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| | Philosophy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | According to analytic philosophers, the true meaning of ordinary sentences is, somewhat misleadingly, concealed by their grammatical form, and we must translate them into their true form (known as logical form) in order to clarify them. | | | Philosophical literature is typically characterized by its use of reasoning in order to advance cogent arguments about these topics. | | | The "ordinary language philosophy" thinkers shared a common outlook with many older philosophers (Jeremy Bentham, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and John Stuart Mill), and it was the philosophical inquiry that characterized English-language philosophy for the second-half of the twentieth century. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosopher
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Philosophy |
| | The same may be said of the condemnation of David of Dinant (thirteenth century), who denied the distinction between God and matter, and of various doctrines condemned in the fourteenth century as tending to the negation of morality. | | | For the numerous German philosophers who derive their inspiration from his criticism -- Fichte, Hegel, Schelling, Schleiermacher, Schopenhauer, and the rest -- it is the general teaching of science (Wissenschaftslehre). | | | Kant, indeed, is so important a factor in the destinies of contemporary philosophy not only because he is the initiator of critical formalism, but still more because he obliges his successors to deal with the preliminary and fundamental question of the limits of knowledge. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12025c.htm
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| | Philosopher's Chess |
| | If a philosopher takes another philosopher (or an enlightened philosopher), it is promoted to an enlightened philosopher. | | | If two moves are made, they must both apply to the same enlightened philosopher (apart from mind-moves which obviously apply to all philosophers, enlightened or not). | | | Mind-moves are also disallowed if there are no philosophers or enlightened philosophers on the Field. |
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http://www.chessvariants.com/40.dir/philosophers.html
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| | Philosopher - definition of Philosopher in Encyclopedia |
| | Several medieval philosophers have been given Latin nicknames -- some by their contemporaries, others by historians. | | | The word, "philosopher," literally means "lover of wisdom." | | | This article is part of The Contemporary Philosophers series |
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Philosopher
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| | Peter Suber, "Philosopher's Index" |
| | This is the chief drawback of using the hardcopy edition of Philosopher's Index. | | | Philosopher's Index is the most thorough index of journal literature in philosophy. | | | All the reviews published that year of that author's philosophical books (regardless of the books' publication dates) will be listed there. |
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http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/courses/philindx.htm
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| | Philosophers Stone - Crystalinks |
| | Though the notion of a simple philosopher's stone of the alchemic sense fell out of scientific conception by at least the 19th century, its metaphors and imagery persisted: man's attempt to discover the essential secret of the universe, redemptively transforming not just lead into gold, but death into life. | | | The philosopher's stone, in Latin lapis philosophorum, is a mythical substance that supposedly could turn inexpensive metals into gold and/or create an elixir that would make humans younger, thus delaying death. | | | It was sought by the alchemists as a connection to the elixir of life and the philosopher's stone, a mythical substance which would enable the transmutation of common metals into gold. |
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http://www.crystalinks.com/philosopherstone.html
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| | Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005) [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] |
| | Paul Ricoeur was among the most impressive philosophers of the 20th century, both in the unusual breadth and depth of his philosophical scholarship and in the innovative nature of his thought. | | | Though a Christian philosopher whose work in theology is well-known and respected, his philosophical writings do not rely upon theological concepts, and are appreciated by non-Christians and Christians alike. | | | For this reason his work is sometimes described as philosophical anthropology. |
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http://www.iep.utm.edu/r/ricoeur.htm
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| | Jean-Luc Nancy - Professor of Political Philosophy and Media Aesthetics - Biography |
| | His first philosophical interests were during his youth in the catholic environment of Bergerac. | | | Besides revealing his strategy of thinking, in this text one can also discover the main philosophical themes that Nancy is concerned with in his later work. | | | The book that Nancy into notoriety is La communauté désoeuvrée (The Inoperable Community, 1982), at the same time a work on the question of community and a comment on the work of Bataille. |
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http://www.egs.edu/faculty/nancy.html
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| | Ludwig Wittgenstein [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] |
