Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
Scripts and Social Cognition: How We Interact with Others
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By Gen Eickers
May 21, 2026
This book argues that our success in navigating the social world depends heavily on scripts. Scripts play a central role in our ability to understand social interactions shaped by different contextual factors. In philosophy of social cognition, scholars have asked what mechanisms we employ when ...
The Philosophy of Environmental Emotions: Grief, Hope, and Beyond
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By Ondřej Beran, Laura Candiotto, Niklas Forsberg, Antony Fredriksson, David Rozen
May 21, 2026
This volume presents new philosophical perspectives on environmental emotions. It explores the motivating nature of emotions such as anger, grief, and hope in relation to the current climate crisis. Many of our emotional responses to the climate crisis take a distressed form like anxiety, despair, ...
The Philosophy of Transformative Experience
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By Michael Campbell
May 21, 2026
This volume examines the nature and significance of transformative experiences as they occur across a variety of contexts in human life. By treating these events as social as well as individual phenomena, the essays bring to light the various ways in which cultural and institutional forces ...
Cultural Evolution and Social Ontology: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
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By Martina Valković, Thomas A.C. Reydon
April 14, 2026
This volume explores connections between two growing and complementary fields of research: cultural evolutionary theory and social ontology. It sheds light on the ontological aspects of cultural evolution that so far have been largely neglected and raises questions for social ontology regarding the...
Creating Future Cities: Technology, Ethics, and the Fight for the Good Life
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By Shane Epting
March 22, 2026
This book fleshes out the idea that everything about the city involves a fight for the good life. From how we conceptualize it to its streets and the fiber-optic cables beneath them, nothing is excluded from creating the cities we want to call home. In turn, this book continues Shane Epting’s ideas...
Against Qualia, For Behaviorism
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By J. M. Fritzman
January 26, 2026
This book argues that qualia do not exist, and there is no phenomenal consciousness. Furthermore, it articulates and defends holistic behaviorism. “Qualia” or “phenomenal consciousness” refers to mental states that are supposedly ineffable, intrinsic, private, and directly or immediately ...
Normativity, Moral Reasoning, and Human Rights: Engaging with Contemporary Chinese Moral and Political Theory
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By Philippe Brunozzi
December 29, 2025
This title explores the under-examined theoretical foundations of contemporary Chinese philosophical discourse on human rights. Through an interpretive, critical, and constructive approach, it analyzes key elements of the broader theoretical context and offers a new framework for understanding and ...
Exploring Suicidal Ambivalence: Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives
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By René Baston, Martin Weichold
December 28, 2025
This volume offers a comprehensive interdisciplinary exploration of ambivalence in suicidal agency, a phenomenon that, despite its significance in clinical psychology, remains under-conceptualized. Philosophers debate what ambivalence amounts to and whether ambivalence undermines practical ...
Descent of the Dialectic: Phronetic Criticism in an Age of Nihilism
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By Michael J. Thompson
December 25, 2025
This book reconstructs the concept and practice of dialectics as a means of grounding a critical theory of society. At the center of this project is the thesis of phronetic criticism or a form of reason that is able to synthesize human value with objective rationality. This book argues that defects...
Imagination and Experience: Philosophical Explorations
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By Íngrid Vendrell Ferran, Christiana Werner
December 25, 2025
This volume brings together two philosophical research areas that have been subject to increased attention: work regarding the unique character of having an experience and studies on the nature and powers of imagination. The importance of imagination seems to stand in tension with the assumed ...
Philosophy of Plant Cognition: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
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By Gabriele Ferretti, Peter Schulte, Markus Wild
December 25, 2025
This volume features new research about the philosophy of plant intelligence and plant cognition, one of the most intriguing and complex current debates at the intersection of biology, cognitive science and philosophy. The debate about plant cognition is marked by deep disagreements. Some theorists...
The Autonomous Individual: A Praxeological Enactivist Account
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By Martin Weichold
December 25, 2025
This book advances a new theory of what it means to be an autonomous individual with free will and an authentic self. It synthesizes the new “action turn” from 4E cognitive science with the new “practice turn” from the social sciences to develop a new perspective on our self-interpretation as ...