He was admired by and influential among other philosophers, and also by the Bloomsbury Group, but is ( unlike his colleague Russell ) mostly unknown today outside of academic philosophy.

In Braid's day, the Scottish School of Common Sense provided the dominant theories of academic psychology and Braid refers to other philosophers within this tradition throughout his writings.

A listing of Rand also appears in the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, featuring the assessment " The influence of Rand's ideas was strongest among college students in the USA but attracted little attention from academic philosophers.

From the end of World War II until 1971, when John Rawls published A Theory of Justice, political philosophy declined in the Anglo-American academic world, as analytic philosophers expressed skepticism about the possibility that normative judgments had cognitive content, and political science turned toward statistical methods and behavioralism.

Historical use of the term humanism ( reflected in some current academic usage ), is related to the writings of pre-Socratic philosophers.

Vaishnava theology has been a subject of study for many devotees, philosophers and scholars in India for centuries, and in recent decades also has been taken on by a number of academic institutions in Europe, such as the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies and Bhaktivedanta College.

In the 1980s, during the American culture wars, conservatives started a dispute over Derrida's influence and legacy upon American intellectuals, and claimed that he influenced American literary critics and theorists more than academic philosophers.

Two quarrels ( or disputes ) in particular went out of academic circles and received international mass media coverage: the 1972 – 88 quarrel with John Searle, and the analytic philosophers ' pressures on Cambridge University to not award Derrida an honorary degree.

The academic field of environmental ethics grew up in response to the work of scientists such as Rachel Carson and events such as the first Earth Day in 1970, when environmentalists started urging philosophers to consider the philosophical aspects of environmental problems.

* Australasian Association of Philosophy, professional organisation of academic philosophers

Hegel was hugely influential throughout the nineteenth century ; by its end, according to Bertrand Russell, " the leading academic philosophers, both in America and Britain, were largely Hegelian ".

Even academic philosophers entirely in the mainstream, such as Gareth Evans, have written as follows:

In recent years, however, there has been a resurgence of interest in Bradley's and other idealist philosophers ' work in the Anglo-American academic community.

Throughout history, soldiers, military theorists, political leaders, philosophers, academic scholars, practitioners of international law and human rights advocacy groups have sought to determine fundamental rules for the conduct of warfare.

Despite his discontent with most academic philosophy at his time, Geertz was largely influenced by two philosophers: Gilbert Ryle and Ludwig Wittgenstein.

Stewart Ross Sutherland, Baron Sutherland of Houndwood, ( born 25 February 1941 ) is a British academic and public servant and one of the UK's most distinguished philosophers of religion.

As Inspector General and then President of the Jury d ' Agrégation in philosophy, Canguilhem had a tremendous and direct influence over philosophical instruction in France in the latter half of the twentieth century and was known to more than a generation of French academic philosophers as a demanding and exacting evaluator who, as Louis Althusser remarked, believed he could correct the philosophical understanding of teachers by bawling them out.

As with other academic disciplines, philosophy increasingly became professionalized in the twentieth century, and a split emerged between philosophers who considered themselves to be part of either the " analytic " or " continental " traditions.

More often than not, the latter designation is intended to denote a way of doing business or a business outlook, a popular use of the term philosophy, instead of its more formal, academic meaning, using the concepts and methods employed by philosophers.

There are indications that a growing number of philosophers with formal training in academic philosophy will come to specialize in the philosophy of business.

Of wildflowers and songbirds, for example, species with little instrumental value, Leopold writes in Sand County ’ s “ The Land Ethic ”: “ Yet these creatures are members of the biotic community, and if ( as I believe ) its stability depends on its integrity, they are entitled to continuance .” And later in “ The Land Ethic ,” Leopold directly invokes “ philosophical value ” — that is, what academic environmental philosophers call “ intrinsic value ”: “ It is inconceivable to me that an ethical relationship to land can exist without love, respect, and admiration for land, and a high regard for its value.

Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya obtained his academic training in philosophy in Calcutta, West Bengal under eminent philosophers like Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan and S. N. Dasgupta.

Michael Burawoy has marked the difference between public sociology, which is focused firmly on practical applications, and academic or professional sociology, which involves dialogue amongst other social scientists and philosophers.

Philopoemen was educated by academic philosophers Ecdemus and Demophanes.

His academic duties had little evident effect on his prolific pen.

The revolution in jazz that took place around 1949, the evolution from the `` bebop '' school of Dizzy Gillespie to the `` cool '' sound of Miles Davis and Lennie Tristano, Lee Konitz, and the whole legend of Charlie Parker, had made an impression on many academic and literary men.

He assumed his academic career with the same intensity and thoroughness that had marked every step in his rise from boyhood.

If Depew had told any academic psychologist that he had a weird feeling of having lived through that identical convention session at some time in the past, he would have been informed that he was a victim of deja vue.

Negro lawyers dug into the records of 300 white students, found that many were hardly interviewed at all -- and few had academic records as good as Hamilton Holmes.

Consequently, there was little public concern with the issues and debate had been confined largely to academic circles until, in November 2010, the announcement that Prince William was to marry.

Bob Jones, Sr. was leery of academic accreditation almost from the founding of the college, and by the early 1930s, he had publicly stated his opposition to holding regional accreditation.

For instance, it defined chemical engineering to be a " science of itself, the basis of which is ... unit operations " in a 1922 report ; and with which principle, it had published a list of academic institutions which offered " satisfactory " chemical engineering courses.

Graduating high school students with Ivy League caliber academic records have given the Honors College a closer look as a result, and this has had a trickle-down effect in improving the image of CUNY as a whole, which prior to the inception of the HC had been criticized as ' an institution adrift ' by the Giuliani administration.

In 2004, Booz Allen Hamilton selected Dartmouth College as a model of institutional endurance " whose record of endurance has had implications and benefits for all American organizations, both academic and commercial ," citing Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward and Dartmouth's successful self-reinvention in the late 19th century.

Not all Medieval writers are so at odds with the Virgilian standard, and with the rediscovery of classical literature later Medieval and Renaissance writers are far more orthodox, but by then the form had become an academic exercise.

David had a huge number of pupils, making him the strongest influence in French art of the early 19th century, especially academic Salon painting.

In defense of vouchers, it cites empirical research showing that students who were randomly assigned to receive vouchers had higher academic outcomes than students who applied for vouchers but lost a random lottery and did not receive them ; and that vouchers improve academic outcomes at public schools, reduce racial segregation, deliver better services to special education students, and do not drain money from public schools.

This decision was criticised by the Opposition, which had initiated the review when in power, and the review process was questioned by a leading academic.

Hayek then decided to pursue an academic career, determined to help avoid the mistakes that had led to the war.

Her husband's academic fraud had been exposed by one of his fellow dons there, destroying his career and driving him to suicide.

Even had she been so inclined, Annie could never have pursued an academic career, since she could not have afforded the high tuition fees.

Jigoro Kano had an academic upbringing and, from the age of seven, he studied English, and the under a number of tutors.

It originated in a time of persecution of the Jewish people, when European Jews had turned inward to Talmud study ; many felt that most expressions of Jewish life had become too " academic ", and that they no longer had any emphasis on spirituality or joy.