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	Philosophy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The other common approach is to examine the various branches of philosophy: epistemology (the study of knowledge), ontology (the study of existence), metaphysics (the study of ultimate reality) and ethics (the study of morality).
		Bertrand Russell and Analytic Philosophy (pp.196-201 The Story of Philosophy)
		Wittgenstein and Linguistic Philosophy (pp.202-207 The Story of Philosophy)
	www.mcquaid.org /kilbridge/philosophy.html (2615 words)

	Philosophy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Karl Popper's insistence upon the role of falsification in the philosophy of science was a reaction to the logical positivists.
		Philosophy is the science by which the natural light of reason studies the first causes or highest principles of all things – is, in other words, the science of things in their first causes, in so far as these belong to the natural order.
		Philosophy in Russia: From Herzen to Lenin and Berdyaev.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Philosophy (8561 words)

	Feminist History of Philosophy (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
		In other words, this story chronicles a turn in philosophy coincident with the rise of modern science, which generated ideals of reason and objectivity that are deeply antagonistic to women and feminism.
		Despite their different historical stories, and the different ways that they understand the maleness of reason, each of these panoramic visions of the history of philosophy deliver the same moral, which is that the central norms that inform our philosophical culture today are gendered male.
		Disagreements among feminist historians of philosophy over the value of canonical philosophers, and the appropriate categories to use to interpret them, are, in the final analysis, the result of debate within feminist philosophy over what feminism is, and what is theoretical commitments should be, and what its core values are.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/feminism-femhist (5782 words)

	1b.Philosophy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Philosophy is one of those words that is misleading largely because it is rather old.
		The oldest and wisest members of the tribe served as virtual libraries of stories, some heavily laden with her own experiences and others describing the birth of the gods and the origin of the cosmos and the first human beings.
		These stories are passed down through the generations, and they not only satisfy the curiosity of their listeners, but they show everyone their place in the scheme of things.
	members.tripod.com /drbnsu1/pols461/lectures461/logos1b.htm (3130 words)

	DePauw University : Philosophy Department
		They show that philosophy is not simply an academic discipline; it is a way to live.
		Philosophy majors are increasingly in demand in the workplace.
		Philosophy majors from DePauw have taken a variety of paths after graduation.
	www.depauw.edu /acad/philosophy (1232 words)

	articles : The History, Philosophy, and Purpose of Story : Youth Specialties (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Story isn’t a companion to, but is at the essence of, religion, communication, and art.
		This issue’s focus on story is profitable, as current church trends encourage the use of narrative, the affinity with anecdotes, and the concern for relevance.
		Story since the inception of human communication—and one of the few things that might have preceded it!—has been the mirror- image of belief, values, common intellectual suppositions, and easily perceived challenges to suppositions.
	www.youthspecialties.com /articles/topics/story/history.php (2573 words)

	Open Directory - Society: Philosophy: Philosophy for Children (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Federation of Australasian Philosophy for Children Associations - FAPCA is the umbrella organisation for Philosophy for Children in Australia and New Zealand.
		Northwest Center for Philosophy for Children - Non-profit organization that brings philosophy into the lives of young people through programs in elementary, middle, and high schools, parent organizations, and other organizations serving young people, with a particular emphasis on reaching children who are at risk and educationally disadvantaged.
		Teaching Philosophy - This journal is a peer-reviewed forum for the exchange of ideas and information regarding both the practical and the theoretical aspects of teaching and learning philosophy.
	dmoz.org /Society/Philosophy/Philosophy_for_Children (873 words)

	Gryffynlloches' Philosophy page
		Because other's philosophies are impacting my life and those I care about, and affecting the only world I know of.
		There are some fundamental questions that have evolved as core issues in philosophy: good, truth, beauty, etc. I have endeavored to construct a philosophy on a solid foundation that I can build on.
		Philosophy may begin with "I think, therefore I am," but beyond this there is only perception.
	home.earthlink.net /~doncox/philosophy/philosophy.html (1474 words)

	Martial Art Philosophy and History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		These forms tell a story of man's struggle on earth to reach a higher force and teach the student patience by constant repetition of the pattern.
		There are eight of these forms and they, like the Kicho forms, tell a type of story or philosophy pertaining to the elements or forces of nature or the universe.
		These forms also develop the martial artist's technique and patience, and tell a particular story or philosophy found in life.
	www.jackhwang.com /philosophy.html (433 words)

	Books to Read: Philosophy
		He explores the surprising role of Zen in the philosophy of the samurai, and subtly portrays the relationship between Zen and swordsmanship, haiku, tea ceremonies, and the Japanese love of nature.
		Will Durant, Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the Great Philosophers (reissue 1991), Pocket Books; ISBN: 0671739166— Easily the most engaging writer of Western intellectual history in the English language, Will Durant breathes life into philosophers and their ideas.
		Bryan Magee, Story of Philosophy (1998), DK Publishing; ISBN: 078943511X— Bryan Magee has been one of the most successful English-language popularizers of philosophy in the 20th century.
	www.wisdomportal.com /Books/Books-Philosophy.html (979 words)

