Over years, there has been a tremendous amount of philosophical work in the Anglo-American tradition on the cluster of topics pertaining to Free Will. This collection selects some of this material and presents it an accessible format.
Over years, there has been a tremendous amount of philosophical work in the Anglo-American tradition on the cluster of topics pertaining to Free Will....
Metaphysics, at least roughly speaking, is the systematic investigation of fundamental presuppositions underlying commonsense and scientific views of the world. Most of us believe that we have bodies and minds, that we are free, that some things in the world are composed of other things and that these things interact causally with one another; we believe that, in addition to the "way things are," there are other ways things could have been, and so on. Common sense tells us that things change and time passes, but contemporary physics tells us (or seems to tell us) that past, present, and...
Metaphysics, at least roughly speaking, is the systematic investigation of fundamental presuppositions underlying commonsense and scientific views ...
Metaethics is the branch of knowledge that considers the foundational issues of morality, and deals especially with the nature of ethical statements. Philosophers doing metaethics ask vital and fundamental questions such as these:
- is morality merely conventional, or are there objective standards of right and wrong?
- how can we gain moral knowledge?
- why should we be moral?
- can there be a science of morality?
Over the past thirty years, there has been a great surge of interest in metaethics. Almost every university offers courses in this area; new...
Metaethics is the branch of knowledge that considers the foundational issues of morality, and deals especially with the nature of ethical statement...
Edited by a leading scholar, The Philosophy of Language is a new title in the Routledge Major Works series, Critical Concepts in Philosophy. It is a four-volume collection of canonical and cutting-edge research from a rich and fascinating field.
Edited by a leading scholar, The Philosophy of Language is a new title in the Routledge Major Works series, Critical Concepts in Philosophy. It is ...
What is the nature of temporal passage the movement of events or moments of time from the future through the present into the past? Is the future and the past as real as the present, or is the present or perhaps the present and the past all that exists? What role, if any, does language play in giving us an insight into temporal reality? Is it possible to travel through time into distant regions of the future or the past? What accounts for the direction of time, the sense we have that we are moving toward the future and not back into the past? What is the relation between the physics of...
What is the nature of temporal passage the movement of events or moments of time from the future through the present into the past? Is the future a...
The past forty years or so have witnessed a renaissance in the philosophy of religion. New tools (modal logic, probability theory, and so on) and new historical research have prompted many thinkers to take a fresh look at old topics (God s existence, the problem of evil, faith and reason, and the like). Moreover, sophisticated examinations of contentious new issues, such as the problem of religious diversity or the role of emotions and other non-evidential factors in shaping rationally held religious beliefs, have also emerged.
Addressing the need for an authoritative...
The past forty years or so have witnessed a renaissance in the philosophy of religion. New tools (modal logic, probability theory, and so on) and n...
How are philosophy and gender implicated? Throughout history, philosophers mostly men, though with more women among their number than is sometimes supposed have often sought to specify and justify the proper roles of women and men, and to explore the political consequences of sexual difference. The last forty years, however, have seen a dramatic explosion of critical thinking about how philosophy is a gendered discipline; there has also been an abundance of philosophical work that uses gender as a central analytic category. In particular, feminist philosophy has become established as a...
How are philosophy and gender implicated? Throughout history, philosophers mostly men, though with more women among their number than is sometimes ...
Since at least the early 1990s, philosophical race theory has emerged as a dynamic and fertile area of serious scholarly inquiry, and this new four-volume Major Work from Routledge meets the need for a comprehensive collection to facilitate ready access to the most influential and important foundational and cutting-edge scholarship.
Volume I ('Philosophy and the History of Race, Race in the History of Philosophy') brings together the key texts to have shaped the most widely recognized forms of 'race thinking'. The second and third volumes in the collection, meanwhile, explore the...
Since at least the early 1990s, philosophical race theory has emerged as a dynamic and fertile area of serious scholarly inquiry, and this new four...
The study of human behaviour, and the minds that produce that behaviour, has been an occupation of scholars, artists, and philosophers for millennia. But it was not until the turn of the twentieth century that psychology came into its own as a distinct field of study--and, more importantly, as a scientifically legitimate field of study. When we view psychology as a science, certain questions naturally emerge: what sorts of phenomena does psychology seek to explain? What is distinctive about the kinds of explanations adduced in this science? How do these explanations integrate with theories...
The study of human behaviour, and the minds that produce that behaviour, has been an occupation of scholars, artists, and philosophers for millenni...
