Sentences with phrase «public philosophy at»

Cornel West, professor of practice of public philosophy at the Harvard Divinity School, will kick - off this semester's series with the talk, «Spiritual Blackout, Imperial Meltdown, Prophetic Fightback.»

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«I believe that most of the problems in the entrepreneurial ecosystem have their origin in the philosophy of short - termism that infects our companies, our investors and our public markets,» he told the crowd at a recent event in Vancouver.
Just what is known about this religion (occult) is bizarre and disturbing who knows what goes on with their «Secret Ritual» in their «Sacred Temples» Bringum young's public writings were racist philosophy more then religion who knows what Mitt may have learned at his University of «Higher Learning»
Elmer John Thiessen, who teaches philosophy at a public university in Canada, deals with each of the accusations and shows how they all rest upon either an ignorance of the facts or a misunderstanding of the issues, and often upon both.
Michael Novak has just retired from the George Frederick Jewett chair in Religion, Philosophy, and Public Policy at the American Enterprise Institute and is a member of the editorial board of First Things.
Parents increasingly find themselves at odds with the philosophy espoused in the public schools.
Haldane, a Scot who teaches philosophy at St. Andrews, is a prominent public intellectual in Britain.
They are seeking what has been called post-modern paradigms for «an open secular democratic culture» within the framework of a public philosophy (Walter Lippman) or Civil Religion (Robert Bellah) or a new genuine realistic humanism or at least a body of insights about the nature of being and becoming human, evolved through dialogue among renascent religions, secularist ideologies including the philosophies of the tragic dimension of existence and disciplines of social and human sciences which have opened themselves to each other in the context of their common sense of historical responsibility and common human destiny.
One ends Separation of Church and State wishing that its author had at least suggested a few elements of an alternate jurisprudence or public philosophy to take the place of misguided separationism.
At a moment when civil religious symbols are more and more co-opted by ultraconservatives and the philosophy of liberalism seems less and less adequate as a guide to our public or private lives, a revival of public philosophy seems urgently needed.8 One of the tasks of such a revival would be to make the religious aspect of our central tradition understandable in a nonreactionary way.
I think public high schools ought to offer, at the senior level, a course in philosophy, including metaphysics.
Whatever is distinctive about Judaism has been left out of account either because it does not accord with the liberal consensus or because Jews lack a public philosophy of adequate complexity to mediate the values of their tradition to the culture at large.
At Sports Insights, one of our founding philosophies is simple: always bet against the public.
Betting against the public is one of the core philosophies at Sports Insights.
At Sports Insights, we have two core betting philosophies: fade the public and follow sharp action.
However, when we utilize our betting against the public philosophy and focus on teams receiving less than 30 % of spread bets, we produce an 83 - 64 ATS record with +15.09 units won and a 10.3 % ROI.
Fading the public has been our leading philosophy throughout the years, and this season tourney teams getting < 40 % of spread bets have gone 14 - 7 ATS.
Not only did the ratings blowing away previous BCS games, but our betting against the public philosophy thrived as teams receiving less than 50 % of spread bets posted a 38 - 23 ATS record (+12.96 units).
Her interests lie at the intersection of Philosophy and Public Policy.
But now, at least in public, Schneiderman describes Judaism as a driving force in his political philosophy.
It seems they are more concerned with winning public support (or at least not losing it) than they are about their policies and their underlying political philosophy.
In 2000 Griffin became Distinguished Visiting Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University and in 2002 Adjunct Professor at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics in Australia in Canberra.
Senior Research Fellow at the ARC Special Research Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Charles Sturt University
The evening opened with brief remarks from Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña, who presented a humanistic philosophy toward public education at sharp odds with prevailing notions that schools today are workplaces where students apply themselves to learn skills needed to pass tests.
«I sit at the intersection of scientific modeling [and] public policy — looking at how those models are applied in ranking alternative policy solutions — and then philosophy, where I look at questions of how good the models are and when they become good enough to drive public - policy decisions,» he says.
Alfred Mele, an expert in action theory, will examine this critical intersection of science and philosophy in two free public events Jan. 23 - 24, at Washington State University Pullman.
He graduated from UCLA with a B.A. in philosophy, and is a public speaker, certified nutritionist, and Small Steps Coach — teaching people around the world his unique Small Steps approach to healthy living at smallsteppers.com.
What they got in those brief minutes at the end of each program was less debate than verbal sparring matches between two erudite intellectuals attacking the political philosophy and public record of the other and they were out for blood.
Guest blogger Robert Rosenberger, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Georgia Institute of Technology's School of Public Policy, offers a thoughtful examination of how dictation technology is likely to change the future of writing instruction.
William A. Galston is a professor of public affairs and the director of the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy at the University of Marpublic affairs and the director of the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy at the University of MarPublic Policy at the University of Maryland.
How can I push my own philosophy of teaching closer to the purest model observed at CTL into a public school?
Shanker had been a Ph.D. candidate in philosophy at Columbia University, but he quit for lack of funds and became a substitute teacher in the New York City public schools, where he had once been a star debater at the elite Stuyvesant High School.
That prepping has taken her all over the world: working as a research assistant for an author in Venice, Italy; getting a master's degree in philosophy at the University of Cambridge in England; helping on an archeological dig of Ancient Tiberias in Israel, where she unearthed a stack of ninth - century vases; working in Iraq as a public diplomacy officer and conducting research for generals; raising money for schools in Afghanistan for Congresswoman Jean Schmidt (R - OH); traveling to China to learn about how children of migrant workers access education; learning Arabic.
The philosophy of the model policy and program discourages an overreliance on discipline and instead adopts a public health approach focused on prevention, supporting at - risk youth and addressing incidents to change behavior.
Declining enrollment, falling public aid and tight budgets at some schools spark discontent — and rising no - confidence votes — among staff

As the president of Rider University, Gregory Dell» Omo wanted to cut the art, French and philosophy majors among others to help solve the New Jersey school's budget...

