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| | Jean-Luc Nancy - Professor of Political Philosophy and Media Aesthetics - Biography |
 | | Many of his main works, most of which are related to social and political philosophical topics, were published in the nineties and he even wrote a text on his disease. | | | Nancy is also an influential philosopher of art and culture. | | | Over several years, philosophers such as Claude Lefort and Jean-François Lyotard gave lectures on this topic, and out of this two books sprang up: Rejouer le politique (1981) and Le retrait du politique (translated as Retreating the Political in 1997). |
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http://www.egs.edu/faculty/nancy.html
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| | Johann Gottfried von Herder |
| | Also, while Herder's philosophy of religion was extremely enlightened and progressive in both his early and his late periods, there was a spell in the middle, the years 1771-6 in Bückeburg, during which he fell into the sort of religious irrationalism more characteristic of his friend Hamann. | | | Herder strikingly, and plausibly, argues that, on the contrary, beauty is not nearly as essential to art as it is often taken to be. | | | Nothing has yet been said about beauty, which philosophers often think of as the central concern of the philosophy of art. |
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http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/herder
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| | Ludwig Wittgenstein [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] |
| | His early work was influenced by that of Arthur Schopenhauer and, especially, by his teacher Bertrand Russell and by Gottlob Frege, who became something of a friend. | | | Wittgenstein's aim seems to have been to show up as nonsense the things that philosophers (himself included) are tempted to say. | | | There certainly are marked changes in Wittgenstein's work, but the differences between his early and late work can be exaggerated. |
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http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/w/wittgens.htm
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Aristotle |
| | When Aristotle defines the purpose of art to be "the imitation of nature" he does not mean that the plastic arts and poetry should merely copy natural productions; his meaning is that as nature embodies the idea so also does art, but in a higher and more perfect form. | | | Hence his equally famous doctrine that the aim of art is the calming, purifying (katharsis) and ennobling of the affections. | | | In the first century B.C. Andronicus of Rhodes edited Aristotle's works, and thereafter the school produced the most famous of its commentators, Aristocles of Messene and Alexander of Aphrodisias (about A.D. In the third century the work of commentating was continued by the Neo-Platonic and Eclectic philosophers, the most famous of whom was Porphyry. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01713a.htm
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Philosophy |
| | At the end of the twelfth century and the beginning of the thirteenth, the University of Paris was organized, and philosophical teaching was concentrated in the Faculty of Arts. | | | It should be added here that philosophy, reduced at first to dialectic, or logic, and placed as such in the Trivium, was not long in setting itself above the liberal arts. | | | historique des grands Philosophes (Paris); LE BON, Bibl. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12025c.htm
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| | VOICES DOWN THE CORRIDOR |
| | Often referred to as one of the first 'existentialist' philosophers, Nietzsche has inspired leading figures in all walks of cultural life, including dancers, poets, novelists, painters, psychologists, philosophers, sociologists and social revolutionaries. | | | Additionally, since many writers, musicians and composers seek truth, they are often considered social activists, expressing their political and social views through their medium of expression. | | | Sartre was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1964, but he declined the award in protest of the values of bourgeois society. |
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http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/webphilosopea.html
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| | Philosophy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Seen most prominently in the work of W. | | | While Socrates wrote nothing, his influence as a skeptic survives through Plato's works. | | | The Socratic period is named in honor of the most recognizable figure in philosophy, Socrates, who, along with his pupil Plato, revolutionized philosophy through the use of the Socratic method which developed the very general philosophical methods of definition, analysis, and synthesis. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosopher
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| | Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005) [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] |
| | Ricoeur is a post-structuralist hermeneutic philosopher who employs a model of textuality as the framework for his analysis of meaning, which extends across writing, speech, art and action. | | | While at the Sorbonne he first met Gabriel Marcel, who was to become a lifelong friend and philosophical influence. | | | For this reason his work is sometimes described as philosophical anthropology. |
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http://www.iep.utm.edu/r/ricoeur.htm
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| | Locke |
| | He studied and wrote on philosophical, scientific, and political matters throughout his life, in a voluminous correspondence and ample journals, but the public works for which he is best known were published in a single, sudden burst. | | | By contrast, Locke chose to avoid controversy by publishing his political writings anonymously. | | | Although he completed a philosophical education at Oxford, John Locke declined the offer of a permanent academic position in order to avoid committing himself to a religious order. |
