Richard Creath

Richard Creath (born 1947) is an American philosopher and Emeritus Professor of Life Sciences and of Philosophy at Arizona State University. He was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2009.^[4]

Richard Creath
Born	1947 (age 77–78)
Awards	Phi Beta Kappa (1969)[1]
Education
Education	University of Pittsburgh (Ph.D.)
Thesis	Science, Syntax and Semantics: An Examination of the Philosophy of Language of Rudolf Carnap (1975)
Doctoral advisor	Wilfrid Sellars
Philosophical work
Era	21st-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Analytic philosophy
Institutions	Arizona State University
Main interests	Philosophy of science
Notable ideas	Conceptual engineering[2][3]

Education

Creath received a B.A. in philosophy from Knox College in 1969. He attained an M.A. in philosophy from the University of Pittsburgh in 1972 and in history and philosophy of science in 1974. He attained a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Pittsburgh in 1975.

Career

Creath became a professor of Life Sciences and of Philosophy at Arizona State University in 1974 and a President's Professor in 2011. He studies philosophy of science influenced by Rudolf Carnap and Willard Van Orman Quine.