Peter Munz: 3 books
Our Knowledge of the Growth of Knowledge (Routledge Revivals)
Popper or Wittgenstein?
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
Peter Munz, a former student of both Popper and Wittgenstein, begins his comparison of the two great twentieth-century philosophers, by explaining that since the demise of positivism there have emerged, broadly speaking, two philosophical options: Wittgenstein, with the absolute relativism of his...
Philosophical Darwinism
On the Origin of Knowledge by Means of Natural Selection
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
Philosophers have not taken the evolution of human beings seriously enough. If they did, argues Peter Munz, many long standing philosophical problems would be resolved. One of philosophical concequences of biology is that all the knowledge produced in evolution is a priori , i.e., established hypothetically...
When the Golden Bough Breaks
Structuralism or Typology?
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
This original, provocative study, first published in 1973, presents a new method of interpretation of mythology, and reveals the wide-ranging implications of this universal phenomenon for many disciplines. The volume begins with a sympathetic but critical examination of Lévi-Strauss’s interpretation...