The Philosophy and Psychology of Ambivalence

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
• This book collects original essays by top scholars that address questions about the nature, origins, and effects of ambivalence. While the nature of a... Lees meer

The Meanings of Violence

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• Violence has long been noted to be a fundamental aspect of the human condition. Traditionally, however, philosophical discussions have tended to appro... Lees meer

The Value and Limits of Academic Speech

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• Free speech has been a historically volatile issue in higher education. In recent years, however, there has been a surge of progressive censorship on ... Lees meer

John Rawls and the Common Good

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• The chapters in this book analyze the relationship between core concepts of the common good and the work of American political philosopher John Rawls.... Lees meer

Perception, Cognition and Aesthetics

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• This volume addresses key questions related to how content in thought is derived from perceptual experience. It includes chapters that focus on single... Lees meer

How History Matters to Philosophy

Robert C Scharff

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• In recent decades, widespread rejection of positivism's notorious hostility toward the philosophical tradition has led to renewed debate about the rea... Lees meer

Time and the Philosophy of Action

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• Although scholarship in philosophy of action has grown in recent years, there has been little work explicitly dealing with the role of time in agency-... Lees meer

Transhumanism, Nature, and the Ends of Science

Robert Frodeman

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• This book offers a social, political, and aesthetic critique of transhumanism and of the accelerating growth of scientific knowledge generally. Rather... Lees meer

Philosophical Perspectives on Contemporary Ireland

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• 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

The Social Contexts of Intellectual Virtue

Adam Green

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• 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

Revising Fiction, Fact, and Faith

Nathaniel Goldberg, Chris Gavaler

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• This book addresses how our revisionary practices account for relations between texts and how they are read. It offers an overarching philosophy of re... Lees meer

A Social Theory of Freedom

Mariam Thalos

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• In A Social Theory of Freedom , Mariam Thalos argues that the theory of human freedom should be a broadly social and political theory, rather than a t... Lees meer

Civil Society in Liberal Democracy

Mark Jensen

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• In this contribution to contemporary political philosophy, Jensen aims to develop a model of civil society for deliberative democracy. His ideal treat... Lees meer

Reframing the Intercultural Dialogue on Human Rights

Jeffrey Flynn

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• In this book, Flynn stresses the vital role of intercultural dialogue in developing a non-ethnocentric conception of human rights. He argues that Jürg... Lees meer

Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and Maternal Subjectivity

Alison Stone

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy | nr. 30
• In this book, Alison Stone develops a feminist approach to maternal subjectivity. Stone argues that in the West the self has often been understood in ... Lees meer

Mental Action and the Conscious Mind

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• Mental action deserves a place among foundational topics in action theory and philosophy of mind. Recent accounts of human agency tend to overlook the... Lees meer

Evolutionary Debunking Arguments

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• Recent years have seen an explosion of interest in evolutionary debunking arguments directed against certain types of belief, particularly moral and r... Lees meer

Autonomy and Liberalism

Ben Colburn

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• This book concerns the foundations and implications of a particular form of liberal political theory. Colburn argues that one should see liberalism as... Lees meer

The Pittsburgh School of Philosophy

Chauncey Maher

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• In this volume, Maher contextualizes the work of a group of contemporary analytic philosophers-The Pittsburgh School-whose work is characterized by an... Lees meer

Cross-Tradition Engagement in Philosophy

Bo Mou

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• This book presents a systematic unifying-pluralist account-a "constructive-engagement" account-of how cross-tradition engagement in philosophy is poss... Lees meer

The Phenomenology of Real and Virtual Places

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• This collection of essays explores the history, implications, and usefulness of phenomenology for the study of real and virtual places. While the infl... Lees meer

Truth and Speech Acts

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• Whereas the relationship between truth and propositional content has already been intensively investigated, there are only very few studies devoted to... Lees meer

Contemporary Feminist Pragmatism

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy | nr. 37
• The notion of "feminist pragmatism" or "pragmatist feminism" has been around since Charlene Haddock Seigfried introduced it two decades ago. However, ... Lees meer

Experiential Learning in Philosophy

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• In this volume, Julinna Oxley and Ramona Ilea bring together essays that examine and defend the use of experiential learning activities to teach philo... Lees meer