• Sidney Morgenbesser (September 22, 1921 – August 1, 2004) was an American philosopher and professor at Columbia University. He wrote little but is remembered...
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  • Andrew (6 August 2004). "Professor Sidney Morgenbesser". The Independent. Retrieved 8 October 2024. "Sidney Morgenbesser". The Times. 8 September 2004. Archived...
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    because separately neither can be distinguished". Philosophical wit Sidney Morgenbesser answered the question with an apothegm: "If there were nothing, you'd...
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  • is sometimes explained with a short story by philosopher Sidney Morgenbesser: Morgenbesser, ordering dessert, is told by a waitress that he can choose...
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    on the quality of a third, unrelated outcome C. A famous joke by Sidney Morgenbesser illustrates this principle: A man is deciding whether to order apple...
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    Synthetic Theory of Evolution, was co-supervised by Ernest Nagel and Sidney Morgenbesser. Caplan worked with Nagel as a teaching assistant and was the final...
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  • Charles A. Moore Paul Elmer More J. P. Moreland John Henry Morgan Sidney Morgenbesser Charles W. Morris Christopher W. Morris Thomas V. Morris Paul Moser...
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  • Roosevelt Human Rights Award from President Bill Clinton in 1999. Sidney Morgenbesser – philosopher, John Dewey Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University...
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  • direction of Robert Denoon Cumming. Geuss was also greatly influenced by Sidney Morgenbesser during his university education. Geuss taught at Princeton University...
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  • Nietzsche Hubert Dreyfus on Husserl, Heidegger and Modern Existentialism Sidney Morgenbesser on The American Pragmatists A. J. Ayer on Frege, Russell and Modern...
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    where he wrote a senior thesis on Søren Kierkegaard and studied with Sidney Morgenbesser, and a PhD in philosophy from Princeton University in 1960, under...
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    Columbia University (A.B. 1959, summa cum laude), where he studied with Sidney Morgenbesser; Princeton University (PhD 1963) under Carl Hempel; and at Oxford...
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    is sometimes illustrated with a short joke by philosopher Sidney Morgenbesser: Morgenbesser, ordering dessert, is told by a waitress that he can choose...
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  • "Philosophy, Science, and Method. Essays in Honor of Ernest Nagel. Sidney Morgenbesser, Patrick Suppes, Morton White". Isis. 65 (4): 528–529. doi:10.1086/351353...
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  • Biblical scholar, professor at University of California, Berkeley Sidney Morgenbesser, philosopher, Dewey Professor at Columbia University Yochanan Muffs...
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  • Pennsylvania, 1946–1964, where his students included Noam Chomsky, Sidney Morgenbesser, Stephen Stich, and Hilary Putnam. He was a research fellow at the...
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  • Tsurumi Shunyata Shūsui Kōtoku Siddhanta Siddhartha Gautama Sidney Hook Sidney Morgenbesser Siegfried Kracauer Sienese School Siger of Brabant Sigmund...
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  • Moravcsik (1931–2009) Max More (born 1964) J. P. Moreland (born 1948) Sidney Morgenbesser (1921–2004) Marie-Eve Morin Charles W. Morris (1901–1979) Christopher...
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  • Weak Axiom of Choice", Journal of Symbolic Logic 21(4): 350–366. Sidney Morgenbesser & Elliott Mendelson (1966) "Annual Meeting of the Association for...
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  • Eben Moglen—Law and the Internet Society, general counsel of FSF Sidney Morgenbesser—John Dewey Professor of Philosophy Robert Mundell—economics professor...
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  • Princeton University; co-founder of the New York Historical Society Sidney Morgenbesser: John Dewey Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University Frank...
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  • writing a dissertation on the epistemology of C. I. Lewis under Sidney Morgenbesser. She served as an adjunct assistant professor of philosophy at Rensselaer...
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    included Joseph A. Mazzeo, Steven Marcus, Paul Oskar Kristeller, Sidney Morgenbesser, Michael Wood, Carl Woodring, Quentin Anderson, Frank Kermode, and...
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  • and coach, pneumonia. George F. Kugler, Jr., 79, American lawyer. Sidney Morgenbesser, 82, American philosopher. Madeleine Robinson, 86, French actress...
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  • Alasdair MacIntyre, J. L. Mackie, John McDowell, George Herbert Mead, Sidney Morgenbesser, Ernest Nagel, Thomas Nagel, Robert Nozick, Martha Nussbaum, Derek...
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    American Yiddish poet, newspaper editor, and educator Piet Mondrian Sidney Morgenbesser Lewis Mumford David Neiman (1921–2004), Russian-born American scholar...
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    Equality in Democratic Theories", supervised by Thomas Pogge and Sidney Morgenbesser. Dahan received his law degree in 1999 at the College of Management...
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  • earned his B.A. from Columbia College, where he was a student of Sidney Morgenbesser, and Ph.D. (1966) from Harvard University, where he wrote his dissertation...
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  • University, where he studied with, among others, Charles Larmore and Sidney Morgenbesser. In 1995, having studied with, among others, Yirmiahu Yovel, Agnes...
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    University Seminars at Columbia University. His favorite professors were Sidney Morgenbesser and Richard Neustadt, who taught philosophy and government, respectively...
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