Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
Deleuze and Pragmatism
1st Edition
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By Simone Bignall, Sean Bowden, Paul Patton
June 16, 2017
This collection brings together the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and the rich tradition of American pragmatist thought, taking seriously the commitment to pluralism at the heart of both. Contributors explore in novel ways Deleuze’s explicit references to pragmatism, and examine the philosophical ...
Intellectual Virtues and Education: Essays in Applied Virtue Epistemology
1st Edition
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By Jason Baehr
June 16, 2017
With its focus on intellectual virtues and their role in the acquisition and transmission of knowledge and related epistemic goods, virtue epistemology provides a rich set of tools for educational theory and practice. In particular, characteristics under the rubric of "responsibilist" virtue ...
Music and Aesthetic Reality: Formalism and the Limits of Description
1st Edition
By Nick Zangwill
June 16, 2017
In this volume, Zangwill develops a view of the nature of music and our experience of music that foregrounds the aesthetic properties of music. He focuses on metaphysical issues about aesthetic properties of music, psychological issues about the nature of musical experience, and philosophy of ...
Self-Realization and Justice: A Liberal-Perfectionist Defense of the Right to Freedom from Employment
1st Edition
By Julia Maskivker
June 16, 2017
In this book, Maskivker argues that there ought to be a right not to participate in the paid economy in a new way; not by appealing to notions of fairness to competing conceptions of the good, but rather to a contentious (but defensible) normative ideal, namely, self-realization. In so doing, she ...
The Philosophy of Curiosity
1st Edition
By Ilhan Inan
June 16, 2017
In this book, Ilhan Inan questions the classical definition of curiosity as a desire to know. Working in an area where epistemology and philosophy of language overlap, Inan forges a link between our ability to become aware of our ignorance and our linguistic aptitude to construct terms referring to...
Foundations of Freedom: Welfare-Based Arguments Against Paternalism
1st Edition
By Simon R. Clarke
May 31, 2017
What makes individual freedom valuable? People have always believed in freedom, have sought it, and have sometimes fought and died for it. The belief that it is something to be valued is widespread. But does this belief have a rational foundation? This book examines answers to these questions that...
Philosophy of Language and Webs of Information
1st Edition
By Heimir Geirsson
May 31, 2017
The nature of propositions and the cognitive value of names have been the focal point of philosophy of language for the last few decades. The advocates of the causal reference theory have favored the view that the semantic contents of proper names are their referents. However, Frege’s puzzle about ...
Disagreement and Skepticism
1st Edition
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By Diego E. Machuca
April 27, 2017
The thirteen essays in this volume explore for the first time the possible skeptical implications of disagreement in different areas and from different perspectives, with an emphasis in the current debate about the epistemic significance of disagreement. They represent a new contribution to the ...
Hate Speech Law: A Philosophical Examination
1st Edition
By Alex Brown
April 27, 2017
Hate speech law can be found throughout the world. But it is also the subject of numerous principled arguments, both for and against. These principles invoke a host of morally relevant features (e.g., liberty, health, autonomy, security, non-subordination, the absence of oppression, human dignity, ...
Reference and Structure in the Philosophy of Language: A Defense of the Russellian Orthodoxy
1st Edition
By Arthur Sullivan
April 27, 2017
This volume investigates the precise contours of the connections between two foundational concepts: reference (the means of semantically expressing singular or object-dependent information) and structure (the having or lacking of meaningful sub-parts). Sullivan shows that the notion of ...
Personal Autonomy and Social Oppression: Philosophical Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Marina A.L. Oshana
February 06, 2017
Personal Autonomy and Social Oppression addresses the impact of social conditions, especially subordinating conditions, on personal autonomy. The essays in this volume are concerned with the philosophical concept of autonomy or self-governance and with the impact on relational autonomy of the ...
Pragmatism, Law, and Language
1st Edition
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By Graham Hubbs, Douglas Lind
February 06, 2017
This volume puts leading pragmatists in the philosophy of language, including Robert Brandom, in contact with scholars concerned with what pragmatism has come to mean for the law. Each contribution uses the resources of pragmatism to tackle fundamental problems in the philosophy of language, the ...