* Alan Watts, philosopher

Alan Watts ( 1975: xix ) explains using Wade – Giles " in spite of its defects " but writes: " No uninitiated English-speaking person could guess how to pronounce it, and I have even thought, in a jocularly malicious state of mind, that Professors Wade and Giles invented it so as to erect a barrier between profane and illiterate people and true scholars.

* Watts, Alan.

* 1915 – Alan Watts, English writer / philosopher ( d. 1973 )

* Alan Watts

In the early 1960s the use of LSD and other hallucinogens was advocated by proponents of the new " consciousness expansion ", such as Timothy Leary, Alan Watts, Aldous Huxley and Arthur Koestler, their writings profoundly influenced the thinking of the new generation of youth.

* Watts, Alan Wilson.

* Watts, Alan.

* Watts, Alan Wilson.

Other prominent academics associated with the University include Geoffrey Bennington, the creator of the MA programme in Modern French Thought ( Derrida, Lyotard ); Homi K. Bhabha ( postcolonialism ); Rachel Bowlby ( feminism, Woolf, Freud ); Geoff Cloke FRS ( Inorganic Chemistry ); Jonathan Dollimore ( Renaissance literature, gender and queer studies ); Katy Gardner ( social anthropology ); Gabriel Josipovici ( Dante, the Bible ); Michael Land FRS ( Animal Vision-Frink Medal )); Michael Lappert FRS ( Inorganic Chemistry ); Alan Lehmann FRS ( Genetics and Genome Stability ); ( Laura Marcus ( Woolf ); John Murrell FRS ( Theoretical Chemistry ); Peter Nicholls ( Pound, modernism ); John Nixon FRS ( Inorganic Chemistry )); Laurence Pearl FRS ( Structural Biology ); Guy Richardson FRS ( Neuroscience ); Jacqueline Rose ( feminism, psychoanalysis ); Nicholas Royle ( modern literature and theory ; deconstruction ); Alan Sinfield ( Shakespeare, sexuality, queer theory ); Norman Vance ( Victorian, classical reception ); Richard Whatmore & Knud Haakonssen ( intellectual historians ); Gavin Ashenden ( Senior Lecturer in English, University Chaplain, and Chaplain to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II ; Cedric Watts ( Conrad, Greene ); Marcus Wood ( postcolonialism ).

* Alan Watts

The philosopher Alan Watts ( from the " Houseboat Summit " panel discussion in a 1967 edition of the San Francisco Oracle ) reflected a growing sentiment:

* Edgar Barefoot: Houseboat guru, radio personality, lecturer, based on Alan Watts

On the other hand, later Zen-popularizer Alan Watts was influenced by ideas from general semantics.

Some Beat writers, such as Alan Watts, began to delve into Eastern religions such as Buddhism or Taoism.

The British philosopher Alan Watts wrote extensively about this subject.

* Alan Watts, philosopher, born and raised in Chislehurst, moved to the United States in 1938.

Bartley details Erhard's connections with Zen beginning with his extensive studies with Alan Watts in the mid 1960s.

After his move to Sausalito, he attended talks by Alan Watts, a notable Western interpreter of Zen Buddhism, who introduced him to the distinction between mind and self ; Erhard subsequently became close friends with Watts.

Bartley details Erhard's connections with Zen beginning with his extensive studies with Alan Watts in the mid 1960s and quotes Erhard as acknowledging:

* Alan Watts ( 1915 – 1973 )

Gurdjieff is said to have had a strong influence on many modern mystics, artists, writers, and thinkers, including Osho ( Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh ), Frank Lloyd Wright, Keith Jarrett, George Russell ( composer ), Alan Watts, Timothy Leary, Robert Anton Wilson, Robert Fripp, Jacob Needleman, John Shirley, Carlos Castaneda, Dennis Lewis, Peter Brook, Kate Bush, P. L. Travers, Robert S de Ropp, Walter Inglis Anderson, Jean Toomer, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Louis Pauwels, James Moore and Abdullah Isa Neil Dougan.

* Alan Carter ( philosopher )

* Alan Stout ( philosopher )

University of Pennsylvania professor Alan Charles Kors and lawyer Harvey A. Silverglate connect political correctness to Marxist philosopher Herbert Marcuse.

In spring of 1997, the postmodern philosopher Fred Newman responded to the Sokal Affair publishing hoax in the paper " Science Can Do Better than Sokal: A Commentary on the So-Called Science Wars ", which he presented at the Postmodernism and the Social Sciences conference at the New School for Social Research ; Alan Sokal was a participant.

* Alan Musgrave, philosopher of science

Her teachings influenced beat writers Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, philosopher Alan Watts, and Theosophist Benjamin Creme.

* John Alan Robinson ( born 1930 ), philosopher and mathematician

American philosopher David Alan Johnson attempted to refute the notion of an is-ought gap in his work " Truth Without Paradox " in which he presents three lines of reasoning challenging the idea of a deductive gap between normative and factual propositions.

The Bay Area-based philosopher and writer Alan Watts, in his autobiography, mentioned that by around 1960 or so "… something else was on the way, in religion, in music, in ethics and sexuality, in our attitudes to nature, and in our whole style of life " ( from Watts, In My Own Way ).

Prominent academics include: philosopher Roger Scruton, philosopher and educationalist Anthony O ' Hear, educationalist Alan Smithers, the former Chief Inspector of Schools Chris Woodhead, the cancer specialist Karol Sikora and the historian and political scientist Geoffrey Alderman.

French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, and Bulgarian-French philosopher Julia Kristeva have been accused of misusing mathematics in their work ; see Fashionable Nonsense ( 1998 ) by Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont.

According to philosopher and theologian Alan Watts, the double bind has long been used in Zen Buddhism as a therapeutic tool.

* Alan M. Olson ( born 1939 ), philosopher

* David Alan Johnson ( born 1952 ), American philosopher

On his journeys to the West Govinda made friends with the Swiss philosopher Jean Gebser, the Zen and Taoist teacher Alan Watts, the pioneer of transcendental psychotherapy Roberto Assagioli and the author Luise Rinser.

Other speakers included: California Assemblymen Willie Brown, William Stanton and John Burton ; Dave Dellinger ( political activist ); James Aronson ( National Guardian magazine ); philosopher Alan Watts ; comedian Dick Gregory ; Paul Krassner ( editor, The Realist ); M. S.

Alan Gewirth ( November 28, 1912-May 9, 2004 ) was an American philosopher, a professor of philosophy at the University of Chicago, and author of Reason and Morality, ( 1978 ), Human Rights: Essays on Justification and Applications ( 1982 ), The Community of Rights ( 1996 ), Self-Fulfillment ( 1998 ), and numerous other writings in moral philosophy and political philosophy.

( 1986 ) from Oxford University, where he studied under legal philosopher Ronald Dworkin and political theorist Alan Ryan.

* In the late 1960s, New Age philosopher Alan Watts, who lived in Sausalito, a suburb of San Francisco, suggested that police cars be painted baby blue and white instead of black and white.