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D-Index
61
Citations
19861
World Ranking
1326
National Ranking
617

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2002 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1988 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Philip Kitcher is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States and has made contributions primarily within the social sciences and arts and humanities. Their research spans various subfields including philosophy, sociology and political science, political science and international relations, education, and the history and philosophy of science. The main topics of their work comprise pragmatism in philosophy and education, political philosophy and ethics, critical theory and philosophy, religious education and schools, Weber and Simmel sociological theory, religion in society and development, and religion and society interactions.

Kitcher has a record of publications in frequent venues such as Analysis, Philosophia, and the Journal of Philosophy of Education, alongside appearances in Moral Philosophy and Politics and Biological Theory. Some recent papers include:

  • The Main Enterprise of the World: Rethinking Education (2024), published in Analysis
  • The Scientist, Qua Scientist, Is an Ethical Agent (2024), published in Filozofia
  • Précis of What's the use of Philosophy? (2024), published in Philosophia
  • Educating Democratic Character (2021), published in Moral Philosophy and Politics
  • Remembering Richard Lewontin (1929-2021) (2021), published in Biological Theory

Their collaborative works feature frequent co-authors including Melissa Schwartzberg, Natalia Rogach Alexander, Stuart A. Newman, Peter Godfrey-Smith, and Daniel L. Hartl.

In terms of book publications, Kitcher has titles published by Oxford University Press, Yale University Press, and Columbia University Press. Notable books include "The Main Enterprise of the World" (2021), "Life After Faith" (2020), and "On John Stuart Mill" (2023).

Kitcher has been recognized with awards such as the Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2002 and the Fellowship of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1988.

Best Publications

  • Science, Truth, and Democracy

    Philip Kitcher

  • Explanatory unification and the causal structure of the world

    Philip Kitcher

  • The nature of mathematical knowledge

    Philip Kitcher

  • Vaulting Ambition: Sociobiology and the Quest for Human Nature

    Philip Kitcher

  • The advancement of science : science without legend, objectivity without illusions

    John Dupre;Philip Kitcher

  • The division of cognitive labor

    Philip Kitcher

  • Species

    Unknown

  • The Advancement of Science

    Unknown

  • Science in a Democratic Society

    Philip Kitcher

  • 1953 and all that: a tale of two sciences.

    Philip Kitcher

  • The naturalists return

    Philip Kitcher

  • Explanatory Unification

    Unknown

  • The return of the Gene

    Kim Sterelny;Philip Kitcher

  • Abusing Science: The Case Against Creationism

    P. Kitcher;Daniel Gladstone

  • The Ethical Project

    Philip Kitcher

  • Theories, theorists and theoretical change

    Philip Kitcher

  • The Lives to Come: The Genetic Revolution and Human Possibilities

    Philip Kitcher

  • Function and Design

    Philip Kitcher

  • Misrepresentation and responsibility in medical research.

    Robert L. Engler;James W. Covell;Paul J. Friedman;Philip S. Kitcher

  • REAL REALISM THE GALILEAN STRATEGY

    Philip Kitcher

  • The Dialectical Biologist.

    Philip Kitcher;Richard Levins;Richard Lewontin

  • The Advancement of Science: Science without Legend, Objectivity without Illusions

    Philip Kitcher

  • Abusing Science, the Case against Creationism

    Geoffrey Holister;Philip Kitcher

  • Philosophy of Biology

    Philip Kitcher

  • The Nature of Mathematical Knowledge.

    Donald Gillies;Philip Kitcher

Frequent Co-Authors

Wesley C. Salmon
Wesley C. Salmon University of Pittsburgh
Kim Sterelny
Kim Sterelny Australian National University
Lisa Feldman Barrett
Lisa Feldman Barrett Northeastern University
Richard C Lewontin
Richard C Lewontin Harvard University
John Dupré
John Dupré University of Exeter
Brian Skyrms
Brian Skyrms University of California, Irvine
Ian Hacking
Ian Hacking University of Toronto

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