Philip Stuart Kitcher (born 20 February 1947) is a British philosopher who is the John Dewey Professor Emeritus of philosophy at Columbia University.

Born in London, Kitcher spent his early life in Eastbourne, East Sussex, on the south coast of the United Kingdom, where another distinguished philosopher of an earlier generation (A. J. Ayer) was also at school.

[7] Kitcher was Editor-in-Chief of the journal Philosophy of Science from 1994 to 1999, was also a member of the NIH/DOE Working Group on the Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of the Human Genome Project from 1995 to 1997.

She is a Kant scholar and philosopher of mind who has been the Mark Van Doren Professor of Humanities at Columbia.

His 2012 book[10] documented his developing interest in John Dewey and a pragmatic approach to philosophical issues.

[12][13] Kitcher's three criteria for good science are:[14] He increasingly recognised the role of values in practical decisions about scientific research.

Nevertheless, the caricature has become commonly accepted as a faithful representation, thereby lending support to the Creationists' claims that their views are arrogantly disregarded.