Overview :John Stuart Mill expressed many of the central tenets of liberalism with unsurpassed clarity and enduring influence. Yet Mill's apparent vic... Read More
Overview :This inaugural volume in the Munich Lectures in Ethics series presents lectures by noted philosopher Philip Kitcher. In these lectures, Kitc... Read More
Overview :Scientific Explanation was first published in 1962. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once ... Read More
Overview :In this book, Kitcher offers a frame-work for thinking about the moral, social, and political questions raised by the Human Genome Project. ... Read More
Overview :Principles of right and wrong guide the lives of almost all human beings, but we often see them as external to ourselves, outside our own co... Read More
Overview :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 phi... Read More
Overview :In this successor to his pioneering Science, Truth, and Democracy, the author revisits the topic explored in his previous work-namely, the c... Read More
Overview :Striving to boldly redirect the philosophy of science, this book by renowned philosopher Philip Kitcher examines the heated debate surroundi... Read More
Overview :What's the use of philosophy? Philip Kitcher here grapples with an essential philosophical question: what the point of philosophy is, and wh... Read More
Overview :The Rich and the Poor is part chronicle, part analysis of a disturbing sea-change: the abandonment of ethics in public policy. Seventy years... Read More
Overview :Though James Joyce was steeped in philosophy and humanism, he has received too little attention from contemporary philosophers in comparison... Read More
Overview :Abusing Science is a manual for intellectual self-defense, the most complete available for presenting the case against Creationist pseudo-sc... Read More
Overview :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... Read More
Overview :A positive assessment of secularism and the possibilities it offers for a genuinely meaningful life without religion Although there is no sh... Read More
Overview :Published in 1913, Thomas Mann's Death in Venice is one of the most widely read novellas in any language. In the 1970s, Benjamin Britten ada... Read More
Overview :As the icecaps melt and the sea levels rise around the globe--threatening human existence as we know it--climate change has become one of th... Read More
Overview :Vaulting Ambition is the first extensive and detailed evaluation of the controversial claims that sociobiologists have made about human natu... Read More
Overview :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 f... Read More