| | That the argument is not Wittgenstein's is suggested by the fact that it is a theory, and Wittgenstein rejected philosophical theories, and by the fact that the argument relies heavily on the first sentence of Philosophical Investigations Sect. | | | Ludwig Wittgenstein is one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century, and regarded by some as the most important since Immanuel Kant. | | | Wittgenstein's place in the debate about philosophical Realism and Anti-Realism is an interesting one. |
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http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/w/wittgens.htm
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Aristotle |
| | The Christian writers of the patristic age were, with few exceptions, Platonists, who regarded Aristotle with suspicion, and generally underrated him as a philosopher. | | | These translations and Porphyry's "Introduction" were the only Aristotelean works known to the first of the Schoolmen, that is to say, to the Christian philosophers of Western Europe from the ninth to the twelfth century. | | | The suspicion and hesitation were due to the fact that, in the Arabian text and its commentaries, the teaching of Aristotle had become perverted in the direction of materialism and pantheism. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01713a.htm
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| | Maverick Philosopher - |
| | There are problems, but their answers must not conflict with the actual use of words, for it is the actual use of words that gives them meaning, and a question or answer formulated in defiance of that use lacks sense. | | | I have been arguing that it is not to be found in the German philosopher's work. | | | This will be painful, but conducive unto (philosophical) salvation. |
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http://maverickphilosopher.powerblogs.com
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| | fUSION Anomaly. The Philosopher's Stone |
| | The word elixir is derived from the Arabic for philosopher's stone, al iksir. | | | I mean that if you possess the philosopher's stone and you were hungry, you could eat it. | | | The philosopher's stone has appeared in works of fiction, most famously in J. Rowling's novel _Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone_. |
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http://fusionanomaly.net/philosophersstone.html
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| | Giordano Bruno: The Forgotten Philosopher |
| | Bruno was a truant, a philosophical tramp, a poetic vagrant, but has no claims to the name of scientist. | | | It is an interesting fact that here, at the close of the 16th Century, a man, closed in on all sides by the authority of priestly tradition, makes what might be termed a philosophical survey of the world which the science of the time was disclosing. | | | His most interesting title is One Hundred Sixty Articles Directed Against the Mathematics and Philosophers of the Day. |
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http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/john_kessler/giordano_bruno.html
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| | Each philosopher should be able to eat as much as the rest. | | | The problem consists of five philosophers sitting at a table who do nothing but think and eat. | | | Once the philosopher has both sticks, it will begin eating. |
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http://java.sun.com/applets/archive/beta/DiningPhilosophers
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| | Johann Gottfried von Herder |
| | This situation imposes limits on the interest of Herder's philosophy of religion, as on that of the other reconciling philosophers mentioned. | | | The first, that of asserting deep commonalities, is hopeless (notwithstanding its seemingly eternal appeal to empirically underinformed Anglophone philosophers). | | | And is it not indeed philosophically a good thing? |
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http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/herder
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| | The Philosopher's Stone |
| | It is certain that the alchemists' doctrine of the philosopher's stone was widely known for centuries, and that it inspired men to action. | | | Their quest for the philosopher's stone can be viewed as irrational silliness or the highest idealism. | | | Alchemists proposed to use the philosopher's stone, a mysterious, unknown substance which they believed to have the power to transmute base metals into gold. |
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http://www.quackgrass.com/stone.html
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| | Ancient History Sourcebook: Plato: The Republic - The philosopher-king |
| | Inasmuch as philosophers only are able to grasp the eternal and unchangeable, and those who wander in the region of the many and variable are not philosophers, I must ask you which of the two classes should be the rulers of our State? | | | Such a one is sure to be temperate and the reverse of covetous; for the motives which make another man desirous of having and spending, have no place in his character. | | | Another criterion of the philosophical nature has also to be considered. |
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http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/plato-republic-philosopherking.html
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| | Leo Strauss and the Straussians |
| | The Straussians themselves are not even philosophers, but historians of philosophy, custodians of the esoteric lore. | | | But in the end, what really matters is the philosophical questions Strauss raised, whether or not he was correct in ascribing them to the historic philosophers. | | | The teaching of Leo Strauss is "political philosophy" in a very special sense: his primary, if not exclusive, concern is the relation of philosophy (and the philosophers themselves) to society as a whole. |
