Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
Historical Explanation: An Anti-Causalist Approach
1st Edition
By Gunnar Schumann
April 13, 2025
This book is concerned with the appropriate form of explanations in historiography and the social sciences. It combines action theory and philosophy of historiography and develops a theory of teleological explanations of human actions based on late-Wittgensteinian and Ordinary Language Philosophy ...
Philosophy of Mental Disorder: An Ability-Based Approach
1st Edition
By Sanja Dembić
April 13, 2025
This book offers an ability-based view of mental disorders. It develops a detailed analysis of the concept of inability that is relevant in the psychiatric and psychotherapeutic context by drawing on the most recent literature on the concepts of ability, reasons, and harm. What is it to have a ...
Feminist Philosophy and Emerging Technologies
1st Edition
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By Mary L. Edwards, S. Orestis Palermos
January 30, 2025
This volume explores urgent questions surrounding the bidirectional relationship between feminist philosophy and emerging technologies. It underlines the exigency of feminist philosophical reflections on the design, use, and understanding of emerging technologies and at the same time accentuates ...
Normative Species: How Naturalized Inferentialism Explains Us
1st Edition
By Jaroslav Peregrin
January 30, 2025
This book is about rules, and especially about human capability to create, maintain and follow rules, as a root of what makes us humans different from other animals. The leading idea is that scrutinizing this capability is able to tell us who we humans are and what kinds of lives we live. It ...
Cosmopolitan Norms and European Values: Ethical Perspectives on Europe's Refugee Policy
1st Edition
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By Marie Göbel, Andreas Niederberger
December 18, 2024
This volume offers a systematic philosophical analysis of the normative challenges facing European refugee policy, focusing on whether the response to it can be based on European values. By considering the refugee policy through the lens of European values, cosmopolitan norms and universal human ...
Empathy’s Role in Understanding Persons, Literature, and Art
1st Edition
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By Thomas Petraschka, Christiana Werner
December 18, 2024
This volume critically discusses the role empathy plays in different processes of understanding. More precisely, it clarifies empathy’s role in interpersonal understanding and appreciating works of literature and art. The volume also includes a section on historical theories of empathy’s role in ...
The Politics of Recognition in the Age of Digital Spaces: Appearing Together
1st Edition
By Benjamin JJ Carpenter
December 18, 2024
This book provides a philosophical analysis of the notion of selfhood that underlies identity politics. It offers a unique theory of the self that combines previous scholarly work on recognition and the phenomenology of space. The politics of identity occupy the centre of a contested terrain. ...
Digital Habitus: A Critique of the Imaginaries of Artificial Intelligence
1st Edition
By Alberto Romele
November 28, 2024
This book proposes a new theoretical framework for approaching the causes and effects that digital technologies and the imaginaries related to them have on the processes of self-interpretation and subjectivation. It formulates three main theses. First, it argues that today’s digital technologies, ...
Global Justice and Recognition Theory: Dignifying the World’s Poor
1st Edition
By Monica Mookherjee
November 28, 2024
In the light of intense international focus on ongoing forms of world poverty, this book examines the potential of the concept of recognition in contemporary political philosophy to respond morally to this dire condition. This book uses recognition theories to develop a two-tiered response to the ...
The Mind-Body Problem and Metaphysics: An Argument from Consciousness to Mental Substance
1st Edition
By Ralph Stefan Weir
November 28, 2024
This book evaluates the widespread preference in philosophy of mind for varieties of property dualism over other alternatives to physicalism. It takes the standard motivations for property dualism as a starting point and argues that these lead directly to nonphysical substances resembling the soul ...
The Philosophy and Psychology of Delusions: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Ana Falcato, Jorge Gonçalves
November 28, 2024
This book presents new philosophical work on delusions and their impact on everyday human behavior. It explores a cluster of related topics at the intersection of philosophy of mind and psychiatry, while also charting the historical development of work on delusions. Within psychiatry, there are ...
Philosophical Representation: Studies in Attitudinal Instrumentalism
1st Edition
By Ori Simchen
October 09, 2024
This book focuses on how we should treat philosophy’s theoretical representations. It argues in favor of an instrumentalist attitude towards pivotal cases of theoretical representation in philosophy that are commonly regarded under a realist attitude. Philosophy is awash with theoretical ...