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It is, indeed, the cardinal weakness of this form of intuitionism that no satisfactory list can be given and that no moral principles have the " constant and never-failing entity ," or the definiteness, of the concepts of geometry ( these attacks are not uncontested — see, for example, the " Common Sense " tradition from Thomas Reid to James McCosh and the Oxford Realists Harold Prichard and Sir William David Ross ).
James Mark Baldwin ( January 12, 1861, Columbia, South Carolina – November 8, 1934, Paris ) was an American philosopher and psychologist who was educated at Princeton under the supervision of Scottish philosopher James McCosh and who was one of the founders of the Department of Psychology at the university.
* James McCosh, Scottish Philosophy ( 1885 )
James McCosh ( April 1, 1811 – November 16, 1894 ) was a prominent philosopher of the Scottish School of Common Sense.
* Douglas Arner, " James McCosh ", in The Encyclopedia of Philosophy ", ed.
* Hoeveler, J. David, Jr. James McCosh and the Scottish Intellectual Tradition: From Glasgow to Princeton.
* James McCosh
However in 1868, upon Maclean's retirement, James McCosh, a philosopher, became president.
In 1910 it moved to a house built in 1887 for James McCosh, the eleventh president of Princeton University.
* James McCosh
One of his professors was James McCosh.
In 1888, he was elected president of the College of New Jersey ( which in 1896 became Princeton University ), replacing out-going president James McCosh.
# Reverend James McCosh 1868-1888
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James and Scottish
The Church of Scotland separated from the Roman Catholic Church with the Scottish Reformation in 1560, and the split from it of the Scottish Episcopal Church began in 1582, in the reign of James VI of Scotland, over disagreements about the role of bishops.
* 1773 – James Mill, Scottish philosopher and historian ( d. 1836 )
* 1983 – James McFadden, Scottish footballer
* 1327 – First War of Scottish Independence: James Douglas leads a raid into Weardale and almost kills Edward III of England.
* 1979 – James McAvoy, Scottish actor
* 1710 – James Ferguson, Scottish astronomer ( d. 1776 )
James Thomson Callender, a Scottish citizen, had been expelled from Great Britain for his political writings.
The central argument in Principles was that the present is the key to the past – a concept of the Scottish Enlightenment which David Hume had stated as " all inferences from experience suppose ... that the future will resemble the past ", and James Hutton had described when he wrote in 1788 that " from what has actually been, we have data for concluding with regard to that which is to happen thereafter.
The term was introduced by the Scottish philosopher James Frederick Ferrier ( 1808 – 1864 ).
On 6 October 1854, Scottish miner James Scobie was murdered at the Eureka hotel.
The Scottish lords forced her to abdicate in favour of her son James, who had been born in June 1566.
* 1837 – Sir James Murray, Scottish lexicographer and philologist ( d. 1915 )
* The Ossian cycle of ancient Celtic poetry supposedly rediscovered and published in 1760 by Scottish poet James Macpherson was actually written in the eighteenth century, possibly based on some fragments of earlier verses.
In 1843 James Braid, a Scottish physician proposed the term hypnosis for a technique derived from magnetism but more limited in its claimed effects, and also different in its conception.
The theory was proposed in 1795 by James Hutton, a Scottish physician and gentleman farmer, and was later incorporated into Charles Lyell's theory of uniformitarianism.
A fundamental principle of geology advanced by the 18th century Scottish physician and geologist James Hutton, is that " the present is the key to the past.
Most of the Scottish nobility were killed along with James himself.
King James I & VI as he was styled became the first monarch to rule the entire island of Great Britain, although it was merely a union of the English and Scottish crowns, and both countries remained separate political entities until 1707.
In 1468 the last significant acquisition of Scottish territory occurred when James III married Margaret of Denmark, receiving the Orkney Islands and the Shetland Islands in payment of her dowry.
James IV's reign is often considered to have seen a flowering of Scottish culture under the influence of the European Renaissance.
Although James had tried to get the Scottish Church to accept some of the High Church Anglicanism of his southern kingdom, he met with limited success.
