Philip Stuart Kitcher is a British philosopher who is the John Dewey professor emeritus of philosophy at Columbia University. He specializes in the philosophy of science, the philosophy of biology, and the philosophy of mathematics, and, more recently, in pragmatism.
Facts
Defining MomentAwarded the inaugural Prometheus Prize of the American Philosophical Association in 2006 1 Notable PublicationAbusing Science: The Case Against Creationism (1982) 1 Office HeldPast president of the American Philosophical Association 1 TraditionAnalytic philosophy, pragmatism 1 Tradition
Tradition (category) Tradition (category) Connections
In Tradition
Entity-backed identity for the tradition-category enum value this philosopher already carries, resolved to a philosophy school by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The tradition fact itself, with its own citation, stays on the philosopher unchanged.
Entity-backed identity for the tradition-category enum value this philosopher already carries, resolved to a philosophy school by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The tradition fact itself, with its own citation, stays on the philosopher unchanged.
In the Other Atlases
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Philip Kitcher
Lead paragraph, birth year
20 February 1947
Infobox, birth_date
1947-02-20
Infobox, birth_place
London, England
Infobox, school_tradition
Analytic philosophy pragmatism
Books
Abusing Science: The Case Against Creationism. MIT Press, 1982
Life and career, Prometheus Prize sentence
he was awarded the inaugural Prometheus Prize from the American Philosophical Association in 2006
Life and career, past president sentence
Kitcher is past president of the American Philosophical Association
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