Philosophy of Psychology Books

New and Published Books

1. Deconstructing Habermas

   By Lasse Thomassen

   Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought

   This book is the first book-length deconstructive study of the political philosophy of Jürgen Habermas. Inspired by the work of Jacques Derrida, the book applies deconstruction to key issues in Habermas’s work: rational discourse and rational consensus, constitutional democracy, tolerance and civil...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
2. Experimental Philosophy and its Critics

   Edited by Joachim Horvath, Thomas Grundmann

   Experimental philosophy is one of the most recent and controversial developments in philosophy. Its basic idea is rather simple: to test philosophical thought experiments and philosophers’ intuitions about them with scientific methods, mostly taken from psychology and the social sciences. The...

   Published March 14th 2012 by Routledge
3. The Emotions

   A Philosophical Introduction

   By Julien Deonna, Fabrice Teroni

   The emotions are at the centre of our lives and, for better or worse, imbue them with much of their significance. The philosophical problems stirred up by the existence of the emotions, over which many great philosophers of the past have laboured, revolve around attempts to understand what this...

   Published March 4th 2012 by Routledge
4. The Phenomenological Mind

   2nd Edition

   By Shaun Gallagher, Dan Zahavi

   The Phenomenological Mind is the first book to properly introduce fundamental questions about the mind from the perspective of phenomenology. Key questions and topics covered include: • what is phenomenology? • naturalizing phenomenology and the cognitive sciences • phenomenology and consciousness...

   Published February 20th 2012 by Routledge
5. Authenticity as an Ethical Ideal

   By Somogy Varga

   Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

   Authenticity has become a widespread ethical ideal that represents a way of dealing with normative gaps in contemporary life. This ideal suggests that one should be true to oneself and lead a life expressive of what one takes oneself to be. However, many contemporary thinkers have pointed out that...

   Published December 21st 2011 by Routledge
6. Conundrums

   A Critique of Contemporary Psychoanalysis

   By Jon Mills

   This is the first book of its kind to offer a sustained critique of contemporary psychoanalytic thought favoring relational, postmodern, and intersubjective perspectives, which largely define American psychoanalysis today. Conundrums turns an eye toward the philosophical underpinnings of...

   Published December 21st 2011 by Routledge
7. The Philosophical Defence of Psychiatry

   By Lawrie Reznek

   Series: Philosophical Issues in Science

   By first analysing the arguments of psychiatry's critics and the philosophical ideas of such thinkers as Freud, Eysenck, Laing, Szasz, Sedgwick and Foucault and by then providing answers to the many contentious and diverse questions raised, Dr. Reznek aims to establish a philosophical defence of...

   Published November 3rd 2011 by Routledge
8. The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Psychology

   Edited by John Symons, Paco Calvo

   Series: Routledge Philosophy Companions

   The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Psychology is an invaluable guide and major reference source to the major topics, problems, concepts and debates in philosophy of psychology and is the first companion of its kind. A team of renowned international contributors provide forty-two chapters...

   Published August 1st 2011 by Routledge
9. Routledge Handbook of Identity Studies

   Edited by Anthony Elliott

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks

   The Routledge Handbook of Identity Studies offers an exceptionally clear overview of the analysis of identity in the social sciences, and in so doing seeks to develop a new agenda for identity-studies in the twenty-first century. The key theories of identity, ranging from classical accounts to...

   Published June 22nd 2011 by Routledge
10. G.H. Mead

    A Reader

    By G. H. Mead

    Edited by Filipe Carreira da Silva

    Series: Routledge Classics in Sociology

    This book introduces social scientists to the ideas of George Herbert Mead (1863-1931) - one of the most original yet neglected thinkers of early twentieth century sociology. Mead is an exceptional case amongst sociological classics in that, until now, there has been no comprehensive reader of his...

    Published May 15th 2011 by Routledge