4 résultats pour "times"
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Discovering the author’s life and times MARGARET ATWOOD
Discovering the author’s life and times MARGARET ATWOOD Margaret Atwood was born in Ottawa, Canada, in 1939. Her father was an entomologist, and Atwood spent part of her early years in the bush of North Quebec, where her father studied insects. She studied English at the University of Toronto, and then Radcliffe College and Harvard in the U.S.A. She is Canada’s most eminent novelist and poet, and also writes short stories, critical studies, screenplays, radio scripts, graphic novels and...
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Anomalous monism
Anomalous monism Anomalous monism, proposed by Donald Davidson in 1970, implies that all events are of one fundamental kind, namely physical. But it does not deny that there are mental events; rather, it implies that every mental event is some physical event or other. The idea is that someone's thinking at a certain time that the earth is round, for example, might be a certain pattern of neural firing in their brain at that time, an event which is both a thinking that the earth is round (a type...
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Camus, Albert
Camus, Albert (1913-60) Albert Camus was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1957 for having 'illuminated the problems of the human conscience in our times'. By mythologizing the experiences of a secular age struggling with an increasingly contested religious tradition, he dramatized the human effort to 'live and create without the aid of eternal values which, temporarily perhaps, are absent or distorted in contemporary Europe'(1943). Thus the challenge posed by 'the absurd' with which he is so univ...
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Bergson et le langage
Bergson et le langage Il est présumable que sans le langage l'intelligence aurait été rivée aux objets matériels qu'elle avait intérêt à considérer. Elle eût vécu dans un état de somnambulisme, extérieurement à elle-même, hypnotisée sur son travail. Le langage a beaucoup contribué à la libérer. Le mot , fait pour aller d'une chose à l'autre, est en effet essentiellement déplaçable et libre. Il pourra donc s'étendre non seulement d'une chose perçue à une chose perçue, mais encore de la chose perç...