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Philosophical Foundations of Economic Reality - Anthropological, Ethical and Metaphysical

The dominant paradigm of the economy is based on homo economicus and its positivist, mechanistic, and utilitarian approach. This leads to...

Epistemic Blame - The Nature and Norms of Epistemic Relationships

Epistemic Blame is the first book-length philosophical examination of our practice of criticizing one another for epistemic failings. Cam...

Higher-Order Metaphysics

This volume explores the use of higher-order logics in metaphysics. Seventeen original essays trace the development of higher-order metap...

As Good As It Gets - The Evolving Thoughts of a Deathwatcher

Unveiling Life's Final Journey: A Physician's Introspective Tale on Death, Grief, and the Pursuit of Becoming a Better Human Amid Existen...

Defeating the Evil-God Challenge - In Defence of God's Goodness

Why is belief in a maximally good god significantly more reasonable than belief in a maximally evil god? Defending the view that argument...

The Practical Self

The Practical Self argues that self-consciousness requires faith in ourselves as the agents of our thinking and that this faith is sustai...

Applied Linguistics in the Indonesian Context - Society, Culture and Language

This open access edited volume presents a series of studies utilizing a variety of linguistic research techniques to investigate areas of...

Foucault's Aesthetics of Existence and Shusterman's Somaesthetics - Ethics, Politics, and the Art of Living

"This volume provides the first critical comparison of Michel Foucault's aesthetics of existence and Richard Shusterman's somaesthetics. ...

David Foster Wallace and the Question of Scepticism

Identifies philosophical scepticism as a major theme across Wallace's oeuvre, in both fiction and non-fiction.

Meinongianism

Meinongianism (named after Alexius Meinong) is, roughly, the view that there are not only existent but also nonexistent objects. In this ...

Amalia Holst

Amalia Holst's trailblazing book On the Vocation of Woman to Higher Intellectual Education (1802) dropped a bomb on the German speaking s...

The Logic of Grounding

The concept of grounding - of a fact obtaining in virtue of other facts - has been a topic of intensive philosophical and logical investi...

Anna's AI Anthology - How to live with smart machines?

Herausgegeben von: Dr. Anna Strasser, Berlin. - Mit der Veröffentlichung von ChatGPT sind so genannte 'große Sprachmodelle' (Large Langua...

Rationality and Time Bias

We often care not only about what happens to us, but when it happens to us. We prefer that good experiences happen sooner, rather than la...

Disagreement

This Element engages with the epistemic significance of disagreement, focusing on its skeptical implications. It examines various types o...

Kant and the Feeling of Life - Beauty and Nature in the Critique of Judgment

Collects together for the first time essays devoted to a detailed historical and systematic discussion of the topic of life in Kant's work.

Kairós - In Defence of 'Due Time'

Shedding new light on the fundamental philosophical problem of time, leading Italian philosopher Giacomo Marramao offers a solution to to...

Perceptual Content

Perceptual Content is the first book to discuss and compare the representational characters of all the traditional "five senses". It has ...

Philosophical Health - A Practical Introduction

"Are you philosophically healthy? Do your actions reflect your thoughts, do your words mirror your values, or do you live in contradictio...

Concept Formation in Global Studies - Post-Western Approaches to Critical Human Knowledge

This book proposes a new epistemological and methodological approach to concept formation across human and natural sciences, beyond Euroc...

Aesthetics of Weather

In an age of rife consumption and increasing need for consideration of sustainable social practices, an exploration of the aesthetics of ...

Philosophy of Fame and Celebrity

In an era of cancel culture, digital identities and thriving conversation surrounding parasocial relationships, we question today the nat...

Art and Moral Change - A Reexamination

"This book reconsiders the relationship between aesthetics and theological ethics. The primary question it seeks to answer is whether art...

The Routledge Companion to Social and Political Philosophy

The Routledge Companion to Social and Political Philosophy, Second Edition is a comprehensive, definitive reference work, providing an up...

New Directions in the Russellian Theory of Time - Metaphysical and Ontological Issues

The main debates in the philosophy of time have centred on whether A-theory, with events ordered by pastness, presentness and futurity, o...

Nihilism and Technology

Investigating how human values mediate the design and use of new technologies, the updated edition of Nolen Gertz's Nihilism and Technolo...

Nicole Oresme, Questiones in Meteorologica de Prima Lectura - Study of the Manuscript Tradition and Critical Edition

This volume provides the first critical edition of the first redaction of the Questions on Aristotle's Meteorology by Nicole Oresme, one ...

Knowing - Unknowing - African Studies at the Crossroads

Calling into question the asymmetrical global economy of knowledge and its uneven division of intellectual labour, our interdisciplinary ...

The Alchemy of Addiction - Carl Jung, the Enneagram, and Contemplative Wisdom Traditions

Within this important book, Costello draws on Eastern philosophy, Western psychology, and wisdom traditions, to offer an interpretation a...

Intelligent Democracy - Answering the New Democratic Scepticism

Whether due to Donald Trump, Brexit, or the rise of populism, many are increasingly questioning the value of democracy. Complaints of ign...

