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41. Objectivity and the Language-Dependence of Thought

    A Transcendental Defence of Universal Lingualism

    By Christian Barth

    Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

    Does thought depend on language? Primarily as a consequence of the cognitive turn in empirical disciplines like psychology and ethology, many current empirical researchers and empirically minded philosophers tend to answer this question in the negative. This book rejects this mainstream view and...

    Published July 28th 2010 by Routledge
42. Practical Identity and Narrative Agency

    Edited by Kim Atkins, Catriona Mackenzie

    Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

    The essays collected in this volume address a range of issues that arise when the focus of philosophical reflection on identity is shifted from metaphysical to practical and evaluative concerns. They also explore the usefulness of the notion of narrative for articulating and responding to these...

    Published June 6th 2010 by Routledge
43. Internalism and Epistemology

    The Architecture of Reason

    By Timothy McGrew, Lydia McGrew

    Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

    This book is a sustained defence of traditional internalist epistemology. The aim is threefold: to address some key criticisms of internalism and show that they do not hit their mark, to articulate a detailed version of a central objection to externalism, and to illustrate how a consistent...

    Published March 31st 2010 by Routledge
44. Autonomy and Liberalism

    By Ben Colburn

    Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

    This book concerns the foundations and implications of a particular form of liberal political theory. Colburn argues that one should see liberalism as a political theory committed to the value of autonomy, understood as consisting in an agent deciding for oneself what is valuable and living life in...

    Published January 5th 2010 by Routledge
45. The Force of Argument

    Essays in Honor of Timothy Smiley

    Edited by Jonathan Lear, Alex Oliver

    Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

    Timothy Smiley has made ground-breaking contributions to modal logic, free logic, multiple-conclusion logic, and plural logic. He has illuminated Aristotle’s syllogistic, the ideas of logical form and consequence, and the distinction between assertion and rejection, and has worked to debunk the...

    Published December 16th 2009 by Routledge
46. A Sense of the World

    Essays on Fiction, Narrative, and Knowledge

    Edited by John Gibson, Wolfgang Huemer, Luca Pocci

    Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

    A team of leading contributors from both philosophical and literary backgrounds have been brought together in this impressive book to examine how works of literary fiction can be a source of knowledge. Together, they analyze the important trends in this current popular debate. The...

    Published September 16th 2009 by Routledge
47. Aesthetics and Material Beauty

    Aesthetics Naturalized

    By Jennifer A. McMahon

    Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

    In Aesthetics and Material Beauty, Jennifer A. McMahon develops a new aesthetic theory she terms Critical Aesthetic Realism - taking Kantian aesthetics as a starting point and drawing upon contemporary theories of mind from philosophy, psychology, and cognitive science. The creative process does...

    Published June 21st 2009 by Routledge
48. Hillel Steiner and the Anatomy of Justice

    Themes and Challenges

    Edited by Stephen De Wijze, Matthew H. Kramer, Ian Carter

    Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

    Throughout the English-speaking world, and in the many other countries where analytic philosophy is studied, Hillel Steiner is esteemed as one of the foremost contemporary political philosophers. This volume is designed as a festschrift for Steiner and as an important collection of philosophical...

    Published May 27th 2009 by Routledge
49. Real Essentialism

    By David S. Oderberg

    Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

    Real Essentialism presents a comprehensive defence of neo-Aristotelian essentialism. Do objects have essences? Must they be the kinds of things they are in spite of the changes they undergo? Can we know what things are really like – can we define and classify reality? Many, if not most,...

    Published April 28th 2009 by Routledge
50. A Pragmatist Philosophy of Democracy

    By Robert B. Talisse

    Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

    In recent years there has been a renewed interest in American pragmatism. In political philosophy, the revival of pragmatism has led to a new appreciation for the democratic theory of John Dewey. In this book, Robert B. Talisse advances a series of pragmatic arguments against Deweyan democracy....

    Published September 14th 2008 by Routledge