CURRICULUM VITAE
Philip Stuart Kitcher November 2003
Higher Education
Christ's College,
(First class honours in
Mathematics/History and Philosophy of Science)
(Department of Philosophy/Program in
History and Philosophy of Science)
Awards
Henry Schuman Prize, 1971
NEH Summer Research Grant, 1979
ACLS Study Fellowship, 1981-82
NEH Fellowship for College Teachers,
1983-84
NEH Grant for Institute to Investigate a Possible New
Consensus in Philosophy of Science (Joint Principal Investigator with C. Wade
Savage)
Imre Lakatos Award (co-winner with Michael Friedman) 1986.
Awarded for Vaulting Ambition.
NEH Fellowship for University Teachers 1988-89 (declined)
John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship 1988-89
Principal Investigator, five-year NSF Research and
Training Grant for the development of a
Appointed Presidential Professor
UCSD Alumni Distinguished Teaching Award 1993
Library of Congress, Senior Fellow: Bio-Ethics
Issues in Molecular Genetics, 1993-94.
Vice-President, American Philosophical Association
(Pacific Division), 1996-97.
President, American Philosophical
Association (Pacific Division), 1997-98.
Fellow:
Phi Beta Kappa Romanell professor, 2003-4
Teaching Experience
Professor, Philosophy,
1983-1986.
Director,
Professor, Philosophy,
1986-1993
Faculty Coordinator for Science Studies, 1989-1991
Presidential Professor,
1993-1999.
Professor of Philosophy,
1998-present.
John Dewey Professor of
Philosophy, 2003-present
Publications
(a) Books
1. Abusing Science: The
Case Against Creationism. MIT Press, 1982 (paperback 1983).
Chapter 2 has been reprinted in: Michael Bratman and John Perry (eds) Introduction to Philosophy (Oxford
University Press), Steven Cahn, Patricia
Kitcher, and George Sher (eds) Reason At
Work (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich), and Norman Bowie (ed) The Philosophical Tradition. Chapters 2-4 also appear in Polish in a
Polish volume on the Creation-Evolution controversy. Parts also appear in Robert Solomon et. al. (eds.) Twenty
Questions (Harcourt Brace), and in E. Klemke et.al. (eds)
2. The Nature of
Mathematical Knowledge. Oxford
University Press, 1983 (paperback 1984).
Chapter 7 is reprinted in Thomas Tymoczko (ed) New Directions in the Philosophy of
Mathematics (Birkhauser, 1987). A
translation into Portuguese is currently in preparation. A French translation is under contract with Payot. Parts have also been translated into
Chinese.
3. Vaulting Ambition:
Sociobiology and the Quest for Human Nature. MIT Press, 1985 (paperback 1987).
4. The Advancement of
Science, Oxford University Press, April 1993 (paper January 1995).
Parts of Chapter 4 are reprinted in Robert Klee (ed) Scientific Inquiry: Readings in the Philosophy of Science (Oxford University Press, 1998). Other parts of Chapter 4 are reprinted in J. Arthur and W. Throop (eds) Reason and Culture (Prentice-Hall, forthcoming).
A translation into Spanish has been published by
UNAM Press. A Korean translation is in
preparation.
5. The Lives to Come: The
Genetic Revolution and Human Possibilities (Simon.and Schuster [U.S.],
Penguin [U.K.], January 1996, paperback editions 1997).
A German translation has been published by
Luchterhand under the title Genetik und
Ethik. A Greek translation has been
published by the
6. Science, Truth, and
Democracy, Oxford
University Press, 2001; paperback 2003.
7. In Mendel’s Mirror:
Philosophical Reflections on Biology, Oxford University Press, 2003. (This is a collection of seventeen of my
articles: articles numbers 21, 22, 24, 38, 43, 45, 51, 54, 55, 59, 70, 72,
82,83, 84, 92, 93).
8. Finding an Ending:
Reflections on Wagner’s Ring,
co-authored with Richard Schacht, Oxford University Press, February 2004.
(b) Articles
1. "Fluxions,
Limits and Infinite Littlenesse",
2. "Kant and the Foundations of Mathematics", Philosophical Review, LXXIV, 1975,
23-50.
Reprinted in Carl Posy (ed) Kant's Philosophy of Mathematics,
3. "
4. "Hilbert's
Epistemology", Philosophy of Science,
43, 1976, 99-115.
5. "Explanation, Conjunction and Unification", Journal of Philosophy, LXXIII, 1976,
207-212.
