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Philip Kitcher : Pragmatic Naturalism.
Philip Kitcher is one of the most distinguished philosophers of our days. He has deeply influenced and inspired many of the debates in the philosophy of biology. Moreover, Kitcher has also made groundbreaking contributions to the philosophy of science in general, to ethics, to the philosophy of reli...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin :
De Gruyter,
2013.
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| Colección: | Münstersche Vorlesungen zur Philosophie (Series)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Philip Kitcher is one of the most distinguished philosophers of our days. He has deeply influenced and inspired many of the debates in the philosophy of biology. Moreover, Kitcher has also made groundbreaking contributions to the philosophy of science in general, to ethics, to the philosophy of religion, to the philosophy of literature, to the philosophy of mathematics, and, most recently, to pragmatism. This volume results from the 15th Münster Lectures in Philosophy with Philip Kitcher. It contains an original article by Kitcher entitled "Pragmatic Naturalism". In addition, it includes eight. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (205 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | ReferencesRefining Kitcher's Semantics for Kind Terms, or: Cleaning up the Mess; 1 Introduction; 2 The Qua Problem; 2.1 What Is the Qua Problem?; 2.2 Kitcher's and Stanford's Proposed Solution; 3 The "No Failures of Reference" Problem; 3.1 What Is the "No Failures of Reference" Problem?; 3.2 Kitcher's and Stanford's Proposed Solution; 4 Evaluation of the Proposed Solutions; 4.1 The Qua Problem; 4.2 The "No Failures of Reference" Problem; 5 Sketch of a Solution: Semantic Dualism; References; Blank Page; Promiscuous objects, hybrid truth and scientific realism; 1 Introduction. |
| ISBN: | 9783110324884 3110324881 |