Sentences with phrase «academic thought in»

It hosts more than 200 free events annually and showcases cutting - edge Austrian contemporary art, music, literature, and academic thought in New York.

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The Eastern State Penitentiary, for instance, «actually has become this hub of academic [activity],» said Lauren - Brooke Eisen, senior counsel in the justice program at the Brennan Center for Justice, a New York think tank promoting criminal justice reform.

«[Design - thinking] has a really long academic history to it,» said Jen, explaining that it originated in the 1960s as a way of getting engineers comfortable with the concept of design.

There is strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats analysis (or SWOT thinking) and more than a fair share of theoretical or academic quadrants within which you can plug your business challenge and find a solution — in theory anyway.

Today most of us think of back - to - school time in terms of getting the kids ready for another academic year.

«I think in this setting, I would just say that the use of nontraditional collectors — especially in the academic setting, whether it's professors, scientists, students — we see in almost every field office that the FBI has around the country,» Wray said.

In that case, the academics could be making the all - too - common mistake of «proving» an adage by using the same evidence that was used to bring about that line of thinking.

Various academic and think tank studies have found that reductions in the small business tax rate disproportionately benefit wealthy individuals who incorporate their businesses in order to reduce their personal income tax burden, split income with family «shareholders» and avoid capital gains taxes.

I really think you misunderstand the 4 % (or 3 % rule in some academic circles).

Harvey Mudd describes its core curriculum as «an academic boot camp in the STEM disciplines — math, physics, chemistry, biology, computer science, and engineering — as well as classes in writing and critical inquiry» that it says «gives students a broad scientific foundation and the skills to think and to solve problems across disciplines.»

And then to try to link academic work that's basic science to that — if you're going to down the Russia line I think we have to go down the UK line and the US line in the same way.

Despite apparently lamenting the breakdown in his relations with Facebook — telling the committee how he had worked with the company, in an academic capacity, prior to setting up a company to work with SCL / CA — Kogan refused to accept that he had broken Facebook's terms of service — instead asserting: «I don't think they have a developer policy that is valid... For you to break a policy it has to exist.

«I can't think of anybody in any other administration that had anything like this,» said George Edwards, a professor at Texas A&M University and the editor of an academic journal studying the American presidency.

«I think certainly all of these countries have engaged in activities that people feel uncomfortable with [and] are covert,» Kogan said, noting the attempts to link his academic work to Russian collusion.

Academics at the AEI, a free - market think tank, have hit on what may be a simple solution to the nation's home - loan morass: replace the 30 - year mortgage with a 15 - year product that quickly gets borrowers» skin in the game.

I think all this is pretty poisonous to having any chance of beating the market (in fact, I think this sort of thinking is one reason why so many active funds have become index huggers, with no chance of justifying their fees) so personally I don't go too far down that road myself, especially as I don't really respect the academic underpinnings of risk and the EMH to the very nth degree.

Schulich School of Engineering Dean Bill Rosehart describes the program as a natural fit for students seeking the best of both academic worlds, through programs that complement each other in entrepreneurship and creative thinking.

While some academics have begun to question whether there needs to be new rules to limit the power of tech giants, almost no one in libertarian - leaning Silicon Valley thinks Facebook should be further regulated, with some saying it forces the best entrepreneurs to be more creative.

Smart Mobility Panel Featuring thought leaders in transportation and urban planning, Onramp's panel discussion will focus on the intersection of public, private and academic collaboration when it comes to the future of driving innovation.

During our recent Japan visits, we held discussions with policy - makers, private sector corporates and investors, academics and think tanks, alongside our participation in the Roundtable Japan conference.

«He is in a unique position to redefine the way we think analytically about how monetary policy operates in the real world and to do it in a way that other academics will have to pay attention to.»

Academic moral theory, like preaching, «stiffens the backbone» of one's coreligionists (or co «ideologues) by «convincing people who think like you that they are not alone in their beliefs [and] have the backing of someone who is confident, competent, articulate, and thoughtful.»

By his way of thinking, the most pressing problems include a dramatic drop in college and university endowments, an ever increasing number of graduate students and recent PhDs who will likely never secure full - time academic jobs, and a graying, backward - looking professoriate that refuses to get out of the way.

As for the world of thought, the very furor the young theologian has aroused in academic Protestant circles proclaims him a portent of the first magnitude.

On the Holocaust, for instance, asks McKenna, what if a free - thinking academic were to argue thus: «The Nazis did terrible things, but their mistake was in the minor premise.

His legacy of writings and the Faith movement remain a remarkable achievement for someone who never really held any academic posts but was, in his quiet way, a «charismatic» figure, much loved by many and whose thinking and unique apostolate had a profound effect, especially on the young.

Contrary to the Harvard Crimson and Pat Deneen, I think academic freedom in the Socratic sense is still defensible in America.

