• Epistemology: The Key Thinkers tells the story of how our thinking about knowledge has developed, introducing you to some of the problems and forces that have dominated the history of philosophy. (bloomsbury.com)
  • Epistemology has returned, in recent years, to the center of philosophy, bringing with it exciting new developments and a renewed interest in the subject's history. (bloomsbury.com)
  • Projects located more generally within philosophical metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of science, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, ethics, or other philosophical areas are also welcome, as long as they elucidate and are applied to questions pertaining to religion or the relation between faith and reason. (uibk.ac.at)
  • Volume IV presents fifth-century reflections on language, rhetoric, ethics, and politics (the so-called sophists and Socrates) and concludes with an appendix on philosophy and philosophers in tragedy and comedy, concordances, and indexes. (semcoop.com)
  • Judith Butler: Butler is a prominent American post-structuralist philosopher and has contributed to the fields of feminism, queer theory, political philosophy, and ethics. (wikipedia.org)
  • This course engages in depth with fundamental texts in modern European philosophy, including Kant, Hegel and Marx through to contemporary thinkers more recently. (kingston.ac.uk)
  • Walk in the footsteps of such great thinkers as Plato and Socrates. (rd.com)
  • This module involves guided study of two or three major works of twentieth-century German critical theory or philosophy, focusing each year on the work of two or more related thinkers, such as Benjamin, Adorno, Horkheimer, Habermas, Sloterdijk. (kingston.ac.uk)
  • Or is it the thinker, as Nietzsche thought (meaning that whether someone accepts an idea has more to do with his or her temperament than anything else, in which case being exposed to our temperaments over time would be beneficial in getting the feel of the overall conversation)? (partiallyexaminedlife.com)
  • Gordon is a world philosopher, a political thinker and a musician who loves to cook in his big kitchen. (cbc.ca)
  • This is a list of thinkers who have been dealt with deconstruction, a term developed by French philosopher Jacques Derrida (1930-2004). (wikipedia.org)
  • Peace Love Philosophy gift for a philosopher that majored in philosophical studies in college. (teepublic.com)
  • 5 out of 5 stars for Approaching Philosophy of Religion: An Introduction to Key Thinkers, Concepts, Methods & Debates. (christianbook.com)
  • You will pay particular attention to the influence of Kant's philosophy and to the debates that structured the development of post-Kantian philosophy in both Germany and France. (kingston.ac.uk)
  • All 30 credits must be earned with a grade of B or better, and at least 12 of the 21 philosophy credits must be in philosophy graduate seminars (Philos 700-900). (uwm.edu)
  • If the incoming student has little or no background in ancient philosophy, or in modern philosophy, the student will be required to take Great Thinkers of the Ancient Period (Philos 430) or Great Thinkers of the Modern Period (Philos 432) in order to satisfy the history requirements. (uwm.edu)
  • The Philosophy Department Graduate Studies Committee may permit students to count PHILOS 681 or PHILOS 685 toward meeting this requirement, when the content and level of difficulty are equivalent to that of a graduate seminar. (uwm.edu)
  • Aristotle , mightier than his master at compressing ideas, writes: Greek: ten onomazomeneu sophian peri ta prota aitia kai tas archas upolambanousi pantes-"All men consider philosophy as concerned with first causes and principles" (Metaph. (catholic.com)
  • There has been continuous dispute about the contribution that 'poetry'-i.e. imaginative literature, or fiction-can make towards moral philosophy ever since Socrates asked the question 'how we ought to live? (lu.se)
  • The fragments and testimonia of the early Greek philosophers (often known as the pre-Socratics) have always been not only a fundamental source for understanding archaic Greek culture and ancient philosophy but also a perennially fresh resource that has stimulated Western thought until the present day. (semcoop.com)
  • Volume II presents western Greek thinkers from the Pythagoreans to Hippo. (semcoop.com)
  • He also takes into consideration the Alexandrian school and the School of Antioch, the relationship between Byzantine philosophy and Greek Patristics and the attempts to restore the Byzantine neptic thought after the fall of Constantinople. (peterlang.com)
  • Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy is the cornerstone of the western way of thought. (teepublic.com)
  • This motivational Epictetus stoicism quote featuring an ancient Greek Spartan helmet is for all who love ancient Greek and classical Roman stoic philosophy and history. (teepublic.com)
  • Hobbes is a great thinker and certainly on the right. (coreyrobin.com)
