Some evolutionary biologists claim that the scholarly mind is an historical anomaly: that humans, like other primates, are designed to scan rapidly for danger and opportunity.
And yet, when it comes to politics, a great scholarly mind, surveying the grand sweep of history from Olympian heights, can sometimes overlook matters closer to earth.
She has the clear delivery and scholarly mind of one of those people who could lose themselves for days in the British Museum without once looking for the mummified cats.
Thanks to the efforts of Mr. Swinburne and a handful of other nimble scholarly minds -- including Alvin Plantinga at the University of Notre Dame and Nicholas Wolterstorff at Yale -- religious belief no longer languishes in a state of philosophical disrepute.
You can imagine the scholarly minds of the Renaissance didn't weigh too heavily on their testimonies.
And so even, according to the new view espoused by Heller, the rational test of actual experience should still trump the Kabbalah of eighteenth-century-word scrutiny, however exciting it may be to pseudo-scholarly minds.
It is a privilege to observe such a deeply scholarly and imaginative mind at work on what it loved best.
Consequently, Mr Stubbs does not offer a new Donne, but does offer a fairly thorough account of the one we know.The trouble is that his biography seems to have been written with both a popular and a scholarly readership in mind.
Organized by curators at that London museum with no particular scholarly agenda in mind, the show presents a diverse assortment of 35 choice objects — most small enough to fit in a bread box — from one of the world's great repositories of European decorative arts.
While goals related to undergraduate education generally yielded mixed results, the factor that measured faculty members' commitment to fostering scholarly habits of mind had a significant positive association with the outcome.
As the next best thing, the exhibition's scholarly catalogue opens minds and eyes to the poetry and passion of Venetian art, just as its creators would have wished".Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, and the Renaissance of Venetian Painting" is at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, until September 17th and then at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, from October 17th to January 7th 2007.
