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  • The Main Enterprise of the World

    Rethinking Education

    by Philip Kitcher ...
    Series series Walter A. Strauss Lectures in the Humanities
    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 reforms are economically sustainable. Kitcher build his arguments from three broad goals of education ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • Is Birdsong Music?

    Outback Encounters with an Australian Songbird

    by Hollis Taylor ...
    "A ground-breaking study of the songs of the pied butcherbird . . . intellectually engaging and also very entertaining as a fieldwork memoir." — The Music TrustHow and when does music become possible? Is it a matter of biology, or culture, or an interaction between the two? Revolutionizing the way we think about the core values of music and human exceptionalism, Hollis Taylor takes us on an ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • What's the Use of Philosophy?

    by Philip Kitcher ...
    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, he is deeply critical of philosophy as it is practiced today, a practice focused on narrow technical ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Moral Progress

    by Philip Kitcher ...
    Series series Munich Lectures in Ethics
    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 progress--the abolition of chattel slavery, the expansion of opportunities for women, and the increasing ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • The Seasons Alter

    How to Save Our Planet in Six Acts

    by Philip Kitcher, Evelyn Fox Keller ...
    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 know it—climate change has become one of the most urgent and controversial issues of our time. For most people, however, trying to understand the science, politics, and arguments on either side can be ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Finding an Ending

    Reflections on Wagner's Ring

    by Philip Kitcher, Richard Schacht ...
    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 exploration of problems of meanings and endings in this life and world. Kitcher and Schacht plunge the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Life After Faith

    The Case for Secular Humanism

    by Mr. Philip Kitcher ...
    Series series The Terry Lectures Series
    Although there is no shortage of recent books arguing against religion, few offer a positive alternative—how anyone might live a fulfilling life without the support of religious beliefs. This enlightening book fills the gap. Philip Kitcher constructs an original and persuasive secular perspective, one that answers human needs, recognizes the objectivity of values, and provides for the universal ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Rich and the Poor

    by Philip Kitcher ...
    The 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 in the governments of affluent nations, to consider policies for raising living standards worldwide. Today, by contrast, the principal policy questions revolve around how to stay on top in a dog-eat ... Read more

    $24.00 USD

  • Kant's Critique of Pure Reason

    Critical Essays

    by Harry Allison, Karl Ameriks, Lewis White Beck, Lorne Falkenstein, Paul Guyer, Philip Kitcher, Charles Parsons, P F. Strawson, Allen W. Wood ...
    Series series Critical Essays on the Classics Series
    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 collection are intended to help students read the Critique of Pure Reason with a greater understanding of its central themes and arguments, and with some awareness of important lines of criticism of those ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • On John Stuart Mill

    by Philip Kitcher ...
    Series series Core Knowledge
    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 of his arguments. To many readers today, his views can seem utterly familiar, even banal.Sharing insights from teaching Mill for many years, the eminent philosopher Philip Kitcher makes a cogent case ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Joyce's Kaleidoscope

    An Invitation to Finnegans Wake

    by Philip Kitcher ...
    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 based on an immense learning that few can share, make it appear impenetrable. Joyce's Kaleidoscope ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Living with Darwin

    Evolution, Design, and the Future of Faith

    by Philip Kitcher ...
    Series series Philosophy in Action
    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 evolution has been the object of such vehement attack. Kitcher first provides valuable perspective on the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD