Critical Thinking Products

Edited by Mark Jackson

This book brings together emerging insights from across the humanities and social sciences to highlight how postcolonial studies are being transformed by alternative, increasingly influential and radical approaches to nature, politics, matter, subjectivity and human agency. This book examines how…

Hardback – 2017-03-31 
Routledge
Routledge Research in New Postcolonialisms

By Vasilis Grollios

The current political climate of uncompromising neoliberalism means that the need to study the logic of our culture—that is, the logic of the capitalist system—is compelling. Providing a rich philosophical analysis of democracy from a negative, non-identity, dialectical perspective, Vasilis…

Hardback – 2017-01-24 
Routledge
Routledge Advances in Democratic Theory

By Harry J Gensler

Introduction to Logic is clear and concise, uses interesting examples (many philosophical in nature), and has easy-to-use proof methods. Its key features, retained in this Third Edition, include: simpler ways to test arguments, including an innovative proof method and the star test for…

Paperback – 2016-12-29 
Routledge

By Robin Barrow

Abortion, distribution of wealth, civil disobedience, reverse discrimination, sex-role stereotyping, censorship – what does philosophy have to contribute to these practical moral issues? In this important book, first published in 1982, Robin Barrow argues convincingly that the capacity to make fine…

Paperback – 2016-12-07
Routledge
Routledge Revivals

By Stuart Hanscomb

Critical Thinking: The Basics is an accessible and engaging introduction to the field of critical thinking, drawing on philosophy, communication and psychology. Emphasising its relevance to decision making (in personal, professional and civic life), academic literacy and personal development, this…

Paperback – 2016-11-29
Routledge
The Basics

By C.M. Mulcahy, D.E. Mulcahy, D.G. Mulcahy

Recent years have shown the growth of federal legislation and programs having a profound impact on educational policy and practice, and a decline in reliance on broadly based educational justifications. Paralleling this development has been the emergence of well-endowed and influential private…

Paperback – 2016-11-18
Routledge
Routledge Research in Education Policy and Politics

By Stephen Connelly

Against jurisprudential reductions of Spinoza’s thinking to a kind of eccentric version of Hobbes, this book argues that Spinoza’s theory of natural right contains an important idea of absolute freedom, which would be inconceivable within Hobbes’ own schema. Spinoza famously thought that the…

Paperback – 2016-11-11
Birkbeck Law Press
Birkbeck Law Press

By Peter Langford

Roberto Esposito: Law, Community and the Political provides a critical legal introduction to this increasingly influential Italian theorist’s work, by focusing on Esposito’s reconceptualisation of the relationship between law, community and the political. The analysis concentrates primarily on…

Paperback – 2016-11-08
Routledge
Nomikoi Critical Legal Thinkers

By Stan Baronett

The overriding rationale behind this book is a desire to enrich the lives of college students by introducing them to the practice of philosophical thought in an accessible and engaging manner. The text has over one hundred classical and contemporary readings that facilitate studying each…

Paperback – 2016-09-29
Routledge

By Alan Norrie

In this follow-up to Law and the Beautiful Soul, Alan Norrie addresses the split between legal and ethical judgment. Shaped by history, law’s formalism both eschews and requires ethics. The first essays consider legal form in its practical aspect, and the ethical problems encountered (‘law’s…

Hardback – 2016-09-07
Routledge

By Mikael Klintman

Within the disciplines of social, economic, and evolutionary science, a proud ignorance can often be found of the other areas’ approaches. This text provides a novel intellectual basis for breaking this trend. Certainly, Human Sciences and Human Interests aspires to open a broad debate about what…

Hardback – 2016-08-15
Routledge
Routledge Advances in Sociology

By Paul Fairfield

Deep disagreements exist regarding what thinking and critical thinking are and to what extent they are teachable. Thinking is learned in some measure by all, but not everything that is learnable is also teachable in an institutional setting. In questioning the relationship between teachability and…

Hardback – 2016-08-15
Routledge
Routledge International Studies in the Philosophy of Education