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Taylor & Francis NeoDavidsonian Metaphysics From the True to the Good Routledge Studies in Metaphysics
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Taylor & Francis Phenomenology and the Transcendental Routledge Research in Phenomenology
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Real Essentialism
Book SynopsisReal 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, philosophers doubt this, influenced by centuries of empiricism, and by the anti-essentialism of Wittgenstein, Quine, Popper, and other thinkers. Real Essentialism reinvigorates the tradition of realist, essentialist metaphysics, defending the reality and knowability of essence, the possibility of objective, immutable definition, and its relevance to contemporary scientific and metaphysical issues such as whether essence transcends physics and chemistry, the essence of life, the nature of biological species, and the nature of the person. Trade Review"Presents vigorous and wide-ranging arguments in defense of an Aristotelian metaphysical scheme…this book puts forward many unfashionable views. But it argues for them with vigor and erudition." Crawford L. Elder, Analysis Reviews"Oderberg… exemplifies the unfortunately rare combination in analytical philosophy of rigorous and historically informed argumentation…This book places hylomorphism squarely on the table for discussion." Sebastian Rehnman, Review of Metaphysics"a major intellectual achievement....I can particularly recommend, for those interested in such matters--as many metaphysicians presently are--his very well informed discussion of powers and laws of nature, which raises important objections to many current accounts of these." E.J. Lowe, The Philosophical Quarterly"...there can be no doubt that this learned and rigorous work deserves a wide readership."--Edward Feser, Faith and Philosophy"Presents vigorous and wide-ranging arguments in defense of an Aristotelian metaphysical scheme…this book puts forward many unfashionable views. But it argues for them with vigor and erudition."--Crawford L. Elder, Analysis Reviews "Oderberg moreover exemplifies the unfortunately rare combination in analytical philosophy of rigorous and historically informed argumentation. He interacts with Aristotle in Greek, Aquinas in Latin, Descartes in French, and Kant in German (usually in endnotes), and the importance of this comes, for instance, to the fore in Oderberg's analysis of Popper's irrelevant, ignorant and invalid points against real essences. Thus this book places hylomorphism squarely on the table for discussion."--Sebastian Rehnman, University of Stavanger, The Review of Metaphysics"...there can be no doubt that this learned and rigorous work deserves a wide readership."--Edward Feser, Faith and PhilosophyTable of Contents1. Contemporary Essentialism and Real Essentialism 2. Some Varieties of Anti-Essentialism 3. The Reality and Knowability of Essence 4. The Structure of Essence 5. Essence and Identity 6. Essence and Existence 7. Aspects of Essence 8. Life 9. Species, Biological and Metaphysical 10. The Person
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Taylor & Francis Divine Intervention
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Taylor & Francis Contrastivism in Philosophy
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Taylor & Francis Philosophy of Science A Contemporary Introduction Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy
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Taylor & Francis Philosophy of Science
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Taylor & Francis Existentia Africana Understanding Africana Existential Thought Africana Thought
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Studies in the Middle Way Being Thoughts on Buddhism Applied
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Taylor & Francis Privileged Access Philosophical Accounts of SelfKnowledge Ashgate Epistemology and Mind Series
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Taylor & Francis Vagueness The International Research Library of Philosophy
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Taylor & Francis Being as Communion A Metaphysics of Information Routledge Science and Religion Series
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Taylor & Francis PostHuman Institutions and Organizations Confronting The Matrix The Future of the Human
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Husserl and Spatiality
