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Nov 5, 2015 · With eight volumes and nearly 1,500 entries by over 500 contributors, it is one of the monumental works of twentieth-century philosophy. In his 1967 article entitled “Why,” Edwards discusses whether or not the question of the meaning of life is itself meaningful.
Paul Edwards (September 2, 1923 – December 9, 2004) was an Austrian-American moral philosopher. He was the editor-in-chief of MacMillan's eight-volume Encyclopedia of Philosophy from 1967, and lectured at New York University, Brooklyn College and the New School for Social Research from the 1960s to the 1990s. [2]
THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PHILOSOPHY. Editor in Chief: Paul Edwards. The Only Major Reference Work on Philosophy in the English Language. This 8-volume encyclopedia is the most comprehensive philosophical reference work. ever published in any language-the result of six and a half years of work by more. than 500 scholars from all over the world.
Paul Edwards (1923–2004) was an Austrian-born philosopher who was educated in Australia, but did most of his teaching in the United States, mainly at Columbia. Though perhaps best known as the editor-in-chief of the Macmillan Encyclopedia of Philosophy </ITAL> (1967), Edwards also wrote widely on topics in the philosophy of religion ...
Arguing that we can make sense of computers as tools only when we simultaneously grasp their roles as metaphors and political icons, Paul Edwards shows how Cold War social and cultural contexts shaped emerging computer technology—and were transformed, in turn, by information machines.
- Paul N. Edwards
- 1996
Dec 16, 2004 · Paul Edwards, a professor of philosophy who edited The Encyclopedia of Philosophy, an enduring and authoritative reference work covering topics from "the absolute" to Zoroastrianism, a Persian...
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