Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
Cross-Tradition Engagement on the Laws of Logic: Approaching Identity and Reference from Classical Chinese Philosophy to Modern Logic
1st Edition
By Bo Mou
November 28, 2025
This book demonstrates how, through cross-tradition engagement, insights and engaging treatments from the Chinese philosophical tradition can work with relevant resources from modern logic and contemporary philosophy to enhance our understanding of two basic principles of logic: the law of identity...
Intentionality as Constitution
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By Alberto Voltolini
November 27, 2025
This book develops a novel theory of intentionality. It argues that intentionality is an internal essential relation of constitution between an intentional state and an object, or between such a state and a possible state of affairs as subsisting. The author’s main claim is that intentionality is a...
New Perspectives on the Ontology of Social Identities
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By Alejandro Arango, Adam Burgos
November 27, 2025
This volume presents new research in social ontology by focusing on questions related to the characteristics, categories, and conceptual methodologies surrounding social identities, in general, and specific social identities, in particular. The volume contains eight original essays, plus a foreword...
The Hope and Horror of Physicalism: An Existential Treatise
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By Christopher Devlin Brown
November 27, 2025
This book assesses the existentially relevant consequences of physicalism. It argues that accepting physicalism is the healthiest stance we can take in the face of an account of the self and world which offers no metaphysical assurances. Why should we care about physicalism? On one hand, the view ...
From Human Reasoning to Belief: An Empirical Account
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By Joshua Mugg
November 17, 2025
This book examines the relation between taxonomy and cognitive architecture in human reasoning. It offers a novel argument for voluntarism of belief that is grounded in empirical research. The issue of cognitive architecture has pressing ramifications for philosophical discussions about the nature ...
Autobiographical Memory and Moral Agency: Interdisciplinary Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychology
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By Daniel Vanello
October 26, 2025
This volume brings together, for the first time, perspectives from philosophy and psychology to investigate the role of autobiographical memory in moral agency. Autobiographical memory is the ability to recollect events in one’s past as part of one’s personal history. Moral agency is the ability to...
The Phenomenology of Self-Awareness and the Nature of Conscious Subjects
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By Julien Bugnon, Martine Nida-Rümelin, Donnchadh O'Conaill
October 26, 2025
This volume explores the connections between the phenomenology of self-awareness and the metaphysical nature of subjects of experience, bringing together two important research areas in contemporary philosophy of mind into fruitful engagement with one another. The phenomenology of self-awareness ...
Indirect Freedom
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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
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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
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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
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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, ...
The Ethics of Argumentation
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By Katharina Stevens
August 21, 2025
This book offers a new approach to the theory of argumentation that conceptualizes argumentation as a fundamentally ethical activity whose norms are grounded in, and must be selected according to, moral reasons. Current normative approaches to argumentation do not treat ethics as an integral part ...