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This book offers a sustained, interdisciplinary examination of taste. It addresses a range of topics that have been at the heart of lively debates in philosophy of language, linguistics, metaphysics, aesthetics, and experimental philosophy.
The essays in this volume analyze the relationship between core concepts of the common good and the work of John Rawls. The contributors to this book explore the possibility of a substantive and community-oriented interpretation of Rawls¿s thought.
This book explores the role of time in rational agency and practical reasoning. It will be of interest to advanced students and researchers working on the philosophy of time, metaphysics of action, action, theory, practical reasoning, ethical theory, moral psychology, and rational justification.
This volume features original essays on the philosophy of love. The essays are organized thematically around the past, present, and future of philosophical thinking about love.
This book explores important questions at the intersection of the debates about relational autonomy and equality. They develop possible conceptual links by considering the role of values¿such as agency, non-domination, and self-respect¿to which both relational autonomy theorists and relational egalitarians are committed.
This volume brings together prominent philosophers and sociologists to explore key dimensions of practice and practices on the background of convergences and parallels between pragmatism and practice theory.
This book presents the central issues provoked by the radical contextualist position according to which there is an insurmountable gap between meaning and saying. The essays in this volume set these debates in a wider context, and present the fundamental motivations and implications of radical contextualism.
This collection explores the history and usefulness of phenomenology for the study of virtual places. These essays from philosophers, cultural geographers, designers, architects, and archaeologists advance the connection between phenomenology and the study of virtual place.
The essays in this collection explore the idea that discursive norms-the norms governing our thought and talk-are profoundly social. Not only do these norms govern and structure of social interactions, but they are sustained by a variety of social and institutional structures.
This book explores how imagination can be put to epistemic use. More specifically, the contributors address ways in which our imaginings must be constrained so as to justify beliefs and give rise to knowledge.
With increasingly divergent views and commitments, and an all-or-nothing mindset in political life, it can seem hard to sustain the level of trust in other members of our society necessary to ensure our most basic institutions work. This book features interdisciplinary perspectives on social trust.
This book encourages critical reflection on the relationship between power and non-power in the contemporary political world from a variety of intercultural philosophical traditions.
Guided by Benjamin's essay Critique of Violence, this collection shows how subsequent thinkers within critical theory, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, deconstructionism, and biopolitical theory have conceptualized violence.
In addressing the place of care in liberalism, this collection advances the idea that care ethics can help respond to legitimate criticisms from feminists who argue that liberalism ignores issues of race, class, and ethnicity.
This book explores the relationship between different versions of liberalism and toleration by focusing on their shared theoretical and political challenges.
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