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 Open Directory - Society: Philosophy: Philosophy of Education
International Network of Philosophers of Education - INPE is dedicated to fostering dialogue amongst philosophers of education around the world.
New England Philosophy of Education Society - NEPES is a professional association of philosophers of education.
Ohio Valley Philosophy of Education Society - OVPES is a professional association of philosophers of education.
http://dmoz.org/Society/Philosophy/Philosophy_of_Education   (481 words)

  
 Nineteenth Century Literary Criticism: Excerts from Criticism of the Works of Novelists, Philosophers, and Other Creative Writers Who Died Between 1800 and 1899 from the First Published cri:0787645494:Byington, Juliet:eCampus.com
A convenient source of commentary on the careers and works of acclaimed poets, novelists, short story writers, dramatists and philosophers who died between 1800 and 1899.
Nineteenth Century Literary Criticism: Excerts from Criticism of the Works of Novelists, Philosophers, and Other Creative Writers Who Died Between 1800 and 1899 from the First Published cri
Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism: Excerpts from Criticism of the Works of Novelists, Poets, Playwrights, Short Story Writers, Philosophers, and Other Creative Writers Who Died Between
http://www.ecampus.com/bk_detail.asp?isbn=0787645494   (282 words)

  
 World Literature to 1500, Arts & Sciences Libraries, UB Libraries
Each entry concludes with a list of references and, in the case of author entries, a list of the author's works in the original as well as in English translation.
Provides a title list of major "national literature" of each country, and brief descriptions of works, authors, and literary terms.
A chronological listing of births, deaths, events, and works of British literature indicating the extent of literary activity and literary related events in England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales during a specific year, decade, or century.
http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/units/lml/Collections/docs/world_lit_1500.html   (282 words)

  
 The Middle Ages.
Sometimes the conclusions reached by the philosophers were not satisfactory to the theologians of the era and, in fact, in 1277 the bishop of Paris collected a list of 219 propositions connected with Aristotle's doctrine which no-one could teach, discuss or consider in any light under penalty of excommunication.
Beyond the last sphere (that of the fixed stars) lay paradise, hell was in the bowels of the Earth (a sort of ``under-Earth''), and purgatory was in the regions between Earth and the Moon (Fig.
It was during this last part of the Middle Ages that the 3 dimensional nature of space was determined and the concept of force was made precise.
http://phyun5.ucr.edu/~wudka/Physics7/Notes_www/node40.html   (1357 words)

  
 Religion of History's 100 Most Influential People
Other philosophers on this list made contributions which had an impact on religion but are not founders of a religion or branch of religion.
Hamzah Jaradat's notes on this are representative of this discussion: Mohammad is the not the author of the Qu'ran.
Certainly no theological or sociological inferences should be drawn from a subjectively chosen list of only 100 people from throughout human history.
http://www.adherents.com/adh_influ.html   (4283 words)

  
 RENE DESCARTES
The work was published together with Objections and Replies from a six (and then seven) philosophers and theologians, including Thomas Hobbes,
This short work is more metaphysical than scientific, and aims to establish the certain foundations for the sciences which Descartes had announced in his confrontation with Chandoux in 1628.
These works were written in French (rather th an Latin) and were aimed at the educated world rather than simply academics.
http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/philosophers/descartes.html   (1501 words)

  
 pubs.htm
This history of ancient philosophy in the West covers Greek and Roman philosophy up to the 3rd century A.D. It focuses on pre-Socratic philosophers, Socrates, Plato Aristotle and neo-Platonism, as well as the Stoics, Epicureans and Skeptics.
This history of medieval philosophy in Europe begins with a section on Augustine and proceeds through a number of minor currents important for the gradual emergence of philosophy from the dark age.
The development of philosophy, against the backdrop of scholasticism, during this century, with special attention to the transformation of positivism in the Czech contest and the contribution to the development of phenomenology.
http://www.crvp.org/pubs.htm   (4371 words)

  
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http://www.kisanji.org/default.aspx?modulo=wikipedia&arg=List+of+books   (404 words)

  
 War of the Ring : The Lord of the Rings and Tolkien site : Covering everything from movie photos to the meaning of the Silmarillion. Read about Narsil and Glamdring or chck out Orlando Blooms page.
Christian philosophers such as Augustine, Bonaventure, and Thomas Aquinas wrote extensively about the nature of the soul, its connection to the body, and reasons for thinking that the soul is immortal.
The standard story is that after death souls continue to live, but that their quality of life depends upon whether they were good or evil while on earth.
And philosophical defenses of resurrection are not limited to the Middle Ages.
http://warofthering.net/bookreview/bookpreviewa.shtml   (5237 words)

