Philip Kitcher
Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University
Philip Kitcher is the John Dewey Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University. Previously, he taught at the University of California, San Diego, and before that at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of Science in a Democratic Society, and most recently The Seasons Alter: How to Save Our Planet in Six Acts.
Can philosophy give you true understanding about life, the universe, and everything? Sometimes it Kant.
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Primatologists and praying farmers show us why it takes a flexible brain, and many perspectives, to unlock truly groundbreaking science.
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Is race a trivial quality of humans, or of deep social importance? Who gets to decide whether race exists or not?
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People tend to bandy around the term “scientific consensus” a lot, but what does it actually mean?
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