Books in the Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy series

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

As witnessed by the films such as "Fight Club" and "Identity", our culture is obsessed with multiple personality - a phenomenon raising intriguing questions about personal identity. This title offers both a philosophical theory of personal identity and an account of multiple personality.

Part of the field of practical approaches to philosophical questions relating to identity, agency and ethics - approaches which work across continental and analytical traditions and which the author justifies through an explication of how the structures of human embodiment necessitate a narrative model of selfhood, understanding, and ethics.

Contains essays that addresses a range of issues that arise when the focus of philosophical reflection on identity is shifted from metaphysical to practical and evaluative concerns. This volume explores the usefulness of the notion of narrative for articulating and responding to these issues.

An investigation into metaphysics: its aims, scope, methodology and practice. It argues that metaphysics should take itself to be concerned with investigating the fundamental nature of reality, and suggests that the ontological significance of language has been grossly exaggerated in the pursuit of that aim.

Develops a aesthetic theory terms as Critical Aesthetic Realism - taking Kantian aesthetics as a starting point and drawing upon contemporary theories of mind from philosophy, psychology, and cognitive science. This book reveals dichotomies such as universality and subjectivity, objectivity and autonomy, and cognitivism and non-cognitivism.

Investigating the relationship between truth and propositional content, and devoted to the task of illuminating the relationship between truth and illocutionary acts. This book addresses themes such as: the linguistic devices of expressing the truth of a proposition; and the relation between predication and truth; and more.

Presents a comprehensive defence of neo-Aristotelian essentialism. This title reinvigorates the tradition of realist, essentialist metaphysics, defending the reality and knowability of essence, the possibility of objective, immutable definition, and its relevance to contemporary scientific and metaphysical issues.

Exposing and expanding our restricted cultural and intellectual presuppositions of what constitutes aesthetic experience, this book aims to re-explore and affirm the place of aesthetic experience - in its evaluative, phenomenological and transformational sense - not only in relation to art and artists but to our inner and spiritual lives.

This book explores the ways in which interpersonal relations are affected by being conducted via computer-mediated communication. Rooksby investigates the benefits, limitations and implications of computer-mediatied communication.

This volume addresses key questions related to how content in thought is derived from perceptual experience. It includes chapters that focus on single issues on perception and cognition, as well as others that relate these issues to an important social construct that involves both perceptual experience and cognitive activities: aesthetics.

The invited essays in this volume offer critical reflections upon Midgley¿s work and further developments of her ideas, and include topics such as the moral status of animals, the concept of wickedness, science and mythology, the Gaia Hypothesis, her relationship to modern moral philosophy, and her work with Irish Murdoch.

In this volume, essays by an international roster of contributors evaluate the political philosophy of contemporary philosopher Hillel Steiner. The study concludes with a response by Steiner himself.

This volume analyzes various features of the NFIB v. Sebelius decision regarding the Affordable Care Act with contributions from a range of academic disciplines, namely philosophy, law, and political science. Essays are divided into five parts: context and history, analyzing the opinions, individual liberty, Medicaid, and future implications.

Evaluates the political philosophy of contemporary philosopher Hillel Steiner through essays by an international roster of contributors.

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.

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 charts emerging directions of research in the philosophy of memory. The book's nineteen newly-commissioned chapters develop novel theories of remembering and forgetting, analyze the phenomenology and content of memory, debate issues in the ethics and epistemology of remembering, and explore the relationship between memory and affectivity

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.