Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
Thought Experiments and Personal Identity: Finding Ourselves
1st Edition
By Simon Beck
August 07, 2025
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 ...
Maintenance and Philosophy of Technology: Keeping Things Going
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 ...
Normative Species: How Naturalized Inferentialism Explains Us
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By Jaroslav Peregrin
January 30, 2025
This book is about rules, and especially about human capability to create, maintain and follow rules, as a root of what makes us humans different from other animals. The leading idea is that scrutinizing this capability is able to tell us who we humans are and what kinds of lives we live. It ...
Cosmopolitan Norms and European Values: Ethical Perspectives on Europe's Refugee Policy
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By Marie Göbel, Andreas Niederberger
December 18, 2024
This volume offers a systematic philosophical analysis of the normative challenges facing European refugee policy, focusing on whether the response to it can be based on European values. By considering the refugee policy through the lens of European values, cosmopolitan norms and universal human ...
Empathy’s Role in Understanding Persons, Literature, and Art
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By Thomas Petraschka, Christiana Werner
December 18, 2024
This volume critically discusses the role empathy plays in different processes of understanding. More precisely, it clarifies empathy’s role in interpersonal understanding and appreciating works of literature and art. The volume also includes a section on historical theories of empathy’s role in ...