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<p><b>Philip Stuart Kitcher</b> (* <a href="20._Februar" title="20. Februar">20. Februar</a> <a href="1947" title="1947">1947</a> in <a href="London" title="London">London</a>) ist ein <a href="Vereinigtes_K%C3%B6nigreich" title="Vereinigtes Königreich">britischer</a> <a href="Wissenschaftstheorie" title="Wissenschaftstheorie">Wissenschaftsphilosoph</a>.
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<p>Kitcher wuchs in <a href="Eastbourne" title="Eastbourne">Eastbourne</a>, <a href="Sussex" title="Sussex">Sussex</a> auf. Er studierte in <a href="University_of_Cambridge" title="University of Cambridge">Cambridge</a> und wechselte später nach <a href="Princeton_University" title="Princeton University">Princeton</a>. Er lehrte dann am <a href="Vassar_College" title="Vassar College">Vassar College</a>, der <a href="University_of_Vermont" title="University of Vermont">University of Vermont</a>, der <a href="University_of_Minnesota" title="University of Minnesota">University of Minnesota</a>, der <a href="University_of_California%2C_San_Diego" title="University of California, San Diego">University of California, San Diego</a> und der <a href="Columbia_University" title="Columbia University">Columbia University</a>.
</p><p>Zunächst befasste er sich mit der <a href="Philosophie_der_Mathematik" title="Philosophie der Mathematik">Philosophie der Mathematik</a>, später der <a href="Philosophie_der_Biologie" title="Philosophie der Biologie">Biologie</a>. Einen Schwerpunkt bildete zuletzt die Erforschung der <a href="Evolution" title="Evolution">Evolution</a> von <a href="Altruismus" title="Altruismus">Altruismus</a> und <a href="Moral" title="Moral">Moral</a> und des Konfliktes zwischen <a href="Wissenschaft" title="Wissenschaft">Wissenschaft</a> und <a href="Religion" title="Religion">Religion</a>.
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<ul><li>1987: <a href="Lakatos_Award" title="Lakatos Award">Lakatos Award</a> (zusammen mit <a href="Michael_Friedman_(Philosoph)" title="Michael Friedman (Philosoph)">Michael Friedman</a>) für seine Monographie <i>Vaulting Ambition: Sociobiology and the Quest for Human Nature</i><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li>2002: Wahl in die <a href="American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Sciences" title="American Academy of Arts and Sciences">American Academy of Arts and Sciences</a> gewählt</li>
<li>2018: Wahl in die <a href="American_Philosophical_Society" title="American Philosophical Society">American Philosophical Society</a></li>
<li>2021: Wahl in die <a href="British_Academy" title="British Academy">British Academy</a></li>
<li>2024: <a href="BBVA_Foundation_Frontiers_of_Knowledge_Awards" title="BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards">BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award</a></li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Werk_(Auswahl)"><span id="Werk_.28Auswahl.29"></span>Werk (Auswahl)</h2></div>
<ul><li><i>Vaulting Ambition: Sociobiology and the Quest for Human Nature.</i> (1985)</li>
<li><i>The Advancement of Science</i> (1993)</li>
<li><i>The Lives to Come</i> (1996)</li>
<li><i>Science, Truth and Democracy</i> (2001)</li>
<li><i>In Mendel's Mirror (2003)</i></li>
<li><i>Finding an Ending: Reflections on Wagner’s Ring</i> (mit Richard Schacht) (2004)</li>
<li><i>Living with Darwin: Evolution, Design, and the Future of Faith</i> (2007)</li>
<li><i>Joyce's Kaleidoscope: An Invitation to Finnegans Wake</i> (2007)</li>
<li><i>The Ethical Project</i> (2011)</li>
<li><i>Science in a Democratic Society</i> (2011)</li>
<li><i>Preludes to pragmatism: Toward a reconstruction of philosophy</i> (2012)</li>
<li>(mit <a href="Evelyn_Fox_Keller" title="Evelyn Fox Keller">Evelyn Fox Keller</a>) <i>The Seasons Alter: How to Save Our Planet in Six Acts</i> (2017)</li>
<li><i>Joyce's Ulysses: Philosophical Perspectives</i> (2020)</li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Literatur">Literatur</h2></div>
<ul><li>Couch, Mark, and Jessica Pfeifer, eds. <i>The Philosophy of Philip Kitcher</i>. Oxford University Press, 2016.</li>
<li>Kaiser, Marie I., and Ansgar Seide, eds. <i>Philip Kitcher: Pragmatic Naturalism</i>. Vol. 15. Walter de Gruyter, 2013.</li></ul>
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<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://portal.dnb.de/opac.htm?method=simpleSearch&query=120509970">Literatur von und über Philip Kitcher</a> im Katalog der <a href="Deutsche_Nationalbibliothek" title="Deutsche Nationalbibliothek">Deutschen Nationalbibliothek</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.columbia.edu/~psk16/">Webpräsenz an der Columbia University</a></li></ul>
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<li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-1">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/blog/1988/09/15/1987-lakatos-award-michael-friedman-and-philip-kitcher/"><i>1987 Lakatos Award.</i></a> In: <i>lse.ac.uk.</i> Abgerufen am 23. Oktober 2024.</span>
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