemporary philosopher Hillel Steiner. The st... Lees meer

Taking the Measure of Autonomy

Suzy Killmister

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
• This book takes a radically different approach to the concept of autonomy. Killmister defends a theory of autonomy that is four-dimensional and consti... Lees meer

Philosophical Perspectives on Contemporary Ireland

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
• 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 s... Lees meer

Social Functions in Philosophy

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
• Social functions and functional explanations play a prominent role not only in our everyday reasoning but also in classical as well as contemporary so... Lees meer

Philosophical and Scientific Perspectives on Downward Causation

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
• This volume brings together experts from different fields-including William Bechtel, Stewart Clark, Tom Lancaster, Carl Gillett, John Heil, Robin F. H... Lees meer

The Essence of the Self

Geoffrey Madell

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
• In this volume, Geoffrey Madell develops a revised account of the self, making a compelling case for why the "simple" or "anti-criterial" view of pers... Lees meer