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According to Wikipedia, Philip Stuart Kitcher is a British philosopher who is John Dewey Professor Emeritus of philosophy at Columbia University. He specialises in the philosophy of science, the philosophy of biology, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of literature, and more recently pragmatism.

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Explanatory unification and the causal structure of the world (1989) (935)
Science, Truth, and Democracy (2001) (742)
The nature of mathematical knowledge (1985) (664)
The Advancement of Science (1993) (659)
Species (1984) (527)
The Division of Cognitive Labor (1990) (488)
Précis of Vaulting Ambition: Sociobiology and the Quest for Human Nature (1987) (470)
Science in a Democratic Society (2011) (421)
A DARWINIAN DILEMMA FOR REALIST THEORIES OF VALUE (2005) (416)
1953 and all that: a tale of two sciences. (1984) (410)
The Naturalists Return (1992) (362)
The return of the Gene (1988) (311)
The Ethical Project (2011) (306)
Explanatory Unification (1981) (259)
Abusing Science: The Case Against Creationism (1982) (247)
The Lives to Come: The Genetic Revolution and Human Possibilities (1996) (231)
Theories, Theorists and Theoretical Change (1978) (188)
Misrepresentation and responsibility in medical research. (1987) (135)
Function and Design (1993) (133)
Minnesota studies in the philosophy of science (1989) (119)
Explanation, Conjunction, and Unification (1976) (119)
History and Philosophy of Modern Mathematics (1988) (114)
A Priori Knowledge (1980) (114)
The Evolution of Human Altruism (1993) (109)
Van Fraassen on Explanation (1987) (108)
Does ‘Race’ Have a Future? (2007) (99)
Evolution of altruism in optional and compulsory games. (1995) (87)
Two Approaches to Explanation (1985) (85)
Refining the Causal Theory of Reference for Natural Kind Terms (2000) (80)
Some Puzzles About Species (1989) (78)
Global health and the scientific research agenda. (2004) (77)
The Child as Parent of The Scientist (1988) (74)
The Advancement of Science: Science Without Legend, Objectivity without Illusion. (1994) (73)
Projecting the Order of Nature (1986) (73)
Bolzano's ideal of algebraic analysis☆ (1975) (72)
Ghostly whispers: Mayr, Ghiselin, and the “Philosophers” on the ontological status of species (1987) (70)
Real Realism: The Galilean Strategy (2012) (65)
Between Science and Values (1983) (64)
Precis of The Advancement of Science@@@The Advancement of Science: Science without Legend, Objectivity without Illusions. (1995) (63)
The illusory Riches of Sober's monism (1990) (62)
An opinionated introduction (1988) (61)
Against the Monism of the Moment: A Reply to Elliott Sober (1984) (56)
Unification as a Regulative Ideal (1999) (54)
Taking culture seriously (1986) (53)
PHILOSOPHY INSIDE OUT (2011) (53)
The Third Way: Reflections on Helen Longino’s The Fate of Knowledge (2002) (49)
Darwin for Everyone@@@The Darwinian Revolution. Science Red in Tooth and Claw. (1982) (48)
Frege's Epistemology (1979) (47)
VARIETIES OF ALTRUISM (2010) (45)
Living with Darwin: Evolution, Design, and the Future of Faith (2007) (45)
A Priori Knowledge Revisited (2000) (44)
The Hegemony of Molecular Biology (1999) (43)
REAL REALISM THE GALILEAN STRATEGY (2001) (42)
Preludes to Pragmatism: Toward a Reconstruction of Philosophy (2012) (41)
On the Explanatory Role of Correspondence Truth (2002) (40)
The Climate Change Debates (2010) (38)
Evolutionary Theory and the Social uses of Biology (2004) (38)