6. "Fictionalizers",
Philosophical Studies, 30, 1976,
19-27.
7. "Positive Understatement: The Logic of Attributive
Adjectives", Journal of
Philosophical Logic, 7, 1978, 1-17.
8. "The
Nativist's Dilemma", Philosophical
Quarterly, 28, 1978, 1-16.
9. "The
Plight of the Platonist", Nous,
XII, 1978, 119-136.
10. "Theories, Theorists and Theoretical Change", Philosophical Review, LXXXVII, 1978,
519-547.
Reprinted in Volume II of The Philosopher's Annual (1978). Also in Spanish in an anthology entitled Filosofia de la Ciencia, and in Y. Balashov and A.Rosenberg (eds) Philosophy of Science: Contemporary Readings, Routledge, 2001.
11. "Frege's Epistemology", Philosophical Review, LXXXVIII, 1979, 235-262.
Reprinted in Hans Sluga (ed) The Philosophy of Frege (New York: Garland, 1993), Volume I.
12. "A
Priori Knowledge", Philosophical
Review, LXXIX, 1980, 3-23.
Reprinted in Volume IV of The Philosopher's Annual (1980), and in Hilary Kornblith (ed) Naturalized Epistemology (Bradford
Books/MIT Press: 1985). Reprinted in
R. Goodman and R Snyder (eds) Contemporary
Epistemology (Prentice-Hall, 1993).
Also in Albert Casullo (ed) A
Priori Knowledge (Dartmouth Press/International Research Library of Philosophy). Also in J. Crumley (ed) Readings in Epistemology (Mayfield). Also in part in Patricia
Kitcher (ed) Kant’s Critique of Pure
Reason (Rowman and Allanheld). Also
in Fred Dretske and Sven Bernecker (eds) Knowledge:
13. "Arithmetic
for the Millian", Philosophical
Studies, 37, 1980, 215-236.
Reprinted in M. Resnik (ed) Mathematical Objects and Mathematical Knowledge (
14. "Apriority and Necessity", Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 58, 1980, 89-101.
Reprinted in Paul Moser (ed) A Priori Knowledge (Oxford Readings in Philosophy, Oxford
University Press: 1987).
15. "Mathematical
Rigor -- Who Needs It?", Nous,
XV, 1981, 469-93.
16. "How Kant Almost Wrote `Two Dogmas of Empiricism' (And
Why He Didn't)", Philosophical
Topics, 12, 1981, 217-249.
(This volume
of Philosophical Topics also appears
as Essays on Kant's Critique of Pure
Reason, edited by J.N.Mohanty and Robert Shahan,
17. "Explanatory
Unification", Philosophy of Science,
48, 1981, 507-31.
Reprinted in:
Joseph Pitt (ed) Scientific Explanation
(Oxford Readings in Philosophy, Oxford University Press, 1987) and, with a
postscript, in German translation, in G.Schurz (ed) Erklaren und Verstehen in den Wissenschaften (Oldenburg-Verlag,
Vienna-Munich, 1988). Reprinted in
Richard Boyd, Philip Gasper, and J.D. Trout (eds) Readings in the Philosophy of Science (Bradford Books, MIT Press,
1991), in D. Rothbart (ed.) Science,
Reason, and Reality (Harcourt
Brace), in E. Klemke et.al. (eds) Introductory
18. "Genes", British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 33, 1982, 337-359.
Reprinted in J. Worrall (ed) Philosophy of the Natural Sciences (Dartmouth Press).
19. "Kant's Philosophy of Science",
Reprinted in Allen Wood (ed) Kant on Self and Nature (Cornell University Press, 1984).
20. "Implications of Incommensurability", in P.Asquith
and T.Nickles (eds) PSA 1982,
Proceedings of the Philosophy of Science Association, 689-703.
21. "Species",
Philosophy of Science, 51, 1984,
308-333.
Reprinted in Marc Ereshefsky (ed) The Units of Evolution (Bradford Books,
MIT Press, 1991).
22. "1953 and All That. A Tale of Two Sciences", Philosophical Review, XCIII, 1984,
335-373.
Reprinted in Volume VII of The Philosopher's Annual (1984).
Reprinted in Richard Boyd, Philip Gasper, and J.D. Trout (eds) Readings in the Philosophy of Science
(Bradford Books, MIT Press, 1991).
