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The Department of Philosophy is an academic division in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at King's College London. It is one of the largest and most distinguished centres for the study of philosophy in the United Kingdom. History For over half a century since the Anglican foundation of King's College in 1829, the study of philosophy was restricted to courses within the Department of Theology and the Department of English Literature. In 1906 a separate Department of Philosophy and Psychology was explicitly established, and in 1912 Philosophy split to form its own department. The department is located in the Philosophy Building on Surrey Street, a set of three adjacent townhouses joined through a series of corridors and forming part of the Strand Campus of King's College. The vaults along the back of the building are those containing the old Roman Baths on Strand Lane. In 1989, Sir Richard Sorabji founded the ''King's College Centre for Philosophical Studies'' at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Faculty Of Arts And Humanities, King's College London
The King's College London Faculty of Arts & Humanities is one of the nine academic Faculties of Study of King's College London. It is situated on the Strand in the heart of central London, in the vicinity of many renowned cultural institutions with which the Faculty has close links including the British Museum, Shakespeare's Globe, the National Portrait Gallery (London), National Portrait Gallery and the British Library. , the Times Higher Education comparison of world-class universities ranked it amongst the top twenty arts and humanities faculties in the world. The Faculty of Arts & Humanities offers study at undergraduate and graduate level in a wide range of subject areas. Many of the departments and programmes offer joint undergraduate degrees, including some with the Departments of Geography and Department of War Studies, King's College London, War Studies, in the Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy and with Mathematics in the Faculty of Natural & Mathematical Science ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Brewer
Bill Brewer is a British philosopher and Susan Stebbing Professor of Philosophy at King's College London. He was previously the Head of the Department of Philosophy. He was a scholar at Oriel College, Oxford, reading Maths and Philosophy and graduating B. Phil. and D. Phil in Philosophy, supervised by P. F. Strawson, David Pears, Jennifer Hornsby, and John Campbell. He was then a Research Fellow at King's College, Cambridge, a Tutorial Fellow and University Lecturer at St Catherine's College, Oxford, and next a Professor in the Philosophy Department at the University of Warwick. He has also been a visiting Lecturer at Brown University, Hamburg, and the University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u .... In September 2012, Brewer was elec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Hopkins (philosopher)
Jim Hopkins (born 1946) is a New Zealander known for his work in television, radio and theatre. Biography Hopkins was scriptwriter for '' Close to Home'', presenter of ''Fast Forward'', ''Don't Tell Me'', ''The Inventors'', ''Dateline Monday'', a performer on The BNZ Festival Debates, and radio talkback host on Radio Pacific in Auckland and Radio Avon in Christchurch. In August 1998, Hopkins released his first book, ''Blokes & Sheds'', which hit number one on the New Zealand sales list after only a week. The book profiles amateur inventors from across New Zealand. Hopkins followed it up with another book, ''Inventions from the Shed'', in 1999, and a 5-part film documentary series with the same name that featured inventors across Australia. Hopkins was elected as a councillor for the Waitaki District Council, based in Oamaru, in 2007, and became Deputy Mayor in 2010. In July 2013 he announced his intention to stand for the mayoralty in the local body elections to be held later ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raimond Gaita
Raimond Gaita (born Raimund Gaita; 14 May 1946) is a German-born Australian philosopher and award-winning writer. He was, until 2011, foundation professor of philosophy at the Australian Catholic University and professor of moral philosophy at King's College London. He is currently professorial fellow in the Melbourne Law School and the Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne and emeritus professor of moral philosophy at King's College London. He is a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. Life Raimund Gaita (later styled as Raimond Gaita) was born in Dortmund, Westphalia, Germany, on 14 May 1946, to a Yugoslav-born Romanian father, Romulus Gaiță (28 December 1922May 1996) and a German mother, Christine ("Christel") Anna Dörr (16 November 19281958). In Germany, from 1942 to 1945, Romulus was employed as a smith and metal worker. The Gaita family migrated to Australia in April 1950, just before Raimond turned four. He attended St. Patrick's College, Ballarat (V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dov Gabbay
Dov M. Gabbay (; born October 23, 1945) is an Israeli logician. He is Augustus De Morgan Professor Emeritus of Logic at the Group of Logic, Language and Computation, Department of Computer Science, King's College London. Work Gabbay has authored over four hundred and fifty research papers and over thirty research monographs. He is editor of several international journals, and of many reference works and handbooks of logic, including the ''Handbook of Philosophical Logic'' (with Franz Guenthner), the ''Handbook of Logic in Computer Science]'' (with Samson Abramsky and T. S. E. Maibaum), and the ''Handbook of Logic in Artificial Intelligence and Logic Programming'' (with C.J. Hogger and J.A. Robinson). He is well-known for pioneering work on logic in computer science and artificial intelligence, especially the application of (executable) temporal logics in computer science, in particular formal verification, the logical foundations of non-monotonic reasoning and artificial ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raphael Woolf