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http://www.philosophypages.com/ph/lock.htm
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| | Giordano Bruno: The Forgotten Philosopher |
| | He made contacts easily and was able to interest any group with whom he came in contact with the fire of his ideas. | | | Henry Ill was curious to find out if Bruno's art was that of the magician or the sorcerer. | | | Bruno was a truant, a philosophical tramp, a poetic vagrant, but has no claims to the name of scientist. |
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http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/john_kessler/giordano_bruno.html
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| | Leo Strauss and the Straussians |
| | This is, by itself, a radical challenge to modern historicism (i.e. | | | The perceived need to write obscurely also tends to obscure thought. | | | The teaching of Leo Strauss is "political philosophy" in a very special sense: his primary, if not exclusive, concern is the relation of philosophy (and the philosophers themselves) to society as a whole. |
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http://home.earthlink.net/~karljahn/Strauss.htm
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| | Radio National - The Philosopher's Zone Home Page |
| | Is it a Brillo box or is it art? | | | And how can we know that it's art when it look suspiciously like a Campbell's soup can or the artist's own unmade bed? | | | Arthur C. Danto, one of the most significant philosophers in the English-speaking world, has evolved an theory of what art is and how we can know it when we see it. |
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http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/philosopher
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| | Herbert Spencer [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] |
| | British philosopher and sociologist, Herbert Spencer was a major figure in the intellectual life of the Victorian era. | | | Today, however, he is usually remembered in philosophical circles for his political thought, primarily for his defense of natural rights and for criticisms of utilitarian positivism, and his views have been invoked by 'libertarian' thinkers such as Robert Nozick. | | | His work was also particularly influential in the United States, where his book, The Study of Sociology, was at the center of a controversy (1879-80) at Yale University between a professor, William Graham Sumner, and the University's president, Noah Porter. |
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http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/s/spencer.htm
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| | Philosopher - definition of Philosopher in Encyclopedia |
| | This article is part of the Influential Western Philosophers series | | | This article is part of The Contemporary Philosophers series | | | A philosopher is a person devoted to studying and producing results in philosophy. |
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Philosopher
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| | Philosophers Stone - Crystalinks |
| | The philosopher's stone has been subject, inspiration, or plot feature of innumerable artistic works novels, comics stories, movies, animations, and even musical compositions. | | | Crowley further made reference in his works refering to Azoth as "the fluid." | | | This king of Bohemia, having found himself in financial difficulties, decided to invest heavily in the search for the philosopher's stone. |
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http://www.crystalinks.com/philosopherstone.html
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| | Karl Popper Philosopher |
| | It was this concept that man would never be able to confirm any premise that led Popper to develop his political philosophy. | | | Austrian born British philosopher whose considerable reputation rests on his philosophy of science and his political philosophy. | | | Few philosophers have been so influential in so many diverse fields but his works on the philosophy of science and later in political philosophy are masterpeices of thought and have revolutionised our understanding. |
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http://www.idmon.freeserve.co.uk/zphila.htm
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| | [ Socrates Cafe : philosopher.org ] |
| | Today, at forty, he's underemployed, deeply in debt, and completely ecstatic about how his life has turned out. | | | While studying for a master of arts in teaching at Montclair State University in 1996, Phillips chanced to pick up Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre, the seminal collection of existentialist and protoexistentialist texts that Walter Kaufmann compiled in 1956 as a means of preparing humankind for a genuinely philosophical form of life. | | | This helps make sure that the names are used for the volunteer, nonprofit, community-creating purposes for which they are intended. |
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http://www.philosopher.org/soccaf.html
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| | Guide to Philosophy on the Internet (Suber) |
| | Many major philosophers have etexts in various sites across the web but no central page collecting them all together. | | | The London Group, the Northern Group, and the Australian Group have their own pages. | | | The Australasian Branch of The Philosophical Society of England. |
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http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/philinks.htm
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Book 1): Books |
| | This is exactly what happens to young Harry Potter in J K Rowling's enchanting, funny debut novel, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. | | | This is the 1st item in the Harry Potter series. | | | This book is excellent from the fist page. |
