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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]
Nov 5, 2015 · Paul Edwards (1923 – 2004) was an Austrian American moral philosopher who was editor-in-chief of Macmillan’s Encyclopedia of Philosophy, published in 1967. With eight volumes and nearly 1,500 entries by over 500 contributors, it is one of the monumental works of twentieth-century philosophy.
Dec 3, 2015 · In “The Meaning and Value of Life” (1967) Paul Edwards to whom we have already been introduced, notes that many religious thinkers argue that life cannot have meaning unless our lives are part of a divine plan and at least some humans achieve eternal bliss.
PAUL EDWARDS, 1923-2004 Paul Edwards, probably best known as the editor-in-chief of the eight-volume Encyclopedia of Philosophy, died in New York City on December 9, 2004. He was 81. The apparent cause of death was heart failure, but Edwards had suffered from a great variety of health problems almost his entire adult life
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 ...
Aug 13, 2013 · Best known as the editor-in-chief of the monumental Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Paul Edwards (1923-2004) was a modern philosophe. Like the Enlightenment writers he himself so admired, Voltaire, Diderot, and D'Alembert, he spent his career defending the ideas of rationalism, freethought, materialism, and the application of scientific methodology ...
Paul Edwards has 24 books on Goodreads with 56853 ratings. Paul Edwards’s most popular book is Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and ...
Dec 2, 2009 · Renowned scholar Paul Edwards has compiled Immortality, a superb group of philosophical selections featuring the work of both classical and contemporary authors who address the topics of...
EDWARDS, PAUL (1923–2004), U.S. philosopher and editor of the eight-volume Encyclopedia of Philosophy (1967), the first comprehensive work of its kind in English since 1901. Edwards was born in Vienna, took his doctorate at Columbia University, and taught at New York University and Brooklyn College.
