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Further readings

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23 Jun 23    
00:00 - 02:00
  • Couch, M., & Pfeifer, J. (eds.). 2016. The Philosophy of Philip Kitcher. Oxford: Oxford UP.
  • Friedman, M. 1996. Objectivity and history. A critical discussion. Erkenntnis 44, 379-395.
  • Gonzalez, W.J. 2008. Evolutionism from a contemporary viewpoint: The philosophical-methodological approach. In W.J. Gonzalez (ed.), Evolutionism: Present Approaches. A Coruña: Netbiblo, 3-59.
  • W.J. Gonzalez (ed.) 2011. Scientific Realism and Democratic Society: The Philosophy of Philip Kitcher. Amsterdam: Rodopi.
  • Humphreys, P. 1993. Greater unification equals greater understanding? Analysis 53, 183-188
  • Kitcher, P. 1978. Theories, theorists and theoretical change. Philosophical Review 87, 519-547.
  • Kitcher, P. 1981. Explanatory unification. Philosophy of Science 48, 507-531.
  • Kitcher, P. 1984. 1953 and all that. A tale of two sciences. Philosophical Review 93, 335-373.
  • Kitcher, P. 1985. Vaulting Ambition: Sociobiology and the Quest for Human Nature. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
  • Kitcher, P. 1985. Two approaches to explanation. Journal of Philosophy 82, 632-639.
  • Kitcher, P. 1988. Mathematical naturalism. In W Aspray & P. Kitcher (eds.), History and Philosophy of Modern Mathematics. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 293-325.
  • Kitcher, P. 1989. Explanatory unification and the causal structure of the world. In P. Kitcher & W. Salmon (eds.), Scientific Explanation. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 410-505.
  • Kitcher, P. 1992. The naturalist returns. Philosophical Review 101, 53-114.
  • Kitcher, P. 1994. The unity of nature and the unity of science. In P. Parrini (ed.), Kant’s and Contemporary Epistemology. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 253-272.
  • Kitcher, P. 1993. The Advancement of Science. New York, NY: Oxford UP.
  • Kitcher, P. 2001. Science, Truth, and Democracy. New York, NY: Oxford UP.
  • Kitcher, P. 2003. In Mendel’s Mirror: Philosophical Reflections on Biology. New York, NY: Oxford UP.
  • Kitcher, P. 2002. On the explanatory role of correspondence truth. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 64, 346-364.
  • Kitcher, P. 2007. Scientific research – who should govern? Nanoethics 1, 177-184.
  • Kitcher, P. 2011. Science in a Democratic Society. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books.
  • Kitcher, P. & P.K. Stanford. 2000. Refining the causal theory of reference for natural kind terms. Philosophical Studies 97, 99-129.
  • Roorda, J. 1997. Kitcher on theory choice. Erkenntnis 46, 215-239.
  • Shapere, D. 1995. Kitcher on advancing science. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 55, 647-651.
  • Simon, J. 2006. The proper ends of science: Philip Kitcher, science, and the good. Philosophy of Science 73, 194-214.