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1. Kant, Foucault, and Forms of Experience

   By Marc Djaballah

   Series: Studies in Philosophy

   This study presents the theoretical apparatus of Foucault’s early historical analyses as a version of Kantian criticism. In an initial textual exposition, the author attempts to distill a unified discursive practice from Kant’s theoretical writings, arguing for Foucault’s proximity to Kant on the...

   Published December 14th 2011 by Routledge
2. Topics in the Philosophy of Possible Worlds

   By Daniel Nolan

   Series: Studies in Philosophy

   This book discusses a range of important issues in current philosophical work on the nature of possible worlds. Areas investigated include the theories of the nature of possible worlds, general questions about metaphysical analysis and questions about the direction of dependence between what is...

   Published December 11th 2011 by Routledge
3. Teleology and the Norms of Nature

   By William J. FitzPatrick

   Series: Studies in Philosophy

   This work is an examination of teleological attributions i.e. ascriptions of proper functions and natural ends) to the features and behavior of living things with a view to understanding their application to human life....

   Published December 11th 2011 by Routledge
4. Frege and the Logic of Sense and Reference

   By Kevin C. Klement

   Series: Studies in Philosophy

   This book aims to develop certain aspects of Gottlob Frege's theory of meaning, especially those relevant to intentional logic. It offers a new interpretation of the nature of senses, and attempts to devise a logical calculus for the theory of sense and reference that captures as closely as...

   Published December 8th 2011 by Routledge
5. Mathematics in Kant's Critical Philosophy

   Reflections on Mathematical Practice

   By Lisa Shabel

   Series: Studies in Philosophy

   In this work Lisa Shabel convincingly argues that it is only through an understanding of the relevant eighteenth century mathematics textbooks, and the related mathematical practice, can the material and context necessary for a successful interpretation of Kant's philosophy be provided....

   Published December 8th 2011 by Routledge
6. The Ethics of Need

   Agency, Dignity, and Obligation

   By Sarah Clark Miller

   Series: Studies in Philosophy

   The Ethics of Need: Agency, Dignity, and Obligation argues for the philosophical importance of the notion of need and for an ethical framework through which we can determine which needs have moral significance. In the volume, Sarah Clark Miller synthesizes insights from Kantian and feminist care...

   Published September 19th 2011 by Routledge
7. The Mystical in Wittgenstein's Early Writings

   By James Atkinson

   Series: Studies in Philosophy

   The aim of this book is to consider what reasonably follows from the hypothesis that the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus can be interpreted from a mystical point of view. Atkinson intends to elucidate Wittgenstein’s thoughts on the mystical in his early writings as they pertain to a number of topics...

   Published August 15th 2011 by Routledge
8. Art as Abstract Machine

   Ontology and Aesthetics in Deleuze and Guattari

   By Stephen Zepke

   Series: Studies in Philosophy

   The aim of this book is to understand what Deleuze and Guattari mean by "art." Stephen Zepke argues that art, in their account, is an ontological term and an ontological practice that results in a new understanding of aesthetics. For Deleuze and Guattari understanding what art "is" means...

   Published May 15th 2011 by Routledge
9. The Culture of Confession from Augustine to Foucault

   A Genealogy of the 'Confessing Animal'

   By Chloë Taylor

   Series: Studies in Philosophy

   Drawing on the work of Foucault and Western confessional writings, this book challenges the transhistorical and commonsense views of confession as an innate impulse resulting in the psychological liberation of the confessing subject. Instead, confessional desire is argued to be contingent and...

   Published November 9th 2010 by Routledge
10. Husserl's Constitutive Phenomenology

    Its Problem and Promise

    By Bob Sandmeyer

    Series: Studies in Philosophy

    If Edmund Husserl's true philosophy lay in his unpublished research manuscripts, as he argues, then it is in these – rather than the "introductions" and fragmentary studies he published during his lifetime – that we may possibly find a systematic of his philosophy. This work constitutes a study of...

    Published November 9th 2010 by Routledge