Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy
The Routledge Handbook of Argumentation Theory
1st Edition
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By Scott Aikin, John Casey, Katharina Stevens
December 30, 2025
The Routledge Handbook of Argumentation Theory offers 43 chapters—written specifically for this volume by a team of leading international scholars—that survey a wide spectrum of research on the nature, purpose, and promise of argument and the associated practice of argumentation. Each chapter ...
The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Existentialism
1st Edition
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By Kevin Aho, Megan Altman, Hans Pedersen
December 26, 2025
Of the philosophical movements of the twentieth century existentialism is one of the most powerful and thought-provoking. Its engagement with the themes of authenticity, freedom, bad faith, nihilism, and the death of God captured the imagination of millions. However, in the twenty-first century ...
The Routledge Handbook of Women and Ancient Greek Philosophy
1st Edition
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By Sara Brill, Catherine McKeen
December 25, 2025
The Routledge Handbook of Women and Ancient Greek Philosophy is an essential reference source for cutting-edge scholarship on women, gender, and philosophy in Greek antiquity. The volume features original research that crosses disciplines, offering readers an accessible guide to new methods, new ...
The Routledge Handbook of the History of Philosophy of Science After Kant
1st Edition
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By Flavia Padovani, Adam Tamas Tuboly
December 16, 2025
The History of Philosophy of Science (HOPOS) is a relatively new yet rapidly growing field. Emerging from diverse approaches within the history and philosophy of science, it encompasses a wide range of philosophical reflections on the nature, methods, and subject matter of science, all considered ...
The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Games
1st Edition
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By C. Thi Nguyen, John R. Sageng
December 09, 2025
Playing games is a basic human activity, and games raise a great number of fascinating philosophical questions. What, exactly, are we doing when we play a game? What is the value of games for human life? What is the ontology of a game? And could games be, or someday become, a form of art? ...
The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Human Rights
1st Edition
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By Jesse Tomalty, Kerri Woods
August 19, 2025
The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Human Rights is an outstanding resource covering key questions, problems, and debates in scholarship on the nature, justification, authority and relevance of human rights. The volume comprises 35 chapters by leading scholars from a range of philosophical ...
The Routledge Handbook of Phenomenology of Mindfulness
1st Edition
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By Susi Ferrarello, Christos Hadjioannou
July 31, 2025
The Routledge Handbook of Phenomenology of Mindfulness brings together two schools of thought and practice that – despite rarely being examined jointly – provide an incredibly fruitful way for exploring thinking, the mind, and the nature and practice of mindfulness. Applying the concepts and ...
The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Evidence
1st Edition
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By Maria Lasonen-Aarnio, Clayton Littlejohn
July 31, 2025
What one can know depends on one’s evidence. Good scientific theories are supported by evidence. Our experiences provide us with evidence. Any sort of inquiry involves the seeking of evidence. It is irrational to believe contrary to your evidence. For these reasons and more, evidence is one of the ...
The Routledge Handbook of Properties
1st Edition
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By A.R.J. Fisher, Anna-Sofia Maurin
July 30, 2025
Philosophical questions regarding both the existence and nature of properties are ubiquitous in ordinary life, the sciences, and philosophical theorising. In philosophy, it is one of the oldest topics discussed in various intellectual traditions – East and West – reaching back to Plato and ...
The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Responsibility
1st Edition
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By Maximilian Kiener
June 27, 2025
The philosophical inquiry of responsibility is a major and fast-growing field. It not only features questions around free will and moral agency but also addresses various challenges in the social, institutional, and legal contexts in which people are being held responsible. The Routledge Handbook ...
The Routledge Handbook of Mindshaping
1st Edition
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By Tadeusz Wiesław Zawidzki, Rémi Tison
May 29, 2025
Of all species, human beings are uniquely capable of coordinating on long-term, large-scale cooperative projects with unfamiliar and genetically unrelated others. According to the mindshaping hypothesis, this relies on mechanisms and practices like imitation, pedagogy, normative cognition, and ...
The Routledge Handbook of Autonomy
1st Edition
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By Ben Colburn
March 13, 2025
The question of autonomy is fundamental to understanding some of the most important questions and debates in contemporary political and moral life, from freedom of the individual, free will and decision-making to controversies surrounding medical ethics, human rights and the justifications for ...