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John Alexander Smith (21 April 1863 – 19 December 1939) was a British idealist philosopher, who was the Jowett Lecturer of philosophy at Balliol College, Oxford from 1896 to 1910, and Waynflete Professor of Moral and Metaphysical Philosophy, carrying a Fellowship at Magdalen College in the same university, from 1910 to 1935.
John Edwin Smith (May 27, 1921 - December 7, 2009) was an American philosopher and Clark Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. He served as president of the American Philosophical Society , Eastern Division, the American Theological Society , the Metaphysical Society of America , the Hegel Society of America and the C.S. Peirce Society .
Smith was born on October 9, 1970, [7] in Embro, Ontario. [8] He completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Waterloo and Emmaus Bible College.He earned a Master of Philosophy degree in philosophical theology in 1995 at the Institute for Christian Studies [8] where he studied under James Olthuis. [9]
Orlando Jay Smith (June 14, 1842 – December 20, 1908) was an early 20th-century American philosopher. Though he was an avowed agnostic , he advocated for the search to a meaning in life which would be commensurate with the possible existence of an ultimate intelligence.
A book discussion club is a group of people who meet to discuss books they have read. It is often simply called a book club , a term that may cause confusion with a book sales club . Other terms include reading group , book group , and book discussion group .
The Sunday Philosophy Club is a series of novels and novellas by Alexander McCall Smith. It is also the name of the first novel in the series, and an informal talking group founded by the main character Isabel Dalhousie. The series is set in Edinburgh. The title of the first book and of the series was suggested by McCall Smith's editor. [1]
His book Culture of Death: The Assault on Medical Ethics in America was named Best Health Book of the Year at the 2001 Independent Publishers Book Awards. [ 9 ] Sociologist John Sorenson has negatively reviewed Smith's book A Rat is a Pig is a Dog is a Boy as a "misleading, bad-faith compendium of anti-animal rights propaganda, based on a ...
Smith has served agencies of the Holy See in various capacities, longest as a consultor to the Pontifical Council for the Family.. From 1989 to 1994 Smith served the Congregation for Religious and Secular Institutes as an appointed member of an investigative commission into the publications of Sr. Jeannine Gramick and Fr. Robert Nugent on pastoral care for homosexual persons.