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| | Philosophy refdesk.com |
 | | Thinking's Legacy and the Evolution of Experience - a history of 19th and 20th century philosophy, and means to be an advanced introduction to thinking's contemporary developments. | | | Philosophy in Cyberspace - Site indexes thousands of philosophy resources and is one of few such indexes which is annotated and updated regularly. | | | Erratic Impact -- Philosophy Research Base - Site is categorized by history, subject and author, is a meta-index featuring thousands of annotated links, text resources and community services for students and teachers conducting research in the field of philosophy. |
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http://www.refdesk.com/philos.html
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| | Robertson, Leo Strauss on Early Modern Philosophy |
| | Since for Strauss modernity had at its beginning a fundamental reformulation of political philosophy, in order to grasp the nature of modernity, and thereby better to understand our contemporary crisis, we are required to return to the early modern political thinkers--those who initiated the project of modern political philosophy. | | | See Lin Jackson "The Revolutionary Origins of Contemporary Philosophy" in Dionysius IX (1985) 163-4. | | | Classical moral and political philosophy understood once and for all the primary structures necessary to the moral and political imagination. |
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http://www.mun.ca/animus/1998vol3/robert3.htm
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| | As Hegel properly said, "as long as the contemporary philosophy made the thinking as the principle of its philosophical inquiry, Descartes was the founder of the Contemporary philosophy." It may be necessary to comprehend why and how such a new approach and the choice of its principle took place. | | | One of his early insight into the further developemnt of political philosophy may be found in his fierce insistence on the independence of the state from the church and visa verse. | | | Greatest contribution of Galileo's philosophy consists in the fact that Galileo recognized the significance of mathematics and his contention that laws of nature is expressed by mathematical terms, which made the revolutionary impacts on the further development of natural sciences and philosophy of the modern era (particularly through Descartes). |
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http://www.csudh.edu/phenom_studies/western/lect_1.html
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| | Freeman, "Frankenstein with Kant" |
| | It is as if the sublime has become not only the privileged object of contemporary theory, but a figure for theory as such, illustrating the ways in which theory refers to, represents, or cites itself, and naming the kind of activity -- that of incorporation -- characteristic of and proper to theory. | | | Terror, for Burke "in all cases whatsoever, either more openly or latently, the ruling principle of the sublime," is currently employed to describe the effect produced by the texts of contemporary French theorists, especially Derrida. | | | Rosalind Krauss, in her influential essay "Poststructuralism and the 'Paraliterary,'" speculates about a new genre she calls "paraliterary," which is neither criticism nor fiction, philosophy nor literature, but something composed of both and identical to neither. |
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http://www.english.upenn.edu/Projects/knarf/Articles/freeman.html
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| | BCC Online BookShop - Buddhist Philosophy |
| | Buddha's birthday; the Buddhist of karma and re-incarnation; the Buddhist conception of truth, good and evil, nirvana, the individual, the universe and the material world; the Buddhist view of nature and destiny; and the contemporary relevance of the Buddha's teaching in the modern world. | | | K.N.Jayatilleke (1920-70) was one of the best-known Buddhist scholars in Asia. | | | This is an English translation of Patthanuddesa Dipani written in Pali by this eminent Burmese Buddhist scholar monk of recent times. |
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http://www.lanka.net/bcc/bookshop/philosophy
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| | Philosophy and Christian Theology |
| | The third reason is that a great deal of academic theology moved away from defending the claims of orthodox Christian theism in traditional ways, often seeking devices for re-interpreting these claims in ways congenial to contemporary modes of thought which often ran contrary to the methods employed in analytic philosophy. | | | Since God both created the world which is accessible to philosophy and revealed the texts accessible to theologians, the claims yielded by one cannot conflict with the claims yielded by another unless the philosopher or theologian has made some prior error. | | | Thus, the legitimacy of philosophy was derived from the legitimacy of the underlying faith commitments. |
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http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/christiantheology-philosophy
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| | Philosophy and Monty Python |
| | This is really the first, and the biggest theme, of contemporary analytic philosophy-the contempt for innumerable philosophers of yore, who managed to get nothing done while everyone else was off figuring out neat things like natural selection and the heliocentricity of the solar system. | | | This is a criticism levelled not infrequently at contemporary analytic philosophy, and though I agree with the sentiment, I do not agree that it works against Monty Python. | | | I bet you've guessed by now what the second of the two revolts in contemporary analytic philosophy is. It's the revolt against logical positivism, of course! |
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http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~ebarnes/python/python.htm
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| | Kerygma and Myth |
