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  • 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

  • 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

    $19.99 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

  • 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

    $15.19 USD

  • The Ethical Project

    by Philip Kitcher ...
    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 control. In a revolutionary approach to the problems of moral philosophy, Philip Kitcher makes a provocative proposal: Instead of conceiving ethical commands as divine revelations or as the discoveries of brilliant thinkers, we should see our ethical practices ... Read more

    $27.99 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

  • 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

    $10.99 USD

  • Preludes to Pragmatism

    Toward a Reconstruction of Philosophy

    by Philip Kitcher ...
    In these essays, distinguished philosopher Philip Kitcher argues for a reconstruction of philosophy along the lines of classical Pragmatism ... Read more

    $71.99 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

  • 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

  • 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