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Reflective Equilibrium and the Principles of Logical Analysis Understanding the Laws of Logic

Reflective Equilibrium and the Principles of Logical Analysis: Understanding the Laws of Logic

1st Edition

By Jaroslav Peregrin, Vladimír Svoboda
February 16, 2017

This book offers a comprehensive account of logic that addresses fundamental issues concerning the nature and foundations of the discipline. The authors claim that these foundations can not only be established without the need for strong metaphysical assumptions, but also without hypostasizing ...

Self-Reflection for the Opaque Mind An Essay in Neo-Sellarsian Philosophy

Self-Reflection for the Opaque Mind: An Essay in Neo-Sellarsian Philosophy

1st Edition

By T. Parent
December 22, 2016

This volume attempts to solve a grave problem about critical self-reflection. The worry is that we critical thinkers are all in "epistemic bad faith" in light of what psychology tells us. After all, the research shows not merely that we are bad at detecting "ego-threatening" thoughts à la Freud. It...

Reframing the Intercultural Dialogue on Human Rights A Philosophical Approach

Reframing the Intercultural Dialogue on Human Rights: A Philosophical Approach

1st Edition

By Jeffrey Flynn
November 08, 2016

In this book, Flynn stresses the vital role of intercultural dialogue in developing a non-ethnocentric conception of human rights. He argues that Jürgen Habermas’s discourse theory provides both the best framework for such dialogue and a much-needed middle path between philosophical approaches that...

A Philosophy of Material Culture Action, Function, and Mind

A Philosophy of Material Culture: Action, Function, and Mind

1st Edition

By Beth Preston
July 27, 2016

This book focuses on material culture as a subject of philosophical inquiry and promotes the philosophical study of material culture by articulating some of the central and difficult issues raised by this topic and providing innovative solutions to them, most notably an account of improvised action...

A Philosophy of the Screenplay

A Philosophy of the Screenplay

1st Edition

By Ted Nannicelli
July 27, 2016

Recently, scholars in a variety of disciplines—including philosophy, film and media studies, and literary studies—have become interested in the aesthetics, definition, and ontology of the screenplay. To this end, this volume addresses the fundamental philosophical questions about the nature of the ...

Believing Against the Evidence Agency and the Ethics of Belief

Believing Against the Evidence: Agency and the Ethics of Belief

1st Edition

By Miriam Schleifer McCormick
July 27, 2016

The question of whether it is ever permissible to believe on insufficient evidence has once again become a live question. Greater attention is now being paid to practical dimensions of belief, namely issues related to epistemic virtue, doxastic responsibility, and voluntarism. In this book, ...

Contemporary Dualism A Defense

Contemporary Dualism: A Defense

1st Edition

Edited By Andrea Lavazza, Howard Robinson
July 27, 2016

Ontological materialism, in its various forms, has become the orthodox view in contemporary philosophy of mind. This book provides a variety of defenses of mind-body dualism, and shows (explicitly or implicitly) that a thoroughgoing ontological materialism cannot be sustained. The contributions are...

The Ontology of Psychology Questioning Foundations in the Philosophy of Mind

The Ontology of Psychology: Questioning Foundations in the Philosophy of Mind

1st Edition

By Linda A.W. Brakel
July 27, 2016

In this volume, Brakel raises questions about conventions in the study of mind in three disciplines—psychoanalysis, philosophy of mind, and experimental philosophy. She illuminates new understandings of the mind through interdisciplinary challenges to views long-accepted. Here she proposes a view ...

Perspectives on Ignorance from Moral and Social Philosophy

Perspectives on Ignorance from Moral and Social Philosophy

1st Edition

Edited By Rik Peels
July 19, 2016

This edited collection focuses on the moral and social dimensions of ignorance—an undertheorized category in analytic philosophy. Contributors address such issues as the relation between ignorance and deception, ignorance as a moral excuse, ignorance as a legal excuse, and the relation between ...

The Epistemological Skyhook Determinism, Naturalism, and Self-Defeat

The Epistemological Skyhook: Determinism, Naturalism, and Self-Defeat

1st Edition

By Jim Slagle
June 02, 2016

Throughout philosophical history, there has been a recurring argument to the effect that determinism, naturalism, or both are self-referentially incoherent. By accepting determinism or naturalism, one allegedly acquires a reason to reject determinism or naturalism. The Epistemological Skyhook ...

Interactive Justice A Proceduralist Approach to Value Conflict in Politics

Interactive Justice: A Proceduralist Approach to Value Conflict in Politics

1st Edition

By Emanuela Ceva
May 23, 2016

Contemporary societies are riddled with moral disputes caused by conflicts between value claims competing for the regulation of matters of public concern. This familiar state of affairs is relevant for one of the most important debates within liberal political thought: should institutions seek to ...

The Cognitive Basis of Aesthetics Cassirer, Crowther, and the Future

The Cognitive Basis of Aesthetics: Cassirer, Crowther, and the Future

1st Edition

By Elena Fell, Ioanna Kopsiafti
April 21, 2016

This book seeks to fill a void in contemporary aesthetics scholarship by considering the cognitive features that make the aesthetic and artistic worthy of philosophical study. Aesthetic cognition has been largely abandoned by analytical philosophy, which instead tends to focus its attention on the ...

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