Goodwill Industries of Central Indiana Inc. opened the public charter school six years ago under the philosophy that when the right instructional model is used every child can excel at education.
Previously, he taught social studies and philosophy at public high schools in New York and Virginia and worked with The George Washington University.
Big is beautiful should have been the design philosophy behind the VAIO Tap 20 that Sony has put up for public consumption at the ongoing IFA event.
A Night of Philosophy and Ideas is Brooklyn Public Library's newest large - scale event, an all - night marathon of philosophical debate, performances, screenings, readings, and music in January at Central Library.
Connor Leonard is the Public Securities Manager at Investors Management Corporation (IMC) where he runs a concentrated portfolio utilizing a value investing philosophy.
In depriving students and the larger public from seeing her work at the Grey, the artist, who currently lives in Berlin and runs a foundation dedicated to art, philosophy, and yoga, has chosen to make a larger point about marginalization and otherness, themes that have dominated her work throughout her career.
31 May Lecture Object - Oriented Sociology by Viktor Wachstein, celebrated sociologist and the Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and Sociology at RANEPA (Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration).
Their 1929 exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery was a means of spreading their ideas and philosophy to a wider public.
Oppenheim speaks of growing up in Washington and California, his father's Russian ancestry and education in China, his father's career in engineering, his mother's background and education in English, living in Richmond El Cerrito, his mother's love of the arts, his father's feelings toward Russia, standing out in the community, his relationship with his older sister, attending Richmond High School, demographics of El Cerrito, his interest in athletics during high school, fitting in with the minority class in Richmond, prejudice and cultural dynamics of the 1950s, a lack of art education and philosophy classes during high school, Rebel Without a Cause, Richmond Trojans, hotrod clubs, the persona of a good student, playing by the rules of the art world, friendship with Jimmy De Maria and his relationship to Walter DeMaria, early skills as an artist, art and teachers in high school, attending California College of Arts and Crafts, homosexuality in the 1950s and 1960s, working and attending art school, professors at art school, attending Stanford, early sculptural work, depression, quitting school, getting married, and moving to Hawaii, becoming an entrepreneur, attending the University of Hawaii, going back to art school, radical art, painting, drawing, sculpture, the beats and the 1960s, motivations, studio work, theory and exposure to art, self - doubts, education in art history, Oakland Wedge, earth works, context and possession, Ground Systems, Directed Seeding, Cancelled Crop, studio art, documentation, use of science and disciplines in art, conceptual art, theoretical positions, sentiments and useful rage, Robert Smithson and earth works, Gerry Shum, Peter Hutchinson, ocean work and red dye, breaking patterns and attempting growth, body works, drug use and hippies, focusing on theory, turmoil, Max Kozloff's «Pygmalion Reversed,» artist as shaman and Jack Burnham, sync and acceptance of the art world, machine works, interrogating art and one's self, Vito Acconci, public art, artisans and architects, Fireworks, dysfunction in art, periods of fragmentation, bad art and autobiographical self - exposure, discovery, being judgmental of one's own work, critical dissent, impact of the 1950s and modernism, concern about placement in the art world, Gypsum Gypsies, mutations of objects, reading and writing, form and content, and phases of development.
Foreword by James Rosenquist vii Preface by Ira Goldberg viii Acknowledgments x Introduction: Miracle on 57th Street 1 Part 1: Lessons and Demos 15 Henry Finkelstein: On Painting, with a Critique 17 Mary Beth McKenzie: Painting from Life 27 Ephraim Rubenstein: Painting from Observation 39 Thomas Torak: A Contemporary Approach to Classical Painting 59 Dan Thompson: Learning to Paint the Human Figure from Life 75 Sharon Sprung: Figure Painting from Life in Oils 91 Frederick Brosen: Classic Watercolor Realism 107 Naomi Campbell: Working Large in Watercolor 123 Ellen Eagle: Poetic Realism in Pastel 135 Costa Vavagiakis: The Evolution of a Concept 148 Part 2: Advice and Philosophies 165 William Scharf: Knowing that Miracles Happen 167 Peter Homitzky: Inventing from Observation 181 Charles Hinman: Painting in Three Dimensions 193 Deborah Winiarski: Painting and Encaustic 203 James L. McElhinney: Journal Painting and Composition 213 Part 3: Interviews 229 Frank O'Cain: Abstraction from Nature 231 Ronnie Landfield: On Learning and Teaching 251 Knox Martin: Learning from Old and Modern Masters 269 Concours: Painting and the Public at the Art Students League by Dr. Jillian Russo 282 Index 286
An inspirational and humorous public speaker whose breadth of knowledge spans art history and philosophy with ease, the opportunity to hear Scully talk about his life and work at the Nyack Library on April 28th is one not to be missed.
``... when the data is calibrated in lockstep with a very high - profile and public political philosophy, we should at least be willing to ask some hard questions.
Andrew Light is Director of the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy, George Mason University, and Distinguished Senior Fellow in the Climate Program at the World Resources Institute.
Andrew Light is Director of the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy, George Mason University, and Distinguished Senior Fellow in the Climate Program at the World...
Clive Hamilton is Professor of Public Ethics at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Charles Sturt University.
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