| | Once more, however, we must stress that there is no unbroken line from the contemporary mythology and philosophy to the New Testament. | | | It is impossible to translate the Biblical mythology and its associated world view into the language of contemporary myth. | | | That mythology is essentially the outcome of a revolt, the revolt of the "vital gods", or, to quote idealism, the revolt of "the wisdom of the world". |
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http://www.religion-online.org/showchapter.asp?title=431&C=297
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| | Philosophy and Religious Studies - NDNU Catalog |
| | Students who choose to major in philosophy are given both a sound historical background in the subject and an opportunity to develop and utilize philosophical skills in courses which examine contemporary issues and debates. | | | Philosophy is the critical examination and evaluation of our most fundamental beliefs, concepts and practices, with the aim of arriving at a comprehensive understanding of the nature of the world and the position of human beings within it. | | | Topics may include the nature of God, arguments for theism, the problem of evil, foreknowledge and freedom, science and religion, faith and the nature of religious belief, myths, symbols, and rituals, and spirituality. |
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http://www.ndnu.edu/catalog/current/philosophy_religion.html
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| | The aim of this session is to build on our work on Plato by applying his philosophy to contemporary aesthetic issues and to gain an appreciation for the notion of mimesis. | | | This is an ambitious aim given the complexity of Kant's philosophy but we shall endeavour to link our work to the 'common assumptions' about art discussed in Week One. | | | Alex Neill and Aaron Ridley 'The Pleasures of Tragedy' in Arguing about Art: Contemporary Philosophical Debates, McGraw-Hill 1995 |
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http://www.ase.bolton.ac.uk/human/phil/modules/Xaesth.htm
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| | Philosophy At Eckerd College |
| | Students majoring in philosophy develop with their mentor a program of study including a minimum of eight courses, including one logic course and one ethics course; at least three courses from the History of Philosophy series; Contemporary Philosophical Methodology; and other upper level courses focused on the student's particular philosophical interests. | | | His teaching and writing draws upon insights gained from his study of the history of philosophy - especially Modern Philosophy from Bacon and Descartes to Hegel and Nietzsche - and of contemporary work in epistemology and philosophy of science. | | | He finds resources for teaching and thinking about this in Ancient Philosophy, both Eastern and Western, as well as in Eighteenth Century philosophy, and the study of Buddhist thought. |
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http://www.eckerd.edu/academics/ltr/pll
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| | Monmouth College - Departments - Philosophy and Religious Studies |
| | The philosophy program is designed to encourage students to think creatively and critically, to analyze important texts and issues in the history of philosophy, and to bring challenges and contemporary perspectives to that tradition. | | | Ethics: Philosophical and Religious (Relg 207) or Philosophy of Religion (Relg 213) | | | Philosophy requires not only a keen focus on argument and latent assumptions but a familiarity with systematic thinking, in which the historical, political, or social context of any argument is taken into account. |
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http://www.monm.edu/department/prs
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| | Middle Platonism [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] |
| | Plutarch was intensely interested in religion, and his philosophy bears the stamp of a profound religious piety. | | | Perhaps the most important contribution of Xenocrates to the history of Platonism (and all of philosophy as well) is the doctrine that the Ideas are thoughts in the mind of the One (Dillon, p. | | | Middle Platonism ends with Origen of Alexandria and his younger contemporary Plotinus, both of whom were deeply indebted to many of the philosophers discussed in this article, yet moved in directions uniquely their own. |
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http://www.iep.utm.edu/m/midplato.htm
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| | Robertson, Leo Strauss on Early Modern Philosophy |
| | Since for Strauss modernity had at its beginning a fundamental reformulation of political philosophy, in order to grasp the nature of modernity, and thereby better to understand our contemporary crisis, we are required to return to the early modern political thinkers--those who initiated the project of modern political philosophy. | | | Philosophy is the love or pursuit of wisdom, not its accomplishment; it is fundamentally zetetic. | | | The difference between Strauss and Taylor or MacIntyre exemplifies the more pervasive distinction in contemporary thought described by Peter Levine in Nietzsche and the Modern Crisis of the Humanities (Albany, 1995) as the distinction between Nietzscheans and (Wittgensteinian) humanists. |
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http://www.mun.ca/animus/1998vol3/robert3.htm
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| | Contemporary mythology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Study of contemporary mythology often includes comparisons with ancient myth, more recent folklore, and with established formal philosophy. | | | Contemporary mythology, also called contemporary parable, is a recently developed term to describe modern stories which resemble, either in content or in cultural significance, traditional mythology such as Greek Mythology or religious stories. | | | In the same way that ancient mythology provided explanations of the world and its origins, contemporary mythology provides modern people with a metaphorical language which helps us to explore, share, and understand our perceptions of the world. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contemporary_mythology
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| | Marxism and Philosophy by Karl Korsch (1923) |