Carnap and the Caterpillar (2008) (37)
Psychological Altruism, Evolutionary Origins, and Moral Rules (1998) (36)
Developmental Decomposition and the Future of Human Behavioral Ecology (1990) (36)
Kant and the Foundations of Mathematics (1975) (35)
Implications of Incommensurability (1982) (34)
The Lives to Come (1996) (34)
Darwin's Achievement (1995) (33)
In Mendel's Mirror: Philosophical Reflections on Biology (2003) (32)
Philosophy of Science: A New Introduction (2013) (31)
Why do we do as we do? (1988) (30)
Analysis of a mind (1996) (30)
Implications of the Human Genome Project (1998) (30)
Essence and Perfection* (1999) (29)
An argument about free inquiry (1997) (29)
Theory Structure and Theory Change in Contemporary Molecular Biology (1989) (29)
The Nativist's Dilemma (1978) (28)
Biology and Ethics (2007) (28)
Bewitchment of the biologist (1986) (28)
Model of reduction (1986) (27)
Reply to Helen Longino (2002) (27)
The Plight of the Platonist (1978) (26)
Hilbert's Epistemology (1976) (25)
Mathematical Rigor--Who needs it? (1981) (24)
A Plea for Science Studies Philip Kitcher (1998) (24)
Militant Modern Atheism (2011) (24)
Life After Faith: The Case for Secular Humanism (2014) (23)
Moral dilemma (1990) (22)
Reviving the Sociology of Science (2000) (22)
Science, Religion, and Democracy* (2008) (22)
Finding an Ending: Reflections on Wagner's Ring (2005) (22)
Knowledge, Society, and History1 (1993) (21)
The Unity of Science and the Unity of Nature (1994) (21)
Seeing in the dark (1991) (21)
Frege: An Introduction to his Philosophy. (1983) (20)
Apriority and necessity (1980) (20)
Kant's Philosophy of Science (1983) (19)
Kant's Critique of Pure Reason: Critical Essays (1998) (19)
Frege, Dedekind, and the Philosophy of Mathematics (1986) (19)
Ethics and Evolution How to Get Here from There (2016) (19)
Education, Democracy, and Capitalism (2009) (18)
Games Social Animals Play: Commentary on Brian Skyrms's Evolution of the Social Contract@@@Evolution of the Social Contract (1999) (18)
ON THE AUTONOMY OF THE SCIENCES (2004) (17)
Arithmetic for the Millian (1980) (17)
Some Pictures are Worth 2[aleph]0 Sentences (2000) (16)
Joyce's Kaleidoscope: An Invitation to Finnegans Wake (2007) (16)
Epistemology Without History is Blind (2011) (16)
How Kant Almost Wrote “Two Dogmas of Empiricism” (1981) (15)
Responsible Biology (2004) (15)
Refining the causal theory of reference (2000) (14)
Knowledge, Democracy, and the Internet (2017) (14)
Veritistic Value and the Project of Social Epistemology (2002) (14)
Scientific Research–Who Should Govern? (2007) (14)
Whose self is it, anyway? (1997) (14)
The importance of being Ernst (1988) (14)
Innovation and Understanding in Mathematics (1989) (13)
Deaths in Venice: The Cases of Gustav von Aschenbach (2013) (12)
Good Science, Bad Science, Dreadful Science, and Pseudoscience. (1985) (11)
Toward a Pragmatist Philosophy of Science (2013) (11)
Is a naturalized ethics possible (2014) (11)
Fluxions, Limits, and Infinite Littlenesse. A Study of Newton's Presentation of the Calculus (1973) (11)
Confessions of a curmudgeon (1987) (10)
Public knowledge and its discontents (2011) (10)
Some Pictures Are Worth 2 א 0 Sentences (10)
Mill, mathematics, and the naturalist tradition (1998) (9)
Mathematical Change and Scientific Change (1985) (9)
6. A Pragmatist’s Progress The Varieties of James’s Strategies for Defending Religion (2004) (9)
Parfit's Puzzle (2000) (9)
