Books in the Critical Concepts in Philosophy series

A new title in the Routledge Major Works series, Critical Concepts in Philosophy, this is a four-volume collection of foundational and cutting-edge research on philosophy and gender.

This new 4 volume collection will be organized into four distinct but complementary volumes which as a whole give a synoptic view of the major issues, conceptions, approaches, and current engaging exploration in studies of Chinese philosophy.

The Middle Ages saw a great flourishing of philosophy. Now, to help students and researchers make sense of the gargantuan body of literature on medieval philosophy, this new four-volume collection is the latest addition to Routledge's acclaimed Critical Concepts in Philosophy series.

This collection of the primary and most historically significant accounts of postmodernism provides scholars with a comprehensive collection of essays that map out the ways in which postmodernism has engaged with all disciplines.

Metaphysics, at least roughly speaking, is the systematic investigation of fundamental presuppositions underlying commonsense and scientific views of the world. This four-volume collection gathers together writings on central topics in metaphysics.

Discussing German Idealism in contemporary philosophical research and debate, this collection presents an assessment of the philosophical ideas and critical reactions brought about by this important period. This set includes section introductions that explore and contextualise the main themes of the selections included, and also an index.

Metaethics is the branch of knowledge that considers the foundational issues of morality, and deals especially with the nature of ethical statements. This work covers the central theories within metaethics. It brings together the important thinking on various key questions that are the focus of research in metaethics.

What do 'meaning' and 'truth' mean? And how are they situated in the concrete practices of linguistic communication? What is the relationship between words and the world? How - with words - can people do such varied things as marry, inaugurate a president, and declare a country's independence? This book answers these questions.

Aesthetics is one of the most vital fields of philosophical inquiry. This four volume set brings together both classic and contemporary writings to provide a comprehensive collection of important essays on the subject. Various artistic genres are addressed, with sections on film, dance and architecture, music, literature and the visual arts.

Over years, there has been a tremendous amount of philosophical work in the Anglo-American tradition on the cluster of topics pertaining to Free Will. This collection selects some of this material and presents it an accessible format.

Presenting key texts in and about pragmatism, this collection of essays explores pragmatism's origins, applications, and weaknesses, as well as its remarkable versatility as an approach not only to issues of truth and knowledge, but to ethics and social philosophy, literature, law, aesthetics, religion, and education.

This collection examines how the field of applied ethics has developed over the last fifty years, by bringing together those articles that have been seminal in the development of the subject.

Focuses on concepts of the divine and explores arguments for and against the existence of a divine reality, with special attention to the problem of evil, the problem of divine hiddenness, and the case for naturalism.

For as long as humanity has sought an understanding of its place in the universe, philosophy of mind has been at the centre of philosophy. This title collects classic and contemporary contributions to the major debates in philosophy of mind.