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Kyle Stanford | |
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| Born | 22 April 1970 |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Northwestern University (B.A.); University of California, San Diego (M.A. & Ph.D.) |
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| Fields | Philosophy of Science, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Biology, Epistemology, History of Modern Philosophy (through Kant) |
| Institutions | University of California, Irvine |
| Doctoral advisor | Philip Kitcher |
Kyle Stanford (born 1970) is an American philosophy professor at the University of California, Irvine, who specializes in the philosophy of science.
He earned his B.A. with Honors in Philosophy and Psychology from Northwestern University in 1991, and did his graduate work at the University of California, San Diego, earning his M.A. in philosophy, 1994, and his Ph.D. in Philosophy/Science Studies, in 1997, under the direction of Philip Kitcher.[1]
He joined the Department of Philosophy at the University of California, Irvine in 1997, and moved to the newly created Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science there in 1998, earning tenure in 2004. He has been a visiting professor in the History and Philosophy of Science department at the University of Pittsburgh in Spring 2009.