  
 Gale Literature Series & Literary Index
Commentary on the careers and works of novelists, short story writers, dramatists, poets and philosophers who died between 1800 and 1899.
Each entry also includes a list of principle works, an author interview when available and an annotated bibliography of additional reading.
A complete listing of the title codes can be found at the beginning of the volume index.
http://www.bothell.washington.edu/library/guides/galeguide.htm   (1969 words)

  
 Omnigraphics - Twentieth-Century Literary Movements Index
Part II lists authors, artists, philosophers, critics, and other literary figures and mentions the reference guides that cover each individual.
A Guide to 500 Literary Movements, Groups, Schools, Tendencies, and Trends of the Twentieth Century, Covering More Than 3,000 Novelists, Poets, Dramatists, Essayists, Artists, and Other Seminal Thinkers from 80 Countries as Found in Standard Literary Reference Works
Each entry identifies the authors, artists, philosophers, and critics associated with the movement, then cites the reference sources that cover the subject.
http://www.omnigraphics.com/product_view.php?ID=377   (1969 words)

  
 Feminist Philosophy Graduate Programs
Some department with a decent representation of women don't necessarily have many feminist philosophers.)
and two more faculty members are women: Debra Nails (ancient) and Jennifer Susse (metaphysics and philosophy of mind), and both are feminists in their own selves, though not doing feminist philosophy as such.
This is not an exhaustive report, and schools are listed in the order in which their information was received; it should be taken as narrative testimonial and not as scientific data.
http://www.uh.edu/~cfreelan/SWIP/GradPrograms.htm   (1969 words)

  
 Fictionwise eBooks: Ancient Rome by Robert Payne
Unlike most general histories of the subject, it enables the reader to know the Romans not only from reading about them, but by hearing directly from them, in their own words, through the works of orators, philosophers, historians, poets, playwrights, and satirists.
Here is an intelligent and remarkably handsome survey of ancient Rome, designed for anyone who would welcome the chance to learn more about that 1,200-year epic with ease, clarity, and accuracy.
In this richly illustrated volume, the reader can enjoy an all-around introduction to the politics, people, culture, and everyday life of the world ruled by Rome.
http://www.fictionwise.com/ebooks/eBook8149.htm   (247 words)

  
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List of List of famous gay, lesbian, or bisexual philosophers
List of Late Antique, Early Christian and Medieval art monuments
List of Kings of the Isle of Man
http://www.yourencyclopedia.net/Special:Allpages/List_of_Indi.html   (247 words)

  
 Translator: German-English-German & Spanish-English: Language
Some of them think that their "English" is better than that of a native English speaker (English translators get a taste of that quite often when a German client tries to show them how their (native) English translation could have been phrased better).
But German is experiencing a renaissance in Eastern Europe and China, a trend that may have to do with the fact that in these countries, people still see Germany as a country of poets and philosophers and therefore want access to its language and culture.
It is a glossary of sorts on Austrian German legalese.
http://germantranslator.blogs.com/translation/language   (7535 words)

  
 Astrology Software for Research - Astrology Links
author of so many astrology books that we couldn’t begin to list them all.
Listing of over 2,000 star (as in movie- and football-) web sites.
Our link list is getting very long (did you notice how long it took to load?) We have decided to focus our list exclusively on AstroDatabank compatible software, research resources, astrology schools, and the major astrology directories.
http://www.astrodatabank.com/Links.htm   (7535 words)

  
 Religion and science bookshop: find the best books on science, religion, and philosophy, with direct links to Amazon.com
Comprehensive book of readings from Stoic, Epicurean and Skeptic philosophers.
Davies, Paul, The Mind of God, Penguin Books, New York and London, 1994
Ernst Haeckel, The Riddle of the Universe, Prometheus Books, Buffalo, 1992.
http://www.harrison.dircon.co.uk/bookstore.htm   (7535 words)

  
 philosophy-ethics
COURSE DESCRIPTION The purpose of this course is to explore some of the main currents of (mostly contemporary U.S.) feminist ethics--a field of study which has, for all intents and purposes, only come into existence in the last twenty years and which includes work done by philosophers, psychologists, theologians, poets and many others.
Nel Noddings' study of evil from a woman's perspective is such a work.
For Thursday read Jarvis-Thomson paper (handout), Browning Cole, "Toward a Feminist Conception of Moral Life," and Walker "Moral Understandings" in Explorations in Feminist Ethics.
http://www.mith2.umd.edu/WomensStudies/Syllabi/Philosophy/philosophy-ethics   (1177 words)

  
 Metafiction: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic
List of metafictional texts[follow this hyperlink for a summary of this topic]
Metafiction is a kind of fiction (A literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact)
and metafiction does not let the readers forget they are reading a work of fiction, Exception Handler: No article summary found.
http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/ref/metafiction   (1005 words)

