philosophy

No one can be as effective as the president in inspiring older men to welcome imaginative new teachers whose philosophy or approach to their specialties is quite different.

Recently colleges and universities have begun to translate their educational philosophy into institution-wide goals.

Just as the entire faculty should know the president's educational philosophy and objectives, so should non-academic officers.

But with all the changes in philosophy, dress and terrain -- a few things remain constant, including the devotion of Americans to the great field sports, hunting and fishing.

It is his relentlessness and unwaivering adherence to this revolutionary artistic philosophy that has enabled him to paint such pictures as `` The Invasion of Cuba ''.

The philosophy has been that if they could find the time to attend class why not encourage them to get the credit and perhaps provide an incentive to do the work more effectively.

To appreciate this development, we must relate it to other aspects of nineteenth-century philosophy.

It was, too, an optimistic philosophy, and, though it separated law from morality, it was by no means an immoral or amoral one.

Despite an ambiguity due to its failure clearly to define `` relative costs '', the above exposition of fully distributed costing goes about as far as one can go toward expressing the basic philosophy of the practice.

Is it not the task of philosophy to see what intelligible meaning can be assigned to the most sacred canons in social science??

A parallel function for philosophy is the study of the relation between perceptions experientially received and conceptions logically formed.

It is absurd to speak of philosophy as a superior enterprise to sociology, since the former is a logical, rational discipline, where sociology is essentially descriptive and empirical.

Such a position entails the negation of philosophy in its Platonic form as something soaring above and embracing the empirical and mathematical sciences.

But contrary to Whitehead, philosophy is not a synonym for Plato.

The uses of philosophy as a logical clearing house are manifest to any approach that does not descend to pure sensationalism.

However, when philosophy attempts to stand above the sciences, to dictate the conditions of empirical research, it becomes formal metaphysics ; ;

The notion of philosophy as Queen Bee may fit well with authoritarian modes of political ideology, but it has been noted that the price of such an imperial notion of philosophy is the frustration and flagellation of the social sciences.

Consider the traditional `` four fields '' of philosophy: logic, ethics, epistemology and esthetics.

It is a commonplace that to the degree these special preserves of past philosophic hunting grounds establish an empirical content and suitable methodological criteria, they move away from philosophy as such.

What is left to traditional systems of philosophy is, in effect, only the history of these fields prior to their becoming rigorous enough to abide by the canons of scientific method.

In this situation, philosophy has survived by separating itself from metaphysics, by showing the ultimate questions to be the meaningless questions.

The relinquishing by philosophy of pretentious claims to empirical priority gives it an ability to treat problems of meaning and truth which in the past it was unable to examine because of its missionary attitude to knowledge of more humble sorts.

In the new situation, philosophy is able to provide the social sciences with the same guidance that mathematics offers the physical sciences, a reservoir of logical relations that can be used in framing hypotheses having explanatory and predictive value.

Beyond this, philosophy may urge the social sciences forward by asking the type of question that falls outside the present scope of social inquiry, but within its potential domain of relevance.