Philip Kitcher – Pragmatic Naturalism

Kaiser, Marie I. / Seide, Ansgar

Abstract

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 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 Philip Kitcher entitled “Pragmatic Naturalism”. In addition, it includes eight critical papers on a wide range of topics from Kitcher’s work, together with detailed replies by Kitcher.