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82 relations: Analytic philosophy, Ancient Greek, Animal rights, Anschluss, Anthony Crosland, Artificial intelligence, Austria, Bedford School, Behaviorism, Charles Darwin, Civil service, Cold Ash, Comparative psychology, Contemporary philosophy, Curate, Demos (UK think tank), Desmond Morris, Doctor of Civil Law, Doctor of Letters, Doctorate, Down House, Downe House School, Durham University, Elizabeth Costello, Environment Triptych, Ethics, Ethology, Evolution, Foe (novel), Francis Crick, G. E. M. Anscombe, G. E. Moore, Gaia hypothesis, Genetic engineering, German language, Gifford Lectures, Gilbert Murray, Iris Murdoch, J. L. Mackie, J. M. Coetzee, James Lovelock, Jon Edgar, Kenan Malik, King's College Chapel, Cambridge, Literae Humaniores, Mary Warnock, Baroness Warnock, Metaphysics, Neo-Darwinism, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, ..., Paul Davies, Philippa Foot, Philosophy of science, Plotinus, Plumbing, Prophecy, Psychological egoism, Qualitative research, Reductionism, Relativism, Rhetoric, Richard Dawkins, Richard Mabey, Robinson Crusoe, Roy Jenkins, Royal Institute of Philosophy, Scientism, Sociobiology, Somerville College, Oxford, Thatcherism, The Independent, The Lives of Animals, The New York Review of Books, The Selfish Gene, Theism, Thomas Edward Scrutton, Thomas Hobbes, University of Reading, Western philosophy, Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?, World War II, Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Expand index (32 more) »
Analytic philosophy
Analytic philosophy (sometimes analytical philosophy) is a style of philosophy that became dominant in the Western world at the beginning of the 20th century.
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Ancient Greek
The Ancient Greek language includes the forms of Greek used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around the 9th century BC to the 6th century AD.
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Animal rights
Animal rights is the idea in which some, or all, non-human animals are entitled to the possession of their own lives and that their most basic interests—such as the need to avoid suffering—should be afforded the same consideration as similar interests of human beings.
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Anschluss
Anschluss ('joining') refers to the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany on 12 March 1938.
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Anthony Crosland
Charles Anthony Raven Crosland (29 August 1918 – 19 February 1977), sometimes known as Tony Crosland or C. A. R. Crosland, was a British Labour Party politician and author.
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Artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI, also machine intelligence, MI) is intelligence demonstrated by machines, in contrast to the natural intelligence (NI) displayed by humans and other animals.
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Austria
Austria (Österreich), officially the Republic of Austria (Republik Österreich), is a federal republic and a landlocked country of over 8.8 million people in Central Europe.
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Bedford School
Bedford School is an HMC independent school for boys located in the county town of Bedford in England.
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Behaviorism
Behaviorism (or behaviourism) is a systematic approach to understanding the behavior of humans and other animals.
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Charles Darwin
Charles Robert Darwin, (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist and biologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution.
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Civil service
The civil service is independent of government and composed mainly of career bureaucrats hired on professional merit rather than appointed or elected, whose institutional tenure typically survives transitions of political leadership.
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Cold Ash
Cold Ash is a village and civil parish in West Berkshire centred north of Thatcham and northeast of Newbury.
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Comparative psychology
Comparative psychology refers to the scientific study of the behavior and mental processes of non-human animals, especially as these relate to the phylogenetic history, adaptive significance, and development of behavior.
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Contemporary philosophy
Contemporary philosophy is the present period in the history of Western philosophy beginning at the end of the 19th century with the professionalization of the discipline and the rise of analytic and continental philosophy.
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Curate
A curate is a person who is invested with the ''care'' or ''cure'' (''cura'') ''of souls'' of a parish.
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Demos (UK think tank)
Demos is a think tank based in the United Kingdom with a cross-party political viewpoint.
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Desmond Morris
Desmond John Morris (born 24 January 1928) is an English zoologist, ethologist and surrealist painter, as well as a popular author in human sociobiology.
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Doctor of Civil Law
Doctor of Civil Law (DCL; Doctor Civilis Legis) is a degree offered by some universities, such as the University of Oxford, instead of the more common Doctor of Laws (LLD) degrees.