Raphael Woolf is a British philosopher and Professor in the Department of Philosophy at King's College London. He is known for his expertise on ancient Greek and Roman philosophy Ancient Roman philosophy was heavily influenced by the ancient Greeks and the schools of Hellenistic philosophy; however, unique developments in philosophical schools of thought occurred during the Roman period as well. Interest in philosophy was .... Books * '' Cicero: The Philosophy of a Roman Sceptic'', Routledge, 2015 * '' Rereading Ancient Philosophy: Old Chestnuts and Sacred Cows'', edited by Verity Harte and Raphael Woolf, Cambridge University Press, 2018 * '' Aristotle: Eudemian Ethics'', edited by Brad Inwood and Raphael Woolf, Cambridge University Press, 2013Reviews of ''Aristotle: Eudemian Ethics'': * * References External linksRaphael Woolf at KCL [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Textor
The C, T Group, also referred to as Crosby Textor, is an Australian lobbying firm, and political consultancy. The firm provides social research, corporate strategy and political polling services to its clients. The firm is historically been associated with mainstream right-wing political parties across the world, and has a particularly strong association with the Australian Liberal Party. Crosby Textor was founded by Mark Textor and Lynton Crosby. The firm provides its services throughout the world, but its most notable markets are that of Canada, Australia, Britain, Africa, Italy and New Zealand. History & operations The firm has been involved in numerous prominent political campaigns; providing polling and strategy services to political parties. The clientele of the firm has historically been right wing. Examples of political campaigns in which the firm has operated include: * Boris Johnson's successful London Mayoral campaign in 2008. * Liberal party operations and s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthew Soteriou
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Matthew may refer to: * Matthew (given name) * Matthew (surname) * ''Matthew'' (ship), the replica of the ship sailed by John Cabot in 1497 * ''Matthew'' (album), a 2000 album by rapper Kool Keith * Matthew (elm cultivar), a cultivar of the Chinese Elm ''Ulmus parvifolia'' Christianity * Matthew the Apostle, one of the apostles of Jesus * Gospel of Matthew, a book of the Bible See also * Matt (given name), the diminutive form of Matthew * Mathew, alternative spelling of Matthew * Matthews (other) * Matthew effect * Tropical Storm Matthew (other) The name Matthew was used for three tropical cyclones in the Atlantic Ocean, replacing Mitch after 1998. * Tropical Storm Matthew (2004) - Brought heavy rain to the Gulf Coast of Louisiana, causing light damage but no deaths. * Tropical Storm Matt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrea Sangiovanni
Andrea is a given name which is common worldwide for both males and females, cognate to Andreas, Andrej and Andrew. Origin of the name The name derives from the Greek word ἀνήρ (''anēr''), genitive ἀνδρός (''andrós''), that refers to man as opposed to woman (whereas ''man'' in the sense of ''human being'' is ἄνθρωπος, ''ánthropos''). The original male Greek name, ''Andréas'', represents the hypocoristic, with endearment functions, of male Greek names composed with the ''andr-'' prefix, like Androgeos (''man of the earth''), Androcles (''man of glory''), Andronikos (''man of victory''). In the year 2006, it was the third most popular name in Italy with 3.1% of newborns. It is one of the Italian male names ending in ''a'', with others being Elia (Elias), Enea (Aeneas), Luca ( Lucas), Mattia (Matthias), Nicola (Nicholas), Tobia (Tobias). In recent and past times it has also been used on occasion as a female name in Italy and in Spain, where it is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Pink (philosopher)
Thomas Pink Shirtmaker Ltd is a British shirt-maker. It was established in London in 1984 by three Irish brothers – James, Peter and John Mullen. From 1999 to 2021 it was owned by LVMH. In 2018 it lost £23.5 million. The company changed its name to Pink Shirtmaker in November 2018, and it was put up for sale in December 2020. It closed in January 2021, but was acquired in February and had resumed trading by November. History The company was started in 1984 by three Irish brothers – James, Peter and John Mullen. It was named after Thomas Pink, an eighteenth-century tailor in Mayfair, London. In 1999, it was sold to Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy, which paid about €48 million for 70% of the company. At the time, the company had 20 shops, including 17 in the UK, one in Dublin and two in the United States. LVMH bought the remaining 30% of the company in 2003. In 2012, Thomas Pink launched legal proceedings in the UK against Victoria's Secret, which was marketing lingerie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Papineau
David Papineau (; born 1947) is a British academic philosopher, born in Como, Italy. He works as Professor of Philosophy of Science at King's College London and the City University of New York Graduate Center, and previously taught for several years at Cambridge University, where he was a fellow of Robinson College. Biography Papineau received a BSc in mathematics from the University of Natal and a BA and PhD in philosophy from the University of Cambridge under the supervision of Ian Hacking. He has worked in metaphysics, epistemology, and the philosophies of science, mind, and mathematics. His overall stance is naturalist and realist. He is one of the originators of the teleosemantic theory of mental representation, a solution to the problem of intentionality which derives the intentional content of our beliefs from their biological purpose. He is also a defender of the ''a posteriori'' physicalist solution to the mind–body problem. Papineau was elected president of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Owens (philosopher)
David John Owens APM (born 1962) is the former Deputy Commissioner (Specialist Operations) of the New South Wales Police Force in Australia and was appointed to the position in August 2011 having performed the role of Deputy Commissioner (Field Operations) since December 2007. Personal Owens was born in 1962 and grew up in the Eastern Suburbs in Sydney. He was educated at Waverley College and is married with three children. Career Owens joined the New South Wales Police Force in 1981, performing general duties and investigative roles at Rose Bay, Waverley, Bondi and Randwick. He was appointed as Venue Commander for Sailing during the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. Owens was promoted to Local Area Commander at Eastern Beaches and later Commander, Professional Standards Command at the New South Wales Crime Commission. In 2006, he was appointed Region Commander, South West Metropolitan Region before transferring into the position of Region Commander, Central Metropolitan Reg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
