A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful is a 1757 treatise on aesthetics written by Edmund Burke.

Philosophical interpretations of quantum phenomena, however, are another matter: the question of how to interpret the mathematical formulation of quantum mechanics has given rise to a variety of different answers from people of different philosophical persuasions ( see Interpretations of quantum mechanics ).

Using first-hand remarks ( which would later be published in Philosophical Investigations, Culture and Value, and other works ), philosophers such as Peter Winch and Norman Malcolm developed what has come to be known as contemplative philosophy, a Wittgensteinian school of thought rooted in the " Swansea tradition " and which includes Wittgensteinians such as Rush Rhees, Peter Winch and D. Z. Phillips, among others.

Philosophical pessimism is the similar but not identical idea that life has a negative value, or that this world is as bad as it could possibly be.

The portmanteau " Kripkenstein " has been coined as a jesting nickname for Kripke's reading of the Philosophical Investigations.

Though Derrida addressed the American Philosophical Association at least on one occasion in 1988, and was highly regarded by some contemporary philosophers like Richard Rorty, Alexander Nehamas, and Stanley Cavell, his work has been regarded by other analytic philosophers, such as John Searle and Willard Van Orman Quine, as pseudophilosophy or sophistry.

She has been elected to numerous special societies, including the American Physical Society and American Philosophical Society.

** Philosophical progress, the idea that philosophy has solved or at least can solve some of the questions it studies.

The article was originally published in 1974 in The Philosophical Review, and has been reprinted several times, including in The Mind's I ( edited by Daniel Dennett and Douglas Hofstadter ), Readings in the Philosophy of Psychology ( edited by Ned Block ), Nagel's Mortal Questions ( 1979 ), The Nature of Mind ( edited by David M. Rosenthal ), and Philosophy of Mind: Classical and Contemporary Readings ( edited by David J. Chalmers ).

Philosophical interest in Moore's paradox, since Moore and Wittgenstein, has undergone a resurgence, starting with, though not limited to, Jaakko Hintikka, continuing with Roy Sorensen, David Rosenthal, Sydney Shoemaker and the first publication, in 2007, of a collection of articles devoted to the problem.

Hood has published more than 600 peer-reviewed papers, received 14 patents, and co-authored textbooks in biochemistry, immunology, molecular biology, and genetics, and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering and the Institute of Medicine.

From 1832 to 1842, Michelet was engaged in publishing the complete works of Hegel, and in 1845 he founded the Berlin Philosophical Society, which has continuously represented the Hegelianism of Germany.

Jefferson's ground sloth has a special place in modern paleontology, for Thomas Jefferson's letter on Megalonyx, read before the American Philosophical Society of Philadelphia, in August 1796, marked the beginning of vertebrate paleontology in North America.

The APS has published the Transactions of the American Philosophical Society since 1771.

The collection of his Philosophical Poems ( 1647 ), in which he has " compared his chief speculations and experiences ," should also be consulted.

A MacArthur Prize Fellow from 1987 to 1992, Wilson has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Education, the American Philosophical Society, the Institute of Medicine, and the British Academy.

Although some have separated Marx's works between a " young Marx " ( in particular the Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844 ) and a " mature Marx " or also by separating it into purely philosophical works, economics works and political and historical interventions, Étienne Balibar ( 1993 ) has pointed out that Marx's works can be divided into " economic works " ( Das Kapital, 1867 ), " philosophical works " and " historical works " ( The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, the 1871 Civil War in France which concerned the Paris Commune and acclaimed it as the first " dictatorship of the proletariat ", etc.

Casper has been elected to membership in the American Law Institute, the International Academy of Comparative Law, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Orden Pour le mérite für Wissenschaften und Künste ( Order Pour le mérite for the Sciences and Arts ), and the American Philosophical Society.

In the Party's Philosophical Basis, it states that the Green Party " reject the hierarchical structure of leaders and followers, and, instead advocate participatory politics " and it is " for this reason " that the Green Party has eschewed an individual leader.

" The policy proscribing same-sex activity by personnel has led to Calvin College's employment advertisements being flagged as discriminatory by the American Philosophical Association.

The early 19th century has been seen as a time of decline for the society ; of 662 fellows in 1830, only 104 had contributed to the Philosophical Transactions.

He has also been a visiting professor at Princeton University, and is a former president of the American Philosophical Association.

Robert Putnam has been elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences ( 1980 ), and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations ( 1981 ), the National Academy of Sciences ( 2001 ), and the American Philosophical Society ( 2005 ).

The portmanteau " Kripkenstein " has been coined as a nickname for Kripke's reading of the Philosophical Investigations.

The only writer to widely publish British grimoires in the early 19th century, Robert Cross Smith, released The Philosophical Merlin ( 1822 ) and The Astrologer of the Nineteenth Century ( 1825 ), but neither sold well.

There is a Dalton Medal awarded occasionally by the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society ( only 12 times altogether ).

Some were in complete form and appeared in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London ; others were incomplete, giving only the results without the extended demonstrations, and appeared in the Proceedings of that Society.

The Book of Ecclesiastes is often considered to be the only genuine Philosophical work in the Hebrew Bible, its author seeks to understand the place of human beings in the world, and life's meaning.

One official historian of the society, William T. Hastings, and some others believe that the " S " and " P " on the badge, which stood for Societas Philosophiae, " Philosophical Society ", was the original name of the Society and that " Phi Beta Kappa " came only over time to be taken as the name of the society.

This work is Hegel's most mature statement of his legal, moral, social and political philosophy and is an expansion upon concepts only briefly dealt with in the Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences, published in 1817 ( and again in 1827 and 1830 ).

* American Philosophical Society: many Cincinnati were among its first board members and contributors ; modern societies maintain informal, collegial relationships only

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1743, but his only contribution to the Society's Philosophical Transactions was a letter relating to a case of plica polonica in 1747.

It is also the only PIM package recommended by the British Philosophical Association.

Philosophical logic is a term introduced by Bertrand Russell to represent his idea that the workings of natural language and thought can only be adequately represented by an artificial language ; essentially it was his formalization program for the natural language.

He was repeatedly honored by his colleagues in one way or another-as an APA representative to the Social Science Research Council, as a member of that Association's Board of Directors, by election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, to the American Philosophical Society, and to the National Academy of Sciences. T he honor he appreciated most deeply, perhaps, was the award of the Warren Medal by the Society of Experimental Psychologists, word of which reached him only a month before his death.

Although Horner's article on the Daedelum ( zoetrope ) appeared in Philosophical Magazine only in January, 1834, he had published on Camera lucida as early as August, 1815.

Voltaire consequently was the only guest to take the game seriously and the idea cascaded to form the Philosophical Dictionary.

The society's Memoirs and Proceedings, first published in 1783, was at the time of its launch the only regular scientific journal in the United Kingdom except for the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.

" At that time had received only three awards for his work in cosmology, from the American Philosophical Society, the Belgian Academy of Science, and the Franklin Institute — all occurring after he turned 50 ( personal communication to Victor S. Alpher added July 7, 2011 ).

Franklin invited Dashkova to become the first woman to join the American Philosophical Society, and the only one to be so honored for another 80 years.

Marsh named Nothodon in the American Journal of Science only five days before Cope described Diadectes in Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society.

Charles Gray, in the Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, argues that Coke as a judge never intended to advocate the judicial review of statutes, Bailyn writes that " Coke had not meant ... that there were superior principles of right and justice which Acts of Parliament might not contravene ... saying that courts might ' void ' a legislative provision that violated the constitution he meant only that the courts were to construe statutes so as to bring them into conformity with recognized legal principles ".