Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy
The Routledge Handbook of Collective Responsibility
1st Edition
Edited
By Saba Bazargan-Forward, Deborah Tollefsen
December 13, 2021
The Routledge Handbook of Collective Responsibility comprehensively addresses questions about who is responsible and how blame or praise should be attributed when human agents act together. Such questions include: Do individuals share responsibility for the outcome or are individuals responsible ...
The Routledge Handbook of Metaphysical Grounding
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael Raven
December 13, 2021
Some of philosophy’s biggest questions, both historically and today, are in-virtue-of questions: In virtue of what is an action right or wrong? In virtue of what am I the same person my mother bore? In virtue of what is an artwork beautiful? Philosophers attempt to answer many of these types of ...
The Routledge Handbook of Panpsychism
1st Edition
Edited
By William Seager
December 13, 2021
Panpsychism is the view that consciousness – the most puzzling and strangest phenomenon in the entire universe – is a fundamental and ubiquitous feature of the world, though in a form very remote from human consciousness. At a very basic level, the world is awake. Panpsychism seems implausible to ...
The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Evil
1st Edition
Edited
By Thomas Nys, Stephen de Wijze
September 30, 2021
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...
The Routledge Handbook of Social Epistemology
1st Edition
Edited
By Miranda Fricker, Peter J. Graham, David Henderson, Nikolaj J.L.L. Pedersen
June 30, 2021
Edited by an international team of leading scholars, The Routledge Handbook of Social Epistemology is the first major reference work devoted to this growing field. The Handbook’s 46 chapters, all appearing in print here for the first time, and written by philosophers and social theorists from ...
The Routledge Handbook of Emergence
1st Edition
Edited
By Sophie Gibb, Robin Findlay Hendry, Tom Lancaster
March 31, 2021
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 ...
The Routledge Handbook of Applied Epistemology
1st Edition
Edited
By David Coady, James Chase
December 18, 2020
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...
The Routledge Handbook of the Computational Mind
1st Edition
Edited
By Mark Sprevak, Matteo Colombo
December 18, 2020
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...
The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy and Psychology of Luck
1st Edition
Edited
By Ian M. Church, Robert J. Hartman
December 18, 2020
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...
The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Childhood and Children
1st Edition
Edited
By Anca Gheaus, Gideon Calder, Jurgen De Wispelaere
December 18, 2020
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 ...
The Routledge Handbook of Love in Philosophy
1st Edition
Edited
By Adrienne M. Martin
September 30, 2020
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 ...
The Routledge Handbook of Moral Epistemology
1st Edition
Edited
By Aaron Zimmerman, Karen Jones, Mark Timmons
September 30, 2020
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...