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William McNeill (philosopher)
William McNeill (born 1961) is Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University. Career and work McNeill was educated at the University of Essex, and he is now teaching Heidegger at DePaul University. He is a translator of the work of Martin Heidegger, about whom he has written two books. ''The Glance of the Eye'' (1999) closely examines the relation between Heidegger's thought and Greek philosophy, in particular his relation to Aristotle. ''The Time of Life'' (2006) is an examination of the implications of Heidegger's thought for ethics. Bibliography Books authored *''The Fate of Phenomenology: Heidegger's Legacy'' (London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2020). *''The Time of Life: Heidegger and Ethos'' (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2006). *''The Glance of the Eye: Heidegger, Aristotle, and the Ends of Theory'' (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999). Books edited *''Continental Philosophy: An Anthology'' (Oxford: Blackwell, 1998). Co-edited with Karen Feldman ...
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Philosophy
Philosophy (from , ) is the systematized study of general and fundamental questions, such as those about existence, reason, Epistemology, knowledge, Ethics, values, Philosophy of mind, mind, and Philosophy of language, language. Such questions are often posed as problems to be studied or resolved. Some sources claim the term was coined by Pythagoras ( BCE), although this theory is disputed by some. Philosophical methodology, Philosophical methods include Socratic questioning, questioning, Socratic method, critical discussion, dialectic, rational argument, and systematic presentation. in . Historically, ''philosophy'' encompassed all bodies of knowledge and a practitioner was known as a ''philosopher''."The English word "philosophy" is first attested to , meaning "knowledge, body of knowledge." "natural philosophy," which began as a discipline in ancient India and Ancient Greece, encompasses astronomy, medicine, and physics. For example, Isaac Newton, Newton's 1687 ''Phil ...
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Theodore Kisiel
Theodore J. Kisiel (October 30, 1930 – December 25, 2021), VIAF"Kisiel, Theodore J."/ref> Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus of philosophy at Northern Illinois University, was a well-known translator of and commentator on the works of Martin Heidegger. Work Kisiel is known for his research on the development of Heidegger's early thought. Among his students are Gerry Stahl, Steven Crowell and Govert Schüller. According to Kisiel, Heidegger viewed the entire history of both Eastern and Western philosophy (starting with Parmenides Parmenides of Elea (; grc-gre, Παρμενίδης ὁ Ἐλεάτης; ) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher from Elea in Magna Graecia. Parmenides was born in the Greek colony of Elea, from a wealthy and illustrious family. His dates a ...) as dominated by ontology, or "the metaphysics of permanent presence". Heidegger saw his work as focusing instead on the temporal, contingent, "thrown" existence of the individual. Bibliogra ...
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Continental Philosophers
Continental philosophy is a term used to describe some philosophers and philosophical traditions that do not fall under the umbrella of analytic philosophy. However, there is no academic consensus on the definition of continental philosophy. Prior to the twentieth century, the term "continental" was used broadly to refer to philosophy from continental Europe. A different use of the term originated among English-speaking philosophers in the second half of the 20th century, who used it to refer to a range of thinkers and traditions outside the analytic movement. Continental philosophy includes German idealism, phenomenology, existentialism (and its antecedents, such as the thought of Kierkegaard and Nietzsche), hermeneutics, structuralism, post-structuralism, deconstruction, French feminism, psychoanalytic theory, and the critical theory of the Frankfurt School as well as branches of Freudian, Hegelian and Western Marxist views. The term ''continental philosophy'' lacks clear ...
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1961 Births
Events January * January 3 ** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba (Cuba–United States relations are restored in 2015). ** Aero Flight 311 (Koivulahti air disaster): Douglas DC-3C OH-LCC of Finnish airline Aero crashes near Kvevlax (Koivulahti), on approach to Vaasa Airport in Finland, killing all 25 on board, due to pilot error: an investigation finds that the captain and first officer were both exhausted for lack of sleep, and had consumed excessive amounts of alcohol at the time of the crash. It remains the deadliest air disaster to occur in the country. * January 5 ** Italian sculptor Alfredo Fioravanti marches into the U.S. Consulate in Rome, and confesses that he was part of the team that forged the Etruscan terracotta warriors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. ** After the 1960 military coup, General Cemal Gürsel forms the new government of Turkey (25th gov ...
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Heidegger Scholars
Martin Heidegger (; ; 26 September 188926 May 1976) was a German philosopher who is best known for contributions to phenomenology, hermeneutics, and existentialism. He is among the most important and influential philosophers of the 20th century. He has been widely criticized for supporting the Nazi Party after his election as rector at the University of Freiburg in 1933, and there has been controversy about the relationship between his philosophy and Nazism. In Heidegger's fundamental text ''Being and Time'' (1927), "Dasein" is introduced as a term for the type of being that humans possess. Dasein has been translated as "being there". Heidegger believes that Dasein already has a "pre-ontological" and non-abstract understanding that shapes how it lives. This mode of being he terms " being-in-the-world". Dasein and "being-in-the-world" are unitary concepts at odds with rationalist philosophy and its "subject/object" view since at least René Descartes. Heidegger explicitly disa ...
