Christ's College, University of Cambridge (BA); Princeton University (PhD)
Awards
Lifetime Achievement Award (American Psychological Association) Distinguished Contribution Award (American Psychological Association) Lakatos Award Prometheus Prize (American Philosophical Association) Lannan Notable Book Award
Era
Contemporary philosophy
Region
Western philosophy
School
Analytic philosophy Pragmatism
Institutions
Columbia University, University of California, San Diego, University of Vermont
Doctoral advisor
Carl Hempel
Doctoral students
Peter Godfrey-Smith, Kyle Stanford, Michael Dietrich
Main interests
Philosophy of science, philosophy of biology, bioethics, philosophy of mathematics
Notable ideas
The distinction the presuppositional posits and the working posits of a theory[1] Heterogeneous reference potentials[2] (selective realism)[3]
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Philip Stuart Kitcher (born 20 February 1947) is a British philosopher who is John Dewey Professor Emeritus of philosophy at Columbia University.[4] He specialises in the philosophy of science, the philosophy of biology, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of literature, and more recently pragmatism.
^Martin Carrier, Johannes Roggenhofer, Günter Küppers, Philippe Blanchard (eds.), Knowledge and the World: Challenges Beyond the Science Wars, Springer, 2013, p. 149.
^Miriam Solomon, Social Empiricism, MIT Press, 2007, p. 37.
^Boaz Miller, "What is Hacking's Argument for Entity Realism?", Synthese193(3):991–1006 (2016).
^"Philip Kitcher | Philosophy". Archived from the original on 8 June 2021. Retrieved 14 November 2021.
Philip Stuart Kitcher (born 20 February 1947) is a British philosopher who is John Dewey Professor Emeritus of philosophy at Columbia University. He specialises...
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philosophers of biology, including William C. Wimsatt, Elliott Sober, PhilipKitcher, Elisabeth Lloyd, Peter Godfrey-Smith, Sahotra Sarkar, and Robert Brandon...
definition of theory as a set of falsifiable statements is wrong because, as PhilipKitcher has pointed out, if one took a strictly Popperian view of "theory",...
Tim Lewens, Jerry Coyne and PhilipKitcher, and Daniel Dennett and a mixed response from Steven Rose. Coyne and Kitcher dispute Fodor's "striking claim...
Haraway Sandra Harding Michał Heller Jaakko Hintikka Paul Hoyningen-Huene PhilipKitcher Ursula Klein Larry Laudan John Lennox Isaac Levi Peter Lipton Helen...
Theory of mind de Waal, Frans; Robert Wright; Christine M. Korsgaard; PhilipKitcher; Peter Singer (2009). Macedo, Stephen; Ober, Josiah (eds.). Primates...
M. Joad John Foster John Henry Newman Bernard Philip Kelly Anthony Kenny Damien Keown PhilipKitcher Augusta Klein Martha Klein Brian Klug William Angus...
deals with concrete moral problems rather than abstract meta-ethics. PhilipKitcher wrote in his review of Parfit's On What Matters that Reasons and Persons...
has also been selected for during human evolution. The philosopher PhilipKitcher has criticised the book's handling of sociobiology, saying that it contains...
publication, as opposed to the end result of proven and published theorems. PhilipKitcher has proposed a more formal definition of a mathematical practice, as...
Hamilton. Most reviewers received Merchants of Doubt enthusiastically. PhilipKitcher in Science says that Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway are "two outstanding...
Foundations of Modern Science (Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Company, 1954). PhilipKitcher, Science, Truth, and Democracy. Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Science...
Belting, Stanley Cavell, Donald Davidson, Lydia Goehr, Gregg Horowitz, PhilipKitcher, Daniel Immerwahr, Daniel Herwitz and Michael Kelly and replies by Danto...
biologist chooses to call a species". Wilkins noted that the philosopher PhilipKitcher called this the "cynical species concept", and arguing that far from...
be a member of the fallibilist school in philosophy of mathematics. PhilipKitcher dubbed this school the "maverick" tradition in the philosophy of mathematics...
Literature. Cambridge University Press. p. 27. ISBN 9780521316972. PhilipKitcher, Deaths in Venice: The Cases of Gustav von Aschenbach, Columbia University...
Abusing Science: The Case Against Creationism, philosopher of science PhilipKitcher specifically addresses the "falsifiability" question by taking into...
PMID 23319633. de Waal, Frans; Robert Wright; Christine M. Korsgaard; PhilipKitcher; Peter Singer (2009). Macedo, Stephen; Ober, Josiah (eds.). Primates...
Nicholas Jardine (Darwin) Emily Elizabeth Constance Jones (Girton) PhilipKitcher (Christ's) Georg Kreisel (Trinity) Martin Kusch (unknown) Imre Lakatos...
is, what part of the world and of humankind are studied by science. PhilipKitcher in his Science, Truth, and Democracy argues that scientific studies...
October Books, MIT Press, 2006. ISBN 978-0-262-01226-3. Aspray, William & PhilipKitcher, eds., History and Philosophy of Modern Mathematics, Minnesota Studies...
philosophy department. She lives in New York City with her husband, PhilipKitcher, also a philosopher at Columbia, with whom she has two sons, Andrew...
controversial in both public and scholarly spheres. Some observers such as PhilipKitcher have described the use of genetic screening by parents as making possible...
1987 – Michael Friedman for Foundations of Space-Time Theories and PhilipKitcher for Vaulting Ambition: Sociobiology and the Quest for Human Nature 1988...
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