Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
Imagination and Experience: Philosophical Explorations
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By Íngrid Vendrell Ferran, Christiana Werner
December 25, 2025
This volume brings together two philosophical research areas that have been subject to increased attention: work regarding the unique character of having an experience and studies on the nature and powers of imagination. The importance of imagination seems to stand in tension with the assumed ...
Philosophy of Plant Cognition: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
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By Gabriele Ferretti, Peter Schulte, Markus Wild
December 25, 2025
This volume features new research about the philosophy of plant intelligence and plant cognition, one of the most intriguing and complex current debates at the intersection of biology, cognitive science and philosophy. The debate about plant cognition is marked by deep disagreements. Some theorists...
The Autonomous Individual: A Praxeological Enactivist Account
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By Martin Weichold
December 25, 2025
This book advances a new theory of what it means to be an autonomous individual with free will and an authentic self. It synthesizes the new “action turn” from 4E cognitive science with the new “practice turn” from the social sciences to develop a new perspective on our self-interpretation as ...
The Rhetoricity of Philosophy: Audience in Perelman and Ricoeur after the Badiou-Cassin Debate
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By Blake D. Scott
December 25, 2025
This book aims to recast the way that philosophers understand rhetoric. Rather than follow most philosophers in conceiving rhetoric as a specific way of speaking or writing, it shows that rhetoric is better understood as a dimension of all human discourse and action—what the author calls “...
Reasoning in the Wild: The Public Works of Reason
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By Mariam Thalos
December 08, 2025
Philosophy has long wrongfully imprisoned reasoning within the isolated chambers of the individual mind. This book shatters this confinement, laying foundations of a groundbreaking framework that conceptualizes reasoning as protocol-articulated action governed by socially shared norms and unfolding...
Digital Development: Technology, Ethics and Governance
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By Mirko Farina, Xiao Yu, Jin Chen
December 02, 2025
This volume offers a multidisciplinary reflection on the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies and digitalization in technology, epistemology, ethics, and governance. It aims to encourage inclusive and responsible digital development capable of bridging global digital divides. AI is ...
Cross-Tradition Engagement on the Laws of Logic: Approaching Identity and Reference from Classical Chinese Philosophy to Modern Logic
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By Bo Mou
November 28, 2025
This book demonstrates how, through cross-tradition engagement, insights and engaging treatments from the Chinese philosophical tradition can work with relevant resources from modern logic and contemporary philosophy to enhance our understanding of two basic principles of logic: the law of identity...
Intentionality as Constitution
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By Alberto Voltolini
November 27, 2025
This book develops a novel theory of intentionality. It argues that intentionality is an internal essential relation of constitution between an intentional state and an object, or between such a state and a possible state of affairs as subsisting. The author’s main claim is that intentionality is a...
New Perspectives on the Ontology of Social Identities
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By Alejandro Arango, Adam Burgos
November 27, 2025
This volume presents new research in social ontology by focusing on questions related to the characteristics, categories, and conceptual methodologies surrounding social identities, in general, and specific social identities, in particular. The volume contains eight original essays, plus a foreword...
The Hope and Horror of Physicalism: An Existential Treatise
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By Christopher Devlin Brown
November 27, 2025
This book assesses the existentially relevant consequences of physicalism. It argues that accepting physicalism is the healthiest stance we can take in the face of an account of the self and world which offers no metaphysical assurances. Why should we care about physicalism? On one hand, the view ...
From Human Reasoning to Belief: An Empirical Account
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By Joshua Mugg
November 17, 2025
This book examines the relation between taxonomy and cognitive architecture in human reasoning. It offers a novel argument for voluntarism of belief that is grounded in empirical research. The issue of cognitive architecture has pressing ramifications for philosophical discussions about the nature ...
Autobiographical Memory and Moral Agency: Interdisciplinary Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychology
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By Daniel Vanello
October 26, 2025
This volume brings together, for the first time, perspectives from philosophy and psychology to investigate the role of autobiographical memory in moral agency. Autobiographical memory is the ability to recollect events in one’s past as part of one’s personal history. Moral agency is the ability to...