Sentences with phrase «as a philosophy professor»

So assuming (as the philosophy professor insists you must) that you don't have time to haul any of the various unconscious people off the tracks, your choice is effectively this: should you divert the trolley, thereby killing one person, or do nothing, and allow five people to die?

Hoffman had aspired to become a public intellectual, by writing books and essays as a philosophy professor, but now he was tweaking his plan.

He would likely have welcomed the recent formation of an association for process philosophy of education, so long as its membership included teachers, scientists, artists, school administrators, as well as philosophy professors.

As a philosophy professor, I have attempted to explain Whitehead's thought in both undergraduate courses and graduate seminars.

But to make that comfortable love last means we need to compromise, as philosophy professor Aaron Ben - Zeev writes:

Joaquin Phoenix stars as a philosophy professor who's suffering from an existential crisis: he can't write, he can't breathe, he «couldn't remember the reason for living,» as he says in the promo.

Guy Pearce stars as a philosophy professor who gets accused of abducting a young girl in the first trailer for Spinning Man.

Legendary director Terrence Malick («Badlands», «Days of Heaven») began his career as a philosophy professor and his latest film is an existential examination of the hedonistic lifestyle of a frustrated screenwriter living in the Hollywood Hills.

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The lightly diverting Irrational Man, playing out of Competition, stars Joaquin Phoenix as a philosophy professor at a fictional Eastern college, and it's one of those Allen pictures in which the dialogue amounts to endless variations on «I'm well aware of what Kierkegaard said.»

Joaquin Phoenix (Inherent Vice, Her) stars as philosophy professor Abe Lucas, an uncouth instructor recently relocated to a new university in Rhode Island, the fictional Braylin College, but who has some renown in philosophy academia circles.

As a philosophy professor teaching a course in environmental ethics, I want to do justice to the issue of global warming — at least, as best I can given my layperson status when it comes to climatology.

The course had a mix of traditional students, four staff members and two instructors from the College's culinary program as well as a Philosophy professor.

Not exact matches

But then again, the father of classical economics, Adam Smith, wasn't an «economist» (as «economics» wasn't a distinct academic field in his times) but a professor of moral philosophy at Glasgow University.

As Vincent F. Hendricks, Professor of Formal Philosophy and Logic at the University of Copenhagen, cautions: «A good question is not necessarily one you can answer «yes» or «no» to.

I have been a philosophy professor for many years and have not been as touched by what it means to be human as I have been today after reading your essay.

It is singularly brilliant, it reveals him not as your stereotypical «pointy - headed» philosophy professors but rather as a human being, willing and eager to stand for his beliefs in the concrete world... hear, hear!

For that reason it has been a classroom staple for me as a political science professor... I'll be using it this semester to show American politics students the sort of thing the founders were trying to avoid, and I often use it with political philosophy students as a foil to Aristotle's defense of the democratic element in a polity.

I got an email Monday from a philosophy - professor friend asking what I thought of the new «theory of everything» («TOE») developed by one Garrett Lisi, who apparently is being talked up on the Internet and in some newspapers as a «new Einstein».

In the question session, philosophy professor Jeff Jordan made the following observation to Dennett, «If Darwinism is inherently atheistic, as you say, then obviously it can't be taught in public schools.»

Augros, a professor of philosophy at the Center for Higher Studies in Thornwood, New York, pointed to scientific studies that suggested the active drug in Plan B — levonorgestrel — could function not only as a contraceptive, but as an abortifacient.

Dr. Peter Boghossian, professor of philosophy at Portland State University, in a great talk on faith - based epistemology: «I disagree with granting religious delusion as an exemption, and I want to mention there's a budding young scholar here at Portland State University, Renee Barnett [sp?]

As Richard Swinburne, philosophy professor at the University of Oxford, has demonstrated, on that basis the probability of this particular miracle becomes very strong.

Admittedly, part of the reason for this, as Ohio University Professor of Philosophy Scott Carson suggested to me, may be due to the way that humanities majors are structured in universities today.

At Oxford, where he studied with R. M. Hare, and then as a professor at Melbourne's Monash University, Singer slightly modified his philosophy into what he calls preference utilitarianism.

Absorbed as he was in his New Testament studies, Bultmann took time off to listen to his colleague Martin Heidegger, who was professor of philosophy at Marburg from 1923 to «28.

After studying at the City College of New York and Columbia University, he had a distinguished career as a professor of philosophy at several colleges in New York and at the University of Houston, a post he retired from in 2002.

Where Mortals Dwell apparently had its start as a course Bartholomew teaches at Redeemer University College in Ontario, where he is a professor of philosophy and theology.

It was an Episcopal Seminary, and 40 years ago, as well as some Episcopal students and professors that still taught Biblical studies and philosophy, there were also Zen Buddhists and a Jewish Shule.

Mark Edmundson is a professor of literature who has said some interesting things about the quarrel between philosophy and poetry, as well as the larger cultural implications of the Nightmare on Elm Street movies.