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| | The Leiter Reports: Editorials, News, Updates: In Memoriam: Joel Feinberg |
| | « Political Philosopher Darby from Northwestern to Texas A&M | | | That, on top of his major philosophical contributions, he was also a caring mentor of dozens of graduate students and young philosophers means that he will long be remembered with both intellectual admiration and genuine affection and gratitude. | | | He is, on anyone's accounting, one of the handful of major figures in legal philosophy of recent decades; and, indeed, much as Hart defined the central questions and issues for analytic jurisprudence over the past forty years, so Feinberg set much of the important agenda in normative jurisprudence. |
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http://webapp.utexas.edu/blogs/archives/bleiter/001021.html
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| | David Stove, Philosopher |
| | "The greatest philosopher of the twentieth century may not have been Wittgenstein, or Russell (and he certainly wasn't Heidegger) but he may have been a somewhat obscure and conservative Australian philosopher named David Stove (1927-94). | | | For a quick taste of his style, try his one-page `Helps for young authors', from Popper and After. | | | If he wasn't the greatest philosopher of the century, Stove was certainly the funniest and most dazzling defender of common sense. |
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| | Maverick Philosopher |
| | McC: Arthur Schopenhauer once wrote a marvelously cynical manual of eristics called The Art of Always Being Right. | | | The philosopher advised his readers against resort to logic; ad hominem attacks and other plays upon the passions could be much more effective. | | | There is first of all the resort to invective, e.g., "Rightist ideological blackmail." Philosophical writing should aim at rational persuasion, not any sort of persuasion. |
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http://maverickphilosopher.blogspot.com
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| | Philosopher |
| | in 1991, but has since philosophically lived a life of music. | | | Greg’s infectious passion for music has helped inspire some of his past young students to continue their own musical studies at the collegiate level and beyond. | | | Greg Federico received his BA in Philosophy from |
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http://www.gregfederico.com/Philosopher.htm
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| | Peter Suber, "Philosopher's Index" |
| | This is the chief drawback of using the hardcopy edition of Philosopher's Index. | | | All the reviews published that year of that author's philosophical books (regardless of the books' publication dates) will be listed there. | | | Philosopher's Index is the most thorough index of journal literature in philosophy. |
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http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/courses/philindx.htm
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| | Descartes |
| | Harriot's work on equations, however, may indeed have influenced Descartes who always claimed, clearly falsely, that nothing in his work was influenced by the work of others. | | | René Descartes was a philosopher whose work, La géométrie, includes his application of algebra to geometry from which we now have Cartesian geometry. | | | Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy, was published in 1641, designed for the philosopher and for the theologian. |
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http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Descartes.html
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| | Bertrand Russell |
| | Russell's conception of philosophy arose in part from his idealist origins. | | | As a result, he soon became famous as an advocate of the "new realism" and for his "new philosophy of logic," emphasizing as it did the importance of modern logic for philosophical analysis. | | | According to Russell, the philosopher's job is to discover a logically ideal language that will exhibit the true nature of the world in such a way that the speaker will not be misled by the casual surface structure of natural language. |
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http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/russell
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| | Philosopher's Chess |
| | Pawn promotions are written as p[piece], where [piece] is r, n or h (for rook, knight or philosopher), and are written as a separate move after the pawn move which results in the promotion. | | | Finally, one very important movement rule: if any move would cause the entire board (including both the Field and the Mind) to repeat any earlier position in the game, that move is disallowed and may not be made. | | | If two moves are made, they must both apply to the same enlightened philosopher (apart from mind-moves which obviously apply to all philosophers, enlightened or not). |
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http://www.chessvariants.com/40.dir/philosophers.html
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| | How Can Bush Say Christ Is His Favorite Philosopher? |
| | How can he continue to thumb his nose at the world and those in his own country? | | | When it was governor George W. Bush's turn, he blurted out "Christ!" Between the look on his face and the tone in his voice, I was almost sure he had just taken the Lord's name in vain on national TV because he couldn't think of an actual philosopher. | | | Five seconds after he blurted that exclamation, the easy going smirk returned to his face and he added, "Because he changed my life." Well, the thought was fun while it lasted. |
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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article1168.htm
