Sentence examples for head of philosophy from inspiring English sources

My friend Gill Howie, who has died of cancer aged 47, was a popular and inspirational professor and head of philosophy at the University of Liverpool.

He was head of philosophy from 1971 to 1995 at what became the University of the West of England, and along the way spent a year in California as an exchange professor.

Born in Liverpool, he graduated in philosophy from Durham University before entering the teaching profession - where he taught in the state and independent sectors and was head of philosophy and religious studies at Merchant Taylors Schooll, Crosby, prior to his election.

Three different kinds of philosophical enquiry fall under the general heading of philosophy of biology.

"As a cultural phenomenon, this is the great age of psychoanalysis," says Richard J. Bernstein, the head of the philosophy department at the New School for Social Research.

Michael Bigg, head of religion, philosophy and ethics at the school, said that a "range of speakers" had been invited in for the ethical discussion.

He is the head of the philosophy department at the University of Cape Town, where he also directs the university's Bioethics Centre, which was founded by his father, Solomon Benatar, a global-health expert.

Lori Gruen, head of the philosophy department at Wesleyan and coordinator of the summer fellowship program in animal studies there, said one of the major questions in philosophy was "Who should we direct our moral interest to?" Thirty years ago, she said, animals were at the margins of philosophical discussions of ethics; now "the animal question is right in the center of ethical discussion".

It was also a question of philosophy.

His PhD was from the University of Leeds and he has been at Nottingham since 1995 having served as head of the department of philosophy and head of the school of humanities.

As an ongoing project-of-projects, it would be unwise to attempt a comprehensive and definitive catalog and assessment of the thematic foci across the full range of articulations and discussions still being gathered and explored under the heading of "African philosophy" even as new discussions are emerging.