Reprinted in Elliott Sober (ed) Conceptual Issues of Evolutionary Biology
(2nd edition), (Bradford Books, MIT Press, 1994). Reprinted in Martin Curd and Jan Cover (eds)
Philosophy of Science: The Central Issues
(Norton).
23. "Against the Monism of the Moment", Philosophy of Science, 51, 1984,
616-630.
24. "
25. "Two Approaches to Explanation", Journal of Philosophy, LXXXII, 1985,
632-639.
26. "Frege, Dedekind, and the Philosophy of
Mathematics", in L.Haaparanta and J.Hintikka (eds) Frege Synthesized, D.Reidel (Synthese Library), 1986, 299-343.
Reprinted in Hans Sluga (ed) The Philosophy of Frege (New York: Garland, 1993) Volume II.
27. "Projecting the Order of Nature", in Robert Butts
(ed) Kant's Philosophy of Physical
Science, D.Reidel (
Reprinted in Patricia Kitcher (ed) Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason (Rowman
and Allanheld).
28. "Why Not The Best?", in John Dupre (ed) The Latest on the Best: Essays on Optimality
and Evolution, Bradford Books/MIT Press, 1987, 77-102.
29. "Mathematical Naturalism", in William Aspray and
Philip Kitcher (eds) Essays on the
History and Philosophy of Modern Mathematics, University of Minnesota Press
(Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science), 1987.
Also in Russian in the Proceedings of the Soviet
Seminar (edited by A. Barabashev).
30. "Imitating Selection", in Sidney Fox and Mae-Wan Ho (eds) Metaphors in the New Evolutionary Paradigm,
John Wiley and Sons, 1987.
31. Precis of Vaulting Ambition and Reply to twenty-two commentators
("Confessions of a Curmudgeon"), The
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 10, March 1987, 61-100.
32. "Ghostly Whispers: Mayr, Ghiselin and the `Philosophers'
on the Ontology of Species", Biology
and Philosophy, 2, 1987, 184-192.
33. "On the Crest of `La
Nouvelle Vague'", International
Studies Quarterly, 31, 1987, 45-52.
34. "Van Fraassen on Explanation" (with Wesley Salmon), Journal of Philosophy, 84, 1987,
315-330.
Reprinted in Volume X of The Philosopher's Annual.
Reprinted in David Hillel Rubin (ed) Explanation
(Oxford Readings in Philosophy, Oxford University Press, 1993).
35. "The Transformation of Human Sociobiology", in A.Fine and P.Machamer (eds) PSA 1986, Proceedings of the Philosophy
of Science Association, Volume II, (1987), 63-74.
36. "Mathematical Progress", Revue Internationale de Philosophie, 42, 1988, 518-540.
37. "Misrepresentation and Responsibility in Medical
Research", (with Robert Engler, James Covell, Paul Friedman, and Richard
Peters),
38. "The Return of the Gene", (with Kim Sterelny), Journal of Philosophy, 85, 1988,
335-358.
Reprinted in Richard Boyd, Philip Gasper, and J.D.
Trout (eds) Readings in the Philosophy of
Science (Bradford Books, MIT Press, 1991) and in David Hull and Michael
Ruse (eds) Readings in the Philosophy of
Biology (Oxford University Press).
39. "The Animal Within: Biology and the Social
Sciences", LSE Quarterly, 2,
1988, 339-359.
40. "The Child as Parent of the Scientist", Mind and Language, 3, 1988, 217-228.
41. "The Foundations of Mathematics", in G.Cantor,
M.J.S.Hodge, and R.Olby (eds) Companion
to the History of Science, Routledge, 1989, 677-689.
42. "Explanatory Unification and the Causal Structure of the
World", in Philip Kitcher and Wesley Salmon (eds), Scientific Explanation,
Reprinted in part in Robert Klee (ed) Scientific Inquiry: Readings in the
Philosophy of Science (Oxford University Press, 1998). Reprinted in part in Y.Balashov and A.
Rosenberg (eds) Philosophy of Science:
Contemporary Readings, Routledge 2001
43. "Some Puzzles About Species", in Michael Ruse (ed) What the Philosophy of Biology Is: Essays
for David Hull (Reidel, 1989) 183-208.
44. "Theory Structure and Theory Change in Contemporary
Molecular Biology" (with Sylvia Culp), British
Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 40, 1989, 459-483.
45. "Developmental Decomposition and the Future of Human
Behavioral Ecology", Philosophy of
Science, 57, 1990, 96-117.
46. "The Division of Cognitive Labor", The Journal of Philosophy, 87, 1990,
5-22.