  • Besides the investigation of the purpose of government, political philosophers, from the Ancients to the Moderns, have reflected on the function of political philosophy and, not surprisingly, on the relationship between political activity and philosophical activity. (ac.be)
  • The course will focus on representative thinkers from classical to modern philosophers. (st-aug.edu)
  • The Fathers of the Church and the first philosophers of the Middle Ages seem not to have had a very clear idea of philosophy for reasons which we will develop later on (section IX), but its conception emerges once more in all its purity among the Arabic philosophers at the end of the twelfth century and the masters of Scholasticism in the thirteenth. (catholic.com)
  • b) philosophers should draw material from other academic disciplines linguistics, neurophysiology, archaeology, biology, psychology, mathematics, astronomy and other specializations for their own speculation, taking advantage of the integrative functions of philosophy to promote the cooperation between all disciplines. (bu.edu)
  • Following some hugely influential works in the 1950's, 60's and 70's by philosophers such as Iris Murdoch, Gilbert Ryle, Stanley Cavell and Peter Winch, a string of thinkers in the 1980s and 90s (such as e.g. (lu.se)
  • At the same time as these philosophers produced pioneering work, a corresponding movement within the field of literary theory and criticism (comprising thinkers such as e.g. (lu.se)
  • abstract = "The study examines the character and development of the animal ethical ideas of three German thinkers: Arthur Schopenhauer, Ernst Grysanowski, and Albert Schweitzer. (lu.se)
  • Volume I presents an introduction, preliminary chapters on ancient doxography, the cosmological and moral background, and the Ionian thinkers from Pherecydes to Heraclitus. (semcoop.com)
  • These notions were perpetuated in the post-Aristotelean schools (Stoicism, Epicureanism , neo-Platonism), with this difference, that the Stoics and Epicureans accentuated the moral bearing of philosophy ("Philosophia studium summae virtutis", says Seneca in "Epist. (catholic.com)
  • G.E.M. Anscombe coined the term "consequentialism" in 1958 in her essay "Moral Modern Philosophy. (wikiversity.org)
  • Mot slutet av seklet förenades dessa strömningar samtidigt som deras intresse gick mot en mer naturorienterad moral. (lu.se)
  • He was listed in a book as one of the fifty key thinkers on development, along with such greats as Karl Marx, Thomas Malthus, and Mahatma Gandhi. (futurefastforward.com)
  • An examination of basic concepts and principles of philosophy with emphasis on developing the students' ability to analyze philosophical theory and consider the possibilities of personal application. (st-aug.edu)
  • While I hope that we do a reasonably good job of introducing these thinkers, ultimately what we do is not consumer-oriented: it's us, having a conversation, trying to articulate things. (partiallyexaminedlife.com)
  • The conclusion of the meta question considers the potential end of philosophy. (ac.be)
  • But the 'action woman' moniker applies equally to her attitude to philosophy and her insistence that it be used for practical ends. (smh.com.au)
  • Scientia in Early Modern Philosophy: Seventeeth-Century Thinkers on Demonstrative Knowledge from First Principles. (helsinki.fi)
  • Many contemporary authors regard it as the synthetic theory of the particular sciences: "Philosophy", says Herbert Spencer, "is completely unified knowledge" (First Principles, § 37). (catholic.com)
  • In the second part, she expands on previous eliminative materialism arguments by providing the philosophy of science that supported such thinking. (integralworld.net)
  • In Philosophy of Science: The Key Thinkers , ed. (cambridge.org)
  • This idea of philosophy as the ultimate science of values ( Wertlehre) is emphasized by Windelband, Doring, and others. (catholic.com)
  • Paul seemed to be a deep thinker with the background not only of having gone to Stanford, but of also having an extra master's degree in English, and then he went to Cambridge for philosophy and science. (medscape.com)
  • Descartes regards philosophy as wisdom: "Philosophiat voce sapientiat studium denotamus "-"By the term philosophy we denote the pursuit of wisdom" (Princ. (catholic.com)
  • Antoine Gillett is a master's student in philosophy at Memorial University, and co- founder of the group Philosophy from the Margins. (cbc.ca)
  • People with associate's degrees in welding technology earn significantly less than those with bachelor's or master's degrees in philosophy. (wbur.org)
  • Wide-ranging and accessible, these interviews provide a fascinating guide to the ideas, concerns, and personalities of thinkers who have shaped modern intellec-tual life. (fordhampress.com)
  • In the field of development economics, Haq was regarded as an original thinker and a major innovator of fresh ideas. (futurefastforward.com)
  • She then continued on to study at Oxford as a graduate student studying philosophy. (integralworld.net)
