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...There is no question about his greatness," according to Roderick Firth, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity. In a history of philosophy in the twentieth century, Firth says, Lewis will be ranked along with John Dewey, George Santayana, and Alfred Noyes Whitehead, even though he was a "philosopher's philosopher" unknown to the layman...
...continues to stem from his work in the theory of knowledge. He referred to himself as a "pragmatic conceptualist," and had much in common with Dewey. One of the few recent philosophers to develop a complete theory of knowledge and meaning, his books are still the major texts in Firth's course on "Meaning and Perception...
...Harvard, Lewis is perhaps best remembered for his course on Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason." The course was considered a "classic," according to Firth, and anybody who took the course was "never quite the same when he finished...
Last week, as the two-day Cup matches got under way. an icy wind roared off the Firth of Clyde, dumping rain and sleet on Ailsa. "I'd heard about this Scottish weather," complained one U.S. golfer, "but I never believed it before." The Americans blew skyhigh. U.S. Amateur Champion Labron Harris lost to Ireland's David Sheahan, one up. California's Richard Davies, the 1962 British Amateur champion, blew a three-hole lead to England's Mike Bonallak. When night finally fell, the upset-minded British took a 6-3 lead with them into...
...Firth noted that the philosophy department could offer more courses if it did not use Faculty members for tutorial rather than the graduate teaching fellows tutoring in other fields...