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In Mendel's Mirror
Oxford University Press, USA 2003; US$ 49.99Philip 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 one of the first scientists to develop a theory... more...
Living with Darwin
Oxford University Press, USA 2007; US$ 11.99Charles Darwin has been at the center of white-hot public debate for more than a century. In Living With Darwin, Philip Kitcher peers into the flames swirling around Darwin's theory, sifting through the scientific evidence for evolution, Creation Science, and Intelligent Design, and revealing why evolution has been the object of such vehement attack.... more...
Joyce's Kaleidoscope
Oxford University Press, USA 2007; US$ 20.99James 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 based on an immense learning that few can share,... more...
Science in a Democratic Society
Prometheus Books 2011; US$ 12.99Are ghosts real? Are there truly haunted places, only haunted people, or both? And how can we know? Taking neither a credulous nor a dismissive approach, this first-of-its-kind book solves those perplexing mysteries and more-even answering the question of why we care so very much. From the most ancient times, people have experienced apparent contact... more...
Deaths in Venice
Columbia University Press 2013; US$ 29.99Published 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 Lucchino Visconti turned it into a successful film. Reading these works from a philosophical perspective, Philip Kitcher connects the predicament of the novella's central character... more...
Finding an Ending
Oxford University Press 2004; US$ 19.99Kitcher and Schact offer a reading of 'The Rin' that sees it as a deep and important exploration of the problem of whether and how human life can be endowed with meaning and significance, in a world in which this problem must be considered anew and has no easy answer. more...
Scientific Explanation
University of Minnesota Press 1962; US$ 40.00Issues concerning scientific explanation have been a focus of philosophical attention from Pre-Socratic times through the modern period. However, recent discussion really begins with the development of the Deductive-Nomological (DN) model. This model has had many advocates (including Popper 1935, 1959, Braithwaite 1953, Gardiner, 1959, Nagel 1961)... more...
History and Philosophy of Modern Mathematics
University of Minnesota Press 1988; US$ 50.00History and Philosophy of Modern Mathematics was first published in 1988. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.The fourteen essays in this volume build on the pioneering effort of Garrett Birkhoff,... more...
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