scholarly journals Haig KHATCHADOURIAN

wisdom ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 136-138
Author(s):  
Hasmik HOVHANNISYAN
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Language ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Social Philosophy ◽  
Law School ◽  
Professor Emeritus ◽  
Recent Book ◽  
American University ◽  
University Of New Mexico ◽  
American University Of Beirut ◽  
The University

In 2016, the world of Philosophy lost a tremendous and tireless scholar with the passing of Professor Haig Khatchadourian. Haig Khatchadourian, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee from the late 1960’s until 1994, was educated at the American University of Beirut (B.A. and M.A.) and at Duke University (Ph.D.). He also taught at the American University of Beirut (1948-49, 1956-68), Melkonian Educational Institute, Nicosia, Cyprus (1950-1951), Haigazian College, Beirut (1951-52), the University of Southern California (1968-69), and was a Visiting Professor at the University of Hawaii-Manoa (1976-77) and a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of New Mexico-Albuquerque (1978-79). His areas of specialization included: Aesthetics and Philosophy of the Arts, Ethics, Philosophy of Language, Political Philosophy, and Social Philosophy, among others. He was a member of learned societies and presented papers at international conferences from 1958 to 2007. He participated in the Harvard International Seminar (summer, 1962) and was a Liberal Arts Fellow in Philosophy and Law at Harvard Law School (1982-3). He received numerous honors and awards, including Outstanding Educators of America Award, 2,000 Intellectuals of the 20th Century and 2,000 Outstanding Academics of the 21st Century. He published 19 books and at least 94 articles. His most recent book is How to Do Things with Silence.

scholarly journals Notes on Contributors

Philosophy ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 76 (4) ◽  
pp. 489-490
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Language ◽  
Assistant Professor ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
Professor Emeritus ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
American University ◽  
American University Of Beirut ◽  
Doctoral Candidate ◽  
University Professor ◽  
The University

John R. SearleJohn R. Searle is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California at Berkeley. He is author of many distinguished works on the philosophy of language and mind.Luke PurshouseTemporary Lecturer in Philosophy at St John's College Cambridge who has researched interests in accounts of emotions and their rational appraisal and has recently completed a doctoral dissertation on the subject.Christopher CordnerLecturer in Philosophy at the University of Melbourne. His book Ethical Encounter will soon be published by Palgrave.Thom BrooksRecently received his MA from University College Dublin. He is now a doctoral candidate at the University of Sheffield. His dissertation is on Hegel's political philosophy.Roberto CasatiA researcher at the Nicod Institut of CNRS, Paris. His most recent works are The Discovery of the Shadow (Little Brown/Knopf) and Parts and Places (MIT Press, with Achille C. Varzi).Achille C. VarziAssociate Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University. His most recent works are An Essay in Universal Semantics (Kluwer) and Parts and Places (MIT Press, with Roberto Casati). Jeremy Randel KoonsAssistant Professor of Philosophy at the American University of Beirut. His primary research interests are in ethical theory and epistemology. His article ‘Do Normative Facts Need to Explain?’ recently appeared in Pacific Philosophical Quarterly.Hilary W. PutnamCogan University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University. His books include Reason, Truth and History, Realism with a Human Face, Words and Life, Pragmatism and The Threefold Cord: Body and World.Graham OppyAssociate Professor of Philosophy at Monash University. His research interests lie in philosophy of religion, philosophy of science, metaphysics and philosophy of language. He is the author of Ontological Arguments and Belief in God (Cambridge University Press, 1996).

In the Wake of Laurence Veysey: Re-examining the Liberal Arts College

2005 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 420-426 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz
Keyword(s):  
Graduate School ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Liberal Arts College ◽  
Experimental Methods ◽  
Doctoral Dissertation ◽  
Empirical Methods ◽  
American University ◽  
Graduate School Training ◽  
The University ◽  
School Training

In The Emergence of the American University, Laurence R. Veysey enriched our understanding of the American university at its creation in the second half of the nineteenth century. He demonstrated how this new institution drew on German approaches and valued experimental, empirical methods of knowledge. The university introduced the lecture and seminar. It valued graduate school training above all; the doctoral dissertation required that its students become creators of new knowledge, preferably by experimental methods. Veysey helped us understand the emerging American university by creating a useful ideal type.

scholarly journals Farhat J. Ziadeh 1917–2016

2016 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 238-239
Author(s):  
Nicholas Heer
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
The United States ◽  
Full Time ◽  
American University ◽  
Near Eastern ◽  
American University Of Beirut ◽  
Princeton University ◽  
Distinguished Scholar ◽  
The University

Farhat Jacob Ziadeh, founder and first chairman of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization at the University of Washington, and a distinguished scholar in the field of Islamic law, writer, teacher, and administrator, died on 8 June 2016 at the age of ninety-nine. Ziadeh was born on 8 April 1917 in Ramallah, Palestine where he received his early education. After graduating from the American University of Beirut in 1937, he studied law at the University of London, receiving an LL.B. degree in 1940. For the next eight years he worked as a lawyer and Arabic instructor in the United States, England, and Palestine. In 1948, he joined the Princeton University faculty as a lecturer in Arabic. The following year he married Suad Salem, who, like himself, was also from Ramallah. They raised five daughters: Shireen, Susan, Rhonda, Deena, and Reema. In 1950, Ziadeh began working with the Voice of America in New York as the editor of the Arabic desk. Since this was a full-time job, he could continue as a lecturer at Princeton only on a part-time basis. In 1954, however, Princeton offered him an assistant professorship, which he accepted. At Princeton, Ziadeh collaborated with the late R. Bayly Winder to write An Introduction to Modern Arabic (1957). It was during this period also that Ziadeh began to work on his translation of Ṣubḥī Maḥmaṣānī’s Falsafat al-Tashrīʿ fī al-Islām under the title, Mahmassani's Philosophy of Jurisprudence in Islam (1961).

scholarly journals Breast-Feeding Patterns

1970 ◽  
pp. 9-10
Author(s):  
Wafa Stephan
Keyword(s):  
Child Health ◽  
Breast Feeding ◽  
Maternal And Child Health ◽  
Professor Emeritus ◽  
Feeding Patterns ◽  
American University ◽  
American University Of Beirut ◽  
And Child Health

Breast- Feeding Patterns is the title of a 1982 publication by the WHO/EMRO, prepared by Dr. J.K. Harfouche, M.D., Professor Emeritus of Maternal and Child Health at the American University of Beirut.

scholarly journals Five Centuries of Astronomical Textbooks and their Role in Teaching

1990 ◽  
Vol 105 ◽  
pp. 189-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Owen Gingerich
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
University Education ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
History Of Astronomy ◽  
American University ◽  
American University Of Beirut ◽  
Late Middle Ages ◽  
History Of ◽  
Syrian Protestant College

At the turn of the century, astronomy was required of every senior in what is now the American University of Beirut, for the reason that “the heavens declare the glory of God”; this was especially appropriate for what was then the Syrian Protestant College. And in the late Middle Ages, astronomy was one of the seven liberal arts, a required part of every basic university education — for much the same reason. Thus, for many centuries, astronomy was considered essential for what every educated person should know. The organizers of this colloquium thought it would be informative to learn more about the historical background to our colloquium and asked if I would speak on the history of astronomy teaching over the ages. I demurred at such an overwhelming topic, which would require a major research program, and have offered instead something about the history of astronomy textbooks, because this subset provides answers to at least some of the broader questions of how astronomy has been taught.

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