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11. Teleology and the Norms of Nature

    By William J. FitzPatrick

    Series: Studies in Philosophy

    This work is an examination of teleological attributions i.e. ascriptions of proper functions and natural ends) to the features and behavior of living things with a view to understanding their application to human life....

    Published December 11th 2011 by Routledge
12. Frege and the Logic of Sense and Reference

    By Kevin C. Klement

    Series: Studies in Philosophy

    This book aims to develop certain aspects of Gottlob Frege's theory of meaning, especially those relevant to intentional logic. It offers a new interpretation of the nature of senses, and attempts to devise a logical calculus for the theory of sense and reference that captures as closely as...

    Published December 8th 2011 by Routledge
13. Mathematics in Kant's Critical Philosophy

    Reflections on Mathematical Practice

    By Lisa Shabel

    Series: Studies in Philosophy

    This book provides a reading of Kant's theory of the construction of mathematical concepts through a fully contextualised analysis. In this work the author argues that it is only through an understanding of the relevant eighteenth century mathematics textbooks, and the related mathematical practice...

    Published December 8th 2011 by Routledge
14. The Ethics of Need

    Agency, Dignity, and Obligation

    By Sarah Clark Miller

    Series: Studies in Philosophy

    The Ethics of Need: Agency, Dignity, and Obligation argues for the philosophical importance of the notion of need and for an ethical framework through which we can determine which needs have moral significance. In the volume, Sarah Clark Miller synthesizes insights from Kantian and feminist care...

    Published September 19th 2011 by Routledge
15. The Mystical in Wittgenstein's Early Writings

    By James Atkinson

    Series: Studies in Philosophy

    The aim of this book is to consider what reasonably follows from the hypothesis that the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus can be interpreted from a mystical point of view. Atkinson intends to elucidate Wittgenstein’s thoughts on the mystical in his early writings as they pertain to a number of topics...

    Published August 15th 2011 by Routledge
16. Art as Abstract Machine

    Ontology and Aesthetics in Deleuze and Guattari

    By Stephen Zepke

    Series: Studies in Philosophy

    The aim of this book is to understand what Deleuze and Guattari mean by "art." Stephen Zepke argues that art, in their account, is an ontological term and an ontological practice that results in a new understanding of aesthetics. For Deleuze and Guattari understanding what art "is" means...

    Published May 15th 2011 by Routledge
17. The Culture of Confession from Augustine to Foucault

    A Genealogy of the 'Confessing Animal'

    By Chloë Taylor

    Series: Studies in Philosophy

    Drawing on the work of Foucault and Western confessional writings, this book challenges the transhistorical and commonsense views of confession as an innate impulse resulting in the psychological liberation of the confessing subject. Instead, confessional desire is argued to be contingent and...

    Published November 9th 2010 by Routledge
18. Husserl's Constitutive Phenomenology

    Its Problem and Promise

    By Bob Sandmeyer

    Series: Studies in Philosophy

    If Edmund Husserl's true philosophy lay in his unpublished research manuscripts, as he argues, then it is in these – rather than the "introductions" and fragmentary studies he published during his lifetime – that we may possibly find a systematic of his philosophy. This work constitutes a study of...

    Published November 9th 2010 by Routledge
19. Heredity, Race, and the Birth of the Modern

    By Sara Eigen Figal

    Series: Studies in Philosophy

    This book places under sustained scrutiny some of our most basic modern assumptions about inheritance, genealogy, blood relations, and racial categories. It has at its core a deceptively simple question, one too often taken for granted: what constitutes "good" bonds among humans, and what...

    Published November 2nd 2010 by Routledge
20. Bioregionalism and Global Ethics

    A Transactional Approach to Achieving Ecological Sustainability, Social Justice, and Human Well-being

    By Richard Evanoff

    Series: Studies in Philosophy

    Bioregionalism and Global Ethics suggests that current trends towards globalization are creating entirely new social and environmental problems which require cross-cultural dialogue towards the creation of a new "global ethic." Current models of development are based on an implicit global ethic...

    Published August 11th 2010 by Routledge