  • And I plan to study political philosophy in graduate school to examine how rhetoric influences public opinion, particularly political rhetoric that misleads the public and creates artificial divides between groups of people (for example, the rhetoric that frames intellectual skills as less valuable than, say, welding skills). (wbur.org)
  • Philosophy and Religion . (catholic.com)
  • The Doktoratskolleg/Doctoral College Philosophy of Religion (hereinafter referred to as 'DCPR'), which is affiliated with the Innsbruck Center for Philosophy of Religion (ICPR) , promotes high-quality philosophical research, and across a wide range of philosophical approaches, on religion and religious belief. (uibk.ac.at)
  • Why are there no great thinkers on the right today? (coreyrobin.com)
  • They presuppose that there were once great thinkers on the right. (coreyrobin.com)
  • The students who make great mental leaps, and really become more sophisticated thinkers, are those who have more than enough time to think about, work on, grapple with, and revel in their coursework. (calnewport.com)
  • How exactly does becoming a great thinker progress from having free time (sure enough, I understand that rushing is not the best way, but how can I follow up? (calnewport.com)
  • The author defines the contents and characteristics of Byzantine philosophy, discusses the most important factors of its development as well as the role of Greco-Roman world and the place of Christian thinkers in this process. (peterlang.com)
  • He was a practitioner of Stoicism, and his writings are considered to be among the greatest works of Roman philosophy. (teepublic.com)
  • Learn more about how our preschool , elementary , and middle school programs shape deep thinkers and courageous upstanders. (jds.org)
  • We create deep thinkers through our project-based learning. (jds.org)
  • He went from being a grind to an honest to God deep thinker. (calnewport.com)
  • My question to you is… Since coming to college I've become a 'deep thinker. (calnewport.com)
  • Broadly speaking, Nussbaum's work falls into two overlapping strands: political philosophy and thinking about the nature of the emotions. (smh.com.au)
  • His gift is eliciting memorably clear statements about their work from thinkers whose writings can often be challenging in their complexity. (fordhampress.com)
  • or the individual work of historically significant thinkers on religious matters. (uibk.ac.at)
  • If ideal conditions are provided, philosophy will work as an intellectual catalyst among the academic disciplines, a mediator between the humanities and the sciences. (bu.edu)
  • It was part of the St. John's Public Lecture Series in Philosophy, presented by Memorial University of Newfoundland, and recorded by Shannon Hoff. (cbc.ca)
  • Lewis Gordon is a professor and head of the philosophy department at the University of Connecticut. (cbc.ca)
  • Shannon Hoff is an associate professor of philosophy at Memorial University. (cbc.ca)
  • David Christopher Lane , Ph.D. Professor of Philosophy, Mt. San Antonio College Lecturer in Religious Studies, California State University, Long Beach Author of Exposing Cults: When the Skeptical Mind Confronts the Mystical (New York and London: Garland Publishers, 1994) and The Radhasoami Tradition: A Critical History of Guru Succession (New York and London: Garland Publishers, 1992). (integralworld.net)
  • In the third podcast of the series, "Unity of Consciousness," Walter Bradley Center director Robert J. Marks interviews Angus Menuge, professor and chair of philosophy at Concordia University, on unique features of human consciousness, including the fact that our experiences are a unity, which has prompted some interesting thought experiments, for example those of Richard Swinburne. (mindmatters.ai)
  • Geoffrey Bennington: Bennington is Asa Griggs Candler Professor of French and Professor of Comparative Literature, Emory University, as well as a member of the International College of Philosophy. (wikipedia.org)
  • Robert Bernasconi: Bernasconi is the Lillian and Morrie Moss Professor of Philosophy at the University of Memphis. (wikipedia.org)
  • Karin de Boer is a Dutch Professor of Philosophy at the University of Leuven. (wikipedia.org)
  • The course is based at the UK's Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy at Kingston University, where you will be part of a supportive postgraduate community. (kingston.ac.uk)
  • Brave Hearts Bold Minds is a catchphrase that factors to our academic philosophy at Scots. (terryjohnsonsflamingos.com)
  • The retreat of academic philosophy in our time is due in part to its faulty policy. (bu.edu)
  • The cuts in funding, the shrinking prestige and the lack of public influence are increasingly affecting the foundations of academic philosophy. (bu.edu)
  • Nevertheless, there is much evidence that philosophy as a common human activity will endure because it appeals to a fundamental need: to reconsider knowledge and to go on inquiring when empirical research has reached its limits. (bu.edu)
  • Philosophy is dependent on the empirical world and its culturally determined interpretations. (bu.edu)
