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| Philip Kitcher, Frey Distinguished Visiting Professor for the Fall of 2001, specializes in the philosophy of science, biology and mathematics. Sample publications: Abusing Science: The Case Against Creationism (1982). The Nature of Mathematical Knowledge (1983). Vaulting Ambition: Sociobiology and the Quest for Human Nature (1985); The Advancement of Science (1993); The Lives to Come: The Genetic Revolution and Human Possibilities (1996);."The Evolution of Human Altruism," Journal of Philosophy (1993); "The Naturalists Return," Philosophical Review (1992); "The Division of Cognitive Labor," Journal of Philosophy (1990); "Explanatory Unification and the Causal Structure of the World," Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, XIII (1989); "The Return of the Gene," (with Kim Sterelny), Journal of Philosophy (1988); "Precis of Vaulting Ambition and Reply to Peer Commentary," The Behavioral and Brain Sciences (1987); "Van Fraassen on Explanation," (with Wesley Salmon), Journal of Philosophy (1987); "Two Approaches to Explanation," Journal of Philosophy (1985); "1953 and All That: A Tale of Two Sciences," Philosophical Review (1984); "Species," Philosophy of Science (1984); "Genes," British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (1982); "Explanatory Unification," Philosophy of Science (1981); "A Priori Knowledge," Philosophical Review (1980); "Frege's Epistemology," Philosophical Review (1979); "Theories, Theorists, and Theoretical Change," Philosophical Review (1978); "Kant and the Foundations of Mathematics," Philosophical Review (1975). |
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