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The Main Enterprise of the World
Rethinking Education
Häftad, 2025
264 kr
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Philip Kitcher's The Main Enterprise of the World offers a sweeping vision of the goals of education. Kitcher considers the ways in which schools and universities should advance their goals, explores the social changes required to make high-quality education available to all, and argues that these …
Joyce's Ulysses
Philosophical Perspectives
Häftad, 2020
504 kr
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Though James Joyce was steeped in philosophy and humanism, he has received too little attention from contemporary philosophers in comparison to many of the other titans of modernist fiction. This book probes the possibilities for thinking philosophically about Joyce's masterpiece, Ulysses, …
Joyce's Ulysses
Philosophical Perspectives
Inbunden, 2020
1533 kr
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Though James Joyce was steeped in philosophy and humanism, he has received too little attention from contemporary philosophers in comparison to many of the other titans of modernist fiction. This book probes the possibilities for thinking philosophically about Joyce's masterpiece, Ulysses, …
Joyce's Ulysses
Philosophical Perspectives
E-bok, 2020
338 kr
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Though James Joyce was steeped in philosophy and humanism, he has received too little attention from contemporary philosophers in comparison to many of the other titans of modernist fiction. This book probes the possibilities for thinking philosophically about Joyce''s masterpiece, Ulysses , …
Joyce's Ulysses
Philosophical Perspectives
E-bok, 2020
338 kr
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Though James Joyce was steeped in philosophy and humanism, he has received too little attention from contemporary philosophers in comparison to many of the other titans of modernist fiction. This book probes the possibilities for thinking philosophically about Joyce''s masterpiece, Ulysses , …
The Main Enterprise of the World
Rethinking Education
Inbunden, 2022
530 kr
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Philip Kitcher's The Main Enterprise of the World offers a sweeping vision of the goals of education. Kitcher considers the ways in which schools and universities should advance their goals, explores the social changes required to make high-quality education available to all, and argues that these …
The Nature of Mathematical Knowledge
Häftad, 1985
1252 kr
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This book argues against the view that mathematical knowledge is a priori, contending that mathematics is an empirical science and develops historically, just as natural sciences do. Kitcher presents a complete, systematic, and richly detailed account of the nature of mathematical knowledge and its …
The Advancement of Science
Science Without Legend, Objectivity Without Illusions
Häftad, 1995
1547 kr
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Philip Kitcher resurrects notions of objectivity and progress in science by identifying both the limitations of idealized treatments of the growth of knowledge and overreactions to philosophical idealizations.
Finding an Ending
Reflections on Wagner's Ring
Av Philip Kitcher, Richard Schacht
Häftad, 2005
292 kr
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Few musical works loom as large in Western culture as Richard Wagner's four-part Ring of the Nibelung. In Finding an Ending, two eminent philosophers, Philip Kitcher and Richard Schacht, offer an illuminating look at this greatest of Wagner's achievements, focusing on its far-reaching and subtle …
Joyce's Kaleidoscope
An Invitation to Finnegans Wake
Inbunden, 2007
973 kr
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James Joyce's Ulysses, once regarded as obscure and obscene, is now viewed as one of the masterpieces of world literature. Yet Joyce's final novel, Finnegans Wake, to which he devoted seventeen years, remains virtually unread, except by scholarly specialists. Its linguistic novelties, apparently …
Joyce's Kaleidoscope
An Invitation to Finnegans Wake
Häftad, 2010
691 kr
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James Joyce's Ulysses, once regarded as obscure and obscene, is now viewed as one of the masterpieces of world literature. Yet Joyce's final novel, Finnegans Wake, to which he devoted seventeen years, remains virtually unread, except by scholarly specialists. Its linguistic novelties, apparently …
In Mendel's Mirror
Philosophical Reflections on Biology
E-bok, 2003
587 kr
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Philip Kitcher is one of the leading figures in the philosophy of science today. Here he collects, for the first time, many of his published articles on the philosophy of biology, spanning from the mid-1980''s to the present. The book''s title refers to Gregor Mendel, an Augustinian monk who was …
Philosophy of Science
A New Introduction
Av Gillian Barker, Philip Kitcher
Häftad, 2013
612 kr
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Offering an engaging and accessible portrait of the current state of the field, Philosophy of Science: A New Introduction shows students how to think philosophically about science and why it is both essential and fascinating to do so. Gillian Barker and Philip Kitcher reconsider the core questions …
Living with Darwin
Evolution, Design, and the Future of Faith
Häftad, 2009
231 kr
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Charles Darwin has been at the center of white-hot public debate for more than a century. In Living With Darwin, Philip Kitcher stokes the flames swirling around Darwin's theory, sifting through the scientific evidence for evolution, Creation Science, and Intelligent Design, and revealing why …
Moral Progress
Inbunden, 2021
634 kr
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This inaugural volume in the Munich Lectures in Ethics series presents lectures by noted philosopher Philip Kitcher. In these lectures, Kitcher develops further the pragmatist approach to moral philosophy, begun in his book The Ethical Project. He uses three historical examples of moral …
Moral Progress
E-bok, 2021
245 kr
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This inaugural volume in the Munich Lectures in Ethics series presents lectures by noted philosopher Philip Kitcher. In these lectures, Kitcher develops further the pragmatist approach to moral philosophy, begun in his book The Ethical Project . He uses three historical examples of moral …
Moral Progress
E-bok, 2021
245 kr
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This inaugural volume in the Munich Lectures in Ethics series presents lectures by noted philosopher Philip Kitcher. In these lectures, Kitcher develops further the pragmatist approach to moral philosophy, begun in his book The Ethical Project . He uses three historical examples of moral …
What's the Use of Philosophy?