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http://home.earthlink.net/~karljahn/Strauss.htm
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| | Guide to Philosophy on the Internet (Suber) |
| | The Australasian Branch of The Philosophical Society of England. | | | Society for the Advancement of Philosophical Enquiry and Reflection in Education (SAPERE). | | | Society for the Advancement of Philosophical Enquiry and Reflection in Education (SAPERE) |
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http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/philinks.htm
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| | VOICES DOWN THE CORRIDOR |
| | Friederich Nietzsche - Friedrich Nietzsche was a German philosopher of the late 19th century who challenged the foundations of traditional morality and Christianity. | | | Throughout the ages, philosophers have continually considered the concept of truth. | | | Now's the time to put your learning into an excel file that you'll send out for real world feedback. |
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http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/webphilosopea.html
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| | Philosopher Jokes |
| | In fact, the philosopher realized it was the same objection in every case - he had found the perfect philosophical move to make in conferences and colloquia. | | | For every philosopher, there exists an equal and opposite philosopher. | | | A man does a good deed and as a reward his guardian angel appears and offers him the answer to any question he wishes to ask. |
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http://www.as.miami.edu/phi/jokes.htm
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| | Herbert Spencer [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] |
| | In 1883 Spencer was elected a corresponding member of philosophical section of the French academy of moral and political sciences. | | | Despite the diversity of opinions to which he was exposed, Spencer's unquestioning confidence in his own views was coupled with a stubbornness and a refusal to read authors with whom he disagreed. | | | Today, however, he is usually remembered in philosophical circles for his political thought, primarily for his defense of natural rights and for criticisms of utilitarian positivism, and his views have been invoked by 'libertarian' thinkers such as Robert Nozick. |
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http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/s/spencer.htm
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| | ETHICAL PHILOSOPHY SELECTOR SELECTSMART.com philosophers Aquinas Aristotle Ayn Rand Cynics David Hume Epicureans ... |
| | These questions reflect the dilemmas that have captured the attention of history’s most significant ethical philosophers. | | | ETHICAL PHILOSOPHY SELECTOR SELECTSMART.com philosophers Aquinas Aristotle Ayn Rand Cynics David Hume Epicureans Jean-Paul Sartre Jeremy Bentham John Stuart Mill Kant Nel Noddings Nietzsche Ockham Plato Prescriptivism Spinoza St. Augustine Stoics Thomas Hobbes | | | Over 20,000 selectors Make us your home page |
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http://selectsmart.com/PHILOSOPHY
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| | Radio National - The Philosopher's Zone Home Page |
| | The Philosopher's Zone pays tribute to the distinguished British philosopher Sir Peter Strawson who died last Monday at the age of eighty-six. | | | The Philosopher's Zone explores the big philosophical questions and arguments. | | | Moreover, his theory has turned out to be a powerful tool for analyzing the history of philosophy, too. |
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http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/philosopher
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| | L. Ron Hubbard the Philosopher: On Philosophy and Religion |
| | Ron Hubbard the Philosopher: On Philosophy and Religion | | | The materials of Scientology comprise the largest written and spoken body of any single philosophic work. | | | Those materials have further given rise to the only major religion founded in the twentieth century, and so stand as the spiritual cornerstone for several million adherents across all continents. |
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http://www.ronthephilosopher.org
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| | [ Socrates Cafe : philosopher.org ] |
| | Example 4: Some of the Socrates Cafe questions that arose during the Terry Schiavo controversy included, "What is a good death?", "Should a person ever be able to decide when she, or anyone else, dies?", and "What is death?" | | | How do we decide on a question for discussion? | | | Remember: this is a community of philosophical inquirers. |
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http://www.philosopher.org/soccaf.html
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| | Sunday Herald |
| | And, lest misplaced patriotisim is suspected, I say this as someone who is no more Scottish than the Duke of Edinburgh. | | | For once, naked nationalism and good rational sense both lead us to same conclusion: among all great thinkers, Hume reigns supreme. | | | A vote for Hume is a vote for the only philosopher who is able to defeat the scepticism of our time without dogmatism. |
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http://www.sundayherald.com/print50415
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| | walterbenjamin.html |
