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The Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Philosophy series brings high quality research monograph publishing into focus for authors, the international library market, and student, academic and research readers. Headed by an international editorial advisory board of acclaimed scholars from across the philosophical spectrum, this monograph series presents cutting-edge research from established as well as exciting new authors in the field. Spanning the breadth of philosophy and related disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Philosophy takes contemporary philosophical research into new directions and debate.
Logic & Natural Language: On Plural Reference and Its Semantic and Logical Significance
1st Edition
By Hanoch Ben-Yami
December 18, 2020
Frege's invention of the predicate calculus has been the most influential event in the history of modern logic. The calculus’ place in logic is so central that many philosophers think, in fact, of it when they think of logic. This book challenges the position in contemporary logic and philosophy of...
Dieter Henrich and Contemporary Philosophy: The Return to Subjectivity
1st Edition
By Dieter Freundlieb
October 27, 2017
Dieter Henrich is one of the most respected and frequently cited philosophers in Germany today. His extensive and highly innovative studies of German Idealism and his systematic analyses of subjectivity have significantly impacted on advanced German philosophical and theological debates. Dieter ...
Action and Ethics in Aristotle and Hegel: Escaping the Malign Influence of Kant
1st Edition
By Gary Pendlebury
May 16, 2017
Pendlebury alleges that abstraction and rationalization have had a strong and malign influence on normative moral philosophy in the 20th century. Criticizing writers such as Hare, Rawls and Scanlon for pursuing a conception of moral philosophy that bears little resemblance to the way in which human...
Hume's Scepticism and the Science of Human Nature
1st Edition
By Paul Stanistreet
May 16, 2017
This book explores the relationship between Hume's sceptical philosophy and his Newtonian ambition of founding a science of human nature. Assessing both received and 'new' readings of Hume's philosophy, Stanistreet offers a line of interpretation which, he argues, makes sense of many of the ...
Liberty, Property and Markets: A Critique of Libertarianism
1st Edition
By Daniel Attas
May 16, 2017
Libertarianism attempts to establish a set of property rights as a complete political morality, its argument proceeding from liberty tout court, as the unique foundational aspect of well being that grounds rights. In this book, Attas presents a sympathetic reconstruction of the libertarian argument...
Negotiating the Good Life: Aristotle and the Civil Society
1st Edition
By Mark A. Young
May 16, 2017
For centuries philosophers have wrestled with the dichotomy between individual freedom on the one hand and collective solidarity on the other. Yet today there is a growing realization that this template is fundamentally flawed. In this book, Mark Young embraces and advocates a more holistic concept...
On Thinking and the World: John McDowell's Mind and World
1st Edition
By Sandra M. Dingli
May 16, 2017
John McDowell's Mind and World has, since its publication in 1994, become a seminal text, putting forward many new ideas on the manner in which concepts mediate the relation between minds and the world. Yet McDowell's ideas are not easy to comprehend. In this book Sandra Dingli both elaborates and ...
Virtue Ethics and Moral Knowledge: Philosophy of Language after MacIntyre and Hauerwas
1st Edition
By R. Scott Smith
May 16, 2017
We live in a time of moral confusion: many believe there are no overarching moral norms, and we have lost an accepted body of moral knowledge. Alasdair MacIntyre addresses this problem in his much-heralded restatement of Aristotelian and Thomistic virtue ethics; Stanley Hauerwas does so through ...
Slavoj Žižek: A Little Piece of the Real
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By Matthew Sharpe
March 31, 2017
Slavoj Zizek has emerged as the pre-eminent European cultural theorist of the last decade and has been described as the ultimate Marxist/Lacanian cultural studies scholar. His large and growing body of work has generated considerable controversy, yet his texts are not structured as standard ...
Incommensurability and Cross-Language Communication
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By Xinli Wang
December 07, 2016
A dominant epistemological assumption behind Western philosophy is that it is possible to locate some form of commonality between languages, traditions, or cultures - such as a common language or lexicon, or a common notion of rationality - which makes full linguistic communication between them ...
The Logic of Expression: Quality, Quantity and Intensity in Spinoza, Hegel and Deleuze
1st Edition
By Simon Duffy
November 30, 2016
Engaging with the challenging and controversial reading of Spinoza presented by Gilles Deleuze in Expressionism in Philosophy (1968), this book focuses on Deleuze's redeployment of Spinozist concepts within the context of his own philosophical project of constructing a philosophy of difference as ...
The Stoics on Determinism and Compatibilism
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By Ricardo Salles
November 30, 2016
The Stoics on Determinism and Compatibilism is an important book which reconstructs the arguments deployed by the Stoics in favour of the view that everything is necessary and examines the development of the different arguments given by the Stoics that this is compatible with moral responsibility ...