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Jorge J. E. Gracia (July 18, 1942 – July 13, 2021) [1] was a Cuban-born American philosopher who was the Samuel P. Capen Chair, SUNY Distinguished Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Department of Comparative Literature in the State University of New York at Buffalo.
The Mentor Philosophers was a series of six books each covering a period of philosophical thought, published by the New American Library. Each book was edited by an esteemed contemporary philosophy academic and contained analysis of a group of philosophers from a chosen period. The series was very influential during the 1950s and 1960s, and was ...
The most prominent example of this new method of conceptual analysis is Russell's 1905 paper "On Denoting", a paper that is widely seen to be the exemplar of the analytic program in philosophy. [20] Although contemporary philosophers who self-identify as "analytic" have widely divergent interests, assumptions, and methods—and have often ...
Roland Omnès, Quantum Philosophy: Understanding and Interpreting Contemporary Science, 1994/1999 Roberto Torretti , The Philosophy of Physics , 1999 Craig Callender and Nick Huggett, Physics Meets Philosophy at the Planck Scale: Contemporary Theories in Quantum Gravity , 2001
The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students is a 1987 book by the philosopher Allan Bloom, in which the author criticizes the openness of relativism, in academia and society in general, as leading paradoxically to the great closing referenced in the book's title.
He wrote about a wide range of subjects, including baseball, mystery novels, and classical music, and was also known as a philosopher of education. [2] In the book Teacher in America (1945), Barzun influenced the training of schoolteachers in the United States.
Richard McKay Rorty (October 4, 1931 – June 8, 2007) was an American philosopher and historian of ideas.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 ...
The Shaping of American Higher Education: Emergence and Growth of the Contemporary System. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. Cremin, Lawrence A. American Education: The Colonial Experience, 1607–1783. (1970); American Education: The National Experience, 1783–1876.