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Richard Creath

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Richard Creath
Born1947
EducationUniversity of Pittsburgh (Ph.D.)
AwardsPhi Beta Kappa (1969)[3]
Era21st-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolAnalytic philosophy
InstitutionsArizona State University
ThesisScience, Syntax and Semantics: An Examination of the Philosophy of Language of Rudolf Carnap (1975)
Doctoral advisorWilfrid Sellars
Main interests
Philosophy of science
Notable ideas
Conceptual engineering[1][2]

Richard Creath (born 1947) is an American philosopher and President's Professor of Life Sciences and of Philosophy at Arizona State University. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.[4]

References

  1. ^ Richard Creath (ed.), Dear Carnap, Dear Van: The Quine-Carnap Correspondence and Related Work, University of California Press (1990).
  2. ^ David Chalmers, "What is Conceptual Engineering and What Should it Be?"
  3. ^ CV
  4. ^ "Richard Creath". School of Life Sciences. Retrieved 4 February 2019.