Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
Indirect Freedom
1st Edition
By Andrew J. Latham
September 29, 2025
This book advances a new kind of compatibilist account of free will: indirect compatibilism. It is the first sustained philosophical analysis of the idea that the ordinary concept of free will is a conditional one. Indirect compatibilism is the combination of two theses. The first is that the best ...
Shifting Paradigms of Evil in Philosophy: Reading the Armenian Genocide with the Shoah
1st Edition
By İmge Oranlı
September 28, 2025
This book develops an interdisciplinary framework rooted in philosophy for addressing the political evils experienced around the world. Drawing on resources mainly from philosophy and historical studies, it argues for the relationality and continuity between political evils, using the Armenian ...
The Essence of History
1st Edition
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By Aaron Turner
September 24, 2025
This book brings together historical thinkers from diverse disciplinary backgrounds to offer original interpretations of the essence of history. It addresses why the essence of history itself cannot be so easily thematised or conceptualised. Restating the question of the essence of history is ...
Neurocognitive Foundations of Mind
1st Edition
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By Gualtiero Piccinini
September 17, 2025
This volume provides a cohesive and comprehensive case that cognitive neuroscience is maturing into an integrated, interdisciplinary science that is transforming our understanding of the mind. The rise of cognitive neuroscience has prompted a rethinking of levels, computation, representation, ...
Maintenance and Philosophy of Technology: Keeping Things Going
1st Edition
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By Mark Thomas Young, Mark Coeckelbergh
July 30, 2025
What can we learn about the nature of technology by studying practices of maintenance and repair? This volume addresses this question by bringing together scholarship from philosophers of technology working at the forefront of this emerging and exciting topic. The chapters in this volume explore ...
Philosophy, Expertise, and the Myth of Neutrality
1st Edition
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By Mirko Farina, Andrea Lavazza
July 30, 2025
This volume offers a new framework for understanding expertise. It proposes a reconceptualization of the traditional notion of expertise and calls for the development of a new contextual and action-oriented notion of expertise, which is attentive to axiological values, intellectual virtues, and ...
Hybrid Societies: Living with Social Robots
1st Edition
By Piercosma Bisconti
June 26, 2025
This book explores how social robots and synthetic social agents will change our social systems and intersubjective relationships. It is obvious that technology influences societies. But how, and under what conditions do these changes occur? This book provides a theoretical foundation for the ...
Expected Experiences: The Predictive Mind in an Uncertain World
1st Edition
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By Tony Cheng, Ryoji Sato, Jakob Hohwy
May 05, 2025
This book brings together perspectives on predictive processing and expected experience. It features contributions from an interdisciplinary group of authors specializing in philosophy, psychology, cognitive science, and neuroscience. Predictive processing, or predictive coding, is the theory that ...
Exploring Extended Realities: Metaphysical, Psychological, and Ethical Challenges
1st Edition
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By Andrew Kissel, Erick José Ramirez
May 05, 2025
This volume highlights interdisciplinary research on the ethical, metaphysical, and experimental dimensions of extended reality technologies, including virtual and augmented realities. It explores themes connected to the nature of virtual objects, the value of virtual experiences and relationships,...
Historical Explanation: An Anti-Causalist Approach
1st Edition
By Gunnar Schumann
April 13, 2025
This book is concerned with the appropriate form of explanations in historiography and the social sciences. It combines action theory and philosophy of historiography and develops a theory of teleological explanations of human actions based on late-Wittgensteinian and Ordinary Language Philosophy ...
Philosophy of Mental Disorder: An Ability-Based Approach
1st Edition
By Sanja Dembić
April 13, 2025
This book offers an ability-based view of mental disorders. It develops a detailed analysis of the concept of inability that is relevant in the psychiatric and psychotherapeutic context by drawing on the most recent literature on the concepts of ability, reasons, and harm. What is it to have a ...
Feminist Philosophy and Emerging Technologies
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By Mary L. Edwards, S. Orestis Palermos
January 30, 2025
This volume explores urgent questions surrounding the bidirectional relationship between feminist philosophy and emerging technologies. It underlines the exigency of feminist philosophical reflections on the design, use, and understanding of emerging technologies and at the same time accentuates ...