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Contemporary
American Philosophy
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There are extensive Contemporary American and British
Analytic Philosophy Resources at Erratic Impact.
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As Reflected in the Work of Monty Python. This talk was
written in response to a request from the Philosophy Club at Virginia Tech. Comments from
Python fans, philosophers, interested bystanders, raving loonies, and any combination of
the above are welcomed! - Gary L. Hardcastle (garyh@vt.edu)
Department of Philosophy/Center for the Study of Science..., 27Apr96
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From the Stanford Encyclopedia of
Philosophy. Excerpt:
Wilfrid Stalker Sellars was a profoundly creative and synthetic thinker whose work both
as a systematic philosopher and as an influential editor helped set and shape the
Anglo-American philosophical agenda for over four decades. Sellars is perhaps best known
for his classic 1956 essay "Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind", a
comprehensive and sophisticated critique of "the myth of the given" which played
a major role in the postwar deconstruction of Cartesianism, but his published corpus of
three books and more than one hundred essays includes numerous original contributions to
ontology, epistemology, and the philosophies of science, language, and mind, as well as
sensitive historical and exegetical studies.
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Home page for Willard van Orman Quine, mathematician and
philosopher. Site Includes:
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From the Internet
Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Excerpt:
Donald Davidson, one of the most significant philosophers of the XX century, was born 6
March, 1917 in Springfield, Massachusetts. He studied English, Comparative Literature and
Classics in his undergraduate years at Harvard. In his sophomore year at Harvard, Davidson
attended two classes that made a lasting impression on him. These two classes on
philosophy were taught by Alfred North Whitehead in the last year of his career. Davidson
was then accepted to graduate studies in philosophy at Harvard, where his teacher was
Willard Van Orman Quine. Quine set Davidson on a course in philosophy quite different from
that of Whitehead. Subsequently, Davidson did his dissertation on Plato's Philebus...
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Resources on Richard Rorty, including essays on the
consequences of pragmatism, bibliographies, primary and secondary
resources, book reviews and more.
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