Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
Thought Experiments and Personal Identity: Finding Ourselves
1st Edition
By Simon Beck
November 24, 2026
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 ...
Process Philosophy and Technology: New Directions
1st Edition
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By Mark Thomas Young, Mark Coeckelbergh
November 03, 2026
This volume introduces process philosophy as a new theoretical approach in philosophy of technology. Process philosophy represents an alternative to long-dominant modes of theorizing in Western philosophy, which take reality to consist of stable, enduring entities. As a range of approaches which ...
The Interacting Mind: A Defense of Dualism in a Physical World
1st Edition
By Alin Christoph Cucu
October 30, 2026
The interaction problem—how a nonphysical mind can causally interact with a physical body—stands as one of the most formidable challenges to mind-body dualism. Critics have long argued that such interaction violates fundamental principles of physics, creates insurmountable metaphysical puzzles, and...
On Frege Puzzles: Why Propositions Are Not the Objects of Our Mental Attitudes
1st Edition
By Stefan Rinner
October 15, 2026
This book argues against the received view of propositional theory, according to which mental attitudes—such as believing, knowing, hoping, and wishing—are relations held between agents and propositions. Roughly speaking, propositions are primary bearers of truth that are neither sentences nor ...
Stupidity and Self-Absorption
1st Edition
By Thomas J. Spiegel
September 15, 2026
Stupidity and Self-Absorption offers the first full-length philosophical exploration of human stupidity, reinterpreting it as a pervasive existential condition rooted in self-absorption. It argues that stupidity is not merely a cognitive or moral failing but a habitual resistance to reality, ...
Respect and Power: The Foundations of Critical Ethics and Politics
1st Edition
By Roberto Mordacci
August 26, 2026
This book presents a historically informed, theoretically systematic, and critically articulated theory of respect that challenges many of the presuppositions of the current debate in ethics and politics. It develops a theory of respect as the rule of power relations, which draws connections ...
Wildness, Justice, and Aesthetics: Imaginaries of Future Urban Natures
1st Edition
By Tea Lobo
August 20, 2026
Urbanization is expanding at rapid rates worldwide. This growth depletes resources, destroys habitats, and negatively affects mental health by distancing people from nature. On the other hand, per-capita resource and space consumption decreases significantly in cities compared to suburban and rural...
Silence in Mood Disorders: A Philosophical Investigation
1st Edition
By Dan Degerman
July 30, 2026
We live in a society that valorises speech and treats silence as a harm to be broken. This assumption runs especially deep in mental health discourse, where silence is both medicalised - as a symptom and as a cause - and targeted by campaigns urging people to open up. Silence in Mood Disorders ...
Oppressive Speech and Society: Philosophical Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Mihaela Popa-Wyatt
July 22, 2026
This volume offers a set of theoretical frameworks for understanding the relationship between oppressive speech and the social structures within which it operates. Central to the volume is the fact that oppressive speech doesn’t just harm the target during a conversation; it serves to establish and...
The Ontology of Ecological Cognition
1st Edition
By Konrad Werner
July 19, 2026
This book provides the first explicit examination of the underlying ontology of the ecological/embodied cognition philosophical project. More specifically, it examines the locative concepts used by defenders of representationalism and the more environmentally oriented, ecological/embodied views on ...
The Rise of Polarization: Affects, Politics, and Philosophy
1st Edition
By Manuel Almagro
July 19, 2026
Shortlisted for the 2025 Nayef Al-Rodhan International Prize in Transdisciplinary Philosophy This book presents a philosophical analysis of affective polarization. It rejects the two-dimensional view of affective polarization and offers a multi-dimensional approach to it. An underlying ...
Equilibrism in Metaphilosophy
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By László Kocsis, János Tőzsér
May 25, 2026
This volume presents new perspectives on the metaphilosophical view of equilibrism. It features original contributions from leading epistemologists who specialize in metaphilosophical issues. Philosophers have always been interested in the true nature and ultimate goals of their own enterprise. ...