• David Neil Sedley FBA (born 30 May 1947) is a British philosopher and historian of philosophy. He was the seventh Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy...
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    select band of philosophers who have managed to change the world," writes David Sedley, "it would be hard to find a pair with a higher public profile than Brutus...
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  • Encyclopedia of Philosophy. David Sedley, "Stoic Physics and Metaphysics," The Cambridge History of Hellenistic Philosophy, p. 389. David J. Furley, From Aristotle...
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  • Sedley is a surname, and may refer to: Amelia Sedley, fictional character from the novel Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray Catherine Sedley, Countess...
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    elections. Sedley was described as a "former member" of the party by The Daily Telegraph in 2007. Sir Stephen's younger brother is Professor David Sedley. Stephen...
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    The debate between these two positions was revived by A. A. Long and David Sedley in their 1987 book, The Hellenistic Philosophers, in which the two argued...
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    Makepeace Thackeray, which follows the lives of Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley amid their friends and families during and after the Napoleonic Wars. It...
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    have been published by Rabbi Simon Jacobson and Rabbi Yaacov Haber and David Sedley. The work Counting the Omer: A Kabbalistic Meditation Guide includes...
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    ISBN 978-0-300-09302-5. Retrieved 12 June 2024. Agathias. Histories, 2.31. David, Sedley. "Ancient philosophy". In E. Craig (ed.). Routledge Encyclopedia of...
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    Sir Charles Sedley, 5th Baronet (March 1639 – 20 August 1701), was an English noble, dramatist and politician. He was principally remembered for his wit...
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  • atheism at his trial. From a survey of these 5th-century BCE philosophers, David Sedley has concluded that none of them openly defended radical atheism, but...
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  • England: Eurobook Limited. pp. 24–25. ISBN 0-87226-907-8 pp. 4 & 18, David Sedley, Plato's Cratylus, Cambridge University Press 2003. Richard Stuart Gordon...
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    Sedley, David (1998). Lucretius and the Transformation of Greek Wisdom. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521570328. Sedley, David N...
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    Colyear, suo jure Countess of Dorchester and Countess of Portmore (née Sedley; 21 December 1657 – 26 October 1717), was an English noble and courtier...
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  • Academic offices Preceded by Myles Burnyeat Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy Cambridge University 1997–2000 Succeeded by David Sedley...
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  • Chicago Press, 2012), reviewed by David Sedley, "When Nature Got its Laws", Times Literary Supplement (12 October 2012). Sedley, "When Nature Got Its Laws"...
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  • Professor of Ancient Philosophy at Cambridge University, having succeeded David Sedley in October 2014. He is Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge, where he...
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    Instrumental Body: Galen on the Functions of the Parts of the Human Body". David Sedley. Socrates vs Darwin. Christ's College, Cambridge. Roberts, Eric J. (1905)...
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  • While at University College, London he supervised the doctoral thesis of David Sedley, the seventh Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy at Cambridge University...
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  • Plato: Meno and Phaedo. Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy. By David Sedley (Editor) and Alex Long (Translator). Cambridge University Press, 2010...
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    Longmans, Green & Co. pp. 10–12. David Sedley, Epicurus’ Theological Innatism. In Fish and Saunders 2011: 29–52 David Konstan, Epicurus on the Gods. In...
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    study tool of Ancient languages. "Plato's Cratylus" by Plato, ed. by David Sedley, Cambridge University Press, 6 November 2003, p. 91 Jevons, Frank Byron...
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  • known evidence for worship of the Norse god Odin (approximate date) David Sedley, "An Iconography of Xenocrates' Platonism", Michael Erler, Jan Erik Heßler...
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  • Bounce Cosmic inflation Hylomorphism Monism Nondualism See, for a survey, David Sedley (2008). "The Perception of Reality: contrasting views of the nature of...
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  • Senbahar, also Jew of Iraqi origin "2016 Annual Report". Alpha Epsilon Pi. David Sedley (Nov 22, 2017). "Bugsy Siegel's daughter gets Las Vegas Jewish burial"...
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    of Greece, and points out that the sages often had fluid identities. David Sedley identifies the figures as Timaeus, Eudoxus, Plato, Xenocrates, Archytas...
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    California, Monday March 1, 1926, Volume LVIII, Number 1, page 4. Talbot, David (2010). Devil dog : the amazing true story of the man who saved America...
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  • break. The result of the vote was: Karl Marx (with 27.9% of the votes) David Hume (12.7%) Ludwig Wittgenstein (6.8%) Friedrich Nietzsche (6.5%) Plato...
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    within the tradition of the philosophical school to which he belonged. David Sedley remarks: On the vast majority of philosophical issues, what we know of...
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    appeared in 1845. Free download of English translation of Eleh Ezkerah by Rabbi David Sedley English translation of Eleh Ezerah by Rabbi David Sedley...
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