Sentences with phrase «american philosophers»

As a student in Tehran, Armajani was drawn to American philosophers and writers, and later studied American populist thought as a philosophy major in the U.S..

Accordingly, my classification of major options does not correspond to the way American philosophers are likely to identify themselves.

As a matter of fact, a generation and more ago, experiments along this line were made by several prominent American philosophers of religion.

William James (1842 - 1910), became one of the most eminent of American philosophers and psychologists.

Tulane Studies in Philosophy, 10 (1961): 89 - 108; reprinted in Reck's The New American Philosophers, An Exploration of Thought Since World War II.

Along with Paul Weiss, he should probably be regarded as preeminent among living American philosophers who still pursue their work in the grand style of systematic metaphysical description and construction.

Originally published in Classic American Philosophers, Max H. Fisch, ed., copyright 1951, Appleton - Century - Crafts, Inc..

Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, Book Notice: The New American Philosophers, Andrew J. Reck: Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society: A Journal in American Philosophy 5, 3 (Summer, 1969), 193.

His resignation from the Harvard philosophy department (and total retirement from university life) where he had graduated and taught from 1899 was the source of some distress to American philosophers who had regarded him as one of the leading figures in a distinctively American tradition,

Williams, Donald C., «The Myth of Passage,» American Philosophers at Work: The Philosophic Scene in the United States, ed.

Thanks to him, Anglo - American philosophers are all now familiar with the puzzling question, «What is it like to be a bat?»

Perhaps not since the generation of the classic American philosophers — Pierce, Royce, James, Dewey and Mead (none of them technical philosophers in the contemporary meaning of the term)-- has it been possible to range so broadly over the great intellectual issues of the day and break the taboo that would separate religion from secular culture.

The late Harvard professor and American philosopher Josiah Royce laid out the critical elements of building loyalty in his work, the Philosophy of Loyalty.

To a large degree, these theologians have followed Whitehead's thought, but they have also used the thought of Charles Hartshorne, the contemporary American philosopher whom I have quoted earlier and who has developed Whiteheadian themes and added some of his own.

The American philosopher of religion Charles Hartshorne (1897 — 2000) was already pursuing patterns of thought along lines similar to Whitehead when he arrived at Harvard for post-doctoral work in 1925 and became Whitehead's teaching assistant.

for example in the writings of the American philosopher Richard Rorty.

Fortunately quantum physics has put this doctrine in doubt and some scientists and philosophers of science had already rejected it long before quantum physics, including the great Clerk Maxwell, and the great American philosopher who was also physicist, Charles Peirce.

No one has put this point more clearly than the American philosopher William Ernest Hocking, who warns that «there is such a thing as losing one's soul — and that is neglecting one's vocation to prophecy.»

Alfred North Whitehead, the great Anglo - American philosopher whose thinking is behind the «process conceptuality» to which some of us subscribe, rightly called such ideas idolatrous, and spoke of them as apostasy from the «Galilean vision» (as he styled it) in which God is «modeled» after the figure of Jesus Christ.

Croly quotes the European / American philosopher George Santayana: «If a noble and civilized democracy is to subsist, the common citizen must be something of a saint and something of a hero.

Versions of the argument, with key twists and turns, have been introduced in Western philosophy through the centuries by thinkers from Descartes and Leibniz down to the twentieth - century American philosopher Charles Hartshorne.

The early writings of a young American philosopher of religion, Henry Nelson Wieman, also caught the attention of both Smith and Mathews.

In one of her speeches, American philosopher and author, Shannon Alder, said, «When you give yourself the permission to communicate what matters to you in every situation, you will have peace despite rejection or disapproval.

Schack says he and Fuchs like to use a term they've borrowed from the American philosopher William James, who saw reality as being «malleable.»

The American philosopher of popular culture known to the music world as «Madonna» once concluded that «we are living in a material world.»

Right about that time, Greene heard about an ethical thought experiment called the trolley problem, developed in the 1960s by British philosopher Philippa Foot and expanded by American philosopher Judith Jarvis Thomson.

The American Philosopher and Psychologist John Dewey coined the phrase: «We do not learn from experience... we learn from reflecting on experience.»

is a paper by American philosopher Thomas Nagel, first published in The Philosophical Review in October 1974, and later in Nagel's Mortal Questions (1979).

Scheffler earned a B.A. and M.A. degrees in psychology from Brooklyn College, an M.H.L. and a D.H.L. (hon.) from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, and a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied with American philosopher Nelson Goodman.

It has to be hands and mind together, as American philosopher and educational reformer John Dewey said.

Nagel highly recommends that teachers take the advice of «the famous American philosopher» Dolly Parton: «Nobody's gonna live for ya,» so ensuring your mental health is a priority.

American philosopher John Dewey is one of the most influential educational thinkers of the 20th century.

For those who do not know Bioshock is a first person shooter that draws a lot of ideas from Ayn Rands works (a Russian - American philosopher).

She came to count on John Dewey, the American philosopher who considered creativity and knowledge alike as part of developing experience, as a friend, and her son took up painting.

«Making Worlds», the 53rd International Art Exhibition takes its cue from American philosopher Nelson Goodman's Ways of Worldmaking (1978), «a book full of relevant observations that has been an...

By reducing all elements in his composition to their essential geometries and treating light as a palpable presence, Edward Hopper imbued his images of everyday life with what the American philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson called an «alienated majesty.»

David Carrier is an American philosopher and art and culture critic.

The artists took as their inspiration European painters such as Lorrain, Constable and Turner, and local American philosopher - writers such as Emerson and Thoreau.

The American philosopher and cognitive scientist Dan Dennett once offered the following advice to those seeking to experience happiness: «Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.»

The American philosopher and author Henry David Thoreau once wrote his own advice on how to be happy.

Even before she arrived, the American philosopher was the target of protests, threats and a petition calling for the cancellation of her talk that argued Butler «aimed to accelerate the process of corruption and fragmentation of our society».

Here, he came into contact with the American philosopher Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947) who encouraged Motherwell's interest in abstraction.

«Okwui came and just spoke in the way that Okwui can speak,» remembers Ligon, who compares Enwezor to the American philosopher Cornel West and the Jamaican - British cultural theorist Stuart Hall.

Contemporary Negro Art, served «as a declaration of principles as to what art should be in a democracy and as a gauge of how far in this particular province we have gone and may need to go...,» wrote renowned African American philosopher and art critic Alain Locke in the exhibition brochure.

Dr. Rachael Sotos, who teaches philosophy at Pace, contributed philosophical reflections on the notion of environmental citizenship examined through the prophetic political thought of German - American philosopher, Hannah Arendt.

The most potent critique of Kuhn is by Steve Fuller, an American philosopher - sociologist in the field of science and technology studies.

Norwood Russell Hanson (August 17, 1924 — April 18, 1967) was an American philosopher of science.

John Dewey, the late American philosopher, once said, «Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.»

Not exact matches

I agree with all those traditionalist Catholics writing this morning that the our present philosopher - pope is not a stereotypical American conservative.

The American author and philosopher Dallas Willard has died at the age of 77, just days after announcing he was battling cancer.