Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...