Christopher Hitchcock

{{short description|American philosopher}}

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Christopher Hitchcock (born 1964) is an American philosopher and J. O. and Juliette Koepfli Professor of Philosophy at the California Institute of Technology.

He is known for his works on philosophy of science.{{cite journal |last1=Lange |first1=Marc |title=Review of Causation, Physics, and the Constitution of Reality: Russell's Republic Revisited |journal=NDPR |date=6 November 2007 |url=https://ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/causation-physics-and-the-constitution-of-reality-russell-s-republic-revisited/ |language=en |issn=1538-1617}}{{cite journal |last1=Baumann |first1=Peter |title=Review of Contrastivism in Philosophy |journal=NDPR |date=2 June 2013 |url=https://ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/contrastivism-in-philosophy/ |language=en |issn=1538-1617}}{{cite journal |last1=Gallow |first1=J. Dmitri |title=Review of A Variety of Causes |journal=NDPR |date=16 May 2022 |url=https://ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/a-variety-of-causes/ |language=en |issn=1538-1617}}

Books

  • Making a Difference. Oxford University Press. Co-edited with Helen Beebee and Huw Price, 2017
  • The Oxford Handbook of Probability and Philosophy. Oxford University Press. Co-edited with Alan Hájek, 2016
  • The Oxford Handbook of Causation. Oxford University Press. Co-edited with Helen Beebee and Peter Menzies, 2009
  • Contemporary Debates in the Philosophy of Science. Blackwell, 2004

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