Philip Kitcher
Philip Stuart Kitcher (born 20 February 1947) is a British philosopher who is John Dewey Professor Emeritus of philosophy at Columbia University. He specialises in the philosophy of science, the philosophy of biology, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of literature, and more recently pragmatism.
Philip Kitcher | |
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| Born | 20 February 1947 London, England |
| Education | 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 Heterogeneous reference potentials (selective realism) |
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