Peter Munz  

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"His philosophical work, from The Shapes of Time (1977) to Philosophical Darwinism (1993), bears witness to his ... the sociology of knowledge; anti-relativism and anti-positivism; irreverence to Wittgenstein and the closed-circle philosophers." --The Certainty of Doubt: Tributes to Peter Munz (1996) by Miles Fairburn, ‎William Hosking Oliver


"The statement that every organism is an embodied theory about its environment must be taken literally."--Philosophical Darwinism (1993) by Peter Munz

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Peter Munz (12 May 1921 – 14 October 2006) was a philosopher and historian, Professor of the Victoria University of Wellington; among the major influences on his work were Karl Popper and Ludwig Wittgenstein.

Major works

  • The Place of Hooker in the History of Thought
  • Problems of Religious Knowledge
  • The Origin of the Carolingian Empire
  • Relationship and Solitude: An Inquiry into the Relationship between Myth, Metaphysics and Ethics
  • Life in the Age of Charlemagne
  • Frederick Barbarossa: A Study in Medieval Politics.
  • When the Golden Bough Breaks: Structuralism or Typology?
  • The Shapes of Time: A New Look at the Philosophy of History
  • Our Knowledge of the Growth of Knowledge: Popper or Wittgenstein?
  • Philosophical Darwinism: On the Origin of Knowledge by Means of Natural Selection
  • Critique of Impure Reason: An Essay on Neurons, Somatic Markers, and Consciousness
  • Beyond Wittgenstein's Poker: New Light on Popper and Wittgenstein

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