Word: philosophere
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As the general education committee—which includes academic heavyweights like political philosopher Michael Sandel, English department star Louis Menand, and University President Larry Summers—wrestled with questions of pedagogical philosophy, Mahan’s thesis evolved into a sharp critique of Harvard’s undergraduate...
He is opposed to the existence of nuclear weapons. Both as the director of the Peace Memorial Museum and as a hibakusha, he can speak with authority about nuclear force, but he makes his case briefly and without evident passion. "I am not a philosopher," he says. If pressed as...
DIED. Susanne K. Langer, 89, American philosopher who synthesized the thinking of several disciplines into an influential new theory of human mentality; in Old Lyme, Conn. Her seminal work, Philosophy in a New Key (1942), shows how symbol making is the basic function of the human mind and rejects the...
Such philosopher-king/queen stature should preclude the necessity for any kind of expansive evaluation system, one would think. Yet Monday night, the Undergraduate Council (UC) voted up an initiative supporting the concurrent evaluation of Allston Burr Senior Tutors and House Masters by all upperclass students alongside the tutor evaluations...
In life, no other great figure in the second half of the 20th century seemed to inhabit his role so utterly--yet in so many different ways. There was the itinerant evangelist with the lit-from-within smile, conducting his never-ending crusade. There was the mystic who, as an...