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The Dwight H. Terry Lectureship, also known as the Terry Lectures, was established at Yale University in 1905 [1] by a gift from Dwight H. Terry of Bridgeport, Connecticut. Its purpose is to engage both scholars and the public in a consideration of religion from a humanitarian point of view, in the light of modern science and philosophy.
Shelly Ian Kagan (/ ˈ k eɪ ɡ ən /; born 1956) is the Clark Professor of Philosophy at Yale University, where he has taught since 1995. He is best known for his writings about moral philosophy and normative ethics. [1] In 2007, Kagan's course about death was offered for free online, and was very popular. [2]
Open Yale Courses is a project of Yale University to share full video and course materials from its undergraduate courses. Open Yale Courses provides free access to a selection of introductory courses, and uses a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike license. Open Yale Courses launched in December 2007 with seven courses from ...
A Common Faith is a 1934 compilation of John Dewey's writings based on the Terry Lectures at Yale University. It consists of three chapters: "Religion Versus the Religious", "Faith and Its Object", and "The Human Abode of the Religious Function".
Della Rocca serves as co-editor of Seventeenth-Century Philosophy for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy and is a member of several editorial boards, including the Journal of the History of Philosophy and History of Philosophy Quarterly. He has given numerous invited lectures worldwide, including the Whitehead Lectures at Harvard ...
"Derrida, Algeria, and 'Structure, Sign, and Play'" — essay by Lee Morrissey interpreting the lecture/essay with respect to Derrida's Algerian background; Lecture about "Structure, Sign, and Play" by Paul Fry at Yale University (February 2009) Lecture about "Structure, Sign, and Play" by John David Ebert on YouTube.
The lectures were established by the university on the foundation of a bequest of $80,000, left in 1883 by Augustus Ely Silliman, in memory of his mother, Mrs. Hepsa Ely Silliman. [1] Hepsa Ely was the daughter of the Reverend David Ely, a member of the Yale College Class of 1769.
Paul Walter Franks is the Robert F. and Patricia Ross Weis Professor of Philosophy and Judaic Studies at Yale University. [1] He graduated with his PhD from Harvard University in 1993. Franks' dissertation, entitled "Kant and Hegel on the Esotericism of Philosophy", was supervised by Stanley Cavell and won the Emily and Charles Carrier Prize ...