Books in the Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy series

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.

This book uses philosophical approaches to explore the idea of genocidal violence as a structural element in the world. The chapters in this volume address the moral, ethical, and political significance of the fact that our agency requires structures that may make nation states and national citizens more susceptible to genocidal projects.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Presents a theory of intergenerational justice that gives citizens duties to past and future generations, showing why people can make legitimate demands of their successors and explaining what relationships between contemporary generations count as fair.

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.