Author: Philip Kitcher
Philip Kitcher is the John Dewey Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University. He is the author of numerous article and books, including Science, Truth, and Democracy (Oxford University Press, 2003). His work currently focuses on ethical and political constraints on scientific research, the evolution of altruism and morality, and the apparent conflict between science and religion.
John Dewey, Philosophical Radical
From the 1920s until his death in 1952, John Dewey was more influential than any American philosopher has been, either before or since. For the last half-century, however, Dewey’s major works, once read and studied by philosophers and the broader public alike, have had little impact on American philosophy or on American intellectual culture. Although …