Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
Context, Truth and Objectivity: Essays on Radical Contextualism
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By Eduardo Marchesan, David Zapero
June 30, 2021
The claim according to which there is a categorial gap between meaning and saying – between what sentences mean and what we say by using them on particular occasions – has come to be widely regarded as being exclusively a claim in the philosophy of language. The present essay collection takes a ...
Digital Hermeneutics: Philosophical Investigations in New Media and Technologies
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By Alberto Romele
June 30, 2021
This is the first monograph to develop a hermeneutic approach to the digital—as both a technological milieu and a cultural phenomenon. While philosophical in its orientation, the book covers a wide body of literature across science and technology studies, media studies, digital humanities, digital ...
Freedom to Care: Liberalism, Dependency Care, and Culture
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By Asha Bhandary
June 30, 2021
This book presents the first systematic account of dependency care in a liberal theory of justice. Despite the fact that receiving dependency care is necessary for human survival, the practices with which we meet society’s care needs are seldom recognized for their functional role. Instead, norms ...
Good Thinking: A Knowledge First Virtue Epistemology
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By Christoph Kelp
June 30, 2021
This book combines virtue reliabilism with knowledge first epistemology to develop novel accounts of knowledge and justified belief. It is virtue reliabilist in that knowledge and justified belief are accounted for in terms of epistemic ability. It is knowledge first epistemological in that, unlike...
How Propaganda Became Public Relations: Foucault and the Corporate Government of the Public
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By Cory Wimberly
June 30, 2021
How Propaganda Became Public Relations pulls back the curtain on propaganda: how it was born, how it works, and how it has masked the bulk of its operations by rebranding itself as public relations. Cory Wimberly uses archival materials and wide variety of sources — Foucault’s work on ...
Questions of Practice in Philosophy and Social Theory
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By Anders Buch, Theodore Schatzki
June 30, 2021
Humanistic theory for more than the past 100 years is marked by extensive attention to practice and practices. Two prominent streams of thought sharing this focus are pragmatism and theories of practice. This volume brings together internationally prominent theorists to explore key dimensions of ...
Spatial Senses: Philosophy of Perception in an Age of Science
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By Tony Cheng, Ophelia Deroy, Charles Spence
June 30, 2021
This collection of essays brings together research on sense modalities in general and spatial perception in particular in a systematic and interdisciplinary way. It updates a long-standing philosophical fascination with this topic by incorporating theoretical and empirical research from cognitive ...
The Phenomenology of Real and Virtual Places
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By Erik Malcolm Champion
June 30, 2021
This collection of essays explores the history, implications, and usefulness of phenomenology for the study of real and virtual places. While the influence of phenomenology on architecture and urban design has been widely acknowledged, its effect on the design of virtual places and environments has...
Transhumanism, Nature, and the Ends of Science
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By Robert Frodeman
June 30, 2021
This book offers a social, political, and aesthetic critique of transhumanism and of the accelerating growth of scientific knowledge generally. Rather than improving our lives, science and technology today increasingly leave us debilitated and infantilized. It is time to restrain the runaway ...
Green Leviathan or the Poetics of Political Liberty: Navigating Freedom in the Age of Climate Change and Artificial Intelligence
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By Mark Coeckelbergh
May 31, 2021
This book discusses the problem of freedom and the limits of liberalism considering the challenges of governing climate change and artificial intelligence (AI). It mobilizes resources from political philosophy to make an original argument about the future of technology and the environment. Can ...
Epiphenomenal Mind: An Integrated Outlook on Sensations, Beliefs, and Pleasure
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By William S. Robinson
December 18, 2020
According to epiphenomenalism, our behavior is caused by events in our brains that also cause our mentality. This resulting mentality reflects our brains’ organization, but does not in turn cause anything. This book defends an epiphenomenalist account of philosophy of mind. It builds on the author’...
The Epistemological Skyhook: Determinism, Naturalism, and Self-Defeat
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By Jim Slagle
December 18, 2020
Throughout philosophical history, there has been a recurring argument to the effect that determinism, naturalism, or both are self-referentially incoherent. By accepting determinism or naturalism, one allegedly acquires a reason to reject determinism or naturalism. The Epistemological Skyhook ...