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Famous college professors

Tuesday 3 May 2011 0 comments

Famous college professors

Famous college professors and Heroes of Higher Education. Today is National Teachers Day, and shiny apples and thank-you cards will grace the desks of primary school teachers across the land. But let's not forget all those higher-education heroes — real and fictional — who've also made the grade.

Randy Pausch

The inspirational former computer science professor was given a terminal medical diagnosis in 2007. What was his illness? Before his death the following year, he delivered some stirring final words to students.

Henry Louis Gates Jr

Gates has been a staple in the world of Massachusetts academia since 1991. He is the award-winning director of the school's African-American research program.

Américo Paredes

Paredes was devoted to the study of corridos. This Texas native taught creative writing and made a campus breakthrough. Which program did he help launch?

John F. Nash Jr

The Nobel Prize-winning mathematician and economist taught such thought-provoking subjects as game theory at this New Jersey school. See which movie was based on his life.

Paul Krugman

Krugman teaches economics and international affairs and gained fame for developing this economic model.

Cornel West

West teaches at the Center for African American Studies, focusing on religion and philosophy. He's also an author and prominent political commentator.

Katherine Watson

Julia Roberts stars as a fictional art teacher in the 2003 film "Mona Lisa Smile." In the movie she inspires her conservative students to explore modern art and to challenge rigid 1950s social mores.

Stephen Hawking

This celebrated British instructor has enlightened students on such subjects as mathematics and physics.

Noam Chomsky

Chomsky is a professor emeritus of linguistics who also is devoted to the study of philosophy and U.S. foreign policy. Which intellectual movement did he help spark?

Vivian Bearing

Bearing is the fictional lead character in the acclaimed play "Wit". She's a cold, demanding English professor who has a change of heart after receiving the news that she's dying of cancer. The play received a top honor.

Albert Einstein

The great theoretical physicist was a professor at this German school when he developed his famous theory. What prompted him to leave Germany?

Mary McLeod Bethune

This famed educator started a pioneering school for African-Americans in 1904. Though the school began as a six-child grade school — what was it called? — it eventually became a full-fledged college. Find out what the school is called now.

"What do you do philosophy?"

Thursday 17 February 2011 0 comments

Steve Pyke for a quarter century makes portraits of philosophers and gives them the same question:

Derek Parfait

"What interests me is the metaphysical questions, the answers to which affect our emotions. Why is there a universe? That allows each of us consider ourselves to the same person throughout life? Do we have free will? Illusory if over time? "

Alfred Ayer

"To say that authority - whether secular or religious - can in no way justify the morality is not to deny the obvious fact that he somehow determines our choice."

John McDowell

"I am interested in the effects of the metaphysical position, which we so easily slips, it can be called scientism or naturalism. I am sure that it distorts our ideas about the place of consciousness in the world. The task of philosophy, as I see it - to correct this distortion..

Noam Chomsky

"The main questions of philosophy can, I think, productively reformulated overridden from the standpoint of science, which kept the momentum early Modern Times. Initially I was interested in exactly that - especially in regard to language and consciousness, the biological basis of human thought and speech as a way to express the thought. "

John Rawls

"From that moment as a teenager I began to study philosophy, I am concerned about issues of morality and the religious and philosophical foundations that allow us to answer these questions. Three years in the U.S. Army during the Second World - and I began to worry about policy issues. Around 1950, I began writing a book about justice. Eventually, I finished it. ''

Herbert Lionel Hart

"To tell you frankly, I think the idea of a summary of 50-100 words - it's an absurd idea ... I advise you to renounce it. "

Sir Karl Raimund Popper

"I believe in science - and the time for that matter in philosophy - there's only one way: to find the problem, to see its beauty and fall in love with her, then marry her and live happily and die in one day - unless, of course You will not find another, more beautiful, or a problem, contrary to expectation, did not find the solution. But even if you actually find a solution to your problem, you'll find a whole family of problems, offspring. "

Willard Van Orman Quine

"The world around us drumming our nerve endings in the rays of light and a hail of molecules, causing us to feel. Growing up in a talkative society, we gradually learn to relate these feelings with certain words and reach the age when we can talk about the objects of the external world - animals, plants, planets, galaxies, the nerve endings, the rays of light and molecules. We also talked about intangible objects - numbers, for example. I would like to have a clearer view of the connection - logical and causal - between the original stimuli from the outside world, caused by their feelings and language, which purport to describe the outside world. "

Raymond Klibansky