Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
The Single-Minded Animal: Shared Intentionality, Normativity, and the Foundations of Discursive Cognition
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By Preston Stovall
September 25, 2023
This book provides an account of discursive or reason-governed cognition, by synthesizing research in the philosophy of language, the philosophy of mind, and evolutionary anthropology. Using the grasp of a natural language as a model for the autonomous or self-governed rationality of discursive ...
The Social Institution of Discursive Norms: Historical, Naturalistic, and Pragmatic Perspectives
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By Leo Townsend, Preston Stovall, Hans Bernhard Schmid
September 25, 2023
The essays in this collection explore the idea that discursive norms—the norms governing our thought and talk—are profoundly social. Not only do these norms govern and structure our social interactions, but they are sustained by a variety of social and institutional structures. The chapters ...
Concepts in Thought, Action, and Emotion: New Essays
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By Christoph Demmerling, Dirk Schröder
May 31, 2023
In recent years, the idea of a concept has become increasingly central to different areas of philosophy. This collection of original essays presents philosophical perspectives on the link between concepts and language, concepts and experience, concepts and know-how, and concepts and emotion. The ...
Epistemic Uses of Imagination
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By Christopher Badura, Amy Kind
May 31, 2023
This book explores a topic that has recently become the subject of increased philosophical interest: how can imagination be put to epistemic use? Though imagination has long been invoked in contexts of modal knowledge, in recent years philosophers have begun to explore its capacity to play an ...
Examples and Their Role in Our Thinking
1st Edition
By Ondřej Beran
May 31, 2023
This book investigates the role and significance that examples play in shaping arguments and thought, both in philosophy and in everyday life. It addresses questions about how our moral thinking is informed by our conceptual practices, especially in ways related to the relationship between ethics ...
Modes of Truth: The Unified Approach to Truth, Modality, and Paradox
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By Carlo Nicolai, Johannes Stern
May 31, 2023
The aim of this volume is to open up new perspectives and to raise new research questions about a unified approach to truth, modalities, and propositional attitudes. The volume’s essays are grouped thematically around different research questions. The first theme concerns the tension between the ...
Social Trust
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By Kevin Vallier, Michael Weber
May 31, 2023
With increasingly divergent views and commitments, and an all-or-nothing mindset in political life, it can seem hard to sustain the level of trust in other members of our society necessary to ensure our most basic institutions work. This book features interdisciplinary perspectives on social trust....
Extimate Technology: Self-Formation in a Technological World
1st Edition
By Ciano Aydin
January 09, 2023
This book investigates how we should form ourselves in a world saturated with technologies that are profoundly intruding in the very fabric of our selfhood. New and emerging technologies, such as smart technological environments, imaging technologies and smart drugs, are increasingly shaping who ...
Language and Phenomenology
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By Chad Engelland
January 09, 2023
At first blush, phenomenology seems to be concerned preeminently with questions of knowledge, truth, and perception, and yet closer inspection reveals that the analyses of these phenomena remain bound up with language and that consequently phenomenology is, inextricably, a philosophy of language. ...
The Philosophy and Psychology of Ambivalence: Being of Two Minds
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By Berit Brogaard, Dimitria Electra Gatzia
January 09, 2023
This book collects original essays by top scholars that address questions about the nature, origins, and effects of ambivalence. While the nature of agency has received an enormous amount of attention, relatively little has been written about ambivalence or how it relates to topics such as agency, ...
Towards a Philosophical Anthropology of Culture: Naturalism, Relativism, and Skepticism
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By Kevin M. Cahill
January 09, 2023
This book explores the question of what it means to be a human being through sustained and original analyses of three important philosophical topics: relativism, skepticism, and naturalism in the social sciences. Kevin M. Cahill’s approach involves an original employment of historical and ...
Non-Ideal Foundations of Language
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By Jessica Keiser
December 13, 2022
This book argues that the major traditions in the philosophy of language have mistakenly focused on highly idealized linguistic contexts. Instead, it presents a non-ideal foundational theory of language that contends that the essential function of language is to direct attention for the purpose of ...