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  • Evidentialism and the Will to Believe

    by Scott Aikin ...
    Work on the norms of belief in epistemology regularly starts with two touchstone essays: W.K. Clifford's "The Ethics of Belief" and William James's "The Will to Believe." Discussing the central themes from these seminal essays, Evidentialism and the Will to Believe explores the history of the ideas governing evidentialism.As well as Clifford's argument from the examples of the shipowner, the ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Epictetus’s 'Encheiridion'

    A New Translation and Guide to Stoic Ethics

    by Scott Aikin, William O. Stephens ...
    For anyone approaching the Encheiridion of Epictetus for the first time, this book provides a comprehensive guide to understanding a complex philosophical text. Including a full translation and clear explanatory commentaries, *Epictetus's '*Encheiridion' introduces readers to a hugely influential work of Stoic philosophy. Scott Aikin and William O. Stephens unravel the core themes of Stoic ethics ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Political Argument in a Polarized Age

    Reason and Democratic Life

    by Scott F. Aikin, Robert B. Talisse ...
    From obnoxious public figures to online trolling and accusations of “fake news”, almost no one seems able to disagree without hostility. But polite discord sounds farfetched when issues are so personal and fundamental that those on opposing sides appear to have no common ground. How do you debate the “enemy”?Philosophers Scott Aikin and Robert Talisse show that disagreeing civilly, even with your ... Read more

    $12.00 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Argumentation Theory

    Edited by Scott Aikin, John Casey, Katharina Stevens ...
    Series series Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy
    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 provides a state-of-the-art survey to help readers understand and engage with the field’s main ideas and ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Straw Man Arguments

    A Study in Fallacy Theory

    by Scott Aikin, Dr John Casey ...
    This book analyses the straw man fallacy and its deployment in philosophical reasoning. While commonly invoked in both academic dialogue and public discourse, it has not until now received the attention it deserves as a rhetorical device.Scott Aikin and John Casey propose that straw manning essentially consists in expressing distorted representations of one's critical interlocutor. To this end, ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Why We Argue (And How We Should)

    A Guide to Political Disagreement in an Age of Unreason

    by Scott Aikin, Robert Talisse ...
    Why We Argue (And How We Should): A Guide to Political Disagreement in an Age of Unreason presents an accessible and engaging introduction to the theory of argument, with special emphasis on the way argument works in public political debate. The authors develop a view according to which proper argument is necessary for one’s individual cognitive health; this insight is then expanded to the ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Epistemology and the Regress Problem

    by Scott Aikin ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
    In the last decade, the familiar problem of the regress of reasons has returned to prominent consideration in epistemology. And with the return of the problem, evaluation of the options available for its solution is begun anew. Reason’s regress problem, roughly put, is that if one has good reasons to believe something, one must have good reason to hold those reasons are good. And for those reasons ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Pragmatism, Pluralism, and the Nature of Philosophy

    by Scott F. Aikin, Robert B. Talisse ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in American Philosophy
    For the past fifteen years, Aikin and Talisse have been working collaboratively on a new vision of American pragmatism, one which sees pragmatism as a living and developing philosophical idiom that originates in the work of the "classical" pragmatisms of Charles Peirce, William James, and John Dewey, uninterruptedly develops through the later 20th Century pragmatists (C. I. Lewis, Wilfrid Sellars, ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • The Pragmatism Reader

    From Peirce through the Present

    Edited by Robert B. Talisse, Scott F. Aikin ...
    A wide-ranging anthology of key pragmatist writingsThe Pragmatism Reader is the essential anthology of this important philosophical movement. Each selection featured here is a key writing by a leading pragmatist thinker, and represents a distinctively pragmatist approach to a core philosophical problem. The collection includes work by pragmatism's founders, Charles Peirce, William James, and John ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Routledge Companion to Pragmatism

    Edited by Scott F. Aikin, Robert B. Talisse ...
    Series series Routledge Philosophy Companions
    The Routledge Companion to Pragmatism offers 44 cutting-edge chapters—written specifically for this volume by an international team of distinguished researchers—that assess the past, present, and future of pragmatism. Going beyond the exposition of canonical texts and figures, the collection presents pragmatism as a living philosophical idiom that continues to devise promising theses in ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • William James, Moral Philosophy, and the Ethical Life

    by Jacob L. Goodson, Guy Axtell, Gregory Eiselein, Amy Kittelstrom, Joseph D. John, Roger Ward, Neal A. Tognazzini, Scott F. Aikin, Robert B. Talisse, Scott R. Stroud0, Jaishikha Nautiyal1, Anthony Karlin2, G. Scott Davis3, Eric Silverman4, Lee Yearley5, Frederick J. Ruf6, Gary S. Slater7, Pamela Crosby8, David O’Hara9, Ermine L. Algaier IV0, D. Micah Hester1, John R. Shook2, Sami Pihlström3, Seth Vannatta4 ...
    Series series American Philosophy Series
    Virtue theory, natural law, deontology, utilitarianism, existentialism: these are the basic moral theories taught in “Ethics,” “History of Philosophy,” and “Introduction to Philosophy” courses throughout the United States. When the American philosopher William James (1842 – 1910) find his way into these conversations, there is uncertainty about where his thinking fits. While utilitarianism has ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

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    A Contemporary Introduction

    by Michael McKenna, Derk Pereboom ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy
    As an advanced introduction to the challenging topic of free will, this book is designed for upper-level undergraduates interested in a comprehensive first-stop into the field’s issues and debates. It is written by two of the leading participants in those debates—a compatibilist on the issue of free will and determinism (Michael McKenna) and an incompatibilist (Derk Pereboom). These two authors ... Read more

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