I'm very suspicious of the idea of a "final theory" in natural science, and the thought of a complete system of ethical… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
I'm very concerned about the increasing distortion of research by the intrusion of the market. Universities are beginning to see science as… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
I don't deny that scientific investigation is capable of delivering important truths about nature, but that doesn't stop questions about whether, as… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
It's not at all a bad idea for scientific questions to be chosen because a democratic deliberation would identify them as important… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
It may be hyperbolic to declare that Shakespeare teaches us more about being human than all the natural scientists combined. — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Science literacy consists in the ability and the desire to follow reports of new scientific advances, throughout your whole life. — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
It's a very bad idea for scientific conclusions to be accepted because they fit with the political values of a group of… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
In my view, all students should be given an initial opportunity to pursue the science track as far as it goes. But… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
If there are to be appropriate judgments about what questions are significant, you need both the informed views of scientists who know… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Anxieties about ourselves endure. If our proper study is indeed the study of humankind, then it has seemed-and still seems-to many that… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
“Thomas Kuhn’s book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions has probably been more widely read—and more widely misinterpreted—than any other book in the… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
It is hard to hide our genes completely. However devoted someone may be to the privacy of his genotype, others with enough… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Current education in science treats all students as if they were going to have scientific careers. They are required to solve problems… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
I'm a fan of Hugh Kenner, Richard Ellman, Lionel Trilling and Frank Kermode. All these people have taught me how to read - but… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share
Refined religion is aimed at realizing ethical values, including the fostering of human lives and human communities. — Philip Kitcher Copy Share
Many of the greatest works of philosophy seem to me to be valuable not because of their arguments, but because they offer us perspectives… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share
As I read Mann in German for the first time, the full achievement - both literary and philosophical - of Death in Venice struck… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share
Look at Mann's reading habits, his explicit comments on Nietzsche, and his copy of Birth of Tragedy, and it starts to seem doubtful that… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share
My ethical naturalism sees us as facing the predicament of being social animals without evolved adaptations that make social life easy. The fundamental problem… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share
So my methodological approach is to draw on many different features in highlighting different facets of the novella (and the opera and the film). — Philip Kitcher Copy Share
In my view, we ought to replace the notion of analytic philosophy by that of synthetic philosophy. — Philip Kitcher Copy Share
Philosophers ought to aspire to know lots of different things and to forge useful synthetic perspectives. — Philip Kitcher Copy Share
The balance between literature and philosophy in Schopenhauer and Nietzsche is different from that struck in the novella, but, as Mann clearly pointed out… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share
I don't think that anything of any consequence is known a priori: all our knowledge is built up by modifying the lore passed on… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share
Because the problems are objective features of the human situation - social animals without the capacities for making social life come easily - ethics… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share
I'm very concerned about the increasing distortion of research by the intrusion of the market. Universities are beginning to see science as a means… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share
There's a disciplined erotic component to it, so that the height of sexual contact is the embrace, the modest touch, a relatively chaste kiss.… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share
The classical allusions and the Platonic disquisitions on beauty are no longer a form of cover, but integral to Aschenbach's complex sexuality. Moreover, the… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share
