A gadfly is a person who interferes with the status quo of a society or community by posing novel, potentially upsetting questions, usually directed at...
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Look up gadfly in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Gadfly most commonly refers to: Horse fly or botfly Gadfly (philosophy and social science), a person...
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formal sciences and natural sciences are considered hard science, whereas the social sciences and other sciences are described as soft science. Precise...
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Critical theory (redirect from Critical social theory)
any approach to humanities and social philosophy that focuses on society and culture to attempt to reveal, critique, and challenge or dismantle power...
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people and angels that who were not rebels nor faithful to their God, but stood apart, were condemned to be stung eternally by wasps and gadflies. Theodore...
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Socrates (redirect from Trial and death of Socrates)
Western philosophy and as among the first moral philosophers of the ethical tradition of thought. An enigmatic figure, Socrates authored no texts and is known...
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Socratic method (category Harv and Sfn no-target errors)
century BC, sophists were teachers who specialized in using the tools of philosophy and rhetoric to entertain, impress, or persuade an audience to accept the...
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Pragmatic ethics (redirect from Gadfly ethics)
Howard (2007). Theories of scientific method: an introduction. Philosophy and science. Vol. 2. Montréal: McGill–Queen's University Press. doi:10.4324/9781315711959...
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Boethius' most famous book The Consolation of Philosophy is a Socratic dialogue in which Lady Philosophy interrogates Boethius. St. Augustine St. Augustine's...
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George Boole (section Professorship and life in Cork)
married the Polish scientist and revolutionary Wilfrid Michael Voynich and was the author of the novel The Gadfly. Philosophy portal Mathematics portal Biography...
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Richard Rorty (category American social democrats)
about truth and other matters with a later Wittgensteinian philosophy of language, which declares that meaning is a social-linguistic product, and sentences...
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Robert Reich (category American philosophers of social science)
2012. Gelles, David (November 20, 2017). "Robert Reich, a Multiplatform Gadfly, Comes to Netflix". New York Times. "Robert Reich teaching at UC Berkeley...
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Apology for the Gadfly". BLOGOS. Retrieved 2019-05-29. Greco, John; Zagzebski, Linda (2000). "Two Kinds of Intellectual Virtue". Philosophy and Phenomenological...
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Rainis (category Latvian Social Democratic Workers' Party politicians)
and lyric poetry, and translating literature. Together with Stučka he edited a collection of epigrams and satire, Mazie dunduri (The Small Gadflies)...
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Carol Tavris (category American social psychologists)
Supplement, Scientific American, and other publications. In 2014 she began writing a column for Skeptic under the heading The Gadfly. In an interview with The...
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Virtue ethics (category Articles with Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy links)
ethics has a number of contemporary applications. Social and political philosophy Within the field of social ethics, Deirdre McCloskey argues that virtue ethics...
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colleges' annually published yearbook; the Gadfly, a biannual journal of popular philosophy produced by undergraduates; and Rhapsody in Blue, an undergraduate...
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Political Junkies, Gadflies, and Those Generally Hell-Bound. Nation Books. p. 52. ISBN 9781560259695. There is no absolute knowledge. And those who claim...
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Jeremy Rifkin (category Writers about activism and social change)
Thompson, Dick (December 4, 1989). "The Most Hated Man in Science: To some 'The Abominable No Man,' Gadfly Jeremy Rifkin Warns of the Dangers of Uncontrolled...
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List of Princeton University people (redirect from List of Princeton University people (politics and government))
2011. Chang, Kenneth; Leary, Warren (25 Sep 2005). "Serge Lang, 78, a gadfly and mathematical theorist". The New York Times. Retrieved 24 Oct 2011. "Paul...
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From Bauhaus to Our House (category Farrar, Straus and Giroux books)
Book World. The Washington Post. In Shomette 1992. "Tom Wolfe: The Great Gadfly". The New York Times. 20 December 1981. Kramer, Hilton (October 1981). "Tom...
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Jonathan Mitchell (writer) (redirect from Autism's Gadfly)
has quotations related to Jonathan Mitchell. Media related to Jonathan Mitchell at Wikimedia Commons Official website Autism's Gadfly, Mitchell's blog...
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List of agnostics (section Science and technology)
Semiotic Studies, International Council for Philosophy and Humanistic Studies, International Social Science Council (1996). Semiotica, Volume 105. Mouton...
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News-Times (February 4, 2008). Milbank, Dana (July 22, 2005). "The Reformer and the Gadfly Agree on Health Care". The Washington Post. Retrieved May 22, 2010....
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List of Canadian Jews (section Social sciences)
Jewish News. Knepper, P. (2005). "Michael Polanyi and Jewish Identity". Philosophy of the Social Sciences. 35 (3): 263–293. doi:10.1177/0048393105277986...
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fading science literacy. To sort the table, click the arrow in any header cell. Literature portal Books portal List of books about philosophy List of...
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Funeral games Funeral oration Funerary monument for an athlete Gaddi Torso Gadfly (mythology) Gaia Galanthis Galatea (Greek myth) Galatea (mythology) Galaton...
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George Bernard Shaw (category Harv and Sfn no-target errors)
Brassbound's Conversion Adaptation The Gadfly Short play The Man of Destiny Shaw's first three full-length plays dealt with social issues. He later grouped them...
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award categories replaced "Nonfiction": Arts and Letters; History and Biography; Science, Philosophy and Religion. For the next twenty years there were...
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Leela Gandhi (category Indian social sciences writers)
Chronicle. Retrieved 21 September 2021. "'Civil society is like a Socratic gadfly to the state'". The Indian Express. 24 April 2015. Retrieved 27 January...
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