Philip Kitcher examines the debate about the role that science plays in shaping our lives. He examines the divide that separates purists who believe that the pursuit of scientific knowledge…

Instead of conceiving ethical commands as divine revelations or as the discoveries of brilliant thinkers, we should see our ethical practices as evolving over tens of thousands of years, as…

Presents the case for Darwinian evolutionary theory and its implications. This work shows how the alleged rivals to Darwinism, like Intelligent Design, are essentially scientifically bankrupt - and that scientific…

Sharing insights from teaching John Stuart Mill for many years, the eminent philosopher Philip Kitcher makes a cogent case for why we should read this nineteenth-century thinker now. He reflects…

James Joyce’s final novel was Finnegans Wake , to which he devoted seventeen years. This title proposes that the Wake has at its core an age-old philosophical question, What makes…

Few musical works loom as large in Western culture as Richard Wagner’s four-part Ring of the Nibelung . This work looks at this greatest of Wagner’s achievements, focusing on its…

Distinguished scholars evaluate the contribution pragmatism can make to a viable naturalism, exploring what distinguishes pragmatic naturalism from other naturalisms. They examine pragmatism’s distinctive form of nonreductive naturalism and consider…