Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

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31. Civility in Politics and Education

    Edited by Deborah Mower, Wade L. Robison

    Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

    This book examines the concept of civility and the conditions of civil disagreement in politics and education. Although many assume that civility is merely polite behavior, it functions to aid rational discourse. Building on this basic assumption, the book offers multiple accounts of civility and...

    Published October 23rd 2011 by Routledge
32. Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and Maternal Subjectivity

    By Alison Stone

    Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

    In this book, Alison Stone develops a feminist approach to maternal subjectivity. Stone argues that in the West the self has often been understood in opposition to the maternal body, so that one must separate oneself from the mother and maternal care-givers on whom one depended in childhood to...

    Published September 22nd 2011 by Routledge
33. Kant and Education

    Interpretations and Commentary

    Edited by Klas Roth, Chris Surprenant

    Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

    Immanuel Kant’s moral philosophy, political philosophy, and philosophy of judgement have been and continue to be widely discussed among many scholars. The impact of his thinking is beyond doubt and his ideas continue to inspire and encourage an on-going dialogue among many people in our world today...

    Published September 18th 2011 by Routledge
34. The Politics of Logic

    Badiou, Wittgenstein, and the Consequences of Formalism

    By Paul Livingston

    Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

    In this book, Livingston develops the political implications of formal results obtained over the course of the twentieth century in set theory, metalogic, and computational theory. He argues that the results achieved by thinkers such as Cantor, Russell, Godel, Turing, and Cohen, even when they...

    Published August 11th 2011 by Routledge
35. Civil Society in Liberal Democracy

    By Mark Jensen

    Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

    In this contribution to contemporary political philosophy, Jensen aims to develop a model of civil society for deliberative democracy. In the course of developing the model, he also provides a thorough account of the meaning and use of "civil society" in contemporary scholarship as well as a...

    Published March 28th 2011 by Routledge
36. Einstein, Relativity and Absolute Simultaneity

    Edited by William Lane Craig, Quentin Smith

    Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

    Einstein, Relativity and Absolute Simultaneity is an anthology of original essays by an international team of leading philosophers and physicists who have come together to reassess the contemporary paradigm of the relativistic concept of time. A great deal has changed since 1905 when Einstein...

    Published February 9th 2011 by Routledge
37. Epistemology and the Regress Problem

    By Scott Aikin

    Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

    In the last decade, the familiar problem of the regress of reasons has returned to prominent consideration in epistemology. And with the return of the problem, evaluation of the options available for its solution is begun anew. Reason’s regress problem, roughly put, is that if one has good reasons...

    Published November 16th 2010 by Routledge
38. Narrative Identity and Moral Identity

    A Practical Perspective

    By Kim Atkins

    Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

    This book is part of the growing field of practical approaches to philosophical questions relating to identity, agency and ethics--approaches which work across continental and analytical traditions and which Atkins justifies through an explication of how the structures of human embodiment...

    Published November 2nd 2010 by Routledge
39. Aesthetic Experience

    Edited by Richard Shusterman, Adele Tomlin

    Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

    In this volume, a team of internationally respected contributors theorize the concept of aesthetic experience and its value. Exposing and expanding our restricted cultural and intellectual presuppositions of what constitutes aesthetic experience, the book aims to re-explore and...

    Published October 14th 2010 by Routledge
40. Causation and Laws of Nature

    By Max Kistler

    Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

    This is the first English translation of Causalite´ et Lois de La Nature, and is an important contribution to the theory of causation. Max Kistler reconstructs a unified concept of causation that is general enough to adequately deal with both elementary physical processes, and the macroscopic level...

    Published September 30th 2010 by Routledge