It is hard to hide our genes completely. However devoted someone may be to the privacy of his genotype, others with enough curiosity and knowledge can draw conclusions from the phenotype he presents and from the traits of his relatives.
Philip KitcherIt's not at all a bad idea for scientific questions to be chosen because a democratic deliberation would identify them as important for people's lives.
Philip KitcherIf the intuition-mongering were abandoned, would that be the end of philosophy? It would be the end of a certain style of philosophy - a style that has cut philosophy off, not only from the humanities but from every other branch of inquiry and culture.
Philip KitcherPhilosophers ought to aspire to know lots of different things and to forge useful synthetic perspectives.
Philip Kitcher