David Blitz

{{Short description|American mathematician}}

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{{Infobox philosopher

| region = Western philosophy

| era = 20th-century philosophy

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| name = David Blitz

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| birth_place = Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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| school_tradition = Analytic Philosophy

| main_interests = Philosophy of science, logic, ethics, mathematics

| influences = Bertrand Russell, Charles Darwin, Mario Bunge

| influenced = Eric Bergenn, Evan McCarthy

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David Blitz has been a faculty member at Central Connecticut State University since 1989. His areas of teaching and research are the history and philosophy of science, with special interest in theories of evolution and modern logic, as well as the work of Charles Darwin and Bertrand Russell.{{Cite web|url=http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/CCSU-Faculty-Senate-Calls-for-CSCU-President-to-Resign-481311811.html|title=CCSU Faculty Senate Calls for CSCU President to Resign|last=Austin|first=Matt|website=NBC Connecticut|date=30 April 2018 |language=en|access-date=2019-06-26}} His book, Emergent Evolution: Qualitative Novelty and the Levels of Reality was published in 1992 by Kluwer Academic Publishers. He is currently working on a monograph on Bertrand Russell's Philosophy of War and Peace. David Blitz is also active in the Honors program and Peace Studies program.