| | It also explains why there are still certain curious ‘blank patches’ on the maps of contemporary bourgeois histories of philosophy (already described in connection with the ‘end’ of the Hegelian movement in the 1840s and the empty space after it, before the ‘reawakening’ of philosophy in the 1860s). | | | This kind of history of philosophy has three great limitations, two of which can be revealed by a critical revision that itself remains more or less completely within the realm of the history of ideas. | | | The outlook with which modern or dialectical materialism &; the new and only scientific view of the world according to Marx and Engels – confronts these questions is in complete contrast to this shallow, rationalist and negative approach to ideological phenomena such as religion and philosophy. |
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http://www.marxists.org/archive/korsch/1923/marxism-philosophy.htm
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| | Nicola Abbagnano - DIZIONARIO DI FILOSOFIA: Voce: Filosofia |
| | The latest manifestation of this concept of philosophy in contemporary thought is the notion of "unified science", peculiar to Neo-empiricism, to which the International Encyclopædia of Unified Science (1938) is devoted. | | | Philosophy as criticism, in fact, presupposes that one already knows how to swim, that there is an effectual knowing, that of science, starting from which one may inquire concerning the possibilities of knowing, and may determine their limits. | | | He conceived philosophy as a science whose task was, first of all, to distinguish and classify the particular sciences and, secondly, to give them their method, the material to work on and the techniques for putting this material to good use in man's behalf. |
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http://www.nicolaabbagnano.it/archivio_di/a_14.htm
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| | Amazon.com: Philosophy of Religion (4th Edition): Books: John H. Hick |
| | Philosophy of Religion; A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy) by KEITH YANDELL | | | A contemporary introduction to the main topics in the philosophy of religion -- written by a world-renowned philosopher. | | | Philosophy of Religion : An Anthology by Louis P. Pojman |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0136626289?v=glance
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| | Books/Book Comments |
| | By dwelling at length on the genesis of the different positions within contemporary philosophy, Smith is able to present a more complete account of linguistic essentialism and to show in detail how certain philosophies of religion and ethics belong to this movement. | | | The author is thoroughly familiar with the history of philosophy as well as with contemporary philosophy, both phenomenological and analytic. | | | Smith's beautiful and well-documented book does justice to the extension and depth of analytic philosophy by showing that theories of the ethical or religious meaning of human life follow directly from the methods of |
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http://www.qsmithwmu.com/books_by_quentin_smith.htm
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| | GMU Catalog 1999-2000 - Philosophy and Religious Studies |
| | This program offers students the opportunity to reflect on reciprocal relations, past and present, between philosophy and religion, and to approach contemporary questions and issues in religion, both substantive and methodological, through philosophical ideas pertinent to them. | | | Major emphases are available for students who wish to pursue graduate studies in philosophy; emphasize philosophy in acquiring a broad liberal arts education; prepare for certain professions, such as law, the ministry, or government service; or complement other interests by taking a double major in philosophy and a related field of study. | | | The program is for students interested in pursuing graduate degrees in the humanities (e.g., cultural studies, philosophy, religious studies, women's studies) and for those who wish to explore social and political questions within their cultural contexts. |
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http://www.gmu.edu/catalog/9900/cas_phil.html
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| | Japanese Philosophy and Religion Books |
| | While these books aren't only philosophy and religion, I put them here because the compiled selections from documents are mostly from ones of religious or philosophical nature. | | | I'm not well trained in Japanese philosophy and have only done some reading on my own (being as it is often far from the terrain of analytic philosophy that I studied at university) but I really enjoyed it and it gave me a better understanding of the main players. | | | Ok, I admit it, the philosophy department, and even history department at my school wasn't always thrilled with the way people though about things in the psychology department and the English department, but this book is an example of why we get to have those feelings. |
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http://konrad.lawson.net/books/japphil.html
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| | WCP: Introduction to Volume 7 |
| | As important as the Husserlian transcendental conception of phenomenology is, Wood argues that we need to adopt this further expansion of phenomenology in order to show how contemporary philosophy can shed light on difficult problems such as those found in current discussions in cognitive science. | | | There can be little doubt about the importance of modern philosophy for current discussions in the philosophy of religion (and in theology and religious practice generally). | | | At the beginning of the nineteenth century there stands not only the revolutionary achievement of the Kantian critique, but also the comprehensive synthesis of Hegelian philosophy against which the scientific spirit of the nineteenth century had to make its way. |
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http://www.bu.edu/wcp/IntroV7.htm
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| | Integral Sociocultural Studies and Cultural Evolution: |
