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... popular and unsupported claim that the humanities have practical relevance and, instead, to offer ruminative descriptions of what happens when teachers and students meet to discuss texts and objects. She explains that the essays report in detail on five individual classes in five very different academic...

... conversations in historical scholarship relevance to academic conversations relevance to public conversations late medieval religious culture the “material turn” In a graduate seminar, “Late Medieval Religion—Conversations and Controversies,” I have had students read major publications and discuss how...

..., over the long distance between his temperament and theirs, to converse with them effectively. However great their reservations about popular and academic misconceptions of science, Feyerabend and the advocates and allies of science and technology studies (STS) considered science and the attitudes...

..., which concerns the application of my own academic discipline of anthro­ This essay was written while the author was a Rosanna 1.  Stanley N. Katz, “Excellence Is by No Means Enough: and Charles Jaffin Founders’ Circle Member of the School Intellectual Philanthropy and the Just University,” Com...

... of exchanges, and follow conversations over years — a rare circumstance. The academic staff maintained contact with an impressively large number of internationally active scholars, working in many fields, and the letters are characteristically substantive. In this article, the author indicates how a book she...

...-term consequential assumptions of relevant rights and the acceptance of relevant duties. Positioned as host, a person must ensure that a particular local story line is lived out. The story line for an episode that mixes conversational acts...

... endeavor. In Tunisia, political independence in 1956 was accompanied by a further reinvigoration of Christianity, and, over the last twenty years, conversion to Christianity (mainly in the form of evangelical and neo-evangelical Protestantism) has been on the rise. Beginning in 2003, workers and students...

..., in these pages (8.1: 2–5), of justice—or the fi xation on justice—as itself an impediment to peace. But mostly I am suggesting that what is demanded of us as academics may be less than what is demanded of us as intellectuals. There has been . . . since September 11th, a series of appeals in print...

... such knowledge, relevant 13. no. 4 (2006): 2. 4(2006): no. highly technical academic discipline. Pierre Hadot, familiar to readers of this ofreaders to this familiar Hadot, Pierre discipline. academic...

... of assumptions actually what or made that doctrine, a given view seem just to “stand to reason” even with evaluation conditions the made that givenformulations seem plausible, relevant as to their 5 pline achieves scientific status, it no longer needs to use narrative explanation...

..., and each newly acquired book, should stage a conversation with its neighbor: ask a question, pro- vide an answer. The result is a conversation both infinite and coherent: the envy, perhaps, of today’s digitized world and its infinite capacity for information...

... those important to analytic philosophy—language, mind, knowledge, truth—and though he did not change his conversational style much and tried to resist analytic formalization, his original ethical, historical, anthropological, pragmatist, and existentialist interests receded into the background for some...

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... and mine.11 What happened next was no less than a conversion experience: I was sitting at my desk with the text of Aristotle s Physics open in front of me and with a four- colored pencil in my hand. Looking up, I gazed abstractedly out the window of my room the visual image is one I still retain...

... and eloquent conversations, for the clarity with which he was able to convey the most difficult philosophical concepts—a trait that made him a beloved and sought-after teacher and mentor—and not last, for his love of traveling far and wide, and of trekking and mountain climbing, as Francesco Tomatis recalled...

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... of the Schleswig-Holstein affair, and indeed his own conversion, would be for Paul all one and the same. The Palmerston Doctrine 360 The Pauline route is perhaps unnecessarily unpromising for my problem, as it indeed is unpromising for every possible problem. One of its greatest...

..., that the cardinal “was not referring to philosophical relativism so much as he was to vaguer social phenomena that cluster around the adage ‘everything’s relative On the other hand, Joseph Ratzinger was for many years an academic, one with philosophical as well as theological training; and, again as Vattimo...

... of Gordon's conversion to Judaism and, crucially, over whether he was a religious atavist or a Romantic pioneer. This dialogue is meant to illustrate the utility of a scholarship that acknowledges fuzziness rather than attempting to overclarify it. The article is also meant to show, however...

... and rational judgment.”9 For Minogue, goodness would be full acceptance that, “in the academic world, the only relevant criterion is that of truth or falsity.” “Effectiveness” would no longer be the academic norm: Truth is very...