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The Grammar of Irish English. Peter Abbs Lecturer in Education. Wallace Stevens and the Aesthetics of Abstraction. The spread of Cockney throughout the English speaking world. Regional Varieties of British English: Middle English love poetry - Dialects and origin. Variety in Contemporary English. Wittgenstein and the Human Form of Life. Culture and the Real. A Religious Point Of View? The Teaching of English in Schools. Aspects of Newspaper Language - newspaper coverage with focus on the example of the Harold Shipman case.
Dialect levelling in Southern Great Britain. An interpretation of Julian Barnes novel 'England, England'. Performing Character in Modern Irish Drama. The Language of Criticism Routledge Revivals. The Unreliability of Translations in Friel's Translations. Concepts of Time in Virginia Woolf. It is associated above all with four Oxford professors of philosophy — Gilbert Ryle, J.
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Strawson — of whom the last two still hold their chairs. That is the Oxford definition of philosophy. It is not surprising if non-philosophers come to see philosophers as a self-perpetuating clique, like freemasons. Even the professional philosophers seem to regard philosophy as a rather pointless subject. The prospectus for Oxford University Department of Education advertises the philosophy component of its Certificate of Education course like this:. Questions posed by educational thinkers, from plato to the present day.
No knowledge of texts is required. Philosophical analysis and education with special reference to the concept of education, the problem of aims, the social philosophy of education, the curriculum, and the concept of teaching.
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Having defined his subject in this way, the philosopher has made a profession of amateurishness. He has thought of himself as an intellectual lone ranger, who travels light, righting wrongs in various intellectual areas e. Candidates are not expected to show familiari ty wi th philosophical techniques, but should show awareness of the main lines of argument and some capacity for clear thinking. A philosophy exam at Oxford last year included, rather surprisingly, a question about structuralism. Surely, the philosophers ought to be able to tell the trainee teachers something more interesting than this?
One reason for the wide appeal of the Oxford definition of philosophy was that it seemed to offer a reason for the existence of philosophy departments. Given the technocratic carve-up of human knowledge by university administrators, in which the more profitable parts of the sprawling philosophy industry had long ago been hived off to other departments, the philosophers had become university teachers in search of a subject.
Of course such skills have their uses. But the effect of courses which simply aim,at equipping a student with them is likely to be that he will acquire a glib and superficial facility in argument. The student will leave his philosophy course fully armed against all the ideas he is ever likely to meet with. The argument of this paper owes a lot to several members of the Radical Philosophy Group, especially Tony Skillen. And in history departments,especially in association with Namier, a new emphasis was put on piecemeal research. Namier dreamed of teams of historians working through old documents just as the Oxford philosopher Austin dreamed of teams of philosophers working through dictionaries.
The one area where this did not occur was the theory of logic and meaning. This was a subject philosophers had always had to themselves.
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It is not surprising that many of the best modern professional philosophers are working in this area. Indeed, some- are barely distinguishable from members of linguistic departments. They have been deliberately cut off from historical, sociological, psychological, anthropological and scientific ideas, because such ideas are thought to belong to first order subjects and therefore to have nothing to do with philosophy.
But the reasons philosophers gave for their intellectual isolationism were very flimsy. White says his book on the mind is not a work of psychology because:. Its task in this field is not to explain behaviour, but to explain the kinds of explanations we normally offer In the form el. Part of the malady caused by scientism was that it came to be assumed that all worthwhile philosophical ideas should he expressible in short formulas.
And as he is usually unable to do this, the discussion never gets on to what he thinks of as the meat of his theory.
What the Bri tish philosopher wanted was to cake just one sentence that the German had uttered — say the first sentence — or perhaps, for a start, just one word in this sentence ….. You cannot sort out problems into two piles, questions aboll! If there seems to be an element of truth in the Oxford defini tion of philosophy, this is because philosophers typically see things in a very abstract way; but this does not mean that they are concerned wit;l concepts rather than actual objects.
The trouble with this insistence on formulating ideas hriefly and succinctly is that some philosophical ideas are too complex, too unified, too subtle or perhaps too nebulous for such expression. It covers the actualities of the war Lawrence fought in greater detail than ever before, and also describes what happened to Lawrence after the war. He is the author of The Pythons by The Pythons and numerous other books, most recently the authorised biography of Ronnie Barker.
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David Quammen attended Yale and Oxford, is the author of several critically acclaimed science books and for fifteen years wrote a column 'Natural Acts' for OUTSIDE magazine, making natural science understandable, relevant and accurate for readers and scientists alike. He lives in Bozeman, Montana, with his wife.
His books are sold in more than 30 countries and have sold ten million copies worldwide. An amateur spelunker and scuba enthusiast, he also holds a doctorate in veterinary medicine. He currently lives and writes in Sacramento, California. Marion Meade is the author of six biographies and two novels.
She lives in New York City. His weekly radio show, Explorations, can be heard on stations across America, and he has frequently appeared on television talk shows and BBC and Public Television science specials. Kaku lives in New York City and can be found on the web at www.
Patrick Barclay is the football columnist for the Sunday Telegraph and has won the Sports Journalist of the Year award. He has previously worked for the Independent, Guardian and Observer.
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