Scientific realism and democratic society : the philosophy of Philip Kitcher (2011) (9)
The Many‐Sided Conflict Between Science and Religion (2008) (7)
Public Knowledge and the Difficulties of Democracy (2014) (7)
Knowledge and Inquiry: The Knowledge Business (2006) (7)
Précis of The Ethical Project (2012) (7)
Pragmatism and Progress (2016) (6)
Giving Darwin his due (2009) (6)
Genes* (1982) (6)
Meaning and the Tradition (2005) (6)
Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science: History and Philosophy of Modern Mathematics, Vol. XI (1993) (6)
On the uses of rigorous proof. (1977) (5)
The Transformation of Human Sociobiology (1986) (5)
Experimental Animals: Experimental Animals (2015) (5)
“So … who is your audience?” (2018) (5)
On the Crest of “La Nouvelle Vague” (1987) (5)
Finding an ending (2004) (5)
Who's Afraid of the Human Genome Project? (1994) (5)
Knowledge and Tradition (2001) (4)
The Organization of Cognitive Labor (1995) (4)
Creating Perfect People (2008) (4)
A Case of Misinterpretation (2002) (4)
Selection among the systematists (1988) (4)
The devil, the details, and Dr. Dennett (1988) (4)
The British Society for the Philosophy of Science (2009) (4)
Social psychology and the theory of science (2002) (4)
Patients in the 21st Century: The Impact of Predictive Medicine (1999) (3)
Collideorscape: Finnegans Wake in the Large and in the Small (2010) (3)
Positive understatement: The logic of attributive adjectives (1978) (3)
Aprioristic yearnings (1996) (3)
Darwin and democracy (2007) (3)
Benchmarking Performance Improvement Indicators for the Clinical Engineering Department (2006) (3)
Masking The Meaningful (2016) (3)
The conversation continued (1985) (3)
Science and Ethics: Reclaiming Some Neglected Questions (1996) (3)
The Myth of Purity (2001) (3)
On the Very Idea of a Theory of Evidence (2011) (3)
Naturalistic Ethics without Fallacies (2012) (3)
Well‐Ordered Science (2001) (3)
Realism and Scientific Progress (1995) (3)
SCIENTIFIC REALISM THE TRUTH IN PRAGMATISM (2011) (3)
Pragmatism and Naturalism (2018) (3)
Life After Faith (2020) (2)
Cognitive Value and the Advancement of ScienceThe Advancement of Science: Science without Legend, Objectivity without Illusions (1995) (2)
Mill, Education, and the Good Life (2010) (2)
The Seasons Alter: How to Save Our Planet in Six Acts (2017) (2)
The Advancement of Realism@@@The Advancement of Science: Science without Legend, Objectivity without Illusions. (1995) (2)
The Ideal of Objectivity (2001) (2)
Varieties of Freedom and Their Distribution (2010) (2)
Evolution and Ethical Life (2017) (2)
Infectious Ideas: Some Preliminary Explorations (2001) (2)
Book Review:Did Darwin Get It Right? Essays on Games, Sex and Evolution John Maynard Smith (1990) (2)
27 Four Ways of ''Biologicizing'' Ethics (1993) (2)
Extending the Pragmatist Tradition: Replies to Commentators (2014) (2)
MILL’S CONSEQUENTIALISM (2010) (2)
Four Ways of “Biologicizing” Ethics (2021) (2)
The Main Enterprise of the World (2021) (2)
The Many Lessons of Structure (2012) (1)
SOME ANSWERS, ADMISSIONS, AND EXPLANATIONS (2013) (1)
Varieties of Progress (1995) (1)
Misrepresentation and responsibility in medical research. (1988) (1)
Afterthoughts. Reply to Comments (2012) (1)
Evolutionary Biology: Religion, truth, and progress (2014) (1)
DEFEASIBLE A PRIORI JUSTIFICATION: A REPLY TO THUROW (2008) (1)
The Youth Without Qualities (2014) (1)
Proximate and developmental analysis (1989) (1)
Philosophy of Biology (2007) (1)
Authority and Judgment in Don Giovanni (2005) (1)
