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There is a Felisa Rincón de Gautier Museum and a parking lot with the name of Doña Fela on Calle Recinto Sur in Old San Juan. [10] [11] In New York City, both the Felisa Rincón de Gautier Institute for Law & Public Policy in the Bronx and a public school (PS 376) in Brooklyn, New York, are named in her honor. [4] [5]
Lou Marinoff is a Canadian-born academic, author, and Commonwealth Scholar. [4] He is Professor of Philosophy and Asian Studies at The City College of New York [5] and founding President of the American Philosophical Practitioners Association. [6]
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent (in Spanish: Las venas abiertas de América Latina) is a book written by Uruguayan journalist, writer, and poet Eduardo Galeano, published in 1971, that consists of an analysis of the impact that European settlement, imperialism, and slavery have had in Latin America.
Statue of Søren Kierkegaard in the Royal Library Garden, Denmark. Two Ages: A Literary Review (Danish: En literair Anmeldelse af S. Kierkegaard) is the first book in Søren Kierkegaard's second authorship and was published on March 30, 1846.
Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan (26 November 1678 – 20 February 1771) was a French natural philosopher , born in the town of Béziers on 26 November 1678. [1] De Mairan lost his father, François d'Ortous, at age four and his mother twelve years later at age sixteen. [ 1 ]
Donald Schön introduced several important organizing concepts to a wide range of applied fields. He proposed the idea of a "generative metaphor" as figurative descriptions of social situations, usually implicit and even semi-conscious but that shape the way problems are tackled. [4]
Schlick's thesis was titled Über die Reflexion des Lichts in einer inhomogenen Schicht (On the Reflection of Light in a Non-Homogeneous Medium). After a year as Privatdozent at Göttingen, he turned to the study of philosophy in Zurich. In 1907, he married Blanche Hardy. [7]
Zea was born in Mexico City.. One of the integral Latin Americanism thinkers in history, Zea became famous thanks to his master's thesis, El Positivismo en México (Positivism in Mexico, 1943), in which he applied and studied positivism in the context of his country and the world during the transition between the 19th and 20th centuries.