| | The current amazement that the things we are experiencing are 'still' possible in the twentieth century is not philosophical. | | | This amazement is not the beginning of knowledge--unless it is the knowledge that the view of history which gives rise to it is untenable." | | | One reason why Fascism has a chance is that in the name of progress its opponents treat it as a historical norm. |
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| | Open Directory - Society: Philosophy: History of Philosophy: Medieval |
| | Teaching Materials on Medieval Philosophy - A study of Duns Scotus, William of Ockham and other fourteenth century philosophers, and of medieval elements in Descartes and other early modern philosophers. | | | Sophismata - Article on this common form of medieval philosophical writing, by John Longeway. | | | Thomas Aquinas and Medieval Philosophy - Resource covers period from the rise of Scholasticism and St. Anselm to the Summa Theologica of St. Thomas by D.J. Kennedy. |
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http://dmoz.org/Society/Philosophy/History_of_Philosophy/Medieval
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| | savantway philosopher |
| | The philosopher seeks not merely answers but the fundamental principles that underlie those answers. | | | This viewpoint pervades all that the philosopher learns and all h/his choices. | | | The philosopher views all of existence as an interconnected whole, a unity manifesting as a multiplicity. |
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http://www.savantway.com/philosopher/philosopher.htm
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| | Descartes |
| | Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy, was published in 1641, designed for the philosopher and for the theologian. | | | René Descartes was a philosopher whose work, La géométrie, includes his application of algebra to geometry from which we now have Cartesian geometry. | | | Harriot's work on equations, however, may indeed have influenced Descartes who always claimed, clearly falsely, that nothing in his work was influenced by the work of others. |
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http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Descartes.html
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| | Jean-Jacques Rousseau Philosopher |
| | In his early writing, Rousseau contended that man is essentially good, a "noble savage" when in the "state of nature" (the state of all the other animals, and the condition man was in before the creation of civilization and society), and that good people are made unhappy and corrupted by their experiences in society. | | | Somewhat complicated and ambiguous, Rousseau's general philosophy tried to grasp an emotional and passionate side of man which he felt was left out of most previous philosophical thinking. | | | Rousseau's profound insight can be found in almost every trace of modern philosophy today. |
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http://www2.lucidcafe.com/lucidcafe/library/96jun/rousseau.html
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| | Philosopher |
| | Unlike Profundus Maximus, Philosopher can actually be quite knowledgeable on a variety of subjects. | | | Somewhat humorless and aloof, he is also slow to anger, and when he deigns to join in the fray he is considerate of other opinions. | | | His fighting tactics are direct and uncomplicated - he smothers the opposition with his ponderous and lengthy cogitations. |
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http://redwing.hutman.net/~mreed/warriorshtm/philosopher.htm
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| | Locke |
| | Although he completed a philosophical education at Oxford, John Locke declined the offer of a permanent academic position in order to avoid committing himself to a religious order. | | | He studied and wrote on philosophical, scientific, and political matters throughout his life, in a voluminous correspondence and ample journals, but the public works for which he is best known were published in a single, sudden burst. | | | By contrast, Locke chose to avoid controversy by publishing his political writings anonymously. |
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http://www.philosophypages.com/ph/lock.htm
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| | Thottbot World of Warcraft: Philosopher's Stone |
| | The real philosopher stone requires a lot of sacrifice, energy, and blood, hence the misnomer: The Scarlet Stone or roughly translated from Egptian "Blood Pebble". | | | The philosophers stone is not a reference to anything other than the original alchemic myth of something that could turn lead into gold among other things. | | | The Philosopher's stone was an actual concept back when alchemy was still being practiced... |
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http://www.thottbot.com/?i=5757
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| | Middleton Cheney Primary School Philosophy Group |
| | We would love to hear from any other groups who are interested in discussing philosophical ideas. | | | Philosopher's Island is a story which asks questions. | | | The problems we have been discussing this term have been based on the story of philosopher's Island. |
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http://www.portables2.ngfl.gov.uk/pmpercival/philosophy
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| | How Can Bush Say Christ Is His Favorite Philosopher? |
| | How can a man who stated Christ was his favorite philosopher pursue such a policy? | | | How Can Bush Say Christ Is His Favorite Philosopher? | | | When it was governor George W. Bush's turn, he blurted out "Christ!" Between the look on his face and the tone in his voice, I was almost sure he had just taken the Lord's name in vain on national TV because he couldn't think of an actual philosopher. |
