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Experts by Experience in the context of mental health are those who have personal experience of using, or caring for someone who uses, mental health and social care services. How do people with lived experience of mental illness contribute to scientific knowledge and personal growth? This volume comprises three distinct philosophical perspectives focused on specific theoretical and practical challenges for theorizing expertise by experience in philosophical mental health research: the idea of subjectivity in 'lived experience' and the issue of scientific validation, the prospects of shared meaning-making and the problem of injustice in 'co-production', and the philosophical role of values in navigating difference and value disagreement in psychiatry.

Philosophy in the Anglophone world is in a period of unprecedented change. If the twentieth century was one of increased specialisation and narrowing of concerns, the twenty-first looks like being one of expanding horizons. In this volume, philosophers offer their suggestions for ways in which this expansion might most fruitfully be pursued.

We live in an increasingly unpredictable physical and social environment. Climate change, viral pandemics, wars, and mass migrations present significant challenges, while new technologies and media are transforming the ways we understand ourselves and think about our political situations. Which attitudes, skills, and values should we cultivate to enable us to respond well to the challenges of this changing world? The essays in this volume emphasise the importance of creativity, collaboration, understanding, and wisdom in dealing with one another and thinking about novel and unforeseen difficulties. Through better reasoning, we can reduce the influence of immediate responses and attune our responses to how the world really is and what really matters. The book aims to begin a conversation about how to foster better reasoning about new challenges through our education system, the structures of our organisations, the regulation of social-and- mass media, and the designs of buildings and urban spaces.

What is the importance of the notion 'human being'? The contributors to this collection have radically different approaches, some accepting and others denying its validity for a proper understanding of what a person is and for our ethical thought about each other. Contributors on both sides of the divide eloquently defend their views in ways that stand in sharp contrast to some current work in moral philosophy and philosophy of mind. Epistemological and theological issues are also raised in the provocative and wide-ranging discussions stimulated by the volume's theme.

This volume offers a lively and accessible guide to some of the major issues current in French philosophy today and to some of the figures who are or have been influential in shaping its development. The collection is unusual and interesting in bringing together a range of contributors from both Britain and France, and is intended not only for professional philosophers but also for those with a more general interest in the French intellectual scene.

An alternative agenda for the philosophy of religion emerges from this interdisciplinary collection. Going outside the traditional concerns of natural theology, the distinguished contributors to this volume explore such topics as the nature of selfhood and its images in the ancient, the medieval and the modern world; the role of philosophy as a route to wisdom; non-conceptual awareness; and the nature of love and its relation to attention. Discussion focuses on the figures of Plato and Augustine, William James and the Absolute Idealist F. H. Bradley, Kierkegaard and Heidegger, as well as leading figures of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition.

In this volume leading international environmental philosophers further the debate about the value of nature, the concept of the environment, and the metaphysical, ethical, social and international implications of these concepts. Philosophers have to some extent neglected the study of nature and the natural environment, and this collection not only provides a long-overdue contribution to that study, but also points to inadequacies of much contemporary ethical and political theory. For environmentalists who are not philosophers, it will stimulate reflection on their own concepts and principles.

In A Philosophers' Manifesto leading philosophers from around the world present the case for a new policy or law they think will make an improvement in the world. This collection presents arguments for new approaches to social and political issues, showing how philosophy can be of real, practical benefit, especially in these fractious times.

This collection of papers aims to increase our understanding of what meaning in life is, in what way, if any, mortality can be said to be detrimental to a life's meaningfulness, and in what way death and mortality can be said to be requisites or at least constituents of a meaningful life.

Knowledge is often thought of as something that we each individually have, something inside our own minds, but is also influenced by social norms and practices. This volume gathers experts in the field from across the world to give their perspectives on Social Epistomology, the philosophical study of the social dimension of knowledge.

This volume presents articles examining the state of Irish philosophy during the lifetime of Ireland's most famous philosopher, Bishop George Berkeley (1685-1753). Articles address local Irish concerns and Ireland's relation to the broader European context, discussing philosophical reflections on religion, economics, laughter, and motherhood.

This volume celebrates the centenary of the birth of Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley and Iris Murdoch, demonstrating the ways they individually and collectively changed the direction of philosophy in the English speaking world in the mid-twentieth-century and how they continue to influence it one hundred years after their birth.

