Joseph C. Pitt (born 1943) is an American Pragmatist, philosopher of science and

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who works at

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in the Departments of Philosophy and Science and Technology in Society. He is a past

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of '' Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology'' and the former editor of '' Perspectives on Science''. He was founding director of the Center for Science Studies at Virginia Tech, which is now the Department of Science, Technology, and Society. He is a foundational figure in philosophy of technology and a past president of the Society for Philosophy and Technology. Pitt did his undergraduate studies at William & Mary, where he was a member of a fraternity. He completed his graduate studies in Canada at Western Ontario. Pitt is the author of: * ''Pictures, Images and Conceptual Change; An Analysis of Wilfrid Sellars' Philosophy of Science'' (1981) * ''Galileo, Human Knowledge, and The Book of Nature: Method Replaces Metaphysics'' (1992) * ''Thinking About Technology'' (2000) * ''Doing Philosophy of Technology'' (2011)

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American philosophers of science American philosophers of technology Virginia Tech faculty 20th-century American philosophers 21st-century American philosophers Pragmatists 1943 births Living people {{science-philo-stub