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| | Between each philosopher, there is a single stick. | | | This is done so that the marked stick will not remain in the same place. | | | The new state of each philosopher is re-painted on top of the old one. |
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http://java.sun.com/applets/archive/beta/DiningPhilosophers
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| | fUSION Anomaly. The Philosopher's Stone |
| | The philosopher's stone has appeared in works of fiction, most famously in J. Rowling's novel _Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone_. | | | Philosopher's Stone is one name for the fungus | | | His fame as an alchemist was so great that his tomb in Salzberg was opened because of rumors of great treasures and alchemical secrets buried with him. |
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| | Maverick Philosopher - |
| | I have been arguing that it is not to be found in the German philosopher's work. | | | This raises the question of where philosophy begins and where it ends. | | | With some things it is not the doing of it that we like so much as the having done it. |
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| | Philosopher |
| | Particularly in the first few years, philosophy involves a lot of writing, as a young philosophy professor's publishing record is an important part of the tenure evaluation. | | | The rest of the time is spent writing a dissertation, which must be an original manuscript analyzing some aspect of philosophy. | | | For those who do find teaching positions in philosophy, the work is quite similar to that of other professors in the humanities. |
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http://www.princetonreview.com/cte/profiles/dayInLife.asp?careerID=112
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| | Philosopher |
| | His fighting tactics are direct and uncomplicated - he smothers the opposition with his ponderous and lengthy cogitations. | | | Unlike Profundus Maximus, Philosopher can actually be quite knowledgeable on a variety of subjects. | | | Somewhat humorless and aloof, he is also slow to anger, and when he deigns to join in the fray he is considerate of other opinions. |
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http://redwing.hutman.net/~mreed/warriorshtm/philosopher.htm
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| | Middleton Cheney Primary School Philosophy Group |
| | Philosopher's Island is a story which asks questions. | | | The problems we have been discussing this term have been based on the story of philosopher's Island. | | | We would love to hear from any other groups who are interested in discussing philosophical ideas. |
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http://www.portables2.ngfl.gov.uk/pmpercival/philosophy
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| | Boyle |
| | This "new philosophical college" is also called by Boyle the "Invisible College" later in the letter. | | | It is the society which would soon became the " | | | Divers little essays, both in verse and prose, I have taken pains to scribble upon several subjects. |
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| | Ephilosopher :: Philosophy News, Research and Philosophical Discussion |
| | Since 2003, Godfrey-Smith, 40, has divided his time between Australian National University in Canberra, where he has been professor of philosophy, and Harvard, where he has been visiting professor of philosophy. | | | Posted by: ephilosopher on Friday, February 17, 2006 - 08:21 PM Harvard University Gazette: "Peter Godfrey-Smith, whose work at the intersection of philosophy and biology has provided striking philosophical analysis of the nature of genetics and evolution, has been appointed professor of philosophy in Harvard University's Faculty of Arts and Sciences, effective Jan. 1. | | | Re: Philosophy Sucks (Mostly): I think people who reject philosoph... |
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| | Sartre |
| | Only in the true-to-life moment of someone facing up to the immanence of his own death will the nature of human life be revealed. | | | Sartre's short story "The Wall" captures his central philosophical themes in a fictional setting. | | | In literary texts as well as in philosophical treatises, Sartre emphasized the vital implications of human subjectivity. |
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http://www.philosophypages.com/hy/7e.htm
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| | Sunday Herald |
| | This may seem shallow, but it is in fact a mature recognition that those who claim to be nihilists are just posturing: nobody really believes in nothing. | | | Although when in the midst of his philosophical deliberations he was often perturbed by their sceptical implications, these worries soon dissolved when he rejoined human company and had a game of billiards. | | | Although he lacked the soundbites of Marx and the attitude of Sartre, David Hume should be recognised as the finest philosopher of all time |
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http://www.sundayherald.com/print50415
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| | The Philosopher's Stone |
| | Gold is a means to all wealth, but the philosopher's stone is a means to all ends, a universal means. | | | The philosophers, scientists, businessmen, engineers, artists, navigators, and reformers who remade the world in the last 7 centuries began with the conviction that they could achieve Earthly good; they were living embodiments of hope. | | | We needn't wonder why those who believed in the philosopher's stone devoted their lives to finding it. |
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http://www.quackgrass.com/stone.html
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| | savantway philosopher |
| | This viewpoint pervades all that the philosopher learns and all h/his choices. | | | Rather the aim is to completely absorb the essence of the philosophical mind and allow the attributes to become second nature. | | | Thus the very process by which one engages in the daily practices of ones path are affected by the perspective as well as the attributes of the philosopher. |
