European Philosophy and the American Academy

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Many current developments in American academic life – multiculturalism, rhetoric and hermeneutics, and deconstruction – have been inspired by the ideas of European philosophers such as Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze and Lyotard. In Europe the influence of these philosophers is restricted to a small coterie and their ideas have contributed to none of the wide-ranging social and institutional changes recently witnessed in some segments of American academia. Contributions are included by specialists on both sides of the doctrinal and ideological divide, so as to present a serious confrontation between those who see the influence of Derrida and others as benign or insignificant and those who perceive it as corrosive in its effects on academic standards in the US.

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Many current developments in American academic life – multiculturalism, rhetoric and hermeneutics, and deconstruction – have been inspired by the ideas of European philosophers such as Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze and Lyotard. In Europe the influence of these philosophers is restricted to a small coterie and their ideas have contributed to none of the wide-ranging social and institutional changes recently witnessed in some segments of American academia. Contributions are included by specialists on both sides of the doctrinal and ideological divide, so as to present a serious confrontation between those who see the influence of Derrida and others as benign or insignificant and those who perceive it as corrosive in its effects on academic standards in the US.

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Barry Smith is a prominent contributor to both theoretical and applied research in ontology, especially in the fields of biomedical and military informatics. He is the author of some 500 publications on ontology and related topics, and his research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the US, Swiss and Austrian National Science Foundations, the US Department of Defense, the Volkswagen Foundation, and the European Union. In 2002 he received the 2 million Euro Wolfgang Paul Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. In 2010 he was awarded the first Paolo Bozzi Prize in Ontology by the University of Turin.

Smith has BA and MA degrees from the University of Oxford and a PhD from the University of Manchester, England. Since 1994 he has been a faculty member in the University at Buffalo, where he is currently Director of the National Center for Ontological Research, and Professor in the Departments of Biomedical Informatics, Computer Science, Neurology and Philosophy.

ISBN: 9780914417071

Author/Editor/Translator: Barry Smith

Publisher: Hegeler Institute

Year Published: 1994

Format: Paperback

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