Book SynopsisHusserl and Spatiality is an exploration of the phenomenology of space and embodiment, based on the work of Edmund Husserl. Little known in architecture, Husserl's phenomenology of embodied spatiality established the foundations for the works of later phenomenologists, including Maurice Merleau-Ponty's well-known phenomenology of perception. Through a detailed study of his posthumously published and unpublished manuscripts on space, DuFour examines the depth and scope of Husserl's phenomenology of space. The book investigates his analyses of corporeity and the lived body, extending to questions of intersubjective, intergenerational, and geo-historical spatial experience, what DuFour terms the environmentality of space.Combining in-depth architectural philosophical investigations of spatiality with a rich and intimate ethnography, Husserl and Spatiality speaks to themes in social and cultural anthropology, from a theoretical perspective that addresses spatial praTrade ReviewHusserl and Spatiality is a whirlwind expedition through central Husserlian concepts in relation to the central problem of what constitutes a space. As I read about DuFour’s childhood memories, and his descriptions from his rich ethnographic study of the spaces and practices of the Brazilian religion Candomblé, his writing seemed to linger and cling to the walls of my room, building tangible horizons and creating ripples of effect in my understanding also of my own surrounding environment. This book will inspire interpretations of the world that favour empathy over power, bodily engagement over subjective self-centeredness, and historical meaningfulness over relational flatness. It is a much-needed call to reinterpret spatial relationships in ways that allow the past to gently touch the future.- Henriette Steiner, Associate Professor, Section for Landscape Architecture and Planning, University of CopenhagenPart radical re-reading of Husserl, part phenomenology of Afro-Brazilian ritual, DuFour’s is an astoundingly original take on space as the constitutive ground of all lived experience. The ethnography of ritual here becomes the litmus test of the deepest stakes of human experience—both condition of possibility and the generative source of human relationships, replete with embodied history and affective significance. This is what DuFour calls environmentality—a tour de force of life-driven conceptual creativity.- Martin Holbraad, Professor of Social Anthropology and Head of the Department of Anthropology, University College LondonTable of ContentsIntroduction: Spatial description; 1. Phenomenon and method: Fieldwork as methodological clue; Sensing history; 2. Corporeity and spatiality; Constitution and experience; Visual space; The spatial phantom and time; Tactual space, motility, and the lived body; Corporeity and time; 3. Space and the Other; The genesis of space; Empathic spatiality; Generative space; 4. A phenomenological ethnography of space; The reunião; Epilogue: Umweltlichkeit
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of
Book SynopsisThe most fundamental questions of economics are often philosophical in nature, and philosophers have, since the very beginning of Western philosophy, asked many questions that current observers would identify as economic. The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Economics is an outstanding reference source for the key topics, problems, and debates at the intersection of philosophical and economic inquiry. It captures this field of countless exciting interconnections, affinities, and opportunities for cross-fertilization. Comprising 35 chapters by a diverse team of contributors from all over the globe, the Handbook is divided into eight sections: I. RationalityII. Cooperation and InteractionIII. MethodologyIV. ValuesV. Causality and ExplanationVI. Experimentation and SimulationVII. EvidenceVIII. Policy The volume is essential reading for students and researchers in economics and philosophy who are interested inTrade ReviewEconomics has shaped our world through the influence its ideas have had on business behaviour and government policies. As this climate of ideas is clearly changing, there could not be a better time to explore the philosophy of economics. This Handbook is an important contribution to interrogating economics and asking how the discipline could be set on firmer ethical and philosophical foundations.Diane Coyle, University of CambridgeThis handbook is a unique reference on the philosophy of economics, with a very comprehensive coverage and an impressive slate of contributors, many of them belonging to a generation of emerging scholars in the field. It nicely integrates questions of rationality, ethics, and methodology, and it firmly establishes the intimate connection between philosophy and economics, two disciplines which share many traits and interests. A most useful resource for researchers and students interested in the field.Marc Fleurbaey, Paris School of EconomicsHandbooks manifest progress and growth of a research field. Since the Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Economics (2009) and Philosophy of Economics / Handbook of the Philosophy of Science (2012) about a decade ago, there have been many important new developments in the field. Here we have a wonderfully enriched variety of topics presented to us by an impressive group of a new generation of experts.Uskali Mäki, University of HelsinkiHandbooks are in fashion; this one addresses both philosophers’ questions about economics and economists’ engagement with philosophy. Its 35 chapters range from discussions of the hard, but shared, issues of ethics and values, to the equally difficult practical problems about how economics gets done on the scientific frontier. An invaluable companion piece for both disciplinary communities, and for those who practice in both.Mary S. Morgan, London School of EconomicsTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. History of Utility Theory 3. The Economics and Philosophy of Risk 4. Behavioral Welfare Economics and Consumer Sovereignty 5. The Economic Concept of a Preference 6. Economic Agency and the Subpersonal Turn in Economics 7. Game Theory and Rational Reasoning 8. Institutions, Rationality, and Coordination 9. As If Social Preference Models 10. Exploitation and Consumption 11. Philosophy of Economics? Three Decades of Bibliometric History 12. Philosophy of Austrian Economics 13. Representation 14. Finance and Financial Economics: A Philosophy of Science Perspective 15. Values in Welfare Economics 16. Measurement and Value Judgements 17. Reflections on the State of Economics and Ethics 18. Well-Being 19. Fairness and Fair Division 20. Causality and Probability 21. Causal Contributions in Economics 22. Explanation in Economics 23. Modeling the Possible to Modeling the Actual 24. Experimentation in Economics 25. Field Experiments 26. Computer Simulations in Economics 27. Evidence-Based Policy 28. Economic Theory and Empirical Science 29. Philosophy of Econometrics 30. Statistical Significance Testing in Economics 31. Quantifying Health 32. Freedoms, Political Economy, and Liberalism 33. Freedom and Markets 34. Policy Evaluation Under Severe Uuncertainty: A Cautious, Egalitarian Approach 35. Behavioral Public Policy: One Name, Many Types. A Mechanistic Perspective 36. The Case for Regulating Tax Competition
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Ethics of Virtual and Augmented Reality
Book SynopsisThis book offers new ways of thinking about and assessing the impact of virtual reality on its users. It argues that we must go beyond traditional psychological concepts of VR presence to better understand the many varieties of virtual experiences.The author provides compelling evidence that VR simulations are capable of producing virtually real experiences in people. He also provides a framework for understanding when and how simulations induce virtually real experiences. From these insights, the book shows that virtually real experiences are responsible for several unaddressed ethical issues in VR research and design. Experimental philosophers, moral psychologists, and institutional review boards must become sensitive to the ethical issues involved between designing realistic virtual dilemmas, for good data collection, and avoiding virtually real trauma. Ethicists and game designers must do more to ensure that their simulations don't inculcate harmful character traits. VirtTable of Contents1. Exploring Strange New Worlds2. Imagination and the Limits of Empathy3. When Being There is Not Enough4. Virtual Experience, Real Harm5. Why It's Unethical to Use VR and AR as "Empathy" Machines6. Putting It All Together: A Code of Ethics for VR/AR7. AR and the Future of Selves
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Sloterdijks Anthropotechnics
Book SynopsisPeter Sloterdijk is an internationally renowned philosopher and thinker whose work is now seen as increasingly relevant to our contemporary world situation and the multiple crises that punctuate it, including those within ethical, political, economic, technological, and ecological realms. This volume focuses upon one of his central ideas, anthropotechnics. Broadly speaking, anthropotechnics refers to the technological constitution of the human as its fundamental mode of existence, which is characterized by the ability to create dwelling places that immunize' human beings from exterior threats while at the same time instituting practices and exercises that call on humanity to transcend itself ascetically'. The essays included in this volume enter a critical dialogue with Sloterdijk and his many philosophical interlocutors in order to interrogate the many implications of anthropotechnics in relation to some of the most pressing issues of our time, including and especially the qTable of ContentsForeword