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http://www.savantway.com/philosopher/philosopher.htm
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| | The American Philosophical Association |
| | Founded in 1900, its mission is to promote the exchange of ideas among philosophers, to encourage creative and scholarly activity in philosophy, to facilitate the professional work and teaching of philosophers, and to represent philosophy as a discipline. | | | If you are a philosopher who would like to help, let us know the ways in which you could help. | | | If, for example, like me, you are nearing retirement age and wondering what to do with the books and journals you've amassed over a lifetime of research and teaching, this might be the occasion to donate some of those publications to Philosophy departments that have been affected by the devastation. |
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| | Arne Naess, Centre for Development and the Environment |
| | Born in 1912 in Oslo, graduated at the University of Oslo in 1933, studied in Paris and Vienna. | | | Arne Næss, the founder of Deep Ecology and one of Norway's best known philosophers, is Professor Emeritus at the University of Oslo, and has been working with SUM since 1991. | | | Doctorate in 1936 (thesis title: Erkenntnis und wissenschaftliches Verhalten), professor of Philosophy at University of Oslo from 1939 to 1969, then free-lance philosopher and naturalist, and from 1970 onwards environmental activist. |
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| | BBC - Radio 4 - In Our Time - Greatest Philosopher |
| | Find out who won the vote and who made it into the top ten. | | | The winner of the vote has been announced by Melvyn Bragg. | | | You can still listen to the advocates or read profiles on the philosophers. |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/greatest_philosopher.shtml
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| | Philosopher Jokes |
| | Question: What is a recent philosophy Ph.D.'s usual question in his or her first job? | | | In fact, the philosopher realized it was the same objection in every case - he had found the perfect philosophical move to make in conferences and colloquia. | | | A man does a good deed and as a reward his guardian angel appears and offers him the answer to any question he wishes to ask. |
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http://www.as.miami.edu/phi/jokes.htm
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| | Dallas Philosopher's Forum |
| | Subjects can be anything philosophically related such as ethics, politics, science, history, religion, meaning, or even standard philosophical fare such as epistemology or ontology. | | | This talk considers the redefinition of sympathy from the Scottish moral philosophers (Hutcheson, Hume, and Smith) through the early twentieth-century American social scientists (Cooley, Giddings, Du Bois among others). | | | Opinions given at scheduled lectures of the Dallas Philosopher's Forum are the solely the opinions of the speaker and do not the necessarily represent the opinions of the members of the The Dallas Philosophers Forum or its Board of Directors. |
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http://www.philosophersforum.org
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| | Technorati Tag: philosopher |
| | This page shows blog posts, photos, and links that have been tagged philosopher. | | | Parmenides Publishing Our aim is to renew interest in the origin and scope of thinking as method based on the early philosophers of Ancient Greece - Parmenides of Elea. | | | Earn a Philosophy Degree Online Courses on world philosophers, myth, ritual, ethics, morality and more. |
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http://www.technorati.com/tag/philosopher
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| | Ancient History Sourcebook: Plato: The Republic - The philosopher-king |
| | And further, I said, let us agree that they are lovers of all true being; there is no part whether greater or less, or more or less honorable, which they are willing to renounce; as we said before of the lover and the man of ambition. | | | Or again: can he who is harmoniously constituted, who is not covetous or mean, or a boaster, or a coward--can he, I say, ever be unjust or hard in his dealings? | | | Let us suppose that philosophical minds always love knowledge of a sort which shows them the eternal nature not varying from generation and corruption. |
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http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/plato-republic-philosopherking.html
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| | LiveScience.com - Atheist Philosopher, 81, Now Believes in God |
| | NEW YORK (AP) _ A British philosophy professor who has been a leading champion of atheism for more than a half-century has changed his mind. | | | The first hint of Flew's turn was a letter to the August-September issue of Britain's Philosophy Now magazine. | | | The video draws from a New York discussion last May organized by author Roy Abraham Varghese's Institute for Metascientific Research in Garland, Texas. |
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http://www.livescience.com/othernews/atheist_philosopher_041210.html
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| | AnalPhilosopher |
| | An old wine-bibber having been smashed in a railway collision, some wine was poured upon his lips to revive him. | | | Philosophers, someone has said, are no longer famous—except among philosophers. | | | I've decided to punish blogospheric cowards (see here for an explanation) by (1) not visiting blogs unless the identity of the blogger is disclosed, (2) not reading e-mail unless the name of the sender appears, and (3) not linking to or otherwise supporting anonymous blogs. |
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http://analphilosopher.blogspot.com
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