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Philip Kitcher

Philip Kitcher, a professor of philosophy at Columbia, is the author of Science, Truth and Democracy, among other books.

Selected bibliography

  • Finding an Ending: Reflections on Wagner’s ‘Ring’ by Philip Kitcher and Richard Schacht (2004)
  • In Mendel’s Mirror: Philosophical Reflections on Biology (2003)
  • Science, Truth and Democracy (2001)
  • The Lives to Come: The Genetic Revolution and Human Possibilities (1996)
  • The Advancement of Science: Science Without Legend, Objectivity Without Illusions (1993)
  • Vaulting Ambition: Sociobiology and the Quest for Human Nature (1987)
  • The Nature of Mathematical Knowledge (1983)

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In the LRB archive

subscriber-only content Not in my body, thank you · 1 November 2001

  • Investigations by Stuart Kauffman

Not currently in the LRB archive

 not available in archive Sea-shells and Tigers · 18 March 1999

  • Life’s Other Secret: The New Mathematics of the Living World by Ian Stewart

 not available in archive You win, I win · 15 October 1998

  • Unto Others: The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behaviour by Elliott Sober and David Sloan Wilson

 not available in archive Tall, Slender, Straight and Intelligent · 5 March 1998

  • Clone: The Road to Dolly and the Path Ahead by Gina Kolata
  • Remaking Eden: Cloning and Beyond in a Brave New World by Lee Silver