47. "The Illusory Riches of Sober's Monism", The Journal of Philosophy, 87, 1990,
158-161 (co-authored with Kim Sterelny and C. Kenneth Waters).
48. "Persuasion", in Marcello Pera and William Shea (eds)
Persuading Science: The Art of Scientific
Rhetoric, Science History Publications, 1991, 3-27.
Also in Italian in Pera e Shea L'arte della persuasione scientifica (Milano: Guerini, 1992) 17-47.
49. "The
Naturalists Return" Philosophical
Review, 101, 1992, 53-114.
Reprinted in John Losee (ed) New Conceptions of Philosophy of Science: Descriptivism, Normative
Naturalism, Methodological Foundationalism, (
50. "Authority, Deference, and the Role of Individual
Reasoning", in Ernan McMullin (ed) The
Social Dimensions of Scientific Knowledge,
51. "Vier Arten die Moral
zu biologisieren", in Kurt Bayertz (ed) Evolution und Ethik: Biologische Grundlagen der Moral?,
Also in
English ("
52. "Gene", in Evelyn Fox Keller and Elisabeth Lloyd
(eds) Keywords in Evolution, Harvard
University Press, 1992. 128-131.
53. "Knowledge, Society, and History", Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 23,
1993, 155-178.
54. "Function
and Design", in
Reprinted
in Colin Allen (ed) Nature’s Purposes,
in David Buller (ed) Function, Selection,
and Design (SUNY Press) and in David Hull and Michael Ruse Readings in the Philosophy of Biology
(Oxford University Press).
55. "The Evolution of Human Altruism", The Journal of Philosophy, 90, 1993, 497-516.
Reprinted in Volume XVI
of The Philosopher’s Annual.
56. "Contrasting Conceptions of Social Epistemology", in
F. Schmitt (ed) Social Epistemology
(Rowman and Allanheld, 1994)
57. "The Unity of Science and the Unity of Nature", in
P. Parrini (ed) Kant's Epistemology and
Philosophy of Science,
58. Précis of The
Advancement of Science, and Responses to Critics (Isaac Levi, Peter
Machamer, Richard Miller and Dudley Shapere), Book Symposium, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research,
September 1995.
59. “Evolution of Altruism in Optional and Compulsory Games”,
(with John Batali), Journal of
Theoretical Biology, September 1995.
60. “Who’s Afraid of the Human Genome Project?”, in PSA 1994 (edited by M. Forbes and R.
Burian;
Reprinted in David Hull and Michael Ruse (eds) Readings in the Philosophy of Biology
(Oxford University Press).
61. "The Cognitive Functions of Scientific Rhetoric", in
Henry Krips, J.E. McGuire, and Trevor Melia (eds) Science
and Rhetoric. (
62. “Mill, Mathematics, and the Naturalist Tradition”, in J.M.A.
Skorupski (ed.) The
63. “A Prioristic Yearnings: A Critical Study of Michael
Friedman’s Kant and the Exact Sciences”,
in Erkenntnis 1997.
64. Introduction to Special Issue on Science and Ethics, Perspectives on Science, 1997,
(co-authored with Nancy Cartwright).
65. “An
Argument about Free Inquiry”, Noûs,
31, 1997, 279-306.
66. “A Plea for Science Studies”,
in Noretta Koertge (ed) A House
Built on Sand: Exposing Postmodernist Myths about Science, Oxford University Press, 1998, 32-56.
Reprinted in Spanish in Talon de Aquiles (
67. “Psychological Altruism, Evolutionary Origins, and Moral
Rules”, Philosophical Studies,
89, 1998, 283-316.
68. “Truth or Consequences?”, Proceedings
and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association, 72 number 2, 1998,
49-63.
69. “Games Social Animals Play: Commentary on Brian Skyrms’ Evolution of the Social Contract”, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research,
59, 1999, 221-228.
70. “Race, Ethnicity, Biology, Culture”, in Leonard Harris
(ed) Concepts
of Racism,
71. “Patients in the Twenty-First Century: The Impact of
Preventive Medicine”, in Dana Cook Grossman and Heinz Valtin (eds) Great Issues for Medicine in the
Twenty-First Century: Ethical and Social Issues Arising out of Advances in the
Biomedical Sciences, New York: Annals
of the New York Academy of Science, Volume 882.
72. “The Hegemony of Molecular Biology”, Biology and Philosophy,14, 1999, 195-210.
To be reprinted in Greek in
a volume edited by James Lennox.
73. “Essence
and Perfection”, Ethics, 110, 1999,
59-83.
74. “Unification as a Regulative Ideal”, Philosophical Perspectives, 7, 1999, 337-48.
75. “Refining the Causal Theory of Reference for Natural Kind
Terms” (with P. Kyle Stanford), Philosophical
Studies 97, 2000, 99-129.
76. “A Priori Knowledge Revisited”, in P. Boghossian and C.
Peacocke (eds) New Essays on the A Priori,
Oxford University
Press, 2000, 65-91.
77. “Reasonable People”, in James Fetzer (ed) Science, Explanation, and Rationality: The Philosophy of Carl G. Hempel, Oxford University Press,
2000, 243-264.
78. “Patterns of Scientific Controversy”, A. Baltas, P.Machamer
and M. Pera (eds.) Scientific
Controversies,
79. “Some Pictures Are Worth 2À0 Sentences”, (with Achille
Varzi), Philosophy, 75, 2000, 377-381.
80. “Reviving The Sociology of Science”, in PSA 1998, Volume II (supplementary volume of Philosophy of Science, 67, 2000), S33-44.
81. “Parfit’s
Puzzle”, Noûs, 34, 2000, 550-577.
Reprinted
in volume XXIII of The Philosopher’s
Annual
82. “Utopian Eugenics and Social Inequality”, in Phillip Sloan (ed) Implications of the Human Genome Project,
83. “Battling the Undead: How (and How Not) to Resist Genetic
Determinism”, in Rama Singh, Costas Krimbas, Diane Paul, and John Beatty (eds) Thinking About Evolution: Historical,
Philosophical and Political Perspectives, Cambridge University Press, 2001,
396-414.
84.
“Infectious Ideas”, The Monist,
84 number 3, 2001,
368-391.
85. “Knowledge and Tradition”, Philosophical Topics, 29, 2001,251-270
86. “Real Realism: The Galilean Strategy”, Philosophical Review, 110, 2001, 151-197.
87. “Carl G. Hempel”, in A.P. Martinich and David Sosa (eds) A Companion to Analytic Philosophy,
Blackwell, 2001, 148-159.
88. “Creating Perfect People”, in Justine Burley and John Harris
(eds) Blackwell Companion to Genethics,
Blackwell, 2002, 229-242.
89. “On the Explanatory Role of Correspondence Truth”, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research,
64, 2002, 346-364.
To be reprinted in a volume of essays on truth
edited by Fred Schmitt, forthcoming from Blackwell.
90. “The Role of Social Psychology in a Theory of Science”, in P.
Carruthers, S. Stich, and M. Siegel (eds) The
Cognitive Basis of Science,
91. “Veritistic Value and the Project of Social Epistemology”, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research,
64, 2002, 191-8.
92. “Pop
Sociobiology Reborn: The Evolutionary Psychology of Sex and Violence”, (with A.
Leah Vickers), in Cheryl Travis (ed) Evolution,
Gender, and Rape, Cambridge MA.: MIT Press, 2002, 139-168.
93. “Born Again Creationism”, Robert Pennock (ed) Intelligent design Creationism, MIT
Press, 2002, 257-287.
94. “Scientific Knowledge”, in Paul Moser (ed) The Oxford Handbook of Epistemology,
95. “The
96. “Giving Darwin His Due”, in J. Hodge and G. Radick (eds.) The Cambridge Companion to Darwin,
Cambridge University Press, 2003, 399-420.
97. “The Scientist’s Role”, Annual John Wesley Powell Lecture to
the South-Western and Rocky Mountain Division of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science, published as an individual pamphlet in the
Division’s Series, 2003, 1-28.
98. “What Kinds of Science Should Be Done?”, in Alan Lightman, Dan
Sarewitz, and Christina Dresser (eds) Living
With the Genie,
99. “The Many-Sided
Conflict Between Science and Religion”, to appear in William Mann (ed) The Blackwell Companion to the Philosophy of
Religion,
100. “Global
Health and the Scientific Research Agenda”, (with James Flory), Philosophy and Public Affairs, 32, 2004,
36-65
101. “Responsible
Biology”, forthcoming in Bioscience
102. “Biology and Ethics”, to appear in David Copp (ed) The Oxford Handbook of Ethics,
103. “The Ends of the Sciences”, to appear in Brian Leiter (ed) The Future of Philosophy,
104. “Philosophy of Biology”, to appear in The Blackwell Companion to Philosophy edited by Frank Jackson and
Michael Smith.
105. “Philosophy of Science”, to appear in the next edition of Encyclopedia Britannica.
106. “A Pragmatist’s Progress: The Varieties of James’ Strategies for
Defending Religion”, forthcoming in Wayne Proudfoot (ed) William James and a Science of Religions, Columbia University
Press, 2004
107. “On the Autonomy of the Sciences”, forthcoming in Philosophy Today
108. “History and the Sciences”, with Daniel Immerwahr, to appear in
a volume edited by Daniel Herwitz and Michael Kelly
109. “Authority and Judgment in the Ring”, with Richard Schacht, to appear in a volume edited by Lydia
Goehr and Dniel Herwitz
110. “ ‘A Priori’ ”, to
appear in Paul Guyer (ed) The Cambridge
Companion to Kant (second edition), Cambridge University Press
111. “Evolutionary Theory and the Social Uses of Biology”, Biology and Philosophy, 19, 2004, 1-15
(c) Popular,
Pedagogical, and Miscellaneous Other Publications
"Remarks on Teaching Philosophy of
Science", Teaching Philosophy,
2, 1976, 115-119.
"Darwin, The Bogeyman", The National Forum, 63, Number 2, 1983, 28-39.
"Good Science, Bad Science, Dreadful Science,
and Pseudo-Science", The Journal of
College Science Teaching, 14, 1985, 168-173.
"The Trouble with Human Sociobiology Is
...", The Behavioral and Brain
Sciences, 1985 (commentary on an article by Daniel Vining).
"The Devil, the Details, and Dr. Dennett",
(with Patricia Kitcher), The Behavioral
and Brain Sciences, 1988, (review of Daniel Dennett The Intentional Stance).
"The Compleat Falsifier", Psychological Inquiry, 2, 1990, 116-117.
“Junior Comes Out Perfect”, The New York Times Magazine (Centenary Issue),
“Explanation”, in The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Essay review of Simon LeVay Queer Science, in The
Sciences, November-December 1996.
“L’Origine de la Morale”, in La Recherche, March 1997.
Also in Spanish in Mundo
Cientifico, March 1997.
“Why There’ll Never Be Another You”,
“Clones, Sheep, Gnats, and Camels”, New Scientist,
“Whose Self Is It, Anyway?”, The Sciences, September/October 1997 58-62.
Reprinted in Gregory Pence (ed) Flesh of My Flesh: The Ethics of Cloning Humans, Rowman and
Littlefield, 1998, 67-75.
“Reconstituted Chicken”,
“Jeden gibt’s nur einmal”, (interview) Die Zeit,
“Tall, Slender, Straight, and Intelligent”,
Also
in part in German in Die Zeit, March
1998.
“You Win, I Win”,
“Das göttliche
Kind: selbstgebastelt”, Der
Tagesspiegel,
“What, if anything, is it all about?” (multiple
review of recent books in the philosophy of mathematics), Times Literary Supplement, September 11, 1998, 7-9.
“Sea-Shells and Tigers”, London Review of Books, March 18 1999, 31-2.
“Not In My Body, Thank You”, London Review of Books, November 1, 2001, 28-29.
(d) Books Edited
PSA 1984, co-edited with Peter
Asquith, Philosophy of Science Association, two volumes.
Essays on the History and
Philosophy of Modern Mathematics, co-edited with William Aspray, University of
Minnesota Press (Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science), 1987.
(In addition to my article "Mathematical
Naturalism", this volume contains "An Opinionated Introduction",
jointly authored by William Aspray and me).
I served as guest editor for a special issue of the Revue Internationale de Philosophie on
Philosophy of Mathematics (1988).
Scientific Explanation, co-edited with Wesley
Salmon, University of Minnesota Press (Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of
Science), 1989.
(e) Reviews
Approximately forty book reviews in the following
publications: Science, Historia Mathematica, Annals of Science, Isis, Philosophical Review,
History and Philosophy of Logic, Evolution, Journal of Higher Education, Philosophical
Books, New York Times, Nature, The Times Higher Education Supplement, Times Literary Supplement, Journal
of Philosophy.
Lectures
I have given lectures at many universities in the
United States and in Europe, most often to departments of philosophy, but often
to a general audience, or to science departments. Among the named lectures or lecture series
that I have given are:
Mead-Swing Lectures, Oberlin College, 1988
Forry Lecture, Amherst College, 1989
Rothman Lecture, UCLA,