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This volume brings together essays that examine and defend the use of experiential learning activities to teach philosophical terms, concepts, arguments, and practices, and argue that teaching philosophy is about doing philosophy with others.

This collection brings together contributions from a diverse group of philosophers who explore a broad but thematically unified set of questions on the role of naturalism in the philosophy of the social sciences. Informed by recent developments in both philosophy and the social sciences, this volume will set the benchmark for contemporary discussions about normativity and naturalism.

This volume is devoted to exploring the intersection between virtue epistemology and education. With its focus on intellectual virtues and their role in the acquisition and transmission of knowledge and related epistemic goods, virtue epistemology provides a rich set of tools for educational theory and practice.

Although scholarship in philosophy of action has grown in recent years, there has been little work explicitly dealing with the role of time in agency¿a role with great significance for the study of action theory. As the articles in this collection demonstrate, virtually every fundamental issue in the philosophy of action involves considerations of time. The four sections of this volume address the metaphysics of action, diachronic practical rationality, the relation between deliberation and action, and the phenomenology of agency, providing an overview of the central developments in each area with an emphasis on the role of temporality.

This edited collection focuses on the moral and social dimensions of ignorance¿an undertheorized category in analytic philosophy. Contributors address such issues as the relation between ignorance and deception, ignorance as a moral excuse, ignorance as a legal excuse, and the relation between ignorance and moral character.

This collection offers a synoptic view of the philosophical discussion over the relationship between facts and values, bringing together contributors committed to exposing the weaknesses of the fact-value dichotomy and exploring alternatives and their implications.

This volume brings together experts from different fields-including William Bechtel, Stewart Clark, Tom Lancaster, Carl Gillett, John Heil, Robin F. Hendry, Max Kistler -who delve into classic and unexplored lines of philosophical inquiry related to downward causation. It critically assesses the possibility of downward causation given different ontological assumptions and explores the connection between downward causation and the metaphysics of causation and dispositions. Finally, it presents different cases of downward causation in empirical fields such as physics, chemistry, biology and the neurosciences.

This volume represents a new contribution to the study of the connection between disagreement and skepticism in epistemology, metaethics, ancient philosophy, and metaphilosophy.

This book offers a philosophical examination of incarceration as a form of punishment. A diverse group of contributors engages with research in criminology, economics, law, and sociology to help contextualize the philosophical issues.

This collection brings together the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and the rich tradition of Pragmatist thought, providing a model for pluralist, boundary-crossing scholarship. Contributors explore Deleuze¿s explicit and implicit relationship to American Pragmatism and investigate Deleuze¿s thought at those points which are of most conceptual interest to philosophers currently working in the tradition of Pragmatism. By bringing together Deleuze¿s philosophy and Pragmatist thought while remaining conscious of the differences between them, the collection aims to produce through a variety of conceptual frameworks capable of contributing to contemporary philosophical debate more broadly.

This volume is devoted to exploring the intersection between virtue epistemology and education. With its focus on intellectual virtues and their role in the acquisition and transmission of knowledge and related epistemic goods, virtue epistemology provides a rich set of tools for educational theory and practice.

The clash of ideas often yields insults and increased divisiveness, but civility is more than mere polite behavior: it aids rational discourse in politics and education. This volume examines the contribution of civility to education, citizenship, and public discourse from Eastern and Western as well as classic and modern perspectives.

This book brings together experts of analytic and continental philosophy to discuss the legacy of Kantianism. It explores the ways in which the philosophy of Sellars can be put into dialogue with the work of Meillassoux, explaining how their stances can be compared thanks to their shared Kantian heritage and interest in the problem of realism.

This collection offers a synoptic view of the philosophical discussion over the relationship between facts and values, bringing together contributors committed to exposing the weaknesses of the fact-value dichotomy and exploring alternatives and their implications.

Guided by the contention that different conceptions of the political are committed to specific conceptions of subjectivity while different conceptions of subjectivity have different political implications, the essays in this collection explore these notions and their connection.

This forward-thinking collection presents new work that looks beyond the division between the analytic and continental philosophical traditions-one that has long caused dissension, mutual distrust, and institutional barriers to the development of common concerns and problems.

This collection of essays brings together research on sense modalities and spatial perception in a systematic and interdisciplinary way. It updates a long-standing philosophical fascination with this topic by incorporating theoretical and empirical research from cognitive science, neuroscience, and psychology.

This book brings together early-career and well-known philosophers to explore indeterminacy in greater detail. The volume is unique in that its essays demonstrate the positive significance of indeterminacy, insofar as indeterminacy opens up new fields of discourses and illuminates neglected aspects of various concepts and phenomena.