Philip Kitcher

Philip Kitcher
Philip Kitcher
	Kitcher in 2004
Born	Philip Stuart Kitcher; 20 February 1947; London, England
Spouse	Patricia Kitcher (m. 1971)
Education
Alma mater	Christ's College, Cambridge; Princeton University;
Thesis	Mathematics and Certainty (1974)
Doctoral advisor	Paul Benacerraf; Michael Sean Mahoney;
Other advisor	Carl Hempel
Philosophical work
Era	Contemporary philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Analytic philosophy; pragmatism;
Institutions	Vassar College; University of Vermont; University of Minnesota; University of California, San Diego; Columbia University;
Doctoral students	Michael Dietrich; Peter Godfrey-Smith; Kyle Stanford;
Main interests	Philosophy of science; philosophy of biology; bioethics; philosophy of mathematics;
Notable ideas	The distinction between 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. He specialises in the philosophy of science, the philosophy of biology, the philosophy of mathematics, and more recently pragmatism.