Sentences with phrase «of academic thought»

I'm told that «blogging» will soon be, if it isn't already, a major form of dissemination of academic thought and commentary.

There is a remarkable appreciation of a demonstration of academic thought and discipline (independent of politics) by Noam Chomsky in today's New York Times, an Op Ed by Stanley Fish:

There are two schools of academic thought as to how stock investing works and each investor puts his retirement in peril when he chooses to follow the path suggested by one school over the path suggested by the other.

I really couldn't care less whether a bunch of academics think this stuff is all okey dokey.

Not exact matches

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.

That's bound to be thought provoking for psychologists, but it's also of use to those of us with less academic interests too.

Or as Stephen Gordon puts it, academic economists «generally remain open to the idea of using well - thought - out infrastructure projects to promote long - term growth.»

«[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.

«We think of it as a marketing campaign that begins as soon as people step foot on the campuses where we recruit,» she says, noting the company only targets students with stellar academic credentials who have shown clear evidence of leadership.

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.

While the content can seem a bit dense and academic at times — the essays are, after all, written by some of the nation's leading thinkers on business issues — the website is a potentially valuable resource for policy makers and anyone thinking about starting a new business.

As an academic who wrestles with the ethics of pain management both professionally and personally, I think stories like Dumas» are important, but that inferring too much from them is dangerous.

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

First, the number of Jews who can be thought of as threatening non-Jewish control of U.S. industry is not so large as the Jewish population estimate of 1933 would suggest: the great mass of the 4,500,000 American Jews, like the great mass of American non-Jews, is made up of workers, employed or unemployed, to whom the control of U.S. industry is a purely academic matter.

«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.

The academic assessments of QE are mixed at best depending on the author and what school of economics most influences their thinking.

There are a number of «fight moves» that people can develop to deal with these issues, and I think many women are really hungry for that kind of advice, especially when it is backed up with academic research.

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.

Turning to investment managers and their non-reaction to the threat he feels Fed action poses, Rodriguez then said they «do not appear particularly concerned with, [or] worried about, the finer nuances of an academic debate between two different schools of economic thought.

The day - long event brought together 150 invited guests, including Knight News Challenge grantees along with leading journalists, technologists, campaign organizers, academics and thought leaders for a series of curated panel discussions.

One answer is that it makes thinking much easier,» says Tiedens, the Jonathan B. Lovelace Professor of Organizational Behavior and Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs.

«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.

It explicitly recognizes that government needs to «stop and ask for directions» from civil society and academics, many of whom have been thinking about and analysing budgets with a gender and intersectional lens for more than 20 years.

BTW: For most Americans, a $ 75,000 / year income is really good; so, I can kind of see what the academics are thinking.

At Oakmark, we believe that the academic view on stocks is largely, but not completely, correct: We think that most of the time, most stocks are priced about right — but not always, and never each and every stock.

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.

Now let's take the academic speak out of the above and simply say that if you base the scorecard on what you think buyer's value versus actually going out to talk to buyers and using qualitative methods to uncover values — it will be of no particular use.

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.

And these are questions I ask many of the academics I'm talking with, and I think we'll see universities, colleges and education very positively affected by these technologies, because I think we can educate students around the world.

Our expanding network of collaborators includes knowledge experts, thought leaders, academics, experienced industry executives, successful entrepreneurs, public sector leaders, Brookfield Senior Fellows and Fellows who are prominent members of the innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem.

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.»

Your tastes are above reproach and your musical canon has been arrived at after more academic thought than a doctoral dissertation on the «Ebb and Flow of The Mental Qualitative State Due to the Societal Imperatives of Pezz Dispensers.»

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.

Just to think that He debated with the academics of His day at this age.

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.

While Berger's rightward drift isolated him from a left - leaning academic establishment, it also connected him to a new and wider world beyond the ivory tower, a world of D.C. think tanks and private foundations, of government officials and Texas billionaires.

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.

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.

As Whitehead's thought became better understood among academic theologians and philosophers, it attracted a small but staunch group of followers who found his explanation of God to be both intellectually satisfying and religiously credible.

To a young academic such as I was, facing the corrosive impact of critical theory on higher education, Newman's ecclesiastical polemic against the «suicidal excesses» of unfettered human thought retained a powerful relevance.

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.

Questions which the body politic or the academic world are unwilling to confront head - on are often dealt with through the medium of, say, science fiction: think of the Matrix films, or a novel such as Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go.

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.