Philip Kitcher is the John Dewey Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University and the author of numerous books and articles, including
The Ethical Project (2014),
Preludes to Pragmatism: Toward a Reconstruction of Philosophy (2012), and
Science in a Democratic Society (2011).
30 Ebooks von Philip Kitcher
Philip Kitcher: Deaths in Venice
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 adapted it into an opera, and Luchino Visconti turned it into …
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€24.99
Matthew C. Bagger: Pragmatism and Naturalism
Most contemporary philosophers would call themselves naturalists, yet there is little consensus on what naturalism entails. Long signifying the notion that science should inform philosophy, debates o …
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€79.99
Hollis Taylor: Is Birdsong Music?
"A ground-breaking study of the songs of the pied butcherbird . . . intellectually engaging and also very entertaining as a fieldwork memoir." -The Music Trust How and when does music …
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€19.12
Patricia Kitcher: Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason
The central project of the Critique of Pure Reason is to answer two sets of questions: what can we know and how can we know it? What can’t we know and why can’t we know it? The essays in this …
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€46.14
Philip Kitcher: Science in a Democratic Society
In this successor to his pioneering Science, Truth, and Democracy, the author revisits the topic explored in his previous work-namely, the challenges of integrating science, the most successful …
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€25.34
Philip Kitcher: In Mendel’s Mirror
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 …
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€35.49
Philip Kitcher: Science, Truth, and Democracy
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 …
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€52.06
Philip Kitcher & Richard Schacht: Finding an Ending
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 …
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€14.93
Philip Kitcher: Joyce’s Kaleidoscope
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 …
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€30.46
Philip Kitcher & Richard Schacht: Finding an Ending
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 …
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€14.87
Philip Kitcher: Science, Truth, and Democracy
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 …
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€41.22
Philip Kitcher: Living with Darwin
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 …
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€11.55
Philip Kitcher: Joyce’s Kaleidoscope
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 …
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€30.79
Philip Kitcher: Preludes to Pragmatism
In these essays, distinguished philosopher Philip Kitcher argues for a reconstruction of philosophy along the lines of classical …
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€35.46
Philip Kitcher: Preludes to Pragmatism
In these essays, distinguished philosopher Philip Kitcher argues for a reconstruction of philosophy along the lines of classical …
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€59.67
Kitcher Philip Kitcher: Life After Faith
A positive assessment of secularism and the possibilities it offers for a genuinely meaningful life without religion Although there is no shortage of recent books arguing against religion, few offer …
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€16.69
Gerhard Schurz: Erklären und Verstehen in der Wissenschaft
Der Band ist mehr als eine Aufsatzsammlung, die Beiträge sind aufeinander aufgebaut und dicht miteinander vernetzt. Zusammengenommen wird damit ein neues Paradigma der Erklärung geschaffen. Größere V …
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€109.95
Philip Kitcher & Evelyn Fox Keller: The Seasons Alter: How to Save Our Planet in Six Acts
A landmark work of environmental philosophy that seeks to transform the debate about climate change.
As the icecaps melt and the sea levels rise around the globe—threatening human existence as we k …
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€15.99
Melissa Schwartzberg & Philip Kitcher: Truth and Evidence
Explores the challenges of governing in a post-truth world The relationship between truth and politics has rarely seemed more troubled, with misinformation on the rise, and the value of expertise in …
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€62.99
Philip Kitcher: Joyce’s Ulysses
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 …
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€23.29
Philip Kitcher: Joyce’s Ulysses
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 …
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€18.03
Philip Kitcher: Living with Darwin
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 …
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€11.51
Philip Kitcher: Main Enterprise of the World
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 …
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€43.35
Philip Kitcher: Main Enterprise of the World
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 …
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€43.54
Martin Carrier & Janet A. Kourany: Science and the Production of Ignorance
An introduction to the new area of ignorance studies that examines how science produces ignorance-both actively and passively, intentionally and unintentionally.We may think of science as our …
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€114.02
Philip Kitcher: What’s the Use of Philosophy?
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 …
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Philip Kitcher: What’s the Use of Philosophy?
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 …
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€16.00
Philip Kitcher: On John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill expressed many of the central tenets of liberalism with unsurpassed clarity and enduring influence. Yet Mill’s apparent victory in the marketplace of ideas has numbed us to the power …
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€13.99
Philip Kitcher: Moral Progress
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 …
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€16.69
Philip Kitcher: Moral Progress
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 …
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€16.69