This volume, based on The Royal Institute of Philosophy's London Lecture series for 2017-18, considers passion and emotion, and their intentionality. The relationships between the passions and religious belief and to aesthetics are also analysed, alongside the ethical and psychoanalytical implications of our emotions.

This volume, based on the Royal Institute of Philosophy's annual lecture series for 2017-18, explores epistemic practice, examining the various ways in which epistemic practices go wrong at the level of both individual agents and social structures, and discussing how these problems are related, and how they may be addressed.

The papers collected in this volume have their origins in the 2016 Royal Institute of Philosophy annual conference. The subject addressed is moral enhancement: the idea that we should morally improve people through the manipulation of their biological constitution, using pharmacological, neuroscientific, or genetic means of modification.

This volume is based on the lectures given in London at The Royal Institute of Philosophy's annual lecture series for 2016-7. The topic chosen for the series was metaphysics. The papers in the volume cover a diverse range of topics, including the nature of metaphysical explanation, its scope and limits, essence, necessity, possibility and identity.

This volume presents cutting edge research by many of the leading researchers in the field of religious epistemology, a field that has seen major development in recent years. All of the papers included in this volume aim to be accessible to the interested layperson.

This volume contains notable essays on philosophy of action based on the Royal Institute of Philosophy lecture series. A wide range of topics relating to action are covered, including the nature of action and issues related to virtue, ethics, freedom and responsibility.

History of Philosophy: Twentieth-Century Perspectives is based on the Royal Institute of Philosophy's annual lecture series for 2014-15. A group of eminent scholars consider important figures in the history of philosophy from Plato to Wittgenstein. The volume is essential reading for all those interested in the history of philosophy.

This volume contains papers delivered by leading figures in moral philosophy and ethics as part of the Royal Institute of Philosophy's Annual Conference in 2014. The collection explores a range of philosophical problems surrounding the concept of supererogation, that is, freely and intentionally doing good beyond the requirements of duty.

This volume contains papers based on the lectures given by leading figures in current philosophy of mind as part of the Royal Institute of Philosophy's London Lecture series for 2013-14. The collection explores a wide range of issues, including consciousness, the self and the nature of the human person.

Philosophical Traditions, based on the Royal Institute of Philosophy's London Lecture series for 2012-13, explores different traditions in world philosophy.

Philosophy and Sport brings together the lectures given in the Royal Institute of Philosophy's annual lecture series for 2012-13. In the Olympic year, it seemed fitting to consider some of the many ethical questions raised by sport, and to bring together contributors from both philosophical and sporting worlds.

What is consciousness? By bringing together leading historians of philosophy and contemporary philosophers of mind to re-examine a broad range of inherited views, this new collection of essays addresses this and related questions from both a systematic and a theoretical perspective and seeks to create fruitful lines of future inquiry.

In this volume distinguished aestheticians consider the ways in which painting, sculpture, music, poetry and the cinema approach their subject matter and add to our aesthetic understanding. The volume contains discussions of artistic value, truth, performance and fakes which will be of interest both to aestheticians and philosophers more generally.

This collection of essays, originating in a conference at the Leeds Art Gallery in 2012, reviews the role of empirical enquiry in philosophical aesthetics. Contributions address aesthetic testimony, the processing and appreciation of poetry, creativity, musical cognition, the aesthetics of disgust and evolutionary constraints on art appreciation.

The papers in this 1982 volume deal with Marx's ideas and the varying constructions put on them by later Marxists. Based on a lecture series, they examine Marxist views of the nature of philosophy, history and historical explanation, the role and importance of politics, and literature and ethics.

This 1990 collection explores one recurrent theme connecting philosophy and politics: the relation between the nature of man and the structure of society. It does so by concentrating on the topical issue of the market economy as an attempt to resolve the clash between individual autonomy and collective action.

The journal is concerned with the study of philosophy in all its branches: logic, metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, aesthetics, social and political philosophy and the philosophies of religion, science, history, language, mind and education. The journal is not committed to any particular school or method and contributors are expected to avoid needless technicality.

Addressing the concept of philosophy as therapeia, this collection of essays by leading scholars provides a new reading of the history of philosophy, contradicting those who have wanted to maintain that philosophy is a peculiarly European cultural product, and instead affirming its identity as a global intellectual practice.