Introduction: Sloterdijk’s Anthropotechnics 1. Alone with Oneself: Solitude as Cultural Technique 2. Anthropotechnics and the Absolute Imperative 3. Of an Enlightenment-conservative Tone Recently Adopted in Philosophy 4. Specters of Religion: Sloterdijk, Immunology, and the Crisis of Immanence 5. Sartre and Sloterdijk: The Ethical Imperative. You Must Change Your Life 6. Ascetic Worlds: Notes on Politics and Technologies of the Self after Peter Sloterdijk 7. The Limits of the Spheres: Otherness and Solipsism in Peter Sloterdijk’s Philosophy 8. Anthropotechnical Practising in the Foam-world 9. Staying with the Darkness: Peter Sloterdijk’s Anthropotechnics for the Digital Age 10. The Unknown Quantity: Sleep as a Trope in Sloterdijk’s Anthropotechnics Untitled (Negative Exercises)
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Taylor & Francis Ltd DualAspect Monism and the Deep Structure of
Book SynopsisDual-Aspect Monism and the Deep Structure of Meaning investigates the metaphysical position of dual-aspect monism, with particular emphasis on the concept of meaning as a fundamental feature of the fabric of reality. As an alternative to other positions mainly dualism, physicalism, idealism that have been proposed to understand consciousness and its place in nature, the decompositional version of dual-aspect monism considers the mental and the physical as two aspects of one underlying undivided reality that is psychophysically neutral. Inspired by analogies with modern physics and driven by its conceptual problems, Wolfgang Pauli, Carl Gustav Jung, Arthur Eddington, John Wheeler, David Bohm, and Basil Hiley are the originators of the approaches studied. A radically novel common theme in their approaches is the constitutive role of meaning and its deep structure, relating the mental and the physical to a psychophysically neutral base.The authors reconstruct the formal struTrade Review"In summary, the present book is well-written and provides a fascinating philosophical alternative to the usual suspects from metaphysics . . . It is recommended to those who feel that the problem of understanding mind and consciousness has something to do with the fundamental nature of reality itself. Its emphasis on the role of meaning in grounding this reality is novel and makes for a refreshing read."Robert Prentner, Journal of Consciousness Studies"The core argument of the book comes across clearly enough, the argument is of great philosophical and cultural importance, and the detailed discussions amply repay study. Also, this book is, to my mind, one of the most illuminating works yet published for understanding the philosophical underpinnings of Jung’s thought and its potential contributions to our current cultural situation."Roderick Main, Journal of Analytical Psychology“We have in this book a remarkable argument for the centrality of meaning in the workings of the world taken as a whole . . . While remaining grounded in careful analysis and a profound grasp of the argument’s scientific, philosophical, and psychological foundations, there is an almost mystical dimension as well . . . Atmanspacher and Rickles challenge analytical psychology and modern physics to a rich dialogue going forward.”George B. Hogenson, International Journal of Jungian StudiesTable of ContentsIntroductionPart 1: Monism and Meaning1. Historical Background to Dual-Aspect Monism2. Varieties of MeaningPart 2: Three Approaches to Dual-Aspect Monism3. Wolfgang Pauli and Carl Gustav Jung4. Arthur Eddington and John Wheeler5. David Bohm and Basil HileyPart 3: Discussion and Perspectives6. Comparative Discussion7. Ideas for Future Research8. Outlook: After Physicalism
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Taylor & Francis The Routledge Handbook of Propositions
Book SynopsisPropositions are routinely invoked by philosophers, linguists, logicians, and other theorists engaged in the study of meaning, communication, and the mind. To investigate the nature of propositions is to investigate the very nature of our connection to each other, and to the world around us. As one of the only volumes of its kind, The Routledge Handbook of Propositions provides a comprehensive overview of the philosophy of propositions, from both historical and contemporary perspectives. Comprising 33 original chapters by an international team of scholars, the volume addresses both traditional and emerging questions concerning the nature of propositions, and our capacity to engage with them in thought and in communication. The chapters are clearly organized into the following three sections:I. Foundational Issues in the Theory of PropositionsII. Historical Theories of PropositionsIII. Contemporary Theories of PropositionsEssential reading for philo
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