The World as We Find It (2001) (1)
Taking on the Creationists (1984) (1)
The trouble with human sociobiology is … (1986) (1)
Tom Kuhn – An Appreciation (1998) (1)
10. Authority and Judgment in Mozart’s Don Giovanni and Wagner’s Ring (2006) (1)
Subversive Truth and Ideals of Progress (2001) (1)
Reply to Talisse and Aikin (2007) (1)
The World as We Make It (2001) (1)
Synthetic wisdom (2016) (1)
Book Reviews (2002) (1)
Varieties of Love (2005) (1)
Joyce's Kaleidoscope (2007) (1)
History and the Sciences (2014) (1)
Two forms of blindness: On the need for both cultures (2010) (1)
Secularism as a Positive Position (2015) (1)
Brünnhilde’s Transformation (2005) (0)
ETHICS AND PERFECTION (1999) (0)
Governing Darwin’s World (2018) (0)
The Development of Analysis: A Case Study (1985) (0)
Wagner’s Philosophers (2005) (0)
Wotan’s Judgments (2005) (0)
Book Reviews (2004) (0)
SOCIAL PROGRESS* (2017) (0)
Chapter 6. Possibilities of Progress (2011) (0)
From Liff Away (2007) (0)
VARIETIES OF DEMOCRACY IN SCIENCE POLICY1 (2010) (0)
Legend's Legacy (1995) (0)
Research in an Imperfect World (2001) (0)
Alienation and Its Dangers (2010) (0)
Cultivating character: the art of living (2016) (0)
“So … who is your audience?” (2018) (0)
Chapter 8. Progress, Equality, and the Good (2011) (0)
Arise, Sir Ghoscus! (2007) (0)
Chapter 1. The Springs of Sympathy (2011) (0)
Book Review:Frege and the Philosophy of Mathematics Michael D. Resnik (1981) (0)
The Importance of Social Epistemology (2018) (0)
The unfacts, did we possess them, are too imprecisely few to Warrant our Certitude (2007) (0)
10. Discussion Note: Distributed Cognition in Epistemic Cultures Discussion Note: Distributed Cognition in Epistemic Cultures (pp. 637-644) (2002) (0)
Something Rich and Strange (2020) (0)
How to Theorize about a Priori Knowledge: a Case Study (2007) (0)
Remembering Richard Lewontin (1929–2021) (2021) (0)
A Role for Religion? (2021) (0)
Aging Oedipus (2018) (0)
The Experimental Philosophy (1995) (0)
Social Change (2009) (0)
Book Review:Wittgenstein on the Foundations of Mathematics Crispin Wright (1981) (0)
Chapter 9. Method in Ethics (2011) (0)
It jl the London school of economics and political science (1989) (0)
A Darwinian Left (Book) (2002) (0)
His Reignbolt's Shot (2007) (0)
Altruism – A Philosophical Analysis (2002) (0)
Moral Development (2021) (0)
DARWIN FOR EVERYONE (1982) (0)
Pragmatism’s Constructive Project (2014) (0)
Naturalising Kant (2022) (0)
Authority, Responsibility, and Democracy (2010) (0)
Values for Humanists (2014) (0)
Brünnhilde’s Progress (2005) (0)
The Four of Us and Sure, Thank God, There are No More of Us (2007) (0)
The Apriorist Program (1985) (0)
Patterns of Mathematical Change (1985) (0)
The Proper Ends of Science: Philip Kitcher, Science, and the Good* (2016) (0)
Logical conclusions (1987) (0)
So soft this morning, Ours (2007) (0)
A Note on Translations (2013) (0)
One Kind of Naturalism: As an Introduction (2009) (0)
Junior comes out perfect. (1996) (0)
CONSTRAINTS ON SOCIOBIOLOGY (1987) (0)
Truth or Consequences (1998) (0)
Tell Me More (2007) (0)
Male and Female Unmask We Hem (2007) (0)
What, if anything, is it all about? (1998) (0)
3. Deweyan Naturalism (2018) (0)
Is birdsong music (2017) (0)
Constraints on Free Inquiry (2001) (0)
SCIENTIFIC UNDERSTANDING AND THE TRUTH OF RELATION ON THE BASIS OF MARTIN BUBER ’ S I AND THOU (2010) (0)
One-eyed darwinism (1986) (0)
Darwin's legacy (1990) (0)
III. Remarks on Being the Only Philosopher of Science on Campus (1977) (0)
