Philip Stuart Kitcher was born on 20 February 1947 and is a British philosopher who is John Dewey Professor Emeritus of philosophy at Columbia University.
15 Facts About Philip Kitcher
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Philip Kitcher himself went to school at Christ's Hospital, Horsham, West Sussex.
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Philip Kitcher is currently John Dewey Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Columbia University.
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In 2002, Philip Kitcher was named a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and he was awarded the inaugural Prometheus Prize from the American Philosophical Association in 2006 in honour of extended achievement in the philosophy of science.
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Philip Kitcher was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2018.
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Philip Kitcher has trained a number of philosophers of science, including Peter Godfrey-Smith, Kyle Stanford, and Michael R Dietrich.
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Philip Kitcher taught C Kenneth Waters and Michael Weisberg as undergraduates.
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Philip Kitcher is a Kant scholar and philosopher of mind who has been the Mark Van Doren Professor of Humanities at Columbia.
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Philip Kitcher has published papers on John Stuart Mill, Kant and other figures in the history of philosophy.
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Philip Kitcher sees pragmatism as providing a unifying and reconstructive approach to traditional philosophy issues.
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Philip Kitcher had, a year earlier, published a book outlining a naturalistic approach to ethics, The Ethical Project.
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Philip Kitcher has done work on the philosophy of climate change.
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Philip Kitcher increasingly recognised the role of values in practical decisions about scientific research.
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Philip Kitcher is the author of Abusing Science: The Case Against Creationism.
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Philip Kitcher has commented on the way creationists have misinterpreted Kuhn:.