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I'm very suspicious of the idea of a "final theory" in natural science, and the thought of a complete system of ethical rules seems even more dubious.
— Philip Kitcher
The expert is a midwife. The expert is not someone who has the authority to pronounce the last word on the subject.
— Philip Kitcher
Science literacy consists in the ability and the desire to follow reports of new scientific advances, throughout your whole life.
— Philip Kitcher
In ethics, we don't make progress by discovering pre-existent truths; we do so by solving problems.
— Philip Kitcher
Dare to love greatly.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
For a pragmatist like me, the important issues concern the words we might deploy to achieve our purposes, rather than the language we actually use.
— Philip Kitcher
One goal of ethical inquiry might be to uncover strategies available for use when values conflict or when rules are incomplete.
— Philip Kitcher
there is and can be no beginning to any event, for one event always flows uninterruptedly from another. The
— Leo Tolstoy
Refined religion is aimed at realizing ethical values, including the fostering of human lives and human communities.
— Philip Kitcher
Making sure that the geography and timelines work is always the hardest part of writing. But you owe it to the readers to get it right!
— Michael Scott
Experiments work when, and only when, they call into action cognitive capacities that might reliably deliver the conclusions drawn.
— Philip Kitcher
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
I rather stumbled into philosophy. When I began my undergraduate career at Cambridge, I studied mathematics.
— Philip Kitcher
I take the ethical truths to be the stable elements that emerge out of ethical progress and that are retained under further ethical progress.
— Philip Kitcher
The more you read the novella, the more you should wonder, I think, which judgments are to be taken as bedrock.
— Philip Kitcher
If the research agenda reflects "market forces", the problems of the poor are likely to be even more neglected than they already are.
— Philip Kitcher
Philosophers ought to aspire to know lots of different things and to forge useful synthetic perspectives.
— Philip Kitcher
It may be hyperbolic to declare that Shakespeare teaches us more about being human than all the natural scientists combined.
— Philip Kitcher
You will learn more from a glorious failure than ever you will from something that you never finished.
— Neil Gaiman
In my view, we ought to replace the notion of analytic philosophy by that of synthetic philosophy.
— Philip Kitcher
The point of philosophy, as I see it, is to change thinking, and thereby to change the conversation.
— Philip Kitcher
