Philip Kitcher
British philosopher (born 1947) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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.
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Born | (1947-02-20) 20 February 1947 (age 77) 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[1] Heterogeneous reference potentials[2] (selective realism)[3] |
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