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Willem DeVries
Willem Anton de Vries (born 1950) is an American philosopher who is a distinguished professor emeritus of philosophy at University of New Hampshire (UNH). Along with John McDowell and Robert Brandom, deVries is amongst the analytic philosophers whose Hegelian dimension of their thought was inspired by the work of Wilfred Sellars. Life and work De Vries received his B.A. from Haverford College in 1972 and his M.A. from University of Pittsburgh in 1975. He also studied at Hegel Archive of the Ruhr University of Bochum for a year before obtaining his PhD from University of Pittsburgh in 1981, with the dissertation on ''Hegel's theory of mental activity''. De Vries joined UNH in 1988 as professor of philosophy. His dissertation was later published as a book in 1988 and was reviewed by Karl Ameriks, Richard E. Aquila, Robert Stern and Michael George. Selected publications * * References External links * Willem deVrieson Aeon (magazine) ''Aeon'' is a digital magazine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Aquila
Richard Aquila is an American philosopher, currently the co-editor of ''Kantian Review'' and formerly a Distinguished Humanities Professor at University of Tennessee The University of Tennessee, Knoxville (or The University of Tennessee; UT; UT Knoxville; or colloquially UTK or Tennessee) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Knoxville, Tennessee, United St .... References Year of birth missing (living people) Living people University of Tennessee faculty Philosophers from Tennessee Northwestern University alumni {{US-philosopher-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of New Hampshire People
A university () is an institution of tertiary education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. ''University'' is derived from the Latin phrase , which roughly means "community of teachers and scholars". Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. The first universities in Europe were established by Catholic monks. The University of Bologna (), Italy, which was founded in 1088, is the first university in the sense of: *being a high degree-awarding institute. *using the word (which was coined at its foundation). *having independence from the ecclesiastic schools and issuing secular as well as non-secular degrees (with teaching conducted by both clergy and non-clergy): grammar, rhetoric, logic, theology, canon law and notarial law.Hunt Janin: "The university in medieval life, 1179–1499", McFarland, 2008, , p. 55f.de Ridder-Symoens, Hilde''A History of the University in Europe: Volume 1, Universities in the Middl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