  • We're in a world where there is such suppression of the life, the humanity, in thought - that people are forgetting why many disciplines, including philosophy, have something important to say. (cbc.ca)
  • The Philosophy curricula serve to prepare students for real challenges in a complex, diverse world. (st-aug.edu)
  • But there are plenty of examples of how philosophy has impacted, and continues to impact, the world in concrete ways. (wbur.org)
  • For Wundt, the object of philosophy is "the acquisition of such a general conception of the world and of life as will satisfy the exigencies of the reason and the needs of the heart "-"Gewinnung einer allgemeinen Welt- and Lebensanschauung, welche die Forderungen unserer Vernunft and die Bedurfnisse unseres Gemuths befriedigen soil" (Einleit. (catholic.com)
  • Enable transformation and drive culture at your company with lessons from the biggest thinkers in the world. (bigthink.com)
  • He not only articulated the human development philosophy for making economic development plans but he also provided the world with a statistical measure to quantify the indicators of economic growth with human development. (futurefastforward.com)
  • Let's begin with a question that Martin Heidegger famously characterized as the most fundamental issue of philosophy. (stanford.edu)
  • Students taking Option A or B will be required to demonstrate competence in history of philosophy by passing the following two courses with a grade of B or better. (uwm.edu)
  • Intellectuals with a penchant for history and philosophy will love Athens. (rd.com)
  • Here, he brings together twenty-one originally published extraordinary conversations-his 1984 collection Dialogues: The Phenomenological Heritage, his 1992 Visions of Europe: Conversations on the Legacy and Future of Europe, and his 1995 States of Mind: Dialogues with Contemporary Thinkers. (fordhampress.com)
  • Richard Kearney is Charles Seelig Chair of Philosophy at Boston College and author and editor of more than forty books on contemporary philosophy and culture. (fordhampress.com)
  • A scholar who deals with contemporary philosophy cannot help being concerned about the present state of his discipline. (bu.edu)
  • The faculty understands that the leaders of tomorrow must be critical thinkers who will be expected to act as concerned, morally responsible citizens. (st-aug.edu)
  • Philosophy of Schooling is a branch of philosophy specializing in conceptual and normative questions raised by instructional coverage and practice. (terryjohnsonsflamingos.com)
  • The module presents Kant's critical project as an historical and conceptual basis for the understanding of subsequent European philosophy as a whole. (kingston.ac.uk)
  • The raison d'être of government is a central question of the field called political theory or political philosophy. (ac.be)
  • Should political philosophy be confined to the room of theory or enter the political arena? (ac.be)
  • There is no foreign language requirement for the completion of the Master of Arts degree in philosophy, though the department both allows and encourages all of its students to develop proficiency in a foreign or classical language. (uwm.edu)
  • 2 The meta question investigates the notion of political philosophy and subsequently its function. (ac.be)
  • The definition of political philosophy constitutes the starting point of the discussion. (ac.be)
  • The inquiry of political philosophy entails the reflection on human nature, which is necessary since men are no angels. (ac.be)
  • What Is Political Philosophy? (ac.be)
  • 5 Since Man has mastered speech, the meta question has been asked: what is philosophy, in general, and political philosophy, in particular? (ac.be)
  • It was with that book that I really understood what philosophy was capable of, why it was a worthwhile thing to study. (coreyrobin.com)
  • This encyclopedia features over 2000 full-length articles and contributions by 1300 of the world's leading thinkers. (lu.se)
  • Given proper organization, philosophy works as cement linking the different areas of scholarly investigation. (bu.edu)
  • Before the con- mensional carvings on arches, friezes, altars, and other fl at quest of Syracuse, wrote Plutarch, a leading thinker of the areas of temples and public buildings. (cdc.gov)
  • A commitment to opening philosophy up to the messy realities of life, without losing any of its rigour, has become one of the hallmarks of Nussbaum's oeuvre. (smh.com.au)
  • Judaism and Christianity introduce the idea of eternal life with Almighty God, which was not a crucial part of classical philosophy. (americanthinker.com)
  • And yet both philosophies help us focus on important tax fairness elements. (ethics.org.au)
  • In the ninth century of our era, Alcuin , employing it in the same sense, says that philosophy is "naturarum inquisitio, rerum humanarum divinarumque cognitio quantum homini possibile est aestimare "-investigation of nature, and such knowledge of things human and Divine as is possible for man (P.L., Cl, 952). (catholic.com)