Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
The Politics of Recognition in the Age of Digital Spaces: Appearing Together
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By Benjamin JJ Carpenter
December 18, 2024
This book provides a philosophical analysis of the notion of selfhood that underlies identity politics. It offers a unique theory of the self that combines previous scholarly work on recognition and the phenomenology of space. The politics of identity occupy the centre of a contested terrain. ...
Digital Habitus: A Critique of the Imaginaries of Artificial Intelligence
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By Alberto Romele
November 28, 2024
This book proposes a new theoretical framework for approaching the causes and effects that digital technologies and the imaginaries related to them have on the processes of self-interpretation and subjectivation. It formulates three main theses. First, it argues that today’s digital technologies, ...
Global Justice and Recognition Theory: Dignifying the World’s Poor
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By Monica Mookherjee
November 28, 2024
In the light of intense international focus on ongoing forms of world poverty, this book examines the potential of the concept of recognition in contemporary political philosophy to respond morally to this dire condition. This book uses recognition theories to develop a two-tiered response to the ...
The Mind-Body Problem and Metaphysics: An Argument from Consciousness to Mental Substance
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By Ralph Stefan Weir
November 28, 2024
This book evaluates the widespread preference in philosophy of mind for varieties of property dualism over other alternatives to physicalism. It takes the standard motivations for property dualism as a starting point and argues that these lead directly to nonphysical substances resembling the soul ...
The Philosophy and Psychology of Delusions: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
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By Ana Falcato, Jorge Gonçalves
November 28, 2024
This book presents new philosophical work on delusions and their impact on everyday human behavior. It explores a cluster of related topics at the intersection of philosophy of mind and psychiatry, while also charting the historical development of work on delusions. Within psychiatry, there are ...
Philosophical Representation: Studies in Attitudinal Instrumentalism
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By Ori Simchen
October 09, 2024
This book focuses on how we should treat philosophy’s theoretical representations. It argues in favor of an instrumentalist attitude towards pivotal cases of theoretical representation in philosophy that are commonly regarded under a realist attitude. Philosophy is awash with theoretical ...
Free Will’s Value: Criminal Justice, Pride, and Love
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By John Lemos
October 08, 2024
This book defends an event-causal theory of libertarian free will and argues that the belief in such free will plays an important, if not essential, role in supporting certain important values. In the first part of the book, the author argues that possession of libertarian free will is necessary ...
Living with the Dead: On Death, the Dead, and Immortality
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By J. Jeremy Wisnewski
October 08, 2024
This book explores the moral place of the dead in our lives and in our afterlives. It argues that our lives are saturated by the past intentions and values of the dead, and that we offer the dead a form of modest immortality by fulfilling our obligations to remember them. In the first part of the ...
Emotional Self-Knowledge
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By Alba Montes Sánchez, Alessandro Salice
October 04, 2024
This volume sheds light on the affective dimensions of self-knowledge and the roles that emotions and other affective states play in promoting or obstructing our knowledge of ourselves. It is the first book specifically devoted to the issue of affective self-knowledge. The relation between ...
A Plea for Plausibility: Toward a Comparative Decision Theory
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By John R. Welch
August 26, 2024
This book develops an original theory of decision-making based on the concept of plausibility. The author advocates plausible reasoning as a general philosophical method and demonstrates how it can be applied to problems in argumentation theory, scientific theory choice, risk management, ethics, ...
A Referential Theory of Truth and Falsity
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By Ilhan Inan
August 26, 2024
This book proposes a novel theory of truth and falsity. It argues that truth is a form of reference and falsity is a form of reference failure. Most of the philosophical literature on truth concentrates on certain ontological and epistemic problems. This book focuses instead on language. By ...
Conservatism and Grace: The Conservative Case for Religion by Establishment
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By Sebastian Morello
August 26, 2024
This book offers a systematic and detailed examination of the conservative case for religion by establishment. In doing so, the author demonstrates that the conservative political tradition is rooted in an inescapably religious worldview, and in turn shows what the future of conservatism might be. ...