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© 2005 American Institute of Physics, S-0031-9228-0512-010-9 N explicit engagement with the philosophy of science plays almost no role in the training of physicists or in physics research. What little the student learns about philosophical issues is typically learned casually, by a kind of intellectual osmosis. One picks up ideas and opinions in the lecture hall, in the laboratory, and in colla...

Having good mentors during the graduate student years and in the early-career professional experience provides a major stimulus to a productive life as a scholar and teacher. Our international university doctoral and postdoctoral programs are at their best when they fully integrate research, educational, and teaching opportunities so that intellectual development and scholarship go hand-in-hand...

The article considers the views of German philosopher Ernst Bloch on problem evolution idea “Third Reich” in European Christian tradition Middle Ages and New Times, as well its actualization by Nazism. author paper is translator many texts E. Bloch. He attempts to understand origins popularity Nazism from a culturological historical-philosophical point view series works turns, for first time 19...

plato in theory of philosopher-king believes that all of the members of ideal city-state, whether ruler or citizens, will attain happiness if the philosopher is the ruler. but there are paradoxes in the theory and the bases of the happiness are unstable too. in other words, plato in his theory presents hierarchical dualities (intelligible/visible world, episteme/ doxa,true/ untrue or shadow, …)...