Similar teaching programs already exist for narrow fields, especially in technical areas of philosophy.
In the 19th century, economics was a pastime of inquisitive gentlemen, a branch of philosophy.
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Abravanel was an extraordinary scholar of philosophy and Jewish teachings as well as a financial genius.
Much of this season's crop has the regulation French mix of philosophy and bleak chic.
He followed an academic career and became professor of philosophy at the then new University of Queensland.
Bernstein, University Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research, in The New York Times.
Born in Australia and raised in South Africa, Curnow has a Master of Philosophy degree in International Relations from Cambridge University.
The state of philosophy teaching in the region and its challenges at all levels of education will be discussed.
Research and presentation of ideas in the context of the teaching of philosophy.
He had also been known as a wise, and insightful, student of philosophy.
Prof Grayling is a professor of philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London, and a fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford.
The mayor of Venice, Massimo Cacciari, who is a university teacher of philosophy by profession, is not impressed by the Mafia theory.
Antanas Mockus, a maverick independent professor of philosophy, won election as mayor of Bogota, a job he did well in the mid-1990s.
It is not just a matter of political success, but of philosophy.
Willard taught at the University of Wisconsin and later ran the School of Philosophy at the University of Southern California during the early 1980s.
The idea of becoming conscious of the subjectivity of our perceptions is an admittedly abstract one -- the stuff of philosophy and science fiction.
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Bonnie Steinbock, professor of philosophy who specializes in bioethics at the University at Albany in New York, said it magnifies the superficiality in society.
Once upon a time it was the province of philosophy to propose ambitious and outlandish theories in advance of any concrete evidence for them.
Creation of dialogue towards the understanding of philosophy as critical for the solving of problems in the contemporary world especially in the context of sustainability.
Proceedings and ISI papers on the importance of philosophy in the development of capacities for critical thinking, self-resilience and dialogue in the context of sustainable development.
Lysaght, who says that he thinks the essay is "a masterpiece, " says that he views it more as a work of philosophy than of science, as well.
We wish both the House and Mr. Obama would drive a harder bargain on behalf of the taxpayer, but they aren't separated by a difference of philosophy.
Hubert Dreyfus, a professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkley, argues that artificial intelligence will fail because it makes assumptions about the mind, which are not feasible.
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As an academic discipline, he says, education has been heavily influenced by post-modernism the school of philosophy in which all meaning is regarded as subjective and all truth as relative.
For example, we learn in this book that the most common genre of philosophy works were translation and liberal restatements of Greek philosophers, especially Aristotle, Plato and Alexander of Aphrodisias.
However if liberals actually did laugh off his criticism because it came replete with copious references to science fiction and video games they were being unduly light hearted about important matters of philosophy and statecraft.
Prof John Haldane, who is a professor of philosophy at St Andrews University and papal adviser to the Vatican, told a special Newsnight Scotland debating panel that the church only learned of the allegations nine days ago.
When embarking on the original, Knopf, thinking the book was about sexual reproduction, assigned the translation to a retired professor of Zoology, Howard Madison Parshley, who possessed no more than college-level French and much less in the way of philosophy.
In 1994, Wade and Bob Brier, a professor of philosophy and Egyptology at Long Island University, took a human body that had been willed to science and mummified it following the ancient procedures of mummification outlined in ancient Egyptian lore.
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While much of his time as Emperor was spent in battle, Marcus made a major impact on the study of philosophy by establishing four Chairs of Philosophy in Athens, one for each of the principal philosophical traditions (Platonic, Aristotelian, Stoic, and Epicurean).
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