Philipl Kitcher's guest appearances

Philipl Kitcher

Research Ethics Lecture Series

KYLE WHYTE

Paul Thompson

Jonathan Marks

Sheldon Krimsky

Melissa Anderson

Thomas P. Seager

Nancy Kass

Benjamin Levi

Bart Gremmen

Dave Mortensen

Allen Hornblum

Gordon Shattuck

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Philip Kitcher was born in 1947 in London (U.K.).  He received his B.A. from Cambridge University and his Ph.D. from Princeton.  He has taught at several American Universities, and is currently John Dewey Professor of Philosophy at Columbia.  He is the author of books on topics ranging from the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of biology, the growth of science, the role of science in society, naturalistic ethics, Wagner’s Ring, and Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. He has been President of the American Philosophical Association (Pacific Division) and Editor-in-Chief of Philosophy of Science.  A Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he was also the first recipient of the Prometheus Prize, awarded by the American Philosophical Association for work in expanding the frontiers of Science and Philosophy. He has been named a “Friend of Darwin” by the National Committee on Science Education, and received a Lannan Foundation Notable Book Award for Living With Darwin. Among his recent books are Science in a Democratic Society (Prometheus Books), The Ethical Project (Harvard University Press), Preludes to Pragmatism (Oxford University Press) and Deaths in Venice: The Cases of Gustav von Aschenbach (Columbia University Press). During 2011-12, he was a Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, where he was partially supported by a prize from the Humboldt Foundation.  His Terry Lectures were published in the Fall of 2014 as Life After Faith: The Case for Secular Humanism (Yale University Press).

An Interview with Dr. Philipl Kitcher 