The Legacy of Neoplatonic Philosophy - From Ancient Aesthetics to 20th-Century Film

Bringing together leading scholars from philosophy, architecture, history, classics, and art history, this volume asks: what are the key ...

Collected Writings of Giles Clark - Recycling Madness with Jung, Spinoza and Santayana

This timeless and thought-provoking volume makes available the collected writings of Giles Clark (1947-2019), whose original clinical the...

Foucault and the History of Philosophical Transcendence - Freedom, Nature and Agency

In an original approach to Foucault's philosophy, Christopher Falzon argues for a reading of Foucault as a philosopher of finite transcen...

Revolutionary Aristotelianism and Ideology - MacIntyre on Practical Reason and Virtue

How does ideology function and, more importantly, can philosophy help us resist ideological subjugation? Egidijus Mardosas answers these ...

The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Delusion

An outstanding resource for both students and researchers, The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Delusion is essential reading for thos...

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Global Justice and East Asian Philosophy

Breaking out of the dominance of Anglo-American scholarship, this volume centralises East Asian philosophical traditions to explore cross...

Personal Identity and the Self

What are we? What owns our thoughts and experiences? Are we anything at all? After an introduction, Section 2 assesses a 'no-bearer' theo...

Spinoza, Metaphysics, and the Possibility of Salvation - The Finite in the Infinite

This book offers a novel interpretation of Spinoza's basic metaphysics of God, body, and mind. It considers the fundamental question of h...

Evil Corporations - Law, Culpability and Regulation

This book elaborates and interrogates the idea of evil corporations from a diverse range of disciplines.

The Road to Paradox - A Guide to Syntax, Truth and Modality

This book provides a clear and direct introduction to the theory of paradoxes and the Gödel incompleteness theorems. It will be valuable ...

Agamben's Ethics of the Happy Life - Beyond Nihilism and Morality

Ype de Boer invites you to rethink what you know about the philosophy of Giorgio Agamben. In a compelling and original argument, De Boer ...

Philosophical Fragments as the Poetry of Thinking - Romanticism and the Living Present

Innovatively combining philosophical inquiry and aphoristic writing, this study presents a bold new interpretation of philosophical poeti...

Calculating Ethics in the Fourteenth Century

This volume depicts methods and concepts of calculated ethics and mathematized moral life at main universities in Europe of the late Midd...

A Companion to Atheism and Philosophy

Abductive Reasoning in Science

This Element gives an opinionated overview of both accounts of abductive reasoning that have been proposed and the problems that have mot...

On Mysticism - The Experience of Ecstasy

Rules for the Inquiring Mind - A Unified Framework of Norms of Inquiry

This book concerns the nature and the norms of inquiry. It tackles not only philosophical issues regarding what inquiry is, but also issu...

An Introduction to Ethics

A clear, comprehensive presentation of the most important theories of ethics in Western philosophy, including extensive coverage of John ...

Regenerative Farming and Sustainable Diets - Human, Animal and Planetary Health

This book makes the case for an urgent move away from industrial agriculture towards regenerative farming and the promotion of plant-base...

Everyday Mysticism - St. Ignatius' Exercises and C.G. Jung's Psychology

This work explores the influential Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius Loyola, the sixteenth-century Spanish soldier, saint, mystic, and foun...

Philosophy of Time: The Basics

What is time? Does it pass? Is the future open? Why do we care? Philosophy of Time: The Basics doesn't answer these questions. It does gi...

Human Enhancement Technologies and Healthcare Policy

This book presents the definition, theory, scope, and main challenges of human enhancement (HE) from a health policy and healthcare syste...

False Prophets of Economics Imperialism - The Limits of Mathematical Market Models

In this deeply researched and wide-ranging intellectual history, Matthew Watson exposes the essential flaw in the claims of economics imp...

The Metaphysics of Powerful Qualities - Powerful Categoricalism and the Laws of Nature

This book examines the metaphysical issues regarding the powerful qualities view in all its various forms. The author also develops and d...

Studies of Life Positioning - A New Sociocultural Approach to Psychobiography

This book illustrates how Life Positioning Analysis can be used as a theoretical and methodological approach to sociocultural psychobiogr...

Speaking for Others - The Ethics of Informal Political Representation

From Booker T. Washington to a neighbor who speaks up at a city council meeting, many of the people who represent us were never elected. ...

What Is It Like to Be a Bat?

This book is a fiftieth anniversary republication of Thomas Nagel's "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?", a classic article in the philosophy o...

Hegel on Sacred Poetry - Love, Freedom, and the Practical Roots of the Sublime

In die heilige Poesie, Hegel equates poetry with the Judaic Psalms at the core of his notion of sublimity. Hegel's theory of the sublime ...

Perspectives on Post-Truth

This volume tackles an array of complex and interrelated phenomena which are usually referred to as the post-truth condition - from confi...

Ethical Theory - 50 Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Thought Experiments

In this new kind of introduction to ethical theory, Daniel Muñoz and Sarah Stroud present 50 of the field's most exciting puzzles, parado...