THE author offers this work as a substitute for G. H. Lewes's well-known “Biographical History of Philosophy,” which, if for no other reason than that it was written expressly to discredit philosophy, ...
The NY/NJ Consortium was founded to promote the study of the history of modern philosophy and to enhance communication and mutual cooperation between scholars of the history of philosophy within the ...
The painful paradox behind recent conflicts is that the communities caught in the fray — Jews, Muslims and Christians — are inheritors of a common biblical tradition. The history of philosophy points ...
In 1926, Will Durant brought out “The Story of Philosophy,” an engagingly written account of what great thinkers from Plato to William James thought about life, the universe and everything. Its ...
MR. DAMPIER-WHETHAM, in writing a general history of science, has undertaken what is, strictly, an impossible task. It is therefore very easy for any critic who cares to spend a day or two in a ...
Melissa Lane, the Class of 1943 Professor of Politics, has been awarded the Journal of the History of Philosophy's 2024 Book Prize for "Of Rule and Office: Plato's Ideas of the Political" (Princeton ...
John Lloyd Ackrill, philosopher and classical scholar: born Reading, Berkshire 30 December 1921; Assistant Lecturer in Logic, Glasgow University 1948-49; University Lecturer in Ancient Philosophy, ...