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List Of American Philosophers
This is a list of American philosophers; of philosophers who are either from, or spent many productive years of their lives in the United States. {, border="0" style="margin:auto;" class="toccolours" , - ! {{MediaWiki:Toc , - , style="text-align:center;", A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z __NOTOC__ See also – References A * Francis Ellingwood Abbot * David Abram *Peter Achinstein * Marilyn McCord Adams *Robert Merrihew Adams *Jane Addams * Mortimer Adler * Rogers Albritton * Amos Bronson Alcott * Linda Martín Alcoff * Virgil Aldrich * Hartley Burr Alexander *Diogenes Allen * Robert F. Almeder * William Alston * Alice Ambrose * Karl Ameriks *C. Anthony Anderson *Elizabeth S. Anderson * Gordon Anderson * Judith Andre * Julia Annas *Ruth Nanda Anshen * Louise Antony *Hannah Arendt * Richard Arneson * Robert Arp * Robert Arrington *Bradley Shavit Artson *Warren Ashby * Januarius Jingwa Asongu * Margaret Atherton * Robert Audi *Jody ...
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American Philosophy
American philosophy is the activity, corpus, and tradition of philosophers affiliated with the United States. The ''Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy'' notes that while it lacks a "core of defining features, American Philosophy can nevertheless be seen as both reflecting and shaping collective American identity over the history of the nation"."American philosophy" at the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Retrieved on May 24, 2009
The philosophy of the founders of the United States is largely seen as an extension of the European Enlightenment. A small number ...
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Hölderlin's Hymn "The Ister"
''Hölderlin's Hymn "The Ister"'' (german: Hölderlins Hymne »Der Ister«) is the title given to a lecture course delivered by German philosopher Martin Heidegger at the University of Freiburg in 1942. It was first published in 1984 as volume 53 of Heidegger's ''Gesamtausgabe''. The translation by William McNeill and Julia Davis was published in 1996 by Indiana University Press. '' Der Ister'' is a poem by Friedrich Hölderlin, the title of which refers to an ancient name for a part of the Danube River. Overview In 1942, in the darkest depths of World War II and the National Socialist period, Heidegger chose to deliver a lecture course on a single poem by Friedrich Hölderlin: "''Der Ister''," about the river Danube. The course explored the meaning of poetry, the nature of technology, the relationship between ancient Greece and modern Germany, the essence of politics, and human dwelling. The central third of the lecture course is a reading of Sophocles' ''Antigone''. Heidegger ...
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Gesamtausgabe (Heidegger)
''Heidegger Gesamtausgabe'' (citation is GA or HGA) is the term for the collected writings of German philosopher Martin Heidegger (1889-1976), published by Vittorio Klostermann. The ''Gesamtausgabe'' was begun during Martin Heidegger's lifetime. First publication was GA 24 in the year 1975. Martin Heidegger defined the order of publication. His written Motto done a few months before his death as "Ways -- not works." (Wege — nicht Werke). GA 1:437. “ein Unterwegs im Wegfeld sich wandelnden Fragens der mehrdeutigen Seinsfrage” (GA 1:437). Lose translation: “a journey in the path of the changing questioning of the ambiguous question of Being". Heidegger wrote this shortly before his death: “The Gesamtausgabe is intended to guide people to take up the question, to ask it and, above all, to ask it in a more questioning way”. (Die Gesamtausgabe soll dadurch anleiten, die Frage aufzunehmen, mitzufragen und vor allem dann fragender zu fragen). GA 1:437 in the af ...
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David Wood (philosopher)
David Wood (born 1946) was Centennial Professor of Philosophy, and Joe B. Wyatt Distinguished University Professor, at Vanderbilt University. Wood has taught philosophy in Europe and the United States for over thirty years, and is the author of 16 books. In addition to teaching at Vanderbilt University, he also co-directs (with Beth Conklin) a research programme in ecology and spirituality for the Centre for the Study of Religion and Culture. Background Wood was born in Oxford, England. He was an undergraduate at the University of Manchester, where he was introduced to phenomenology by Wolfe Mays. He went on to do graduate work in philosophy at New College, Oxford (1968–1971), where through the good offices of Alan Montefiore (at Balliol College) Jacques Derrida was a frequent visitor. Under the influence of a group of animal rights activists led by Roslind and Stanley Godlovitch – now known as the Oxford Group; Peter Singer, author of '' Animal Liberation'' (1975) was a ...
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Michel Foucault
Paul-Michel Foucault (, ; ; 15 October 192625 June 1984) was a French philosopher, historian of ideas, writer, political activist, and literary critic. Foucault's theories primarily address the relationship between power and knowledge, and how they are used as a form of social control through societal institutions. Though often cited as a structuralist and postmodernist, Foucault rejected these labels. His thought has influenced academics, especially those working in communication studies, anthropology, psychology, sociology, criminology, cultural studies, literary theory, feminism, Marxism and critical theory. Born in Poitiers, France, into an upper-middle-class family, Foucault was educated at the Lycée Henri-IV, at the École Normale Supérieure, where he developed an interest in philosophy and came under the influence of his tutors Jean Hyppolite and Louis Althusser, and at the University of Paris ( Sorbonne), where he earned degrees in philosophy and psychol ...
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