Pansychism is the idea that some form of mentality and consciousness exist in all living and nonliving things and thus presents a challenge to an unwavering physicalist metaphysics. The Routledge Handbook of Panpsychism covers the long history of the subject in philosophy--from the Presocractics to the 21^st century--elucidates and synthesizes important contemporary philosophical and scientific research in the area, and addresses the advantages and difficulties of panpsychism as an approach to problems in philosophy of mind. With 30 chapters written especially for this...

Both through his own work and that of his students, Franz Clemens Brentano (1838-1917) had an often underappreciated influence on the course of 20^th- and 21^st-century philosophy. The Routledge Handbook of Franz Brentano and the Brentano School offers full coverage of Brentano s philosophy and his influence. It contains 38 brand-new essays from an international team of experts that offer a comprehensive view of Brentano s central research areas philosophy of mind, metaphysics, and value theory as well as of the principal figures shaped by Brentano s school of...

Libertarians often bill their theory as an alternative to both the traditional Left and Right. 　The Routledge Handbook of Libertarianism　helps readers fully examine this alternative, without preaching it to them, exploring the contours of libertarian (sometimes also called　classical liberal) thinking on justice, institutions, interpersonal ethics, government, and political economy.　 The 31 chapters--all written specifically for this volume--are organized into five parts.　 Part I asks, what should libertarianism learn from other theories of...

The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Economics gives a comprehensive overview of key concepts in the field and provides a forum for its most important debates. These debates include the role of neuroeconomics, the foundations of decision and game theory, mechanisms, significance tests, capabilities, limits of markets, and Nudge policies. In each debate, one scholar presents a new lead article on a topical question in philosophy of economics, and up to three scholars write responses. Short overviews, written by the Handbook's editors, precede each debate, providing context and...

The Routledge Handbook of Social Epistemology is an authoritative and comprehensive survey of the most important issues and developments in one of the fastest growing areas of research in contemporary philosophy. An international team of scholars articulates the state of the art, draws out important connections, and breaks new ground in many areas of this intersciplinary new field.

The 45 chapters, published here for the first time, are divided into nine parts:

--Historical Backgrounds to Social Epistemology

--Testimony

--Disagreement,...