Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
The Affordable Care Act Decision: Philosophical and Legal Implications
1st Edition
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By Fritz Allhoff, Mark Hall
February 06, 2017
Interest in NFIB v. Sebelius has been extraordinarily high, from as soon as the legislation was passed, through lower court rulings, the Supreme Court’s grant of certiorari, and the decision itself, both for its substantive holdings and the purported behind-the-scene dynamics. Legal blogs exploded ...
Reframing the Intercultural Dialogue on Human Rights: A Philosophical Approach
1st Edition
By Jeffrey Flynn
November 08, 2016
In this book, Flynn stresses the vital role of intercultural dialogue in developing a non-ethnocentric conception of human rights. He argues that Jürgen Habermas’s discourse theory provides both the best framework for such dialogue and a much-needed middle path between philosophical approaches that...
A Philosophy of Material Culture: Action, Function, and Mind
1st Edition
By Beth Preston
July 27, 2016
This book focuses on material culture as a subject of philosophical inquiry and promotes the philosophical study of material culture by articulating some of the central and difficult issues raised by this topic and providing innovative solutions to them, most notably an account of improvised action...
A Philosophy of the Screenplay
1st Edition
By Ted Nannicelli
July 27, 2016
Recently, scholars in a variety of disciplines—including philosophy, film and media studies, and literary studies—have become interested in the aesthetics, definition, and ontology of the screenplay. To this end, this volume addresses the fundamental philosophical questions about the nature of the ...
Believing Against the Evidence: Agency and the Ethics of Belief
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By Miriam Schleifer McCormick
July 27, 2016
The question of whether it is ever permissible to believe on insufficient evidence has once again become a live question. Greater attention is now being paid to practical dimensions of belief, namely issues related to epistemic virtue, doxastic responsibility, and voluntarism. In this book, ...
Contemporary Dualism: A Defense
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By Andrea Lavazza, Howard Robinson
July 27, 2016
Ontological materialism, in its various forms, has become the orthodox view in contemporary philosophy of mind. This book provides a variety of defenses of mind-body dualism, and shows (explicitly or implicitly) that a thoroughgoing ontological materialism cannot be sustained. The contributions are...
The Ontology of Psychology: Questioning Foundations in the Philosophy of Mind
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By Linda A.W. Brakel
July 27, 2016
In this volume, Brakel raises questions about conventions in the study of mind in three disciplines—psychoanalysis, philosophy of mind, and experimental philosophy. She illuminates new understandings of the mind through interdisciplinary challenges to views long-accepted. Here she proposes a view ...
Evidentialism and Epistemic Justification
1st Edition
By Kevin McCain
March 03, 2016
Evidentialism is a popular theory of epistemic justification, yet, as early proponents of the theory Earl Conee and Richard Feldman admit, there are many elements that must be developed before Evidentialism can provide a full account of epistemic justification, or well-founded belief. It is the aim...
How History Matters to Philosophy: Reconsidering Philosophy’s Past After Positivism
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By Robert C. Scharff
December 07, 2015
In recent decades, widespread rejection of positivism’s notorious hostility toward the philosophical tradition has led to renewed debate about the real relationship of philosophy to its history. How History Matters to Philosophy takes a fresh look at this debate. Current discussion usually starts ...
Narrative Identity, Autonomy, and Mortality: From Frankfurt and MacIntyre to Kierkegaard
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By John J. Davenport
October 29, 2015
In the last two decades, interest in narrative conceptions of identity has grown exponentially, though there is little agreement about what a "life-narrative" might be. In connecting Kierkegaard with virtue ethics, several scholars have recently argued that narrative models of selves and ...
Contrastivism in Philosophy
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By Martijn Blaauw
August 25, 2015
Contrastivism can be applied to a variety of problems within philosophy, and as such, it can be coherently seen as a unified movement. This volume brings together state-of-the-art research on the contrastive treatment of philosophical concepts and questions, including knowledge, belief, free will, ...
Philosophy in Schools: An Introduction for Philosophers and Teachers
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By Sara Goering, Nicholas J. Shudak, Thomas E. Wartenberg
July 16, 2015
All of us ponder the big and enduring human questions—Who am I? Am I free? What should I do? What is good? Is there justice? Is life meaningful?—but this kind of philosophical interrogation is rarely carefully explored or even taken seriously in most primary and secondary school settings. However, ...