in London. In 1579 he took up residence there and after becoming a barrister in 1582 progressed in time through the posts of reader (lecturer at the Inn), bencher (senior member of the Inn), and queen’s (from 1603 king’s)counselextraordinary to those of solicitor general andattorney gen...
If you’re hoping to teach at tertiary (university) level, you’ll face fierce competition for junior-level academic positions. However, philosophy graduates are often prime candidates for research careers in relevant fields. You’ll need to show a very high aptitude for and expertise in your c...
Russell formulated an ambitious scheme of writing two series of books, one on the philosophy of the sciences, the other on social and political questions. “At last,” as he later put it, “I would achieve a Hegelian synthesis in an encyclopaedic work dealing equally with theory and practic...
Alexander Bird is the Bertrand Russell Professor of Philosophy at Cambridge, and a Fellow at St John’s College, Cambridge. He was previously Peter Sowerby Professor of Philosophy and Medicine at King’s College London and...
In Why Veganism Matters Gary Francione, a professor of law and philosophy at Rutgers University, argues that veganism is a moral imperative. He is a self-declared abolitionist when it comes to animal rights, and critical of the idea that we should focus on animal welfare, minimising their su...
Please note the question mark at the end of the title of this paper; there is no claim to haveproventhat positive psychology and philosophy-as-usual are incompatible. The aim is only to raise reasonable doubt as to the seeming rigour of philosophy-as-usual, for this providing examples as ...
principles of logic) had been attempted independently by Frege some 25 years before the publication of Russell’s principal logicist works,Principles of Mathematics(1903) andPrincipia Mathematica(1910–13; written in collaboration with Russell’s colleague at theUniversity of CambridgeAlfred North ...
Among the London wits he was an immediate success.Jonathan Swift, dean ofSt. Patrick’sCathedral, Dublin, presented him at court. ForSir Richard Steele, an essayist, he wrote essays inThe Guardianagainst the freethinkers. He was in the theatre withJoseph Addison, essayist and poet, on the...
In 1947, on the recommendation of Gilbert Ryle, he was appointed to a lectureship at University College, Oxford; he was elected a fellow the following year. In 1968 he was elected Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy at Oxford—replacing Ryle, who had retired—and moved to the ...
had begun with Copernicus and Galileo—the first scientific synthesis based on the application of mathematics to nature in every detail. The basic idea of the authority andautonomyof reason, which dominated all philosophizing in the 18th century, was, at bottom, the consequence of Newton’s work...