Richard Creath (born 1947) is an American philosopher and Emeritus Professor of Life Sciences and of Philosophy at Arizona State University. He was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2009.[4]
Richard Creath | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1947 (age 77–78) |
| Awards | Phi Beta Kappa (1969)[3] |
| Education | |
| Education | University of Pittsburgh (Ph.D.) |
| Thesis | Science, Syntax and Semantics: An Examination of the Philosophy of Language of Rudolf Carnap (1975) |
| Doctoral advisor | Wilfrid Sellars |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | 21st-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Analytic philosophy |
| Institutions | Arizona State University |
| Main interests | Philosophy of science |
| Notable ideas | Conceptual engineering[1][2] |
Education
editCreath received a B.A. in philosophy from Knox College in 1969. He attained an M.A. in philosophy from the University of Pittsburgh in 1972 and in history and philosophy of science in 1974. He attained a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Pittsburgh in 1975.
Career
editCreath became a professor of Life Sciences and of Philosophy at Arizona State University in 1974 and a President's Professor in 2011. He studies philosophy of science influenced by Rudolf Carnap and Willard Van Orman Quine.
References
edit- ^ Richard Creath (ed.), Dear Carnap, Dear Van: The Quine-Carnap Correspondence and Related Work, University of California Press (1990).
- ^ David Chalmers, "What is Conceptual Engineering and What Should it Be?"
- ^ CV
- ^ "Richard Creath". School of Life Sciences. Retrieved 4 February 2019.
