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• Philosophers of the Renaissance

[...] I have my doubts about the philosophical qualifications of figures such as Valla, Ramus, or Vives, but I admit that honest disagreement is possible in thencases, the more so as their contemporaries held them in high regard as philosophers. [...] there is of course the great Jesuit Francisco Suarez (1548-1617), who closes the age of Scholasticism, while also acting as an important Renaissance thinker.

• Review of Metaphysics, The
• Vol. 64 Nbr. 2, December 2010

• Wanted: Worldly Philosophers

When economists tackle small problems, they lose any vision about what the economic system should look like. It's become commonplace to criticize the "Occupy" movement for failing to offer an alternative vision. But the thousands of activists in the streets of New York and London aren't the only ones lacking perspective: economists, to whom we might expect to turn for such vision, have long since given up thinking in terms of economic systems -- and we are all the worse for it.

• International Herald Tribune
• November 06, 2011

• Political philosophers on war: arguments inside the "Just War" box.

For hundreds of years, intellectuals have been arguing about just war theory, attempting to determine how best to use it in thinking about contemporar...

• Independent Review
• Vol. 15 Nbr. 3, January 2011

• Empathy and Other Mysteries: neuroscientists are discovering things about the brain that answer questions philosophers have been asking for centuries.

Over my career as a neuroscientist and neuropsychiatrist, I've become convinced that our brain's organization and functional activity powerfully influ...

• American Scholar
• Vol. 80 Nbr. 1, January 2011

• Plato's Philosophers: The Coherence of the Dialogues

Zucker engages in this task by determining the internal dramatic chronology of the Platonic portrayal of the life of Socrates in the dialogues, which she divides into basically five periods: a preSocratic phase from 460-433, which includes the Laws and the Parmenides, which involves Socrates' turn from the study of nature to the examination of speeches; a second period extending from 433-420, in which Socrates interrogates his contemporaries about the noble and good, presented in the Protagoras, Alcibiades 1 and 2, Charmides, Laches, Hippias Major, and Hippias Minor; a third period from 416-409 in which Socrates enunciated his positive doctrine, involving the dialogues Symposium, Phaedrus, Ion, Clitophon, Republic, Philebus; and the challenge presented in the Timaeus and Critias; a four...

• Review of Metaphysics, The
• Vol. 63 Nbr. 2, December 2009

• Dangerous thinkers: 20th-century philosophers' love affair with totalitarianism.

'The Reckless Mind: Intellectuals in Politics' - Book Review

• Reason
• Vol. 34 Nbr. 5, October 2002

• Opiate of the Philosophers

The Web site adherents.com lists more than four thousand "religions, churches, denominations, religious bodies, faith groups, tribes, cultures, movements, ultimate concerns, etc."-notice again the terminal drift into vagueness marked by "etc." Daniel Dennett, who teaches at Tufts University, is a striking advocate of evolutionism: a highly talented, highly voluble professor of mind, reason, and science, determined to expose religion as a product of purely natural and entirely unpurposeful forces; and then to suggest that whatever benefits religion might once have conferred, the phenomenon as we have it is best dispensed with-and the sooner the better, for it is a cause of needless misery.

• Commonweal
• July 27, 2009

• Ethics in a Digital Era; Philosophers Gathering at Scsu to Mull Growing Challenges Computers Pose

The idea of "computer ethics" arose almost immediately after the introduction of the first, cumbersome digital agents. During World War II, Norbert Weiner worked on a computerized anti- aircraft gun that would track and fire on enemy targets.

• New Haven Register
• November 29, 2010

• Aspects of Complexity Theory in Liberal Political Thought

Complexity theory is founded on post-positivist thinking. However, aspects of complexity theory are found in the writings of Liberal political philosophers such as John Locke and Immanuel Kant. This paper focuses on one aspect of Liberal political philosophy: how liberal social-political orders emerge from the interactions of individuals. The author argues that while complexity theory and Liberal political philosophy are compatible concerning emergent orders, they differ on scientific method and foundational norms. This is this important because Liberal political philosophy is a significant part of the foundation of the United States political order and impacts how public administrators implement public policies.

• Emergence : Complexity and Organization
• Vol. 12 Nbr. 1, January 2010

• Cicero superstar: the Roman politician impresses Harvard legal scholar Mary Ann Glendon as one of the world's foremost philosophers.

More rare than athletes who have played both baseball and football in the major leagues are individuals who have achieved great distinction in both po...

• First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
• Nbr. 2010, January 2010