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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article1168.htm
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| | Dallas Philosopher's Forum |
| | This talk considers the redefinition of sympathy from the Scottish moral philosophers (Hutcheson, Hume, and Smith) through the early twentieth-century American social scientists (Cooley, Giddings, Du Bois among others). | | | Subjects can be anything philosophically related such as ethics, politics, science, history, religion, meaning, or even standard philosophical fare such as epistemology or ontology. | | | Opinions given at scheduled lectures of the Dallas Philosopher's Forum are the solely the opinions of the speaker and do not the necessarily represent the opinions of the members of the The Dallas Philosophers Forum or its Board of Directors. |
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http://www.philosophersforum.org
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| | Bertrand Russell |
| | Thus, just as we distinguish three separate sense of "is" (the is of predication, the is of identity, and the is of existence) and exhibit these three senses by using three separate logical notations (Px, x=y, and | | | Russell's conception of philosophy arose in part from his idealist origins. | | | On Russell's view, the subject matter of philosophy is then distinguished from that of the sciences only by the generality and the a prioricity of philosophical statements, not by the underlying methodology of the discipline. |
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http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/russell
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| | Boyle |
| | Divers little essays, both in verse and prose, I have taken pains to scribble upon several subjects. | | | This "new philosophical college" is also called by Boyle the "Invisible College" later in the letter. | | | The other humane studies I apply myself to, are natural philosophy, the mechanics and husbandry, according to the principles of our new philosophical college... |
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http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Boyle.html
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| | The American Philosophical Association |
| | I know that you must be facing matters requiring your more immediate attention, but when you get the opportunity, let us know what we could do to help you return to your vocation as a philosopher. | | | Founded in 1900, its mission is to promote the exchange of ideas among philosophers, to encourage creative and scholarly activity in philosophy, to facilitate the professional work and teaching of philosophers, and to represent philosophy as a discipline. | | | If you are a philosopher who would like to help, let us know the ways in which you could help. |
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http://www.apa.udel.edu/apa
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| | Great Theosophists--Paracelsus: Philosopher (20 of 29) |
| | But the true philosopher has learned how to control them by the power of the Supreme Creator within himself. | | | Although the philosophical doctrines of Paracelsus sprang from the same source as modern Theosophy, a difficulty arises from the differences in the terms used. | | | The ignorant man may be controlled by the lower lives. |
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http://www.wisdomworld.org/setting/paracelsusone.html
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| | Thoughts of a 21st-century Christian Philosopher |
| | These pages feature sssays on Skepticism, Phenomemology, Existentialism and some 20th-century philosophies by a philosopher and fundamentalist christian. | | | I thank my Father in Heaven; my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ; and the Holy Spirit who has taught me so much about what I thought I knew. | | | As you probably can guess by the title of my page, I think that I'm some kind of philosopher. |
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http://www.christian-philosopher.com
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| | LiveScience.com - Atheist Philosopher, 81, Now Believes in God |
| | LiveScience.com - Atheist Philosopher, 81, Now Believes in God | | | 09:31 am ET Atheist Philosopher, 81, Now Believes in God | | | NEW YORK (AP) _ A British philosophy professor who has been a leading champion of atheism for more than a half-century has changed his mind. |
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http://www.livescience.com/othernews/atheist_philosopher_041210.html
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| | Maverick Philosopher |
| | (I speculate that it is because of the Death of God in Nietzsche’s sense that some philosophers recently have been toying with the wacky idea that we can take over a considerable range of divine tasks. | | | I do not think Nietzsche was a religious man, but he was an intensely spiritual man. I am degraded from grading papers all week. | | | The philosopher advised his readers against resort to logic; ad hominem attacks and other plays upon the passions could be much more effective. |
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http://maverickphilosopher.blogspot.com
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| | Philosopher's Information Center |
| | You can send orders for print editions to us by phone, fax, mail, or e-mail. | | | The Philosopher's Index is a current, comprehensive, and easy-to-use subject and author index to: | | | The Philosopher's Index is available in either printed or electronic format. |
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