Paul Edwards (September 2, 1923 – December 9, 2004) was an Austrian-American moral philosopher. He was the editor-in-chief of Macmillan 's eight-volume Encyclopedia of Philosophy from 1967, and lectured at New York University, Brooklyn College and the New School for Social Research from the 1960s to the 1990s.

2015年12月3日 · In “The Meaning and Value of Life” (1967) Paul Edwards to whom we have already been introduced, notes that many religious thinkers argue that life cannot have meaning unless our lives are part of a divine plan and at least some humans achieve eternal bliss.

Paul N. Edwards is the director of the Program in Science, Technology & Science (STS) and Senior Research Scholar at CISAC, as well as Professor of Information and History at the University of Michigan.

2004年12月16日 · Paul Edwards, a professor of philosophy who edited The Encyclopedia of Philosophy, an enduring and authoritative reference work covering topics from "the absolute" to Zoroastrianism, a Persian...

I'm Director of the Program on Science, Technology & Society (STS) and a Senior Research Scholar at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford. I also co-direct the Stanford Existential Risks Initiative with Prof. Steve Luby.

Edwards was one of the foremost editors, and editors-in-chief, of philosophical texts of the twentieth century. The first book he edited was a largely thematic compilation of some of Bertrand Russell's scattered, uncollected papers, Why IAm Not a Christian.

2024年10月3日 · Paul Edwards (September 2, 1923 – December 9, 2004) was an Austrian-American moral philosopher. He was the editor-in-chief of MacMillan's eight-volume Encyclopedia of Philosophy from 1967, and lectured at New York University, Brooklyn College and the New School for Social Research from the 1960s to the 1990s.

Best known as the editor-in-chief of the monumental Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Paul Edwards (1923-2004) was a modern philosophe. Like the Enlightenment writers he himself so admired, Voltaire, Diderot, and D'Alembert, he spent his career defending the ideas of rationalism, freethought, materialism, and the application of scientific methodology ...

Though perhaps best known as the editor-in-chief of the Macmillan <ITAL>Encyclopedia of Philosophy</ITAL> (1967), Edwards also wrote widely on topics in the philosophy of religion, metaphysics, and ethics.

I'm Director of the Program on Science, Technology & Society (STS) and a Senior Research Scholar at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford. I also co-direct the Stanford Existential Risks Initiative with Prof. Steve Luby.