Kitcher, Philip
Philip Kitcher is an associate professor of Philosophy at the University of Vermont. Abusing Science was completed while the author was an Associate in Zoology at Harvard University's Museum of Comparative Zoology. He is also the author of The Nature of Mathematical Knowledge, 1983.


Darwin was not the only person who failed to read Mendel. In fact, Mendel's important ideas languished unappreciated until the turn of the century. Abusing Science, 1982.

Darwin championed the thesis of evolutionary gradualism. Ibid.

Darwin is the Newton of Biology. Ibid.

Creation "science" is spurious science. Ibid.