| | If Integral philosophy actually incorporates the insights of the world's great religious leaders, as indeed it claims to, where are all the references in Wilber’s writings to those sacred texts that show concern for social and cultural justice, the poor, the marginalised, and the folly of ranking one person or group over another. | | | At least, I am not convinced that contemporary indigenous spirituality is as representative of archaic and magic forms of religion as seems to have been the case with prehistoric archaic and magic societies in earlier epochs. | | | It is one of the main tasks of Integral philosophy to distinguish between the integrative, healing, descending movement of involution and the degenerative, regressive and eminently unhealthy drive to satisfy earlier stages of development. |
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http://www.integralworld.net/edwards4.html
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| | phi4784wireduf01.htm |
| | To study the origins and contemporary concerns of analytic philosophy. | | | Rudolf Carnap, "The Rejection of Metaphysics" in Morris Weitz, 20th Century Philosophy: The Analytic Tradition. | | | Jones, A history of Western Philosophy: The Twentieth century to Wittgenstein and Sartre, chapter 4: "Frege and the Revolution in Logic". |
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http://www.cas.usf.edu/philosophy/syllabi/f2001syllabi/phi4784wireduf01.htm
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| | Philosophy (PHL) |
| | (L) [D] 328 The Philosophy of Religion (3) | | | An introduction to philosophical inquiry by critical examination of some major traditional and contemporary views of human nature as expressed in a variety of religious, literary, scientific, and philosophical writings. | | | The objective is to survey both the influence of philosophy on science and the influence of science on philosophy, all from a western historical perspective. |
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http://www.uri.edu/catalog/cataloghtml/courses/phl.html
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| | Husserl, |
| | Excerpt: The critique mounted by linguistic philosophy against a philosophy of the subject‑a critique that has been so predominant in 20thcentury thought‑is often interpreted as the manifestation of a far‑reaching philosophical paradigm shift namely, as a shift from a philosophy of subjectivity to a philosophy of intersubjectivity. | | | Although the critics of a philosophy of the subject have readily been able to agree that it has to be replaced by an intersubjective alternative, the very concept of "intersubjectivity" has remained conspicuously unthematized. | | | Apel and Habermas belong among these exceptions, and where German is spoken, the view that an intersubjective transformation of philosophy is a real necessity has been principally spread through their works. |
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http://www.wordtrade.com/philosophy/german/husserl.htm
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| | top13 |
| | However, the case is quite different for a younger contemporary of Russell's, who began his career in philosophy as one of Russell's students. | | | The foundation-stone of ordinary language philosophy (replacing logical positivism's verification principle) is the principle that the meaning of a word or proposition is determined by its use. | | | In other words, logical positivism may have succeeded, in a sense, in making philosophy into a science; but the price it had to pay was to affirm the basic incoherence which plagues so much of modern science: the belief that knowledge can be gained without being rooted in some underlying myth. |
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http://www.hkbu.edu.hk/~ppp/top/top13
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| | Graduate Programs in Asian Philosophy and Religion |
| | Indian Buddhism, Tibetan Buddhism, Mahayana Buddhist philosophy, contemporary representations of Tibet, Sanskrit, Tibetan. | | | Brook Ziporyn (Religion): Chinese religions and religious philosophy; Buddhism east and west; constructive Buddhist thought | | | Major Field: specialization in a religious tradition or traditions in a single cultural zone, including an understanding of the dynamics of religion (praxis, doctrine, community, etc.), the relevant language(s), and course work in related disciplines. |
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http://www.h-net.org/~buddhism/GradStudies.htm
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| | 11.1hansen.txt |
| | That such a principle cannot by itself account for the proliferation of life is well accepted by the majority of contemporary biologists and furnishes one common ground linking biological theory to D+G (and Bergson): in all these cases, some internal or vital principle of differentiation is required. | | | It is one thing for D+G to draw on contemporary biology and on neglected historical pathways to underwrite creative involution as an alternative model of macroevolution and quite another thing to apply this model to the behavior of individuals or use it as the basis for a molecular dissolution of the organism. | | | As Ansell-Pearson notes, this defense of intensity against qualitative reduction forms the basis for D+G's later "etho-logic of living systems," furnishing the metaphysics underlying the model of becoming introduced in Plateau 10 and the more general account of creative involution on which it is based. |
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http://www.iath.virginia.edu/pmc/text-only/issue.900/11.1hansen.txt
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| | Philosophy and Religious Studies, Old Dominion University |
| | Emphasis will be given to Shintoism, Buddhism, and Neo-Confucianism and their contemporary status and influence in Japanese culture. | | | Topics considered include: philosophy as a foundation for education, education as an institution, and educational and philosophical issues as they relate to each other. | | | An introduction to basic concepts, methods and issues in philosophy, and a consideration of representative types of philosophical thought concerning human nature, the world, knowledge, and value. |
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http://www.odu.edu/al/phil/course.htm
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