Towards a Philosophical Anthropology of Culture

This book explores the question of what it means to be a human being through sustained and original analyses of three important philosophical topics: relativism, skepticism, and naturalism in the social sciences.

Kevin M. Cahill is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bergen, Norway. He works mainly on Wittgenstein's philosophy and the philosophy of the social sciences. His publications include The Fate of Wonder: Wittgenstein's Critique of Metaphysics and Modernity (2011) and Wittgenstein and Naturalism (Routledge, 2018).

Introduction 1 1 Lost in the Ancient City: Pluralist Naturalism and the Philosophy of the Social Sciences 13 2 The Grammar of Conflict 53 3 Skepticism and the Human Condition 73