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New Books January – March 2010 Taylor & Francis Routledge Routledge • Cavendish CRC Press Psychology Press Garland Science David Fulton Publishers Contents About this Catalogue 1 Humanities Nursing and Allied Health Philosophy 2 Nursing 135 Religion 7 Medical Sociology & Health Studies 136 History 8 Social Work & Social Policy 137 Archaeology and Museum Studies 12 Medicine 137 Classical Studies 13 Life Sciences Media and Cultural Studies 14 Biological Sciences 138 Literature 24 Biotechnology 141 English Language and Linguistics 27 Pharmaceutical Sciences 142 Language Learning 30 Neuroscience 142 Theatre and Performance Studies 32 Forensic Science 143 Music 34 Food Science 145 Education Built Environment Early Years and Childhood Studies 36 Architecture and Planning 147 Teaching and Learning 37 Civil Engineering and Building 153 Special Needs 45 Environmental Engineering 156 Post-Compulsory and Higher Education 46 Research Methods 48 Science and Technology Education Theory 49 Ergonomics and Human Factors 159 Environmental Science 159 Social Sciences GIS and Remote Sensing 161 Politics 55 Electrical, Chemical, and Military and Strategic Studies 65 Mechanical Engineering 163 Asian Studies 69 Industrial Engineering, and Management 171 Russian Studies 74 Mathematics and Statistics 172 Middle East Studies 75 Computer Science and Law 78 Computer Engineering 177 Criminology 88 Information Technology 179 Business and Management 90 Geotechnology, Mining, Economics 98 and Petroleum Engineering 182 Geography and GIS 106 Physics, Chemistry and Materials Science 183 Sociology 109 Water Management and Technology 190 Sports Science, Leisure Studies, and Culture 117 Behavioural Sciences Library Reference 192 Psychology 120 Index 202 Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry 125 Agents and Distribution 214 Psychotherapy and Counselling 126 POS/Catalogue Order Form 216 Psychoanalysis 129 Child & Adolescent Mental Health 132 Creative Arts Therapies 134 Front cover: Woman’s Work, 2001 (oil on canvas) by Willis, Tilly (Contemporary Artist) Private Collection, © The Bridgeman Art Library Nationality / copyright status: English / in copyright www.tandf.co.uk/books Welcome to the Taylor & Francis New Titles catalogue for January – March 2010 uilding on two centuries’ experience, Taylor & Francis has grown rapidly to Bbecome a leading international academic publisher. 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In to the Routledge Arguments of the this superb introduction to the problem, Philosophers Series and to the Quine Daniel Stoljar focuses on three fundamental literature generally.’ – Alexander Miller, questions: the interpretation, truth and University of Birmingham, UK philosophical signifi cance of physicalism. In this outstanding overview of Quine’s In answering these questions, he covers philosophy, Peter Hylton shows why Quine the following key topics: is so important, and how his philosophical • a brief history of physicalism naturalism has been so infl uential within • what a physical property is and how analytic philosophy. physicalism meets challenges from Selected Contents: 1. Introduction empirical sciences 2. Quine’s Philosophical Background 3. The Analytic-synthetic Distinction • ‘Hempel’s dilemma’ and the relationship between physicalism 4. Re-conceiving Epistemology 5. The Beginnings of Cognitive Language and physics 6. Beyond the Observation Sentences 7. Theory and Evidence 8. Radical Translation and its Indeterminacy 9. Quinean Metaphysics 10. A Framework • physicalism and key debates in metaphysics and philosophy for Theory 11. Extensionality, Reference, and Singular Terms 12. Ontology, of mind, such as supervenience, identity and conceivability Physicalism, Realism 13. Minds, Beliefs, and Modality • physicalism and causality. Routledge Additional features include chapter summaries, annotated further Market: Philosophy reading and a glossary of technical terms, making Physicalism ideal January 2010: 234x156: 304pp for those coming to the problem for the fi rst time. Pb: 978-0-415-78007-0: £19.99 $34.95 Routledge Market: Philosophy March 2010: 234x156: 288pp Hb: 978-0-415-45262-5: £65.00 $120.00 Pb: 978-0-415-45263-2: £19.99 $35.95 Noncognitivism in Ethics Content and Consciousness Mark Schroeder, University of Southern California, USA Daniel C. Dennett, Tufts University, USA Series: New Problems of Philosophy Series: Routledge Classics An outstanding introduction to the view ‘One rarely encounters a diffi cult that statements about ethics cannot be work of technical philosophy shown to be true or false – one of the most that is such a pleasure to read.’ controversial problems in contemporary – Thomas Nagel, Journal of Philosophy philosophy. Beginning with a helpful First published in 1969, Content introduction to metaethics, Mark and Consciousness is an original and Schroeder evaluates emotivism, ground-breaking attempt to elucidate a contrasting it with prescriptivism and problem which is integral to the history explains the ‘Frege-Geach’ problem. of Western philosophical thought – that Subsequent chapters examine ‘expressivism’, is: the relationship of the mind and body. the most recent and infl uential form of In this formative work, Daniel C. Dennett noncognitivism, and assess the idea that sought to develop a theory of the human moral claims cannot be true or false – a mind and consciousness based on new central tenet of ethical noncognitivism. Schroeder also pays close and challenging advances in the fi eld that attention to the consequences of ethical noncognitivism, including came to be known as cognitive science. Widely-regarded as the book the challenge of relativism. from which all of Dennett’s future ideas developed, this important and illuminating work is the author’s fi rst explosive rebuttal of Cartesian Exercises at the end of each chapter, chapter summaries and a glossary dualism and one of the founding texts of philosophy of mind. of technical terms make Noncognitivsm in Ethics essential reading. Routledge Routledge Market: Philosophy Market: Philosophy March 2010: 198x129: 288pp March 2010: 234x156: 272pp Pb: 978-0-415-56786-2: £12.99 $23.95 Hb: 978-0-415-77343-0: £65.00 $120.00 eBook: 978-0-203-09295-8: £12.99 $23.95 Pb: 978-0-415-77344-7: £19.99 $35.95 PHILOSOPHY 3 The Imaginary Philosophy of Perception A Phenomenological Psychology of the Imagination A Contemporary Introduction Jean-Paul Sartre William Fish, Massey University, New Zealand Series: Routledge Classics Series: Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy ‘We may therefore conclude that The philosophy of perception investigates imagination is not an empirical power the nature of our sensory experiences and added to consciousness, but it is the their relation to reality and is a growing whole of consciousness as it realizes area of interest in metaphysics, freedom.’ – Jean-Paul Sartre epistemology, and philosophy of mind. First published in 1940, Sartre’s William Fish’s Philosophy of Perception The Imaginary is a cornerstone of his introduces the subject thematically, setting philosophy. Sartre had become acquainted out the major theories of perception with the philosophy of Edmund Husserl together with their motivations and in Berlin and was fascinated by his idea of attendant problems. While

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