By Various

Reissuing works originally published between 1915 and 1990, this Routledge Library Edition collection offers a selection of scholarship on this important area of philosophy. Classic previously out-of-print works are brought back into print here in this small set, which includes volumes on…

Hardback – 2015-05-19
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Routledge Library Editions: Epistemology

Edited by John Symons

SPECIAL INTRODUCTORY PRICE! (Valid until 3 months after publication) Daniel Dennett has been one of the central voices in the philosophy of mind for at least the past forty years. Unlike most philosophers of his generation, Dennett’s work has resonated far and wide. It has powerfully influenced the…

Hardback – 2014-03-17
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Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers

By Various

Reissuing seminal works originally published between 1901 and 1991, Routledge Library Editions: Philosophy of Religion (40 volume set) offers a selection of outstanding scholarship covering many aspects of philosophical enquiry into belief and faith. Topics include the history of atheism, natural…

Hardback – 2013-04-11
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Routledge Library Editions: Philosophy of Religion

Edited by Tanja Staehler

Existentialism entered the public consciousness after the Second World War, especially through the work of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir. Indeed, these charismatic and engaged thinkers gave philosophy a level of glamour it had not before enjoyed, while existentialism’s…

Hardback – 2012-12-14
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Critical Concepts in Philosophy

Edited by Jose Luis Bermudez, Brandon N. Towl

The study of human behaviour, and the minds that produce that behaviour, has been an occupation of scholars, artists, and philosophers for millennia. But it was not until the turn of the twentieth century that psychology came into its own as a distinct field of study—and, more importantly, as a…

Hardback – 2012-11-30
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Critical Concepts in Philosophy

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Reissuing several works originally published between 1918 and 1985, Routledge Library Editions: Russell (8 volume set) offers a selection of scholarship covering the life and theories of Bertrand Russell. Russell (1872-1970) is the twentieth century’s most important liberal thinker and probably its…

Hardback – 2012-11-20
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Routledge Library Editions: Russell

Edited by Ram Neta

For those working in Epistemology dizzying questions such as the following arise: • When are beliefs rational, or justified? • How should we update our beliefs in the light of new evidence? • Is it possible to gain knowledge, or justification? • How do we know what we know, and why do we care…

Hardback – 2012-10-16
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Critical Concepts in Philosophy

By Various

Plato is perhaps the best known and most widely studied of all the ancient Greek philosophers. A pupil of Socrates and teacher of Aristotle, his ideas have inspired and influenced scholars of nearly every era. His famous series of dialogues have become a standard part of the western philosophical…

Hardback – 2012-09-03
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Routledge Library Editions: Plato

Edited by Mary Cyr

The revival of interest in early instruments that began over a hundred years ago has more recently led to a desire amongst scholars, performers, and listeners to understand how old instruments sounded, how music was sung and by whom, and how musical symbols were interpreted. The essays brought…

Hardback – 2011-08-02
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The Library of Essays on Music Performance Practice

By Alan D. Schrift

This major work of reference is an indispensable resource for anyone conducting research or teaching in philosophy. An international team of over 100 leading scholars has been brought together under the general editorship of Alan Schrift and the volume editors to provide authoritative analyses of…

Hardback – 2010-10-28
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Edited by William J. Wainwright

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…

Hardback – 2009-08-05
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Critical Concepts in Philosophy

Edited by L Nathan Oaklander

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…

Hardback – 2008-06-26
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Critical Concepts in Philosophy

Edited by Russ Shafer-Landau

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…

Hardback – 2008-03-19
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Critical Concepts in Philosophy

Edited by Michael Rea

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…

Hardback – 2008-02-01
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Critical Concepts in Philosophy

Edited by Klaus Brinkmann

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…

Hardback – 2007-07-05
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Critical Concepts in Philosophy

Edited by Peter R. Anstey

Today, John Locke is recognized as one of the most important and formative philosophical influences on the modern world. His imprint is still felt in political and legal thought, in educational theory, moral theory and in the theory of knowledge. Locke’s key works, Two Treatises of Government, and…

Hardback – 2006-07-31
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Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers

Edited by J. Baird Callicott, Clare Palmer

This collection gathers classic, influential, and important papers in environmental philosophy from the late 1960s and early 1970s (when academic environmental philosophy began to coalesce) to the present. The volumes explore environmental ethics, epistemological, metaphysical, and comparative…

Hardback – 2004-12-02
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Critical Concepts in the Environment

Edited by Daniel W. Conway

Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) is widely recognized as a leading figure in the Western tradition of philosophy. Especially well known are his seminal contributions to existentialism, philosophy of religion, and cultural criticism. His novel experiments with pseudonymy, irony, satire, allegory…

Hardback – 2002-06-27
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Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers