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Philip Kitcher

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Also known as Philip Stuart Kitcher

British philosopher (born 1947)

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  • Science in a Democratic Society
  • Rich and the Poor
  • History and Philosophy of Modern Mathematics
  • Whats the Use of Philosophy?
  • Muertes en Venecia

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  • Creationist strategy is often to run entirely different issues together, to concoct a muddy paste out of distinct allegations about the evils of evolution and the glories of Creationism.
  • The book that follows is a chase. The Creationist is allowed to choose one battleground after another. Given each choice of battleground, I insist that the battle be fight on that ground. In every case, “scientific” Creationism is defeated. When all the distortions have been removed, all the attempts to flaunt credentials examined, all the misleading quotations returned to their contexts, all the fallacies laid bare, we shall see Creation “science” for what it is—an abuse of science.
  • Ironically, philosophers of science owe the Creationists a debt. For the “scientific” Creationists have constructed a glorious fake, which we can use to illustrate the differences between science and pseudoscience. By examining their scientific pretensions, I have tried to convey a sense of the nature and methods of science.
  • Consistency is not the hobgoblin of the Creationist mind.
  • The road to Creationism is paved with bad philosophy.
  • The formulation that I have given accords with those found in textbooks on physics. But it does not coincide with the statements of the second law offered by some Creationists.Creationists like to present the second law either by omitting any mention of its restriction to closed systems or by choosing a statement that does not make this restriction clear.

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date of birth
1947-02-20
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