I thought of this recently as I re-read Harvard's report on the humanities «Mapping the Future» in light of the debate over academic freedom that Peter Lawler addressed.

But if you're like me, when you think of C.S. Lewis, you don't think of him as the academic juggernaut that, in respect to the extent of his canon, he actually was.

Thus the onus to foster the conversation is awkwardly placed on students or young faculty members, those living in the tensions between the academic and apologetic worlds and who feel the most pressure and enthusiasm for synthetic thinking.

Walker - Barnes seamlessly weaves together the academic and pastoral in this book that has me rethinking everything I thought I knew about race, womanhood, and even the Trinity.

If one means, for instance, an epistemological privilege of the oppressed, in the sense that the poor, the suffering and the dispossessed have some intuitive knowledge of God, righteousness and social reality not available to others; if one means that victims know best how to overcome their condition and build new institutions; and if one means that knowledge based on «experience» makes academic excellence unnecessary, then liberation thought and the Social Gospel diverge.

Do any modern academics think they have a pastoral role in their students» lives?

It will show that such thinking can be directed toward real problems in the real world, rather than merely academic ones.

The highest virtues and loftiest goals of the academic scholar are not analytic thinking, attention to detail, or persistence in long hours of research, but rather humility, love, and patience toward others.

In short, by recasting Weil's thought into a form that better connects with the way academic theology is pursued, these three books should greatly assist the entrance of Weil's thought into the theological mainstream.

Steinfels concludes: «Anti-Catholic animus is not keeping Catholics out of board rooms or country clubs, however, although it may complicate the careers of those in academic life, journalism, or some professional fields who don't make sure they are seen as «thinking» Catholics.

Fortunately, there are a few Whiteheadian philosophers working in mainstream departments, and they do undertake to relate his thought to current developments in academic philosophy.

The bulk of academic writing in my discipline is not really writing but a collection of marks on paper put down in response to similar marks put down in response to other marks put down in response to... The authors of these texts do not have a conception of writing as an art, or of the need for the imagery, inflection, and rhythm that hold open the mind of the reader so that the thought can slip past them into his soul.

Professional theologians today hesitate to share their experience, fearing lest the pure objectivity and the transcendent reference point of their God thoughts be thereby obscured; but this is a great pity, for when they define their role merely in ecclesiastical or academic terms, thus in effect hiding behind their official identity, it renders their theology at best enigmatic and at worst downright boring.

The worthy fruit of academic culture is an open mind, trained to careful thinking, instructed in the methods of philosophic investigation, acquainted in a general way with the accumulated thought of past generations, and penetrated with humility.

This enterprise would, as we all suspect, be academic in the worst sense if Heidegger had had no part in Nazi politics and thought.

But the general comments made thus far point toward other features of Enlightenment thought that are fully adopted by the academic discipline of economics, especially in its neo-liberal form.

«In Biblical Studies I can think of many key academics in university departments who are evangelical in their approach to scripture in ways that would have been difficult to think of 40 years ago,» he sayIn Biblical Studies I can think of many key academics in university departments who are evangelical in their approach to scripture in ways that would have been difficult to think of 40 years ago,» he sayin university departments who are evangelical in their approach to scripture in ways that would have been difficult to think of 40 years ago,» he sayin their approach to scripture in ways that would have been difficult to think of 40 years ago,» he sayin ways that would have been difficult to think of 40 years ago,» he says.

They have also raised awareness of the extent to which most theological thought in this century has been filtered through a very specific cultural perspective, namely that of Western male academic theologians.

A general review of the endnotes from Gunter's paper reveals a fair number of sources who will corroborate the claim that Bergson's scientific views are nor only not outdated, but go very» much to the heart of current scientific methods and insights, but particularly, see A. C. Papanicolaou and Pete A. N. Gunter, eds., Bergson in Modern Thought Towards a Unified Science (New York: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1987), and for important background on how Bergson came to be seen as dated when he was not, see also, Milic Capek, Bergson and Modern Physics, (cited above) and The Philosophical Impact of Contemporary Physics (Princeton, NJ: Van Nostrand, 1961), and the volume edited by Gunter, Bergson and the Evolution of Physics (cited above).

For some time it has been obvious in the academic world that the scriptural texts can not simply be taken at face value but presuppose a thought world that is alien to...

This would mean, as all academic disciplines attained the university ideal, that policy makers could not turn anywhere within the university for help in thinking about the ends which policies should subserve.

In this case people are usually thinking of the Lalitavistara and Mahavastu, the only scriptures associated with Mahayana that are also rather well - known in broader academic circleIn this case people are usually thinking of the Lalitavistara and Mahavastu, the only scriptures associated with Mahayana that are also rather well - known in broader academic circlein broader academic circles.

My thesis is that, whereas in their formative stages academic disciplines require thought, the more mature they become the more they discourage it.