Philip Kitcher is the John Dewey Professor of Philosophy emeritus at Columbia University. He has written seventeen previous books, several of which have won awards. He is well-known internationally for his work in many fields of philosophy, including the philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of science, ethics, epistemology, political philosophy, and studies of philosophical themes in literature and music. A previous president of the American
Philosophical Association (Pacific Division), he is also a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Member of the American Philosophical Society. He is an Honorary Fellow of Christ's College Cambridge, and, in 2019, was awarded the Rescher Medal for contributions to systematic
philosophy.