Life's Robulous Rebus (2007) (0)
Reviving the sociology of science : Metaphilosophy and the history of the philosophy of science (2000) (0)
The Hubbub Caused in Edenborough (2007) (0)
The Keys to. Given (2007) (0)
A big bite of the past (2007) (0)
The Microstructure of Scientific Change (1995) (0)
Kitcher on Advancing Science@@@The Advancement of Science: Science without Legend, Objectivity without Illusions. (1995) (0)
Dealing with Creationism@@@Darwinism Defended. A Guide to the Evolution of Controversies.@@@Creation and Evolution. Myth or Reality.@@@The Monkey Business. A Scientist Looks at Creationism.@@@Science on Trial. The Case for Evolution.@@@Abusing Science. The Case Against Creationism. (1983) (0)
Meaning and the Ring (2005) (0)
Remembering Dick Bernstein (2023) (0)
Rationality for Dummies (2016) (0)
Genes and prejudices (1999) (0)
Ending and Renewal (2005) (0)
The Foundations of Mathematics (2020) (0)
Everybody Heard their Plaint (2007) (0)
Continuing the Conversation (2020) (0)
Nayman of Noland (2007) (0)
Alberich and Fricka (2005) (0)
Quality, not quantity. (1997) (0)
Chapter 3. Experiments of Living (2011) (0)
Chapter 5. Troubles with Truth (2011) (0)
As You Like It (2018) (0)
Loud, Heap Miseries upon us (2007) (0)
Conference on Evolution and the Human Sciences (1992) (0)
Questions and Answers (1999) (0)
A Picture Primitive (2007) (0)
Common sense is much overrated (1993) (0)
Preface (1984) (0)
Chapter 4. One Thing after Another (2011) (0)
Explaining Science: A Cognitive Approach by Ronald N. Giere (1991) (0)
The Centrality of Education (2023) (0)
Elitism, Democracy, and Science Policy (2001) (0)
10. Jerrold Levinson, ed., Aesthetics and Ethics: Essays at the Intersection Jerrold Levinson, ed., Aesthetics and Ethics: Essays at the Intersection (pp. 215-219) (1999) (0)
Chapter 7. Naturalistic Fallacies (2011) (0)
Volume Information (1984) (0)
Siegfried and Other Problems (2005) (0)
Metaphilosophy and the History of the Philosophy of Science-Philosophy and the Social Aspects of Scientific Inquiry: Moving On from the Science Wars-Reviving the Sociology of Science (2000) (0)
A Tale of Two Sciences (2007) (0)
Three score and ten toptypsical readings (2007) (0)
TURNING NATURAL (2007) (0)
Preface (1984) (0)
Kitcher and the Achievement of ScienceThe Advancement of Science: Science without Legend, Objectivity without Illusions (1995) (0)
Chapter 10. Renewing the Project (2011) (0)
Brünnhilde’s Authority (2005) (0)
Toward a Defensible Empiricism (1985) (0)
Problems of False Consciousness (2021) (0)
[Obituary: Robert E. Butts] (1997) (0)
Chapter 2. Normative Guidance (2011) (0)
Putnam’s Happy Ending?: Pragmatism and the Realism Debates (2017) (0)
Understanding Ourselves (2021) (0)
Rotman Institute Opening (2010) (0)
James and Pragmatism: The Road Not Taken (2018) (0)
The tasks Above are as the Flasks below (2007) (0)
. nonfusion Over Ev ~ _ ution ' : An Exchang (0)
The Arts (2021) (0)
Dewey’s Conception of Philosophy (2017) (0)
HIGHLY PRELIMINARY VERSION – PLEASE DO NOT QUOTE (2001) (0)
The Compleat Falsifier (1990) (0)
The Luddites' Laments (2001) (0)
Aisy Now, You Decent Man (2007) (0)
History and Philosophy of Modern Mathematics: Volume XI (1988) (0)
The Pragmatic Maxim, by Christopher Hookway. (2014) (0)
Loose associations (1992) (0)
Knowledge, Democracy, and the Internet (2016) (0)
Educating Democratic Character (2021) (0)
What makes the planet tick (1993) (0)

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