Inbunden, 2023
241 kr
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What's the use of philosophy? Philip Kitcher here grapples with an essential philosophical question: what the point of philosophy is, and what it should and can be. Kitcher's portrait of the discipline is not a familiar defense of the importance of philosophy or the humanities writ large. Rather, …
What's the Use of Philosophy?
E-bok, 2022
180 kr
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What''s the use of philosophy? Philip Kitcher here grapples with an essential philosophical question: what the point of philosophy is, and what it should and can be. Kitcher''s portrait of the discipline is not a familiar defense of the importance of philosophy or the humanities writ large. Rather, …
What's the Use of Philosophy?
E-bok, 2022
180 kr
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What''s the use of philosophy? Philip Kitcher here grapples with an essential philosophical question: what the point of philosophy is, and what it should and can be. Kitcher''s portrait of the discipline is not a familiar defense of the importance of philosophy or the humanities writ large. Rather, …
Science, Truth, and Democracy
E-bok, 2001
668 kr
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Striving to boldly redirect the philosophy of science, this book by renowned philosopher Philip Kitcher examines the heated debate surrounding the role of science in shaping our lives. Kitcher explores the sharp divide between those who believe that the pursuit of scientific knowledge is always …
Finding an Ending
Reflections on Wagner's Ring
Av Richard Schacht, Philip Kitcher
E-bok, 2004
151 kr
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Few musical works loom as large in Western culture as Richard Wagner''s four-part Ring of the Nibelung . In Finding an Ending , two eminent philosophers, Philip Kitcher and Richard Schacht, offer an illuminating look at this greatest of Wagner''s achievements, focusing on its far-reaching and …
Living with Darwin
Evolution, Design, and the Future of Faith
E-bok, 2009
123 kr
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Charles Darwin has been at the center of white-hot public debate for more than a century. In Living With Darwin , Philip Kitcher stokes the flames swirling around Darwin''s theory, sifting through the scientific evidence for evolution, Creation Science, and Intelligent Design, and revealing why …
Joyce's Kaleidoscope
An Invitation to Finnegans Wake
E-bok, 2007
469 kr
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James Joyce''s Ulysses , once regarded as obscure and obscene, is now viewed as one of the masterpieces of world literature. Yet Joyce''s final novel, Finnegans Wake , to which he devoted seventeen years, remains virtually unread, except by scholarly specialists. Its linguistic novelties, …
Finding an Ending
Reflections on Wagner's Ring
Av Richard Schacht, Philip Kitcher
E-bok, 2004
151 kr
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Few musical works loom as large in Western culture as Richard Wagner''s four-part Ring of the Nibelung . In Finding an Ending , two eminent philosophers, Philip Kitcher and Richard Schacht, offer an illuminating look at this greatest of Wagner''s achievements, focusing on its far-reaching and …
Science, Truth, and Democracy
E-bok, 2001
752 kr
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Striving to boldly redirect the philosophy of science, this book by renowned philosopher Philip Kitcher examines the heated debate surrounding the role of science in shaping our lives. Kitcher explores the sharp divide between those who believe that the pursuit of scientific knowledge is always …
Living with Darwin
Evolution, Design, and the Future of Faith
E-bok, 2007
123 kr
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Charles Darwin has been at the center of white-hot public debate for more than a century. In Living With Darwin , Philip Kitcher stokes the flames swirling around Darwin''s theory, sifting through the scientific evidence for evolution, Creation Science, and Intelligent Design, and revealing why …
Joyce's Kaleidoscope
An Invitation to Finnegans Wake
E-bok, 2009
469 kr
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James Joyce''s Ulysses , once regarded as obscure and obscene, is now viewed as one of the masterpieces of world literature. Yet Joyce''s final novel, Finnegans Wake , to which he devoted seventeen years, remains virtually unread, except by scholarly specialists. Its linguistic novelties, …
Preludes to Pragmatism
Toward a Reconstruction of Philosophy
Inbunden, 2012
1408 kr
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Over the last two decades the distinguished philosopher Philip Kitcher has started to make a serious case for pragmatism as the source of a new life in contemporary philosophy. There are some, like Kitcher, who view today's analytic philosophy as mired in narrowly focused, technical disputes of …
Preludes to Pragmatism
Toward a Reconstruction of Philosophy
E-bok, 2012
918 kr
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In these essays, distinguished philosopher Philip Kitcher argues for a reconstruction of philosophy along the lines of classical Pragmatism