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Doctor of Letters
Doctor of Letters (D.Litt., Litt.D., D. Lit., or Lit. D.; Latin Litterarum Doctor or Doctor Litterarum) is an academic degree, a higher doctorate which, in some countries, may be considered to be beyond the Ph.D. and equal to the Doctor of Science (Sc.D. or D.Sc.). It is awarded in many countries by universities and learned bodies in recognition of achievement in the humanities, original contribution to the creative arts or scholarship and other merits.
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Doctorate
A doctorate (from Latin docere, "to teach") or doctor's degree (from Latin doctor, "teacher") or doctoral degree (from the ancient formalism licentia docendi) is an academic degree awarded by universities that is, in most countries, a research degree that qualifies the holder to teach at the university level in the degree's field, or to work in a specific profession.
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Down House
Down House is the former home of the English naturalist Charles Darwin and his family.
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Downe House School
Downe House School is a selective independent girls' day and boarding school in Cold Ash, a village near Newbury, Berkshire, for girls aged 11–18.
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Durham University
Durham University (legally the University of Durham) is a collegiate public research university in Durham, North East England, with a second campus in Stockton-on-Tees.
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Elizabeth Costello
Elizabeth Costello is a 2003 novel by South African-born Nobel Laureate J. M. Coetzee.
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Environment Triptych
''Environment Triptych'' The Environment Triptych, by sculptor Jon Edgar, is a group of three portrait heads of environmental thinkers of the day.
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Ethics
Ethics or moral philosophy is a branch of philosophy that involves systematizing, defending, and recommending concepts of right and wrong conduct.
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Ethology
Ethology is the scientific and objective study of animal behaviour, usually with a focus on behaviour under natural conditions, and viewing behaviour as an evolutionarily adaptive trait.
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Evolution
Evolution is change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations.
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Foe (novel)
Foe is a 1986 novel by South African-born Nobel laureate J. M. Coetzee.
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Francis Crick
Francis Harry Compton Crick (8 June 1916 – 28 July 2004) was a British molecular biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist, most noted for being a co-discoverer of the structure of the DNA molecule in 1953 with James Watson, work which was based partly on fundamental studies done by Rosalind Franklin, Raymond Gosling and Maurice Wilkins.
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G. E. M. Anscombe
Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret Anscombe (18 March 1919 – 5 January 2001), usually cited as G. E. M.
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G. E. Moore
George Edward Moore (4 November 1873 – 24 October 1958), usually cited as G. E. Moore, was an English philosopher.
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Gaia hypothesis
The Gaia hypothesis, also known as the Gaia theory or the Gaia principle, proposes that living organisms interact with their inorganic surroundings on Earth to form a synergistic and self-regulating, complex system that helps to maintain and perpetuate the conditions for life on the planet.
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Genetic engineering
Genetic engineering, also called genetic modification or genetic manipulation, is the direct manipulation of an organism's genes using biotechnology.
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German language
German (Deutsch) is a West Germanic language that is mainly spoken in Central Europe.
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Gifford Lectures
The Gifford Lectures are an annual series of lectures which were established by the will of Adam Lord Gifford (died 1887).
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Gilbert Murray
George Gilbert Aimé Murray, (2 January 1866 – 20 May 1957) was an Australian-born British classical scholar and public intellectual, with connections in many spheres.
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Iris Murdoch
Dame Jean Iris Murdoch (15 July 1919 – 8 February 1999) was a British novelist and philosopher born in Ireland to Irish parentage.
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J. L. Mackie
John Leslie Mackie (25 August 1917 – 12 December 1981) was an Australian philosopher, originally from Sydney.
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J. M. Coetzee
John Maxwell Coetzee (born 9 February 1940) is a South African novelist, essayist, linguist, translator and recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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James Lovelock
James Ephraim Lovelock, (born 26 July 1919) is an independent scientist, environmentalist, and futurist who lives in Dorset, England.
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Jon Edgar
Jon Edgar is a British sculptor of the Frink School.
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Kenan Malik
Kenan Malik (born 26 January 1960) is an Indian-born British writer, lecturer and broadcaster, trained in neurobiology and the history of science.
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King's College Chapel, Cambridge
King's College Chapel is the chapel at King's College in the University of Cambridge.
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Literae Humaniores
Literae Humaniores is the name given to an undergraduate course focused on Classics (Ancient Rome, Ancient Greece, Latin, ancient Greek and philosophy) at the University of Oxford and some other universities.
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Mary Warnock, Baroness Warnock
Helen Mary Warnock, Baroness Warnock, (née Wilson; born 14 April 1924) is an English philosopher of morality, education and mind, and writer on existentialism.
