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| Jeffrey E. Brower has been a member of the philosophy department at Purdue University since the fall of 2000. He works primarily in medieval philosophy, metaphysics, and philosophical theology, but also has research interests in philosophy of language and ethics. |
| I am a cultural anthropologist. I earned my BA from Sarah Lawrence College in anthropology and French (1975), and my MA (1978) and PhD (1983) in cultural anthropology from the University of Virginia. Among other works, I am the author of The Afterlife Is Where We Come from: The Culture of Infancy in West Africa (2004....[more] |
| Jurgen Habermas is a German sociologist who studied at the universities of Gottingen, Zurich, and Bonn. He taught at Frankfurt am Main, Marburg, and Heidelberg before becoming professor of philosophy at the University of Frankfurt. His works, widely translated, have made him one of the most influential social theorists....[more] |
| Paul K. Moser is Professor and Chairperson of Philosophy at Loyola University Chicago. His most recent book is The Evidence for God (Cambridge University Press, Nov. 2009). The book is a sequel to The Elusive God (Cambridge University Press, 2008).
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| Aviezer Tucker published books, articles and reviews in philosophy, political theory, and intellectual history. He has also been publishing articles, feuilletons, and reviews in popular newspapers and magazines.
He lives now in Austin and Prague with his wife the literary and art critic Veronika Tuckerova and their ....[more] |
| Robert M. Wallace's major publication is _Hegel's Philosophy of Reality, Freedom, and God_ (2005). He is also known for his translations of and introductions to Hans Blumenberg's major works (_The Legitimacy of the Modern Age_, etc.) and works of Hans-Georg Gadamer and Odo Marquard. He has a PhD in Philosophy from Corn....[more] |
| Best known for his contributions to the field of philosophy but also a music composer and critic, Theodor Adorno proved popular culture was a phenomenon worth analyzing. This German-born author, who lived from September 11, 1903 to August 6, 1969, was a member of the Frankfurt School, along with such other luminaries s....[more] |
| Louis Pierre Althusser was born 16 October 1918 in Birmendreis, Algeria. He was a prominent Marxist philosopher known for his affiliation with the French Communist Party. Upon the death of his father, his mother and younger sister moved to Marseilles where he spent the rest of his childhood. He was a brilliant student ....[more] |
| Aristotle (384 BC – 322 BC) was a Greek philosopher who wrote about physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, dance, philosophy, psychology, logic, rhetoric, politics, government, ethics, morality, biology, botany, agriculture, and zoology. He was a student of the Classical Greek philosopher Plato and went on to te....[more] |
| A knight, a lawyer and philosopher among other titles, Sir Francis Bacon was born in 1561 in London, England, where he was tutored at home due to his poor health. Eventually, at age 12, he was deemed well enough to attend Trinity College where he excelled and soon caught the eye of Queen Elizabeth, who took to calling ....[more] |
| Born in France in 1915, Roland Barthes would go on to become one of the most revered critics of his generation. Growing up in a single parent home, Barthes learned a work ethic that would serve him well for the rest of his life. He attended the Sorbonne where he received degrees in classical literature and grammar and ....[more] |
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