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Title Portraits of American philosophy / edited by Steven M. Cahn
Published Lanham, Maryland : Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated, [2013]

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 182 pages)
Contents Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 A Life in Philosophy; 2 Sixty Years of Philosophy in a Life; 3 How It Was; 4 A Philosopher's Calling; 5 The Romance of Philosophy; 6 Reflections of My Career in Philosophy; 7 God and Evil among the Philosophers; 8 Unnatural Lotteries and Diversity in Philosophy; Index; About the Contributors
Summary In Portraits of American Philosophy, eight of America's most prominent philosophers offer autobiographical narratives that remind us that the life of a scholar is both a tale of personal struggle and an adventure in ideas
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Philosophy, American -- 20th century -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
Philosophy, American
Genre/Form Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Cahn, Steven M
LC no. 2021693767
ISBN 9781442223349
1442223340
1299820484
9781299820487
1442260033
9781442260030