Regarding his intellectual affinities, Hartshorne feels himself to be «closest» to Charles Sanders Peirce, Henri Bergson, and A. N. Whitehead.4 He expresses gratitude to his Harvard professors C. I. Lewis and H. M. Sheffer for introducing him to «logical exactitude,» and especially to Professor William Ernest Hocking, his first teacher in philosophical theology, for fresh insights into a philosophically trustworthy vision of God.5 Furthermore, he acknowledges some indebtedness to Josiah Royce, William James, and Ralph Barton Perry, as well as a close kinship to the Russian existentialist Nicolai Berdyaev.6 Nevertheless, Hartshome's philosophy is strikingly similar and most profoundly indebted to that of A. N. Whitehead.

Hartshorne's professorial odyssey has taken him as professor of philosophy mainly to three American universities: The University of Chicago, 1928 - 55, including the Federated Theological Faculty from 1943 to 1955; Emory University, 1955 - 62; and The University of Texas, from 1962 until the present.

Carlo Rovelli, a physics professor at Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille, makes some thought - provoking comments about the philosophy involved in science.1 As author of The First Scientist: Anaximander and His Legacy, Rovelli views Anaximander as a sort of scientific revolutionarAs author of The First Scientist: Anaximander and His Legacy, Rovelli views Anaximander as a sort of scientific revolutionaras a sort of scientific revolutionary.

If, as I suggested in the last section, the obvious and oft - noted differences between Russell and Whitehead symbolize the current analytic - speculative split, then the kinds of similarities and (perhaps even more importantly) the areas of mutual influence, indebtedness, and philosophic enrichment to which Professor Kuntz rightly points can suggest to contemporary philosophers a neutral «dialogical territory» beyond the present, hostile philosophic «demilitarized zone,» which is no longer itself viable, interesting, or worthy of the vocation of philosophy.

In one of the most illuminating remarks I have ever encountered on the relations of philosophy and theology, the late Professor A. N. Whitehead spoke of Christianity as a religion perennially in search of a metaphysic, but never able to rest in one.

Professor Pete Gunter has addressed both issues with respect to Bergson's philosophy as a whole.

Midgley, a retired philosophy professor from Newcastle, has published many provocative and insightful books in the past 15 years, combating various streams of uncritically accepted suppositions in science, ethics, philosophy and modern culture as well.

Upon settling in Palestine, he became associated with the Hebrew University — an institution that Kurzweil detested — first as a professor of organic and biochemistry and neurophysiology, and later as a professor of the history and philosophy of science.

As an example of the former temper, I quote part of a letter from Professor Lagneau, a venerated teacher of philosophy who lately died, a great invalid, at Paris: --

Learning about Hindu philosophy and Western Idealist philosophers, such as Royce and Bosanquet, to whom my Indian Professor Dr. C. T. K. Chari introduced me, gave me an intellectual basis for a theology rooted in religious experience.

If Coover is to be categorized philosophically (and this is perhaps appropriate given his former employment as a professor of philosophy), he would better fit in the positivistic tradition that views as nonsensical whatever is incapable of verification.

William C. Placher, professor of philosophy and religion at Wabash College in Indiana, offers what he modestly describes as «an extended preface to contemporary discussions about theological method.»

Smith had been called to the University of Glasgow as professor of logic, but quickly switched to the chair of moral philosophy.

Charles J. Sabatino was a College Professor at Daemen College in Snyder N.Y., where he started the Department of Philosophy and Religion in 1977 and was instrumental in the creation of the Service Learning Program as well as the co-facilitator of a monthly Cancer Wellness Center support group that meets on campus.

The study, published in Nature, was conducted by Professor Luciano Floridi, Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information and Director of the Digital Ethics Lab, and Carl Öhman, a postdoctoral researcher at OII, advises that online remains should be viewed in the same way as the physical human body, and treated with care and respect rather than manipulated for commercial gain.

Students also used «brilliant» and «genius» to describe their professors most often in academic fields such as philosophy and physics, in which women and African - American students are a distinct minority, Storage said.

A unit on the Philosophy of Science and the History of Science (taught by the professor or a visiting colleague) could benefit all inferences made of scientific studies as well as expose students to alternative ways of assessing particular problems.

I therefore reject the view held by Joseph Spoerl (Professor of Philosophy at St. Anselm College), who has argued that choosing to conceive a child is to treat the future child as a means to the parents» ends, since the child does not yet exist and therefore can not be benefitted by the choice.

He has been a visiting scholar at Columbia University, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto (on a Feodor Lynen fellowship from the Humboldt Foundation) and acting Professor of Philosophy of Science and Technology at Stuttgart University, before joining the faculty at Hannover as a tenured professorProfessor of Philosophy of Science and Technology at Stuttgart University, before joining the faculty at Hannover as a tenured professorprofessor in 2011.

Even though, from 1931 onwards, Krishnamacharya on a permanent basis served as a professor for Sanskrit and philosophy at the College of the Maharadja at Mysore, he still traveled a lot to make yoga more prominent.