Philip Kitcher

Philip Kitcher, 2004

Philip Stuart Kitcher (born February 20, 1947 in London ) is a British philosopher of science .

Kitcher grew up in Eastbourne , Sussex . He studied at Cambridge and later moved to Princeton . He then taught at Vassar College , the University of Vermont , the University of Minnesota , the University of California, San Diego, and Columbia University .

First he dealt with the philosophy of mathematics , later biology . Most recently, a focus was on research into the evolution of altruism and morality and the conflict between science and religion .

Kitcher was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2002, and to the American Philosophical Society in 2018 .

Work (selection)

• Vaulting Ambition: Sociobiology and the Quest for Human Nature. (1985)
• The Advancement of Science (1993)
• Science, Truth and Democracy (2001)
• In Mendel's Mirror (2003)
• Finding an Ending: Reflections on Wagner's Ring (with Richard Schacht) (2004)
• Living with Darwin: Evolution, Design, and the Future of Faith (2007)
• Joyce's Kaleidoscope: An Invitation to Finnegans Wake (2007)
• The Ethical Project (2011)
• Science in a Democratic Society (2011)
• Preludes to pragmatism: Toward a reconstruction of philosophy (2012)
• (with Evelyn Fox Keller ) The Seasons Alter: How to Save Our Planet in Six Acts (2017)
• Joyce's Ulysses: Philosophical Perspectives (2020)

literature

• Couch, Mark, and Jessica Pfeifer, eds. The Philosophy of Philip Kitcher . Oxford University Press, 2016.
• Kaiser, Marie I., and Ansgar Silk, eds. Philip Kitcher: Pragmatic Naturalism . Vol. 15. Walter de Gruyter, 2013.

Web links

• Literature by and about Philip Kitcher in the catalog of the German National Library
• Columbia University web presence