Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
Questioning ‘Western Philosophy’: Philosophical, Historical, and Historiographical Challenges
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By Lea Cantor, Josh Platzky Miller
April 01, 2027
Although the term ‘Western Philosophy’ has become pervasive in academia and frequently used uncritically as a neutral, quasi-geographic descriptor, no direct and thorough investigation of the history or impact of the very idea of ‘Western Philosophy’ has been produced to date. This volume examines ...
Entangled Awareness: An Ontological Approach to Intersubjectivity
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By James Kintz
March 23, 2027
This book develops and defends the claim that mutual awareness is a sui generis mode of experience that cannot be reduced to, nor achieved by, coordinating self-sufficient first-person mental states. It draws on insights from historical and contemporary philosophy, neuroscience, and developmental ...
The Philosophy of Sexual Violence
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By Georgi Gardiner, Micol Bez
March 10, 2027
This groundbreaking volume on sexual violence interweaves philosophy essays alongside personal reflections, narratives, creative writing, and visual art. Topics includes the nature of consent, the prevalence and effects of rape, the #MeToo movement, healing and survival, forgiveness, and repair...
Representation and Awareness in Perception: A Phenomenological Critique
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By Peter Antich
February 26, 2027
Representationalism dominates contemporary philosophy of perception, yet it faces a fundamental challenge: it cannot coherently account for perceptual awareness. This book develops that problem and offers a distinctly phenomenological alternative. The book’s central argument reveals a structural ...
Phenomenology, Cognition, and Artificial Intelligence
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By Susi Ferrarello
January 28, 2027
This volume critically examines the convergence of phenomenology and artificial intelligence (AI), with a particular focus on large language models (LLMs). Drawing from Edmund Husserl's philosophical legacy and expanded through engagements with contemporary AI theory, it explores how AI systems ...
A Philosophy of Imposture: Digital Propaganda, Fake History, and the Crisis of Truth
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By Elad Magomedov
January 21, 2027
A Philosophy of Imposture offers an original ontological theory of fake realities in an age dominated by artificial intelligence, digital propaganda, and post-truth discourse. Moving beyond conventional approaches to deception, this book develops an innovative framework for understanding how entire...
The Phenomenal Nature of Mind
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By Demian Whiting
January 20, 2027
Introducing the Phenomenal Theory of Mind, the author contends that mental states are fundamentally defined by how they subjectively appear to us when we undergo them. The book provides a rigorous defence of this framework, and offers fresh phenomenological characterisations of different mental ...
Against Aristotelian Character Education: Practical Wisdom, Flourishing, and Liberal Democracy
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By Benjamin Miller
November 24, 2026
This book argues that Aristotelian character education cannot work in liberal democracies today. It shows that when we clearly understand the basic structure of Aristotle’s value theory and correctly grasp the core requirements of liberalism, we will see that they are incompatible with one another ...
The Ethics of Argumentation
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By Katharina Stevens
November 24, 2026
This book offers a new approach to the theory of argumentation that conceptualizes argumentation as a fundamentally ethical activity whose norms are grounded in, and must be selected according to, moral reasons. Current normative approaches to argumentation do not treat ethics as an integral part ...
Thought Experiments and Personal Identity: Finding Ourselves
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By Simon Beck
November 24, 2026
This book provides an essential, comprehensive discussion on thought experiments and how they have featured throughout the history of the personal identity debate in analytic philosophy. Although many philosophical arguments employ thought experiments as a valuable methodological tool, there is a ...
Process Philosophy and Technology: New Directions
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By Mark Thomas Young, Mark Coeckelbergh
November 03, 2026
This volume introduces process philosophy as a new theoretical approach in philosophy of technology. Process philosophy represents an alternative to long-dominant modes of theorizing in Western philosophy, which take reality to consist of stable, enduring entities. As a range of approaches which ...
The Interacting Mind: A Defense of Dualism in a Physical World
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By Alin Christoph Cucu
October 30, 2026
The interaction problem—how a nonphysical mind can causally interact with a physical body—stands as one of the most formidable challenges to mind-body dualism. Critics have long argued that such interaction violates fundamental principles of physics, creates insurmountable metaphysical puzzles, and...