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The psychologist Buytendijk completed his medical studies in 1909 and was promoted in 1918 on a dissertation entitled Proeven over Gewoontevorming in Dieren (Experiments of Habit Formation in Animals). In 1991, he assumed the Chair in Physiology at the University of...
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Simone de Beauvoir was born on Boulevard Raspail, Paris, in 1908. Her father was a lawyer and her mother was a strict Catholic from a bourgeois family. It is said that de Beauvoir was inspired to become an intellectual because she was caught between her father’s pagan...
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Derrida, Jacques (1930-). Algerian born French philosopher of deconstruction, Derrida founded the International College of Philosophy in Paris and the International Group for Research into the Teaching of Philosophy in 1975. He is currently attached to the Etudes des...
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Rene Descartes (1596-1650), French mathematician, philosopher, and physiologist, developed first systematic account of the mind/body relationship. Descartes was born in Touraine, in the small town of La Haye and educated from the age of eight at the Jesuit college of...
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John Dewey (1859-1952), born in Burlington, VT, was a well-known American philosopher of pragmaticism, educator and psychologist. Dewey was Professor at Minnesota (1888-89), Michigan (1889-94), Chicago (1894-1904) and Columbia (from 1904). With C. S. Peirce and...
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Dilthey, Wilhelm(1833-1911) is a German philosopher of history and culture, whose theories have especially influenced theology and sociology. Born in Biebrich on the Rhine, he studied at Heidelberg and Berlin. As professor of philosophy at the universities of Basle,...
