Currently John Dewey Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University, Philip Kitcher is a former President of the American Philosophical Association (Pacific Division), a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is also the first recipient of the Prometheus Prize of the American Philosophical Association. His previous books include The Advancement of Science (OUP); The Lives to Come: The Genetic Revolution and Human Possibilities; Science, Truth, and Democracy (OUP); In Mendel's Mirror; and Finding an Ending: Reflections on Wagner's Ring.

Kitcher begins Joyce's Kaleidoscope by asking the right question: not 'What does each word mean?' but 'What meaning does our experience of reading convey?' This will find an elegant and satisfactory answer if we accept this invitation to a spiraling tour of the book. The 'passkey' has been given; just 'mind your hats goan in!'

• Acknowledgements ; Awakening ; So soft this morning, ours ; His reignbolt's shot ; Respectable ; Nayman of Noland ; Crossmess parzel ; Life's robulous rebus ; Three score and ten toptypsical readings ; The hubbub caused in Edenborough ; The unfacts, did we possess them, are too imprecisely few to warrant our certitude ; Everybody heard their plaint ; Tell me more ; Loud, heap miseries upon us ; The tasks above are as the flasks below ; From Liff away ; The four of us and sure, thank God, there are no more of us ; A picture primitive ; Lightbreakfastbringer ; Arise, sir ghostus! ; Male and female, unmask we hem ; The keys to. Given!

Currently John Dewey Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University, Philip Kitcher is a former President of the American Philosophical Association (Pacific Division), a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is also the first recipient of the Prometheus Prize of the American Philosophical Association. His previous books include The Advancement of Science (OUP); The Lives to Come: The Genetic Revolution and Human Possibilities; Science, Truth, and Democracy (OUP); In Mendel's Mirror; and Finding an Ending: Reflections on Wagner's Ring.

Kitcher begins Joyce's Kaleidoscope by asking the right question: not 'What does each word mean?' but 'What meaning does our experience of reading convey?' This will find an elegant and satisfactory answer if we accept this invitation to a spiraling tour of the book. The 'passkey' has been given; just 'mind your hats goan in!'

• Acknowledgements ; Awakening ; So soft this morning, ours ; His reignbolt's shot ; Respectable ; Nayman of Noland ; Crossmess parzel ; Life's robulous rebus ; Three score and ten toptypsical readings ; The hubbub caused in Edenborough ; The unfacts, did we possess them, are too imprecisely few to warrant our certitude ; Everybody heard their plaint ; Tell me more ; Loud, heap miseries upon us ; The tasks above are as the flasks below ; From Liff away ; The four of us and sure, thank God, there are no more of us ; A picture primitive ; Lightbreakfastbringer ; Arise, sir ghostus! ; Male and female, unmask we hem ; The keys to. Given!

Currently John Dewey Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University, Philip Kitcher is a former President of the American Philosophical Association (Pacific Division), a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is also the first recipient of the Prometheus Prize of the American Philosophical Association. His previous books include The Advancement of Science (OUP); The Lives to Come: The Genetic Revolution and Human Possibilities; Science, Truth, and Democracy (OUP); In Mendel's Mirror; and Finding an Ending: Reflections on Wagner's Ring.

Kitcher begins Joyce's Kaleidoscope by asking the right question: not 'What does each word mean?' but 'What meaning does our experience of reading convey?' This will find an elegant and satisfactory answer if we accept this invitation to a spiraling tour of the book. The 'passkey' has been given; just 'mind your hats goan in!'

• Acknowledgements ; Awakening ; So soft this morning, ours ; His reignbolt's shot ; Respectable ; Nayman of Noland ; Crossmess parzel ; Life's robulous rebus ; Three score and ten toptypsical readings ; The hubbub caused in Edenborough ; The unfacts, did we possess them, are too imprecisely few to warrant our certitude ; Everybody heard their plaint ; Tell me more ; Loud, heap miseries upon us ; The tasks above are as the flasks below ; From Liff away ; The four of us and sure, thank God, there are no more of us ; A picture primitive ; Lightbreakfastbringer ; Arise, sir ghostus! ; Male and female, unmask we hem ; The keys to. Given!