	Philosophy: a Field Guide in a Humanistic Perspective (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		I've been reading philosophy since I was 15 years of age (that was a LONG time ago!), and have formal educational background in philosophy, too.
		As a school of philosophy, the Existentialists have probably done the best job of making some of the problems of philosophy accessible; and of the Existentialists, the upbeat British Existentialist Colin Wilson has probably done the best job of all.
		Metaphysics is a branch of philosophy that tries to determine the characteristics of both the physical world and the mind (or as the religiously-inclined call it, the soul).
	www.progressiveliving.org /philosophy_guide.htm (5879 words)

	Philosophy professor e-mail story is false (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The e-mail alleges that a USC professor was a "deeply committed atheist" whose main goal in his class was to prove that God didn't exist.
		The e-mail's story is one that was written to reaffirm faith in miracles and in God, but includes USC in the telling of the story.
		In this story, there was no philosophy teacher but a chemistry teacher, and instead of a piece of chalk, there was a flask.
	www.usc.edu /dept/DT/V136/N04/04-philoso.04c.html (354 words)

	Philosophy
		The first thing that should be noted is that communitarianism is a relatively young branch of political philosophy.
		Communitarianism is a political philosophy which changes the perspective on the relationships between the individual, the society, and the state.
		There are 'popular' (or, perhaps, 'vulgar') topics in philosophy which push nearly every sane IRL philosopher closer and closer to a stroke.
	community.livejournal.com /philosophy (4222 words)

	Amazon.com: Story of Philosophy: Books: Will Durant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		There is no pre-requisite to the enjoyment of philosophy, and there is no pre-requisite to the Story of Philosophy.
		Philosophy is the night that you looked up at those 100 billion stars and 100 billion galaxies and realized that you were beginning to ask the right questions.
		For those who have read it, Story of Philosophy is probably their "trapped on a desert island with one book" selection.
	www.amazon.com /Story-Philosophy-Will-Durant/dp/078610287X (2226 words)

	Back from the Dead: The Terry Wallis Story :: Ephilosopher :: Philosophy News, Research and Philosophical Discussion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet: and, amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog, has made an alliance with us.
		Wesley J. Smith (First Things), draws on this case in support of his critique of "mainstream" biotethics: "Wallis’ recovery should give great pause to the bioethics movement and members of the medical intelligentsia, many of whom seem determined to read people like Terry out of the human family.
		In mainstream bioethics philosophy, being a human being is not itself sufficient to a claim of moral worth.
	www.ephilosopher.com /article652.html (328 words)

	The Story of Philosophy from Plato to Voltaire and the French Enlightenment \| Food, Genes, and Cultural Diversity
		The Story of Philosophy from Plato to Voltaire and the French Enlightenment
		We agreed that Spinoza was a martyr to Philosophy.
		And this is just Volume I. How could he put all this stuff together, much less cook up a biography for each of the philosophers featured here, stick in his own opinions, and then give substantive excerpts from what he thinks of as the most important works by each of them.
	www.ralphmag.org /DA/briefs.html (1254 words)

	Story of Philosophy, The : Volume 2 of 2 : From Plato to the American Pragmatists : Will Durant
		The Story of Philosophy is recognized as the seminal work in the field.
		Spanning the 5th century B.C. to the 20th century A.D., The Story of Philosophy is a timeless overview of Western thought.
		Throughout his life, Durant was passionate in his quest to bring philosophy out of academia and into the lives of everyone.
	www.audiobooksonline.com /shopsite/1572704209.html (433 words)

	Which is the bigger part of this story? :: Quantum Philosophy.net :: Linearly Accelerated Media (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Which is the bigger part of this story?
		Bad: Which is the bigger part of this story?
		On February 24, Newsweek broke what may be the biggest story of the Iraq crisis.
	www.quantumphilosophy.net /News-article-sid-758.html (408 words)

	Philosophy
		These books are primarily focused on western ancient philosophy.
		This anthology looks at the early sages of Western philosophy and science who paved the way for Plato and Aristotle and their successors.
		Philosophy is a subject that influences many aspects of our lives and our understanding of our experiences, yet it can seem dauntingly inaccessible.
	www.homeschooldiscount.com /hsp/philosophy.htm (162 words)

