Bücher der Reihe Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

Examines how works of literary fiction can be sources of knowledge.

A great deal has changed since 1905 when Einstein proposed his Special Theory of Relativity. This book offers a fresh reassessment of Special Relativity's relativistic concept of time in terms of epistemology, metaphysics, and physics. It includes essays that reassess the contemporary paradigm of the relativistic concept of time.

This book collects essays by top scholars that address questions about the nature, origins, and effects of ambivalence. It seeks to explain how ambivalence relates to philosophical topics such as agency, rationality, justification, knowledge, autonomy, self-governance, well-being, and social cognition.

This collection presents philosophical perspectives on the link between concepts and language, experience, knowledge-how, and emotions. The essays span a variety of interrelated philosophical domains ranging from epistemology, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, philosophy of action, and the philosophy of emotions.

Introducing philosophy to young people well before they get to college can help to develop and deepen critical and creative thinking, foster social and behavioral skills, and increase philosophical awareness. Philosophy in Schools: An Introduction for Philosophers and Teachers is an invaluable resource for students and practitioners who wish to learn about the philosophy for children movement, and how to work its principles into their own classroom activities.

In this volume, Brakel raises questions about conventions in the study of mind in three disciplines¿psychoanalysis, philosophy of mind, and experimental philosophy. She illuminates new understandings of the mind through interdisciplinary challenges to views long-accepted.

The essays in this book analyze the concept of the inhuman gaze, as conceptualized by Merleau-Ponty, from a variety of different perspectives, including phenomenology, philosophy of mind, cognitive psychology, psychiatry, and psychopathology.

This book explores the relationship between different versions of liberalism and toleration by focusing on their shared theoretical and political challenges.

This book presents a philosophical study of the idea of reenchantment and its connections with philosophical anthropology, ethics, and ontology. The chapters examine contested notions such as enchantment, transcendence, interpretation, attention, resonance, and the sacred or reverence-worthy.

This volume brings together recent work by leading and up-and-coming philosophers on the topic of virtue epistemology. The contributions here ask how epistemic virtues matter apart from any narrow concern with defining knowledge; they show how epistemic virtues figure in accounts of various aspects of our lives, with a special emphasis on our practical lives.

The clash of ideas often yields insults and increased divisiveness, but civility is more than mere polite behavior: it aids rational discourse in politics and education. This volume examines the contribution of civility to education, citizenship, and public discourse from Eastern and Western as well as classic and modern perspectives.

Using feminist, existential, ethical, aesthetic, phenomenological, social and political theories, the contributors to this book consider topics including pregnancy and embodiment, breast-feeding, representations - or the lack thereof - of pregnant and birthing women, adoption, and post-partum motherhood.

Immanuel Kant is widely recognized for his groundbreaking contributions to metaphysics, moral philosophy, political philosophy, and aesthetics. His contributions to education theory, while nonetheless groundbreaking, have not received the attention they deserve. This volume gathers together internationally recognized Kant scholars to examine these writings and how his thoughts on education are still relevant for us today.

This book offers a comprehensive philosophical treatment of microaggressions. Its aims are to provide an intersectional analysis of microaggressions that cuts across multiple groups and dimensions of oppression and marginalization, and to engage a variety of perspectives that have been sidelined within the discipline of philosophy.

Habermas and Rawls are two heavyweights of social and political philosophy, and they are undoubtedly the two most written about (and widely read) authors in this field. This title examines the Habermas-Rawls dispute with an eye toward the ways in which the dispute can cast light on controversies about political philosophy more broadly.

With the help of concepts adapted from different branches of cognitive science - cognitive linguistics, cognitive and clinical psychology - this book explains where and why therapy is called for in philosophy, and develops techniques to actually carry it out.

Comprising the insights of two primary representatives of twentieth century and contemporary philosophy, this book provides a transcendental analysis of the nature of thought. Looking at the works of Donald Davidson and Robert Brandom, it creates a transcendental defence of universal conceptual lingualism and linguistic interpretationism.

Develops and applies a unified interpretation of John Rawls' theory of justice as fairness in order to clarify the account of citizenship that Rawls relies upon, and the kind of educational policies that the state can legitimately pursue to promote social justice. This title examines the role of the family as the 'first school of justice'.

Concerns the foundations and implications of a particular form of liberal political theory. This title argues that one should see liberalism as a political theory committed to the value of autonomy.

Timothy Smiley has made ground-breaking contributions to modal logic, free logic, multiple-conclusion logic, and plural logic. This title brings together articles that honour Smiley's work. It is suitable for those working across the logical spectrum - in philosophy of language, philosophical and mathematical logic, and philosophy of mathematics.

Aims to retool Jurgen Habermas' theory of communicative action to provide a description of the role that literature plays in the political public sphere.

In political philosophy, the revival of pragmatism has led to a new appreciation for the democratic theory of John Dewey. The author argues that Deweyan democracy cannot adequately recognize "pluralism", the fact that intelligent, sincere, and well-intentioned persons can disagree sharply and reasonably over moral ideals.