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His work covered topics including the philosophy of biology, the philosophy of informatics, the philosophy of value and others. His most popular book is The Gnosis of Princeton in which he presents his own philosophical views under the pretence that he was representing the views of an imaginary group of American scientists.
Richard McKay Rorty (October 4, 1931 – June 8, 2007) was an American philosopher.Educated at the University of Chicago and Yale University, Rorty's academic career included appointments as the Stuart Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University, the Kenan Professor of Humanities at the University of Virginia, and as a professor of comparative literature at Stanford University.
Wood received his doctorate from Cornell University in 1926 and was appointed assistant professor of philosophy at Princeton University in 1927. He remained a member of the Princeton Philosophy Department for 43 years, serving as departmental chair from 1952 to 1960.
Political philosophy, Social ontology, Philosophy of mind, Ethics Philip Noel Pettit AC (born 1945) is an Irish philosopher and political theorist . He is the Laurance Rockefeller University Professor of Human Values at Princeton University and also Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy at the Australian National University .
Panofsky was born in Hannover to a wealthy Jewish Silesian mining family. He grew up in Berlin, receiving his Abitur in 1910 at the Joachimsthalsches Gymnasium. In 1910–14 he studied law, philosophy, philology, and art history in Freiburg, Munich, and Berlin, where he heard lectures by the art historian Margarete Bieber, who was filling in for Georg Loeschcke.
Egbert first began teaching as an instructor of art history and archaeology at Princeton in 1929, and a year later, as a lecturer in ancient architecture at Bryn Mawr College. At this time, Egbert was a scholar of medieval art, but maintained a strong interest in American architecture. In 1935, Egbert was hired as Assistant Professor at Princeton.
Alexander Nehamas (Greek: Αλέξανδρος Νεχαμάς; born 22 March 1946) is a Greek-born American philosopher.He is a professor of philosophy and comparative literature and the Edmund N. Carpenter II Class of 1943 Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University, where he has taught since 1990.
[1] The production of a book based on the talks has been funded by the Bollingen Foundation, run by Paul and his wife, Mary Conover. The Mellon Lectures began in 1952. Its first speaker was the French philosopher Jacques Maritain of Princeton University , who gave a talk titled "Creative Intuition in Art and Poetry."