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Department of philosophy   /dɪpˈɑrtmənt əv fəlˈɑsəfi/   Listen
Department of philosophy

noun
1.
The academic department responsible for teaching philosophy.  Synonym: philosophy department.






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"Department of philosophy" Quotes from Famous Books



... professor in the Department of Philosophy from 1878 to 1900; Mary Adams Currier, enthusiastic head of the Department of Elocution from 1875 to 1896, the founder of the Monroe Fund for her department; Doctor Speakman, Doctor Barker, Wellesley's resident physicians in the early days; dear Mrs. Newman, who mothered so many college generations ...
— The Story of Wellesley • Florence Converse

... remarks on Hamilton himself, we shall conclude our notice with a few words on this chapter, as closing the properly metaphysical portion of Mr. Mill's book, and as affording ample proof that, in this department of philosophy at least, Mr. Mill's powers of misapprehension do not cease when Sir W. Hamilton is ...
— The Philosophy of the Conditioned • H. L. Mansel

... of this, my first book, I have been often reminded that a higher critic, skilled in the study of internal evidence, could probably trace all of its ideas to suggestions that have come to me from my teachers and colleagues of the Department of Philosophy in Harvard University. I have unscrupulously forgotten what of their definite ideas I have adapted to my own use, but not that I received from them the major portion of my original philosophical capital. I am especially ...
— The Approach to Philosophy • Ralph Barton Perry



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