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Critical Concepts in Philosophy


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Critical Concepts in Philosophy is a well-established series in Routledge’s Major Works publishing programme.

Designed to meet research, reference, and teaching needs across the humanities and social sciences, Routledge Major Works gather together the best and most influential work on particular concepts, subjects, and individuals. The collections assemble previously published articles from a variety of journals, excerpts or chapters from previously published books, and materials from other sources which together provide users with historical purchase on the concept, subject, or individual in question, as well as a thorough overview of current issues.

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Philosophy and Gender

Philosophy and Gender

1st Edition

Edited By Cressida Heyes
December 14, 2011

How are ‘philosophy’ and ‘gender’ implicated? Throughout history, philosophers—mostly men, though with more women among their number than is sometimes supposed—have often sought to specify and justify the proper roles of women and men, and to explore the political consequences of sexual difference....

Philosophy of Mind

Philosophy of Mind

1st Edition

Edited By Sean Crawford
October 29, 2010

Philosophy of Mind is concerned with fundamental issues about the relation between mind and body and mind and world, and with the nature of the diverse variety of mental phenomena, such as thought, self-knowledge, consciousness, perception, sensation, and emotion. Philosophers of mind explore some ...

Philosophy of Religion

Philosophy of Religion

1st Edition

Edited By William J. Wainwright
September 18, 2009

The past forty years or so have witnessed a renaissance in the philosophy of religion. New tools (modal logic, probability theory, and so on) and new historical research have prompted many thinkers to take a fresh look at old topics (God’s existence, the problem of evil, faith and reason, and the ...

Philosophy of Language

Philosophy of Language

1st Edition

Edited By A. P. Martinich
January 12, 2009

What do ‘meaning’ and ‘truth’ mean? And how are they situated in the concrete practices of linguistic communication? What is the relationship between words and the world? How—with words—can people do such varied things as marry, inaugurate a president, and declare a country’s independence? How is ...

The Philosophy of Time

The Philosophy of Time

1st Edition

Edited By L Nathan Oaklander
September 10, 2008

What is the nature of temporal passage—the movement of events or moments of time from the future through the present into the past? Is the future and the past as real as the present, or is the present—or perhaps the present and the past—all that exists? What role, if any, does language play in ...

Metaethics

Metaethics

1st Edition

Edited By Russ Shafer-Landau
May 28, 2008

Metaethics is the branch of knowledge that considers the foundational issues of morality, and deals especially with the nature of ethical statements. Philosophers doing metaethics ask vital and fundamental questions such as these: • is morality merely conventional, or are there objective standards ...

Metaphysics

Metaphysics

1st Edition

Edited By Michael C. Rea
March 12, 2008

Metaphysics, at least roughly speaking, is the systematic investigation of fundamental presuppositions underlying commonsense and scientific views of the world. Most of us believe that we have bodies and minds, that we are free, that some things in the world are composed of other things and that ...

German Idealism

German Idealism

1st Edition

Edited By Klaus Brinkmann
August 20, 2007

German Idealism represents one of the most intense and ambitious periods in the history of philosophy. It was the time when the possibility of an alternative to both empiricism and rationalism was explored, and the era when comprehensive system building took place. Discussing this highly visible ...

Philosophy of Law

Philosophy of Law

1st Edition

Edited By Brian Bix
October 17, 2006

Edited by a leading scholar in the field, Philosophy of Law is a new title in the Routledge Major Works series Critical Concepts in Philosophy. It is a four-volume collection of canonical and cutting-edge research and covers a significant range of topics in the field. The first two volumes of the ...

Free Will

Free Will

1st Edition

Edited By John Martin Fischer
December 12, 2005

Over the last three decades there has been a tremendous amount of philosophical work in the Anglo-American tradition on the cluster of topics pertaining to Free Will.Contemporary work has in some instances been in the form of lively debates between proponents of different viewpoints, and literature...

Aesthetics

Aesthetics

1st Edition

Edited By James Young
September 20, 2005

Aesthetics is one of the most vital and wide-ranging fields of philosophical inquiry. This four volume set brings together both classic and contemporary writings to provide a comprehensive collection of the most important essays on the subject. All of the various artistic genres are addressed, ...

Pragmatism

Pragmatism

1st Edition

Edited By Russell B. Goodman
June 01, 2005

Presenting key texts in and about pragmatism, this collection of essays explores pragmatism's origins, applications, and weaknesses, as well as its remarkable versatility as an approach not only to issues of truth and knowledge, but to ethics and social philosophy, literature, law, aesthetics, ...

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