Metaphilosophy

Putting Information First focuses on Luciano Floridi's contributions to the philosophy of information. Respected scholars stimulate the debate on the most distinctive and controversial views he defended, and present the philosophy of information as a specific way of doing philosophy. • Contains eight essays by leading scholars, a reply by Luciano Floridi, and an epilogue by Terrell W. Bynum • Explains the importance of philosophy of information as a specific way of doing philosophy • Focuses directly on the work of Luciano Floridi in the area of philosophy of information, but also connects to contemporary concerns in philosophy more generally • Illustrates several debates that arise from core themes in the philosophy of information.

The essays in this book explore the consequences of globalization for democracy, covering issues which include whether democracy implies exclusion or borders, and whether it is possible to create a democracy on a global level. • Explores the consequences of globalization for democracy • Discusses whether democracy implies exclusion or boundaries • Makes sense of democracy and human rights in a globalizing world • Investigates what kind of common identity can and should support forms of global democracy • Presents a state-of-the-art analysis of the foundations of global democracy

Virtue and Vice, Moral and Epistemic presents a series of essays by leading ethicists and epistemologists who offer the latest thinking on the moral and intellectual virtues and vices, the structure of virtue theory, and the connections between virtue and emotion. • Cuts across two fields of philosophical inquiry by featuring a dual focus on ethics and epistemology • Features cutting-edge work on the moral and intellectual virtues and vices, the structure of virtue theory, and the connections between virtue and emotion • Presents a radical new moral theory that makes exemplars the foundation of ethics, and new theories of epistemic vices such as epistemic malevolence and epistemic self-indulgence • Represents one of the few collections to address both the moral virtues and the epistemic virtues • Explores a new approach in epistemology - virtue epistemology - which emphasizes the importance of intellectual character traits.

Eleven Cambridge academics approach philosophy from various fields, to broaden its practical and theoretical applications. • Guides a tour through various academic departments-including history, political science, classics, law, and English-to ferret out the philosophy in their syllabi, and to show philosophy's symbiotic relationship with other fields • Provides a map of what philosophy is considered to be at Cambridge in the early twenty-first century, about a hundred years after the "founding fathers" of analytic philosophy reigned at Cambridge • Offers useful new directions for the study and application of philosophy, and how other fields can influence them

Connecting Virtues examines the significant advances within the fast-growing field of virtue theory and shows how research has contributed to the current debates in moral philosophy, epistemology, and political philosophy. • Includes groundbreaking chapters offering cutting-edge research on the topic of the virtues • Provides insights into the application of the topic of virtue, such as the role of intellectual virtues, virtuous dispositions, and the value of some neglected virtues for political philosophy • Examines the relevance of the virtues in the current debates in social epistemology, the epistemology of education, and civic education • Features work from world-leading and internationally recognized philosophers working on the virtues today

This is the first volume of its kind to provide a curated collection of cutting-edge scholarship on the philosophy of luck • Offers an in-depth examination of the concept of luck, which has often been overlooked in philosophical study • Includes discussions of luck from a range of philosophical perspectives, including ethics, epistemology, metaphysics, and cognitive science • Examines the role of luck in core philosophical problems, such as free will • Features work from the main philosophers writing on luck today

This is the first interdisciplinary exploration of the philosophical foundations of the Web, a new area of inquiry that has important implications across a range of domains. • Contains twelve essays that bridge the fields of philosophy, cognitive science, and phenomenology • Tackles questions such as the impact of Google on intelligence and epistemology, the philosophical status of digital objects, ethics on the Web, semantic and ontological changes caused by the Web, and the potential of the Web to serve as a genuine cognitive extension • Brings together insightful new scholarship from well-known analytic and continental philosophers, such as Andy Clark and Bernard Stiegler, as well as rising scholars in "digital native" philosophy and engineering • Includes an interview with Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the Web

Criticism and Compassion: The Ethics and Politics of Claudia Card offers a unique perspective on the range of issues explored by Card during her distinguished career in philosophy. • Investigates her work as an early leader in the development of feminist philosophy, challenging many preconceptions about the society's norms regarding gender, marriage, and motherhood • Crossing many disciplinary boundaries, her concept of social death has come to play a significant role in multidisciplinary field of genocide studies • This volume combines many of Claudia Card's important essays with recently commissioned essays by leading philosophers whose work has been influenced by Card • The full scope of Card's philosophy is presented here-both in her own words and those of her critics and interpreters

In the ancient world, philosophy was understood to be a practical guide for living, or even itself a way of life. This volume of essays brings historical views about philosophy as a way of life, coupled with their modern equivalents, more prevalently into the domain of the contemporary scholarly world. • Illustrates how the articulation of philosophy as a way of life and its pedagogical implementation advances the love of wisdom • Questions how we might convey the love of wisdom as not only a body of dogmatic principles and axiomatic truths but also a lived exercise that can be practiced • Offers a collection of essays on an emerging field of philosophical research • Essential reading for academics, researchers and scholars of philosophy, moral philosophy, and pedagogy; also business and professional people who have an interest in expanding their horizons

EXAMINING PHILOSOPHY ITSELF One of the most distinctive features of philosophy is self-reflection. Philosophers are not only concerned with metaphysical, epistemological, conceptual, ethical, and aesthetic issues of things around us, they also pay serious attention to the nature, value, methods, and development of philosophy itself. This book examines some of the most important metaphilosophical issues: Is philosophy progressive? Are metaphysical claims meaningful? What is the aim of philosophy? Should analytic metaphysics be replaced by naturalised metaphysics? What is the prospect of a digital approach to philosophy of science? Can poetry play a substantial role in philosophy? Examining Philosophy Itself will be of interest to researchers and advanced students in philosophy.