He and other Scottish Enlightenment thinkers developed what he called a ' science of man ', which was expressed historically in works by authors including James Burnett, Adam Ferguson, John Millar and William Robertson, all of whom merged a scientific study of how humans behave in ancient and primitive cultures with a strong awareness of the determining forces of modernity.
The focus of the Scottish Enlightenment ranged from intellectual and economic matters to the specifically scientific as in the work of William Cullen, physician and chemist, James Anderson, an agronomist, Joseph Black, physicist and chemist, and James Hutton, the first modern geologist.

James and Philosophy
He wrote many texts in James Mark Baldwin's Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology ( 1901 – 5 ); half of those credited to him appear to have been written actually by Christine Ladd-Franklin under his supervision.
( 2007 ) " Epiphenomenalism ," The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, James Fieser and Bradley Dowden ( eds .).
( See James Ladyman, Understanding Philosophy of Science, p. 147 )
* Metaethics-§ 1 of the " Ethics " entry in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy by James Fieser.
* James, William ( 1907 ), Pragmatism, A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking, Popular Lectures on Philosophy, Longmans, Green, and Company, New York, NY.
* Medieval Philosophy, Universities and the Church by James Hannam
* Rachels, James, 2007, The Elements of Moral Philosophy, McGraw-Hill, ISBN 0-07-282574-X
* Frederick James Eugene Woodbridge ( 1867-1940 ), American philosopher and founder of the Journal of Philosophy
* Sennett, James, Modality, Probability, and Rationality: A Critical Examination of Alvin Plantinga's Philosophy.
* Professor James Sully, Grote Professor of the Philosophy of Mind and Logic, University College, London
* Mark Sheehan, MA ( Melbourne ), PhD ( New York ): Senior Research Fellow ( Fixed Term ) in Philosophy ( 2009 —); James Martin Fellow and Deputy Director of the Oxford Bioethics Network
Further works include editions with notes of Paley's Moral Philosophy ( 1852 ); Education as a Science ( 1879 ); Dissertations on leading philosophical topics ( 1903, mainly reprints of papers in Mind ); he collaborated with JS Mill and Grote in editing James Mill's Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind ( 1869 ), and assisted in editing Grote's Aristotle and Minor Works ; he also wrote a memoir prefixed to G Croom Robertson's Philosophical Remains ( 1894 ).
By then the work on the " Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology " ( 1902 ) had been announced and a period of intense philosophical correspondence ensued with the contributors to the project: William James, John Dewey, Charles Sanders Peirce, Josiah Royce, George Edward Moore, Bernard Bosanquet, James McKeen Cattell, Edward B. Titchener, Hugo Münsterberg, Christine Ladd-Franklin, Adolf Meyer, George Stout, Franklin Henry Giddings, Edward Bagnall Poulton and others.
Heusenstamm: Ontos, 2008 ). The Fragment on Mackintosh severely criticizes the alleged flimsiness and misrepresentations of Sir James Mackintosh's famous Dissertation on the Progress of Ethical Philosophy ( 1830 ), and discusses the foundations of ethics from the author's utilitarian point of view.
Owen Flanagan, Ph. D. ( born 1949 ) is the James B. Duke Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Neurobiology at Duke University.
* James S. Cutsinger Perennial Philosophy and Christianity
Notices of Price's ethical system occur in James Mackintosh's Progress of Ethical Philosophy, Jouffroy's Introduction to Ethics, William Whewell's History of Moral Philosophy in England ; Alexander Bain's Mental and Moral Sciences.
( 1825 ); James McCosh's Scottish Philosophy, pp. 317 – 337.
* James C. O ' Flaherty, Unity and Language: A Study in the Philosophy of Hamann ; ( University of North Carolina ), 1952 ;
In his The Natural Philosophy of Time ( 1961, 1980 ) Gerald James Whitrow recalls Clifford's prescience by quoting him to describe the Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker metric in cosmology ( 1st ed pp 246, 7 ; 2nd ed p 291 ).

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