Hakutulokset: Sarja Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
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Examples and Their Role in Our Thinking
This book investigates the role and significance that examples play in shaping arguments and thought, both in philosophy and in everyday life. It addresses questions about how our …
Time and the Philosophy of Action
Although scholarship in philosophy of action has grown in recent years, there has been little work explicitly dealing with the role of time in agency, a role with great …
Expected Experiences
This book brings together perspectives on predictive processing and expected experience. It features contributions from an interdisciplinary group of authors specializing in …
Believing Against the Evidence
The question of whether it is ever permissible to believe on insufficient evidence has once again become a live question. Greater attention is now being paid to practical …
Non-Ideal Foundations of Language
This book argues that the major traditions in the philosophy of language have mistakenly focused on highly idealized linguistic contexts. Instead, it presents a non-ideal …
Philosophical and Scientific Perspectives on Downward Causation
Downward causation plays a fundamental role in many theories of metaphysics and philosophy of mind. It is strictly connected with many topics in philosophy, including but not …
The Epistemological Skyhook
Throughout philosophical history, there has been a recurring argument to the effect that determinism, naturalism, or both are self-referentially incoherent. By accepting …
Logics of Genocide
This book is concerned with the connection between the formal structure of agency and the formal structure of genocide. The contributors employ philosophical approaches to explore …
From Rules to Meanings
Inferentialism is a philosophical approach premised on the claim that an item of language (or thought) acquires meaning (or content) in virtue of being embedded in an intricate set …
Civil Society in Liberal Democracy
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 …
Explanation in Action Theory and Historiography
Is the appropriate form of human action explanation causal or rather teleological? While this is a central question in analytic philosophy of action, it also has implications for …
Using Words and Things
This book offers a systematic framework for thinking about the relationship between language and technology and an argument for interweaving thinking about technology with thinking …