	STORYBOOK HOMES - Our Philosophy
		Here at StoryBook Homes, our philosophy is simple: to build you a home of the highest quality and provide each one of our buyers with outstanding customer service.You will find this philosophy carries over into everything we do.
		From choosing land in desirable locations to the materials we build with to the design features we incorporate into our floorplans, this philosophy is working for you before you’ve even chosen to purchase a StoryBooks Home.
		As you progress through the home buying process, we will be there to answer any and all of your questions and to guide you.
	www.storybookhomes.us /aboutus/philosophy.asp (133 words)

	WAC.pitt \| For Faculty \| Further Reading \| Philosophy
		Carella, M. "Philosophy as literacy: Teaching college students to read critically and write cogently." College Composition and Communication, 34, 57- 61.
		McCarthy, L. P., and S. "Boundary conversations: Conflicting ways of knowing in philosophy and interdisciplinary research." Research in the Teaching of English, 25, 419- 68.
		Pletcher, G. "Literacy and the study of philosophy." Teaching Philosophy, 6, 109- 115.
	www.wac.pitt.edu /faculty/bibliographies/philosophy.asp (350 words)

	History of Philosophy Audio Books, Podcasts, and Videos
		Knowledge Products' The World of Philosophy series covers many areas of world philosophy that western histories don't touch upon.
		This lively and engaging book is the ideal introduction for anyone who has ever been puzzled by what philosophy is or what it is for.
		The Story of Philosophy is a timeless overview of Western thought....
	www.learnoutloud.com /Catalog/Philosophy/History-of-Philosophy (710 words)

	Will Durant Online: The Gentle Philosopher
		The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the Greater Philosophers.
		Reissue of The Story of Philosophy, New York: Garden City Publishing co., inc., 1935.
		"Is Philosophy Doomed?" The Bookman, LXIV (December, 1926), 392-396.
	www.willdurant.com /bibliography.htm (1931 words)

	Will Durant's The Story of Philosophy pages on William James , pages 553-565 with Quantonics' comments.
		His greatest achievement was almost his first—The Principles of Psychology (1890); a fascinating mixture of anatomy, philosophy and analysis; for in James psychology still drips from the foetal membranes of its mother, metaphysics.
		A philosophy whose principle is so incommensurate with our most intimate powers as to deny them all relevancy in universal affairs, as to annihilate their motives at one blow, will be even more unpopular than pessimism.
		They are merely tangent to curves of history, the beginnings and ends and forms of which pass wholly beyond their ken. So we are tangent to the wider life of things.
	www.quantonics.com /Durants_TSoP_on_James.html (5510 words)

	Philosophy on LJ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		This, again, is nature (physis), or the “cosmos.” “Thus the story even of the sign begins with the discovery of nature as a reality prior to and in various ways escaping human purposes” (19); and it begins between the 7th and the 5th centuries
		Maybe my story about orange juice oceans isn't distant enough, or distant in the right way, to be the sort of thing we're meant to be impugning.
		That is what philosophy is; that is what it does.” Further, it “emerges within civilization as that aspect or part of civilization through which understanding confronts within experience the other as other, confronts within experience the irreducibility of the objective world to my experience of it.
	community.livejournal.com /real_philosophy (4950 words)

	Will Durant Online: The Gentle Philosopher
		Their books have sold millions of copies and their influence and insights are more vital today than at any other point in our history.
		The Durants spent over fifty years researching and writing about human behavior in their critically acclaimed eleven-volume The Story of Civilization.
		His first book, The Story of Philosophy (1926), is credited as the work that launched Simon and Schuster as a major publishing force and that introduced more people to the subject of philosophy than any other book before or since.
	www.willdurant.com /home.html (503 words)

	Teaching Ancient Greek Philosophy
		The trial and death of Socrates (469-399 BC) have almost as central a place in Western consciousness as the trial and death of Jesus.
		Philosophy is a subject that influences many aspects of our lives, yet it can seem dauntingly inaccessible.
		Unrivaled in its clarity and insight, The Story of Philosophy guides us...
	www.learningthings.com /items.asp?cc=PHILOSOP (277 words)

	STORY OF PHILOSOPHY PAPERBACK - Bryan Magee - DK
		STORY OF PHILOSOPHY PAPERBACK - Bryan Magee - DK View Cart
		Comprehensive, highly visual, and filled with insightful observations, The Story of Philosophy opens up the world of philosophical ideas in a way that is easily understood by everyone.
		Bryan Magee embarks on an entertaining and enlightening journey and addresses such influential questions as "What is Philosophy?" "What is being?" and "Can the existence of God be proved?"
	cn.dk.com /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780789479945,00.html (77 words)

	About Story & Philosophy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		This is a story about the history of human kind, its triumphs, accomplishments and inventions.
		Sadly, it is also the story of evil.
		The museum, while creating a window to the history of the world, also reflects some of Stauf's madness.
	www.roblanderos.com /collector/philosophy.html (289 words)

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