  
 Harry Potter characters potter
Welcome to my Harry Potter fanart gallery, a place I created to share with youmy illustrations inspired by the magical world of Harry Potter, the little.
JK Rowling is British,and she called the book Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone..
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Cast Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, RupertGrint, Richard Harris, Maggie Smith, Kenneth Branagh, Alan Rickman, Warwick.
http://www.angelfire.com/ego2/worldz/for.html   (559 words)

  
 special:allpaglist of indi
List of List of famous gay, lesbian, or bisexual philosophers
List of Late Antique, Early Christian and Medieval art monuments
List of Kings of the Isle of Man
http://www.yourencyclopedia.net/Special:Allpages/List_of_Indi.html   (559 words)

  
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http://www.kisanji.org/default.aspx?modulo=wikipedia&arg=Festival   (436 words)

  
 publications by Daniel Dennett and other Center Associates
"An Overview of my Work in Philosophy," for Contemporary British and American Philosophy and Philosophers (in Chinese), ed.
Foreword for Nicholas Humphrey, Leaps of Faith: Science, Miracles, and the Search for Supernatural Consolation, Copernicus Press, New York, 1999.
of Philosophy, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei 430072, P.R. China.
http://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/pubpage.htm   (2872 words)

  
 Internet Public Library: Literary Criticism
"This site offers "annotated references to web pages and gopher files on artists, poets, novelists, musicians, critics, and philosophers who wrote, created, and composed in the first half of the twentieth century." Many authors are included.
"The Celebration provides a comprehensive listing of links to biographical and bibliographical information about women writers, and complete published books written by women." Includes women writers from antiquity to the present, with an excellent selection of current authors worldwide.
LitLinks has biographies and short lists of links to authors in five literary genres: fiction, drama, poetry, essays, and critical theory.
http://ipl.si.umich.edu/div/litcrit/guide.html   (993 words)

  
 Postmodern Thought
Sokal and Bricmont (1999) Intellectual Impostures: Postmodern Philosophers' Abuse of Science
Haraway (1983) The Ironic Dream of a Common Language for Women in the Integrated Circuit: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s or A Socialist Feminist Manifesto for Cyborgs
Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences (a reading guide by Mary Klages)
http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/postmodern.html   (993 words)

  
 Germany States Asia Travel Europe
The churches in the Banz and Ettal monasteries, the Vierzehnheiligen basilica and the Wieskirche near Steingaden, which appear in the UNESCO World Heritage List, are outstanding examples of Baroque and Rococo architecture, as is the former residence of the prince-bishops in Würzburg.
In the field of the humanities, special mention must be made of the German Literature Archive in Marbach on the Neckar River, which among other things conserves the literary legacy of most German writers.
Literary memorials and literature prizes recall the many great figures in Germany’s intellectual history who were born here: Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805), Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843), Wilhelm Hauff (1802-1827) and the philosophers Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831), Friedrich Wilhelm Schelling (1775-1854) and Martin Heidegger (1889-1976).
http://www.asiatravel.com/germany/states.html   (993 words)

  
 Articles - Genre
The concept of "genre" has played a notable role among philosophers of language, figuring very prominently in the works of philosopher and literary scholar Mikhail Bakhtin.
Bakhtin's basic observations were of "speech genres", modes of speaking or writing that people learn to mimic, weave together, and manipulate (such as "formal letter" and "grocery list", or "university lecture" and "class notes").
http://www.gaple.com/articles/Genre   (993 words)

  
 Science--Essays on Science and Society
Essayists included prominent scientists plus a wide range of nonscientists, including artists, politicians, religious leaders, science fiction writers and philosophers.
http://www.sciencemag.org/feature/data/150essay.shl   (558 words)

  
 Film-Philosophy
the stuck last groove of a record on a player as a suspense tool, city as dream state in cinema, indexicality, film 'signs', computer-generated imagery, why philosophers write so much about sci-fi, Wittgenstein, eroticised violence against women in film, loss of identity in cinema, the grotesque, and films which use texts over the image.
This site is not for the novice -- a healthy knowledge of film history is essential.
films that begin with an ongoing event or action, representations of the act of writing, films which predict the future, the appeal and effects of popcorn cinema, films that deal with genocide, post-gaming interactive 'uncinema', Antonioni and the aesthetic of boredom, and definitions of 'pretentiousness'.
http://www.film-philosophy.com   (2083 words)

  
 Philosophy Details, Meaning Philosophy Article and Explanation Guide
Chinese philosophers in particular had a different conception of categories from the Greeks, and their definitions were not based on common features, but were usually metaphorical and referred to several subjects at once [1].
Though Hindu philosophy has similarities with Western philosophy, there was no word for philosophy in Japanese, Korean or Chinese until the 19th century, despite the presence of philosophy there over millennia.
Other traditions did not always use such labels, or emphasize the same themes.
http://www.e-paranoids.com/p/ph/philosophy_1.html   (2083 words)

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