Sentences with phrase «by a philosophy professor»

Seldom does life present you with two cut - and - dried options, neatly packaged by your philosophy professor.

I went to college in the early 1980's and was berated in class, by my philosophy professor, for taking a firm moral stance in a debate between students.

The Elegance of the Hedgehog by philosophy professor Muriel Barbery sold over a million copies in France and became an international blockbuster.

Read a book on cocktails, Classic Cocktails: a Modern Shake, by a philosophy professor, and maybe he will deconstruct it for you.

Not exact matches

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

In fact, according to a refreshing recent Quartz article by Oxford University professor William MacAskill and his partner, PhD philosophy student Amanda MacAskill, lots of common «mistakes» language snobs like to lord over the common man aren't even mistakes at all, including these:

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.

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».

James K.A. Smith is associate professor of philosophy at Calvin College and, with Amos Yong, coeditor of a new book series, Pentecostal Manifestos, to be published by Eerdmans.

Professor of Philosophy at Western Michigan University, Quinton Smith indicated that the most rational thing to believe is that the universe came from nothing, by nothing, and for nothing.

If you wish to pursue this matter further, go to the library and get The Ways of Knowing, written by William Montague when he was a professor of philosophy in Columbia University.

A philosophy professor by background, he recently founded the New College of the Humanities with fellow British atheists Richard Dawkins and Steven Pinker.

@ Vic: Wasn't that the t - itle of a famous song sung by Olivia Newton Jones» Philosophy Professor: Let's Get meta - Physical, Physical!

Editor's Introduction A large set of class notes, papers, clippings, etc., compiled by the late George Bosworth Burch, for many years Fletcher Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University, has been donated to the Harvard University Archives by his widow, Betty Brand Burch.

Moreover, Charles Hartshorne was professor in the Department of Philosophy and the Divinity School was full of theologians profoundly influenced by Whitehead.

The other attributes that Professor Dawkins mentions in his list are all consequences of the divine intelligence; though we can add that God's readiness to forgive sins is not something that can be deduced with certainty by philosophy alone.

The topic is also discussed in essays by J. Harry Cotton («The Meaning of «God» in Whitehead's Philosophy») and Clark M. Williamson («A Response to Professor Cotton») in Encounter, 29, 2 (Spring 1968), 125 - 140 and 141 - 148, respectively.

Edited by Omid Safi, assistant professor of philosophy and religion at Colgate University, the collection — like the books by Rauf and Ramadan — demonstrates the capacity for change, renewal and growth in the world's second largest religion.

By the way, I have a B.A. in Philosophy / Theology from Point Loma Nazarene University (a school known for having some very liberal theology professors (not a fundamentalist Christian school).

This writer distinctly remembers back in the»90s being told by a good and respected professor that he would be worried if the theology of Faith movement grew in influence in the Church, but not nearly so worried concerning its philosophy.

The Rise of the Technocratic Society New York June 24 A discussion on the history of contemporary Western culture with Dr. Michael Hanby, professor of Religion and Philosophy of Science, John Paul II Institute at the Catholic University of America and Dr. Carlo Lancellotti, Professor of Mathematics, CUNY, editor and translator of The Crisis of Modernity by Augusto professor of Religion and Philosophy of Science, John Paul II Institute at the Catholic University of America and Dr. Carlo Lancellotti, Professor of Mathematics, CUNY, editor and translator of The Crisis of Modernity by Augusto Professor of Mathematics, CUNY, editor and translator of The Crisis of Modernity by Augusto Del Noce.

Yet the words Islamic reformation carry baggage about «the Protestant reformation initiated by Martin Luther» which makes the essayists uneasy, according to Safi, who is assistant professor of philosophy and religion at Colgate University.

Professor Bracken relies upon the careful work done by Lucas in the concept of Spirit in Hegel's philosophy and the concept of society in Whitehead's thought to illuminate each another's potentialities for development in the direction of still another, more comprehensive process - oriented system of thought.

That was one of the topics discussed at a workshop in Vancouver, B.C., on love put on by Carrie Jenkins, a philosophy professor at the University of British Columbia, that featured many wonderful speakers besides Jenkins, whose thought - provoking book, What Love Is And What It Could Be, comes out in a few weeks, including Marina Adshade, UBC professor of economics, author of of Dollars and Sex: How Economics Influences Sex and entertaining TEDx speaker; and Mandy Len Catron, who teaches writing at UBC and whose Modern Love essay on how to make anyone fall in love with you was one of the most - read Modern Loves, and that lead her to write a book on love essays that comes out in 2017.

The paper Homebirth and the Future Child by OB - GYN Lachlan de Crespigny, and Oxford Philosophy Professor Julian Savulescu is deservedly getting widespread attention in the mainstream media.

Lukaske said the book, part of a popular instruction series, is written by two philosophy professors.

The Institute, which publishes the right - wing Claremont Review of Books, was founded in 1979 by students of Harry Jaffa, a philosophy professor who studied under neocon patriarch Leo Strauss and the author of Barry Goldwater's famous call for «extremism in defense of liberty.»

