Philip Kitcher

Philip Kitcher
Philip Kitcher
Born	20 February 1947 (age 77); London, England
Education	Christ's College, 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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Philip Stuart Kitcher (born 20 February 1947) is a British philosopher who is the 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.

^ Martin Carrier, Johannes Roggenhofer, Günter Küppers, Philippe Blanchard (eds.), Knowledge and the World: Challenges Beyond the Science Wars, Springer, 2013, p. 149.
^ Miriam Solomon, Social Empiricism, MIT Press, 2007, p. 37.
^ Boaz Miller, "What is Hacking's Argument for Entity Realism?", Synthese 193(3):991–1006 (2016).
^ "Philip Kitcher | Philosophy". Archived from the original on 8 June 2021. Retrieved 14 November 2021.

Philip Kitcher

Born	(1947-02-20) 20 February 1947 (age 77) London, England
Education	Christ's College, 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]