Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy

Edited by Miranda Fricker, Peter J Graham, David Henderson, Nikolaj J.L.L. Pedersen

The Routledge Handbook of Social Epistemology is an authoritative and comprehensive survey of the most important issues and developments in one of the fastest growing areas of research in contemporary philosophy. An international team of scholars articulates the state of the art, draws out…

Hardback – 2019-07-17 
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Edited by Thomas Nys, Stephen De Wijze

Why ought we concern ourselves with understanding a concept of evil? It is an elusive and politically charged concept which critics argue has no explanatory power and is a relic of a superstitious and primitive religious past. Yet its widespread use persists today: we find it invoked by politicians…

Hardback – 2019-05-22 
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Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy

Edited by Sophie Gibb, Robin Findlay Hendry, Tom Lancaster

Emergence is often described as the idea that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts: interactions among the components of a system lead to distinctive novel properties. It has been invoked to describe the flocking of birds, the phases of matter and human consciousness, along with many…

Hardback – 2019-03-15
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Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy

Edited by Ian M. Church, Robert J. Hartman

Luck permeates our lives, and this raises a number of pressing questions: What is luck? When we attribute luck to people, circumstances, or events, what are we attributing? Do we have any obligations to mitigate the harms done to people who are less fortunate? And to what extent is deserving praise…

Hardback – 2019-02-25
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Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy

Edited by Adrienne M. Martin

The Routledge Handbook of Love in Philosophy collects 39 original chapters from prominent philosophers on the nature, meaning, value, and predicaments of love, presented in a unique framework that highlights the rich variety of methods and traditions used to engage with these subjects. This volume…

Hardback – 2018-12-13
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Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy

Edited by Aaron Zimmerman, Karen Jones, Mark Timmons

The Routledge Handbook of Moral Epistemology brings together philosophers, cognitive scientists, developmental and evolutionary psychologists, animal ethologists, intellectual historians, and educators to provide the most comprehensive analysis of the prospects for moral knowledge ever assembled in…

Hardback – 2018-11-16
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Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy

Edited by Heather Battaly

What is an epistemic virtue? Are epistemic virtues reliable? Are they motivated by a love of truth? Do epistemic virtues produce knowledge and understanding? How can we develop epistemic virtues? The Routledge Handbook of Virtue Epistemology answers all of these questions. This landmark volume…

Hardback – 2018-09-10
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Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy

Edited by David Coady, James Chase

While applied epistemology has been neglected for much of the twentieth century, it has seen emerging interest in recent years, with key thinkers in the field helping to put it on the philosophical map. Although it is an old tradition, current technological and social developments have dramatically…

Hardback – 2018-08-30
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Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy

Edited by Mark Sprevak, Matteo Colombo

Computational approaches dominate contemporary cognitive science, promising a unified, scientific explanation of how the mind works. However, computational approaches raise major philosophical and scientific questions. In what sense is the mind computational? How do computational approaches explain…

Hardback – 2018-08-28
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Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy

Edited by Anca Gheaus, Gideon Calder, Jurgen De Wispelaere

Childhood looms large in our understanding of human life, as a phase through which all adults have passed. Childhood is foundational to the development of selfhood, the formation of interests, values and skills and to the lifespan as a whole. Understanding what it is like to be a child, and what…

Hardback – 2018-07-23
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Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy

Edited by Hanna Pickard, Serge H Ahmed

The problem of addiction is one of the major challenges and controversies confronting medicine and society. It also poses important and complex philosophical and scientific problems. What is addiction? Why does it occur? And how should we respond to it, as individuals and as a society? The…

Hardback – 2018-06-11
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Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy

Edited by Rocco J. Gennaro

There has been an explosion of work on consciousness in the last 30–40 years from philosophers, psychologists, and neurologists. Thus, there is a need for an interdisciplinary, comprehensive volume in the field that brings together contributions from a wide range of experts on fundamental and…

Hardback – 2018-03-26
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Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy

Edited by Andrew Fiala

Interest in pacifism—an idea with a long history in philosophical thought and in several religious traditions—is growing. The Routledge Handbook of Pacifism and Nonviolence is the first comprehensive reference designed to introduce newcomers and researchers to the many varieties of pacifism and…

Hardback – 2018-02-21
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Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy

Edited by Juha Saatsi

Scientific realism is a central, long-standing, and hotly debated topic in philosophy of science. Debates about scientific realism concern the very nature and extent of scientific knowledge and progress. Scientific realists defend a positive epistemic attitude towards our best theories and models…

Hardback – 2017-12-01
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Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy

Edited by Marija Jankovic, Kirk Ludwig

The Routledge Handbook of Collective Intentionality provides a wide-ranging survey of topics in a rapidly expanding area of interdisciplinary research. It consists of 36 chapters, written exclusively for this volume, by an international team of experts. What is distinctive about the study of…

Hardback – 2017-10-31
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Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy

Edited by Graham Oppy

Philosophy of religion has experienced a renaissance in recent times, paralleling the resurgence in public debate about the place and value of religion in contemporary Western societies. The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Philosophy of Religion is an outstanding reference source to the key…

Paperback – 2017-10-13
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Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy

Edited by Amy Kind

Imagination occupies a central place in philosophy, going back to Aristotle. However, following a period of relative neglect there has been an explosion of interest in imagination in the past two decades as philosophers examine the role of imagination in debates about the mind and cognition,…

Paperback – 2017-10-13
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Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy

Edited by Guy Fletcher

The concept of well-being is one of the oldest and most important topics in philosophy and ethics, going back to ancient Greek philosophy. Following the boom in happiness studies in the last few years it has moved to centre stage, grabbing media headlines and the attention of scientists,…

Paperback – 2017-10-13
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Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy

