"Academics are throwing themselves into the study of emotion with the rapturous intensity of a love affair," The Chronicle of Higher Education reported in February, in an article that included a list of 25 recent scholarly books, from philosophy and history to literature and political science, all devoted to affect in one way or another.
At 52, he has a quiet, scholarly manner befitting a philosophy professor and college president educated at Oxford and Harvard.
(Professor Glaude's scholarly specialty is the philosophy of religion; he is not a social scientist regularly engaged in field work).
Fred Bass, owner of the Strand bookstore in Manhattan, said the most popular targets in his store were books on higher mathematics and philosophy, and scholarly religious works.
Strasbourg fostered tolerance, philosophy and scholarly thought, though in its early years, the relationship between the town and its Jewish population was pockmarked with violence.
The cardinal virtue of humaneness, when conceived as a sentiment of benevolence or as a conscientious concern, has played a key role in scholarly discussions within environmental philosophy, bioethics, and the ethics of care (particularly in medical ethics).
In the last few decades of the twentieth century, scholarly work on pragmatist philosophy increased in both quantity and quality, making possible an appreciation of the sophistication of the pragmatist philosophers and enabling readers to escape from the of familiar caricatures of the position.
All three had a thorough technical competence in their scholarly field of scientifically oriented philosophy.
Stapledon also wrote for technical and scholarly reviews on ethics and philosophy.
The committee, headed by Paul Kurtz, a retired philosophy professor, supports scholarly critiques of pseudoscience and publishes the magazine Skeptical Inquirer, for which Nickell writes a regular column.