The trend toward transformative research is fueled by nations» efforts to use science and technology to leapfrog competition in terms of innovation and economic development in a globalized environment, says Robert Frodeman, a philosophy professor at the University of North Texas, Denton, and director of the Center for the Study of Interdisciplinarity.

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.

The paper, «Unproven Stem Cell - based Interventions and Achieving a Compromise Policy Among the Multiple Stakeholders,» was co-authored by Kirstin Matthews, a lecturer in natural sciences at Rice and fellow in science and technology policy at the Baker Institute, and Ana Iltis, a professor of philosophy and director of Wake Forest's Center for Bioethics, Health and Society.

«The marketing objective of selling services by making them seem attractive to consumers can create tensions or outright conflict with the ethical imperative of respect for persons, since the latter requires that patients make medical decisions in light of balanced information about the full range of risks and benefits associated with their care,» said London, professor of philosophy in CMU's Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences and director of the Center for Ethics and Policy.

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.

«In earlier work, we found that girls start to associate «smartness» with boys by the time they are 6 years old,» said co-author Leslie, the Class of 1943 Professor of Philosophy and director of the Program in Linguistics and the Program in Cognitive Science at Princeton University.

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.

Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States About Blog Blog on Christianity by Dr.Adam DeVille - Author of Orthodoxy and the Roman Papacy; a tenured associate professor and chairman of the Dept. of Theology and Philosophy at the University of Saint Francis in Fort Wayne, Indiana; and a subdeacon of the Ukrainian Greco - Catholic Church (UGCC) resident in the Eparchy of St. Nicholas of Chicago.

Their heads filled with Nietzschean philosophy by their kindly professor James Stewart, Granger and Dall kill a third friend just for the thrill of it.

Phoenix plays a philosophy professor troubled by existential crisis until he strikes up a relationship with one of his students (Stone) and, as he says in the trailer, «the dark clouds part» and he begins enjoying life again.

A despondent philosophy professor is invigorated by the idea of committing the perfect crime in Woody Allen's latest light, romantic drama, Irrational Man.

Mia Hansen - Love's fifth feature about a philosophy professor played by Isabelle Huppert beautifully balances conflicting emotions and ideas to show the contradictions in a person.

About a half - hour into the film, after Allen establishes his standard, complicated love story, this time involving a «genius» philosophy professor named Abe Lucas (played by Joaquin Phoenix, with a heck of a gut), Jill, his brightest pupil (Emma Stone), who says she's in love with her boyfriend, and Rita, a married professor (Parker Posey), who all teach / attend the same Newport, R.I. university, «Irrational Man» takes a rather dark and very welcome turn.

Insecure philosophy professor Abe Lucas (played by Joaquin Phoenix) has just been hired at the fictional Braylin College and it's treated like an atom bomb of gossip by the faculty and student body.

Based on Lipsky's memoir, «Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace, «this adaptation by Donald Margulies» (Pondsoldt's college professor) is extremely alive, tapping into shared fears, worries and philosophies with an authentic and familiar immediacy that feels like it was transcribed as it happened in the moment.

From Oscar and Emmy winner Alan Ball, and starring Oscar and Golden Globe winner Tim Robbins and Oscar, Emmy and Golden Globe winner Holly Hunter, the show is a provocative and darkly comic meditation on the disparate forces polarizing present - day American culture, as experienced by the members of a progressive multi-ethnic family — a philosophy professor and his wife, their adopted children from Vietnam, Liberia and Colombia, and their sole biological child — and a contemporary Muslim family, headed by a psychiatrist who is treating one of their children.

Phoenix stars as Abe Lucas, an alcoholic philosophy professor who comes to the small, fictional Rhode Island college of Braylin preceded by a reputation.

Written and directed by Mia Hansen - Løve, a daughter of two philosophy professors, the French - German co-production L'avenir reflects on the intellectual and...

In High Schools, Race, and America's Future, published by Harvard Education Press, Lawrence Blum, Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Education and a professor of philosophy at the University of Massachusetts - Boston, offers his account of his time teaching a rigorous high school course on race anProfessor of Liberal Arts and Education and a professor of philosophy at the University of Massachusetts - Boston, offers his account of his time teaching a rigorous high school course on race anprofessor of philosophy at the University of Massachusetts - Boston, offers his account of his time teaching a rigorous high school course on race and racism.

The peace councils also take part in environmental restoration by planting peace trees, bringing Professor Wangari Maathai's philosophy that «when we plant trees, we plant the seeds of peace and hope» into practice.

There's a great little piece of non-fiction called Final Fantasy and Philosophy written by a few college professors that dissect the different games of the series and the philosophy within, so I do understand that each game contains more than we may, at firPhilosophy written by a few college professors that dissect the different games of the series and the philosophy within, so I do understand that each game contains more than we may, at firphilosophy within, so I do understand that each game contains more than we may, at first, glean.

A catalogue published by the John Hansard Gallery will feature a joint foreword by P.S. 1 Director Alanna Heiss and John Hansard Gallery Director Stephen Foster, with essays by Mr. Thorp and John Latham's son, Noa Latham, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Calgary.

11:30 am Lecture: Currency, Value, Hype Led by Martha Buskirk, Professor of Art History of Criticism at Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, Massachusetts, presented by Miami Art Museum and University of Miami Department of Philosophy.