Edited by John Sellars

The ancient philosophy of stoicism has been a crucial and formative influence on the development of Western thought since its inception through to the present day. It is not only an important area of study in philosophy and classics, but also in theology and literature. The Routledge Handbook of…

Paperback – 2017-10-13
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Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy

Edited by Svetla Slaveva-Griffin, Pauliina Remes

The Routledge Handbook of Neoplatonism is an authoritative and comprehensive survey of the most important issues and developments in one of the fastest growing areas of research in ancient philosophy. An international team of scholars situates and re-evaluates Neoplatonism within the history…

Paperback – 2017-10-12
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Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy

Edited by Lawrence Shapiro

Embodied cognition is one of the foremost areas of study and research in philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology and cognitive science. The Routledge Handbook of Embodied Cognition is an outstanding guide and reference source to the key topics and debates in this exciting subject and essential…

Paperback – 2017-10-12
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Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy

Edited by Richard Joyce

In recent years, the relation between contemporary academic philosophy and evolutionary theory has become ever more active, multifaceted, and productive. The connection is a bustling two-way street. In one direction, philosophers of biology make significant contributions to theoretical discussions…

Hardback – 2017-09-01
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Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy

Edited by Tristram McPherson, David Plunkett

This Handbook surveys the contemporary state of the burgeoning field of metaethics. Forty-four chapters, all written exclusively for this volume, provide expert introductions to: the central research programs that frame metaethical discussions the central explanatory challenges, resources,…

Hardback – 2017-08-28
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Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy

Edited by Jason Brennan, Bas van der Vossen, David Schmidtz

Libertarians often bill their theory as an alternative to both the traditional Left and Right. The Routledge Handbook of Libertarianism helps readers fully examine this alternative without preaching it to them, exploring the contours of libertarian (sometimes also called classical liberal) thinking…

Hardback – 2017-08-22
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Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy

Edited by Kristin Andrews, Jacob Beck

While philosophers have been interested in animals since ancient times, in the last few decades the subject of animal minds has emerged as a major topic in philosophy. The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Animal Minds is an outstanding reference source to the key topics, problems, and debates in…

Hardback – 2017-07-11
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Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy

Edited by Stuart Glennan, Phyllis Illari

Scientists studying the burning of stars, the evolution of species, DNA, the brain, the economy, and social change, all frequently describe their work as searching for mechanisms. Despite this fact, for much of the twentieth century philosophical discussions of the nature of mechanisms remained…

Hardback – 2017-07-04
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Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy

Edited by Jennifer Corns

The phenomenon of pain presents problems and puzzles for philosophers who want to understand its nature. Though pain might seem simple, there has been disagreement since Aristotle about whether pain is an emotion, sensation, perception, or disturbed state of the body. Despite advances in psychology…

Hardback – 2017-06-28
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Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy

Edited by Sven Bernecker, Kourken Michaelian

Memory occupies a fundamental place in philosophy, playing a central role not only in the history of philosophy but also in philosophy of mind, epistemology, and ethics. Yet the philosophy of memory has only recently emerged as an area of study and research in its own right. The Routledge Handbook…

Hardback – 2017-06-20
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Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy

Edited by Ian Phillips

Experience is inescapably temporal. But how do we experience time? Temporal experience is a fundamental subject in philosophy – according to Husserl, the most important and difficult of all. Its puzzles and paradoxes were of critical interest from the Early Moderns through to the Post-Kantians…

Hardback – 2017-05-09
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Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy

Edited by Ian James Kidd, José Medina, Gaile Pohlhaus, Jr.

In the era of information and communication, issues of misinformation and miscommunication are more pressing than ever. Epistemic injustice - one of the most important and ground-breaking subjects to have emerged in philosophy in recent years - refers to those forms of unfair treatment that relate…

Hardback – 2017-03-29
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Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy

Edited by Uriah Kriegel

Both through his own work and that of his students, Franz Clemens Brentano (1838–1917) had an often underappreciated influence on the course of twentieth- and twenty-first-century philosophy. The Routledge Handbook of Franz Brentano and the Brentano School offers full coverage of Brentano’s…

Hardback – 2017-03-24
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Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy

Edited by Jonathan Jenkins Ichikawa

Epistemic contextualism is a recent and hotly debated topic in philosophy. Contextualists argue that the language we use to attribute knowledge can only be properly understood relative to a specified context. How much can our knowledge depend on context? Is there a limit, and if so, where does it…

Hardback – 2017-03-22
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Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy

Edited by Heidi Maibom

Empathy plays a central role in the history and contemporary study of ethics, interpersonal understanding, and the emotions, yet until now has been relatively underexplored. The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Empathy is an outstanding reference source to the key topics, problems and debates in…

Hardback – 2017-02-14
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Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy

Edited by Julian Kiverstein

The idea that humans are by nature social and political animals can be traced back to Aristotle. More recently, it has also generated great interest and controversy in related disciplines such as anthropology, biology, psychology, neuroscience and even economics. What is it about humans that…

Hardback – 2016-12-07
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Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy

Edited by Justin Garson, Anya Plutynski, Sahotra Sarkar

Biological diversity - or ‘biodiversity’ - is the degree of variation of life within an ecosystem. It is a relatively new topic of study but has grown enormously in recent years. Because of its interdisciplinary nature the very concept of biodiversity is the subject of debate amongst philosophers,…

Hardback – 2016-09-30
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Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy

Edited by Luciano Floridi

Information and communication technology occupies a central place in the modern world, with society becoming increasingly dependent on it every day. It is therefore unsurprising that it has become a growing subject area in contemporary philosophy, which relies heavily on informational concepts. The…

Hardback – 2016-06-23
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Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy