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Moral Progress by Philip Kitcher
Booksplease Price: £28.55This 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... -
The Rich and the Poor Philip Kitcher 9781509563470
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.63The Rich and the Poor is part chronicle, part analysis of a disturbing sea-change: the abandonment of ethics in public policy. Seventy years ago, it was possible for serious thinkers, including some... -
Science in a Democratic Society by Philip Kitcher
Booksplease Price: £21.33In 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... -
The Ethical Project by Philip Kitcher 9780674284289
RRP: £27.95Booksplease Price: £24.05Principles of right and wrong guide the lives of almost all human beings, but we often see them as external to ourselves, outside our own control. In a revolutionary approach to the problems of moral... -
On John Stuart Mill by Philip Kitcher 9780231204149
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £40.43John 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... -
On John Stuart Mill by Philip Kitcher 9780231204156
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.84John 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... -
The Philosophy of Philip Kitcher by Mark Couch 9780199381357
RRP: £97.00Booksplease Price: £74.27The Philosophy of Philip Kitcher contains eleven chapters on the work of noted philosopher Philip Kitcher, whose work is known for its broad range and insightfulness. Topics covered include... -
The Nature of Mathematical Knowledge by Philip Kitcher 9780195035414
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £52.37This 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... -
What's the Use of Philosophy? by Philip Kitcher 9780197657249
RRP: £16.49Booksplease Price: £15.25What'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... -
Joyce's Ulysses: Philosophical Perspectives by Philip Kitcher 9780190842253
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £18.18Though 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... -
Joyce's Ulysses: Philosophical Perspectives by Philip Kitcher 9780190842260
Booksplease Price: £100.94Though 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... -
Joyce's Kaleidoscope: An Invitation to Finnegans Wake by Philip Kitcher 9780195321029
RRP: £48.49Booksplease Price: £33.30James 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... -
Joyce's Kaleidoscope: An Invitation to Finnegans Wake by Philip Kitcher 9780195321036
RRP: £34.49Booksplease Price: £27.58James 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... -
Preludes to Pragmatism: Toward a Reconstruction of Philosophy by Philip Kitcher 9780199899555
RRP: £72.00Booksplease Price: £48.79Over 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... -
In Mendel's Mirror: Philosophical Reflections on Biology by Philip Kitcher 9780195151794
Booksplease Price: £51.93Philip 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... -
Scientific Explanation by Erik Weber 9789400764453
Booksplease Price: £46.28When scientist investigate why things happen, they aim at giving an explanation. But what does a scientific explanation look like? In the first chapter (Theories of Scientific Explanation) of this... -
Philip Kitcher: Pragmatic Naturalism by Marie I. Kaiser 9783110324518
RRP: £49.00Booksplease Price: £34.49Philip Kitcher has deeply influenced many of the current debates in the philosophy of biology. He has also made groundbreaking contributions to the philosophy of science, to ethics, the philosophy of... -
The Main Enterprise of the World: Rethinking Education by Philip Kitcher 9780190928971
RRP: £37.99Booksplease Price: £34.08Philip 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 Main Enterprise of the World: Rethinking Education Philip Kitcher 9780197799338
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.92Philip 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... -
Abusing Science: The Case Against Creationism by Philip Kitcher 9780262610377
Booksplease Price: £28.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262610377Author Philip KitcherFormat PaperbackPage Count 213Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press... -
Explanation and Understanding Arnon Levy 9781138700444
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.99Science aims to describe reality, to predict the future and to supply us with technology. But it also aims to explain and understand the world. What does it take to explain a phenomenon? Why are some... -
The Lives to Come: the Genetic Revolution and Human Possibilities by Philip Kitcher 9780684827056
Booksplease Price: £20.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684827056Author Philip KitcherFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher... -
Deaths in Venice: The Cases of Gustav von Aschenbach by Philip Kitcher 9780231162647
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £78.51Published 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... -
Deaths in Venice: The Cases of Gustav von Aschenbach by Philip Kitcher 9780231162654
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.40Published 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... -
The Seasons Alter: How to Save Our Planet in Six Acts by Philip Kitcher 9781631492839
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.99In November 2015, the world powers came together in Paris with the hope of reaching an agreement on the most urgent issue of our time: climate change. While it was an historic moment that brought... -
The Advancement of Science: Science Without Legend, Objectivity Without Illusions by Philip Kitcher 9780195096538
RRP: £89.00Booksplease Price: £60.37Philip 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... -
The Seasons Alter: How to Save Our Planet in Six Acts Philip Kitcher (Columbia University) 9781631494123
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.30In November 2015, the world powers came together in Paris with the hope of reaching an agreement on the most urgent issue of our time: climate change. While it was an historic moment that brought... -
Talking God: Philosophers on Belief Gary Gutting 9780393352818
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.04The question of faith today is more urgent than ever. Gary Gutting interviews prominent philosophers of religion to discuss the place of God and faith in modern society. Expanding on interviews... -
Between Fixed and Fickle: Why Our Moral Views Keep Changing by Audun Dahl 9780674292086
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £25.90A psychologist explains why-and how-moral views change across different life stages, situations, and historical eras.We like to believe that moral truths are obvious and unchangeable: cheating is... -
Pragmatism, Pluralism, and the Nature of Philosophy by Scott F. Aikin
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80For the past fifteen years, Aikin and Talisse have been working collaboratively on a new vision of American pragmatism, one which sees pragmatism as a living and developing philosophical idiom that... -
Truth and Evidence: NOMOS LXIV by Melissa Schwartzberg
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £45.36Explores 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... -
The Joy of Secularism: 11 Essays for How We Live Now by George Levine 9780691156026
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.40The case for a thoughtful secularism from some of today's most distinguished scientists, philosophers, and writersCan secularism offer us moral, aesthetic, and spiritual satisfaction? Or does the... -
Liberty Worth the Name: Locke on Free Agency by Gideon Yaffe 9780691057064
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £34.35This is the first comprehensive interpretation of John Locke's solution to one of philosophy's most enduring problems: free will and the nature of human agency. Many assume that Locke defines freedom... -
Science, Truth, and Democracy by Phillip Kitcher 9780195165524
RRP: £56.00Booksplease Price: £42.41Closely examining some of our most deeply held notions about the role of science, distinguished philosopher Philip Kitcher engages the heated debate about how scientific knowledge should be pursued... -
Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved by Franz De Waal 9780691169163
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.06Can virtuous behavior be explained by nature, and not by human rational choice? "It's the animal in us," we often hear when we've been bad. But why not when we're good? Primates and Philosophers... -
Living with Darwin: Evolution, Design, and the Future of Faith by Phillip Kitcher 9780195384345
RRP: £13.49Booksplease Price: £10.95Charles 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... -
Does God Belong in Public Schools? by Kent Greenawalt 9780691130651
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £32.82Controversial Supreme Court decisions have barred organized school prayer, but neither the Court nor public policy exclude religion from schools altogether. In this book, one of America's leading... -
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Taking the Naturalistic Turn, or, How Real Philosophy of Science is Done: Conversations with William Bechtel ... [et al.] by Werner Callebaut
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £44.79Philosophers of science traditionally have ignored the details of scientific research, and the result has often been theories that lack relevance either to science or to philosophy in general. In... -
Richard J. Bernstein and the Pragmatist Turn in Contemporary Philosophy: Rekindling Pragmatism's Fire by Judith M. Green 9781349469345
Booksplease Price: £46.74Richard J. Bernstein, who has played a leading role in "the pragmatist turn" in contemporary philosophy, replies to twelve younger critics in a lively conversation about pragmatism's past, present,... -
Richard J. Bernstein and the Pragmatist Turn in Contemporary Philosophy: Rekindling Pragmatism's Fire by J. Green 9781137352699
Booksplease Price: £46.74Richard J. Bernstein, who has played a leading role in "the pragmatist turn" in contemporary philosophy, replies to twelve younger critics in a lively conversation about pragmatism's past, present,...