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Metaphysics
Metaphysics is a branch of philosophy that explores the nature of being, existence, and reality.
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Neo-Darwinism
Neo-Darwinism is the interpretation of Darwinian evolution through natural selection as it has variously been modified since it was first proposed.
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Newcastle University
Newcastle University (officially, the University of Newcastle upon Tyne) is a public research university in Newcastle upon Tyne in the North-East of England.
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Newcastle upon Tyne
Newcastle upon Tyne, commonly known as Newcastle, is a city in Tyne and Wear, North East England, 103 miles (166 km) south of Edinburgh and 277 miles (446 km) north of London on the northern bank of the River Tyne, from the North Sea.
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Paul Davies
Paul Charles William Davies, AM (born 22 April 1946) is an English physicist, writer and broadcaster, a professor at Arizona State University as well as the Director of BEYOND: Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science.
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Philippa Foot
Philippa Ruth Foot, FBA (née Bosanquet; 3 October 1920 3 October 2010) was a British philosopher.
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Philosophy of science
Philosophy of science is a sub-field of philosophy concerned with the foundations, methods, and implications of science.
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Plotinus
Plotinus (Πλωτῖνος; – 270) was a major Greek-speaking philosopher of the ancient world.
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Plumbing
Plumbing is any system that conveys fluids for a wide range of applications.
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Prophecy
A prophecy is a message that is claimed by a prophet to have been communicated to them by a god.
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Psychological egoism
Psychological egoism is the view that humans are always motivated by self-interest, even in what seem to be acts of altruism.
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Qualitative research
Qualitative research is a scientific method of observation to gather non-numerical data.
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Reductionism
Reductionism is any of several related philosophical ideas regarding the associations between phenomena which can be described in terms of other simpler or more fundamental phenomena.
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Relativism
Relativism is the idea that views are relative to differences in perception and consideration.
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Rhetoric
Rhetoric is the art of discourse, wherein a writer or speaker strives to inform, persuade, or motivate particular audiences in specific situations.
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Richard Dawkins
Clinton Richard Dawkins (born 26 March 1941) is an English ethologist, evolutionary biologist, and author.
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Richard Mabey
Richard Thomas Mabey (born 20 February 1941) is a writer and broadcaster, chiefly on the relations between nature and culture.
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Robinson Crusoe
Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on 25 April 1719.
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Roy Jenkins
Roy Harris Jenkins, Baron Jenkins of Hillhead, (11 November 1920 – 5 January 2003) was a British Labour Party, SDP and Liberal Democrat politician, and biographer of British political leaders.
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Royal Institute of Philosophy
The Royal Institute of Philosophy, founded in 1925, is a charity organisation that offers lectures and conferences on philosophical topics.
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Scientism
Scientism is the ideology of science.
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Sociobiology
Sociobiology is a field of biology that aims to examine and explain social behavior in terms of evolution.
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Somerville College, Oxford
Somerville College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England.
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Thatcherism
Thatcherism describes the conviction, economic, social and political style of the British Conservative Party politician Margaret Thatcher, who was leader of her party from 1975 to 1990.
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The Independent
The Independent is a British online newspaper.
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The Lives of Animals
The Lives of Animals (1999) is a metafictional novella about animal rights by the South African novelist J. M. Coetzee, recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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The New York Review of Books
The New York Review of Books (or NYREV or NYRB) is a semi-monthly magazine with articles on literature, culture, economics, science and current affairs.
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The Selfish Gene
The Selfish Gene is a 1976 book on evolution by Richard Dawkins, in which the author builds upon the principal theory of George C. Williams's Adaptation and Natural Selection (1966).
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Theism
Theism is broadly defined as the belief in the existence of the Supreme Being or deities.
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Thomas Edward Scrutton
Sir Thomas Edward Scrutton (28 August 1856 – 18 August 1934) was an English legal text-writer and a judge of considerable eminence.
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Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes (5 April 1588 – 4 December 1679), in some older texts Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury, was an English philosopher who is considered one of the founders of modern political philosophy.
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University of Reading
The University of Reading is a public university located in Reading, Berkshire, England.
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Western philosophy
Western philosophy is the philosophical thought and work of the Western world.
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Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?
"Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?" is a quotation from Alexander Pope's "Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot" of January 1735.
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World War II
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.
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Yorkshire Sculpture Park
The Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP) is an open-air gallery in West Bretton near Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England, showing work by British and international artists, including Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth.
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References
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