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The University of Edinburgh School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences (PPLS) is a school within the College of Humanities and Social Science at the University of Edinburgh. The School was formed in 2002 as a result of administrative restructuring, when several departments of what was then the Faculty of Arts were brought together.
Tommy J. Curry is an American scholar, author and professor of philosophy. As of 2019, he holds a Personal Chair in Africana philosophy and Black male studies at the University of Edinburgh. [1] In 2018, he won an American Book Award for The Man-Not: Race, Class, Genre, and the Dilemmas of Black Manhood. [2]
Andy Clark, FBA (born 1957) is a British philosopher who is Professor of Cognitive Philosophy at the University of Sussex.Prior to this, he was a professor of philosophy and Chair in Logic and Metaphysics at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, director of the Cognitive Science Program at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana and previously taught at Washington University in St. Louis ...
Academic members of staff at Edinburgh were known as 'Regents' until William Carstares restructured the University in 1708, although five Chairs predate these reforms. The University can also create 'personal' chairs, that is, professorships awarded to an individual which come to an end when the individual dies or retires, which are not listed ...
Michela Massimi is an Italian and British philosopher of science, [1] a professor of philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, and the president-elect of the Philosophy of Science Association. [2] Her research has involved scientific perspectivism and perspectival realism, [3] the Pauli exclusion principle, and the work of Immanuel Kant. [4]
John Wilson FRSE (18 May 1785 – 3 April 1854) was a Scottish advocate, literary critic and author, the writer most frequently identified with the pseudonym Christopher North of Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine. He was professor of moral philosophy at the University of Edinburgh from 1820 to 1851.
In 1820 he was a candidate for the chair of moral philosophy in the University of Edinburgh, which had fallen vacant on the death of Thomas Brown, colleague of Dugald Stewart, and Stewart's consequent resignation, however he was defeated on political grounds by John Wilson (1785–1854), the "Christopher North" of Blackwood's Magazine. In 1821 ...
[7]: xvi In 1759 Ferguson became professor of natural philosophy in the University of Edinburgh, and in 1764 transferred to the chair of "pneumatics" (mental philosophy) and moral philosophy. In 1767, he published his Essay on the History of Civil Society, which was well received and translated into several European languages.