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philosopher
philosopher a person engaged or learned in philosophy, especially as an academic discipline.philosopher kings in the political theory of Plato, the elite whose knowledge enables them to rule justly.philosopher's stone a mythical substance supposed to change any metal into gold or silver and,... Read more |
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Aryadeva (Indian Buddhist philosopher)
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Hans Reichenbach
REICHENBACH, HANS(1891–1953) Hans Reichenbach was a leading philosopher of science and a proponent of logical positivism. He made important contributions to the theory of probability and to the philosophical interpretation of the theory of relativity, quantum mechanics, and... Read more |
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Karl Popper
Popper, Karl 1902-1994 BIBLIOGRAPHY Sir Karl Raimund Popper was a leading twentieth-century philosopher. His first major work, Logik der Forschung (The Logic of Scientific Discovery, 1935), was a methodology of the physical sciences that dispensed with induction. His second major work, in two... Read more |
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Duty
OBLIGATION. Since Plato wrote of political obligation in his dialogue Crito, obligation in general has been of ongoing interest to philosophers. In that dialogue, Socrates argues that he was under an obligation to obey the laws of Athens and comply with a sentence of death. During the course of the... Read more |
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Sir Alfred Jules Ayer
Sir Alfred Jules Ayer , 1910-89, British philosopher, b. London, grad. Oxford, 1932. From 1933 to 1944 he was lecturer and research fellow at Oxford's Christ Church College and then was fellow (1944-45) and dean (1945-46) of Wadham College. From 1946 to 1959 Ayer was Grote professor of the... Read more |
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James McCosh
James McCosh 1811-94, Scottish-American philosopher and educator, b. Ayrshire, Scotland, grad. Univ. of Edinburgh, 1833. He was called to the United States in 1868 to become president of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton Univ.), and he retained the position until 1888. His successful career... Read more |
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Dugald Stewart
Dugald Stewart 1753-1828, Scottish philosopher. He studied at the Univ. of Edinburgh, later becoming professor of mathematics (1775-85) and of moral philosophy (1785-1810). After retiring he devoted himself to writing. A student of Thomas Reid and strongly influenced by him, Stewart is credited... Read more |
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Alexander Bryan Johnson
Alexander Bryan Johnson 1786-1867, American philosopher and semanticist, b. Gosport, England. He emigrated (1801) to the United States and eventually became a wealthy banker in Utica, N.Y. Johnson anticipated many of the concerns of logical positivism and modern linguistic philosophy, but his views... Read more |
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Responsibility
ResponsibilityFundamental conceptsHistorical surveyTypes of responsibility and controlObedience and responsibilityBIBLIOGRAPHYAs a philosophical concept, responsibility is a correlate of freedom; as a political concept, it is a correlate of constitutionalism. Philosophically, the opposite of... Read more |
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Berlin, Sir Isaiah
Berlin, Sir Isaiah (1909–97) British philosopher and historian of ideas, b. Latvia. Berlin and A. J. Ayer introduced...1957–67) of social and political theory, Oxford. Berlin's essay on Tolstoy, The... |
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Sir Isaiah Berlin. (philosopher)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
...numerous prizes, Sir Isaiah Berlin remarked...newspaper. Sir Isaiah might have observed that philosophers try to avoid...husband to me". Sir Isaiah flew...1940s, Sir ... |
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Philosopher Sir Isaiah Berlin, 88
...1997 LONDON - British philosopher Sir Isaiah Berlin, one of the century...the university said Berlin, a prolific author and historian of political thought, had died...earlier this year. "Isaiah's emphasis is ... |
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My dinners with Isaiah: the music of a philosopher's life. (Sir Isaiah...
Isaiah Berlin (1907-97), my friend...literature and art, in political epochs and in their recorders...very bad? He did. When Isaiah was twenty-one, he wrote...with grace. I think that Isaiah found the world a marvelously... |
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Isaiah Berlin
...knighted and became Sir Isaiah Berlin, seemed to know just...reception, he spoke of political leadership and what...BEGIN AUDIO CLIP -- ISAIAH BERLIN SPEAKING ON RADIO IN 1950S) ISAIAH ... |
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Isaiah Berlin: Our greatest thinker, who straddled a terrible century
Sir Isaiah Berlin (pictured above), don, diplomat, historian, political theorist and philosopher, died on Wednesday at the age...accomplishments which adorned it, Isaiah Berlin's was a life that encapsulated... |
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Going for a gong? Don't bother
...machine, oiled by Sir Robert Fellows, the...precedence", include political eminences such as Lords...on merit rather than political affiliation. The address...Wedgwood (historian) Sir Isaiah Berlin ... |
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Anniversaries
...TODAY Births: Adam Smith, political economist, 1723; Sir Robert Mayer, musical philanthropist...Thomas Mann, novelist, 1875; Sir Leslie Patrick Abercrombie...Khatchaturian, composer, 1903; Sir Isaiah Berlin, ... |
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HOPEFULS LINE UP FOR NO-PAY OXFORD JOB
...Richard Crossman, whose political diaries define the period...Outside, Crossman met Sir Isaiah Berlin, the political philosopher. "What a delicious sense of irresponsibility," said Sir ... |
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The post-Soviet world: the resumption of history.
AS A political earthquake, the end of the Soviet...represented an alternative model of political and economic control. Even after...event in human history," says Sir Isaiah Berlin, an Oxford philosopher. "Never before has there ... |
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Want to play some darts?
...His 2005 book, "Expert Political Judgment," is based on two...whether they were economists, political scientists, journalists or...famous distinction by the late Sir Isaiah Berlin (my favorite philosopher) between hedgehogs ... |
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