Famous
Thinkers Paper Assignment

Select and read the articles about
two famous thinkers in the Week Four Electronic Reserve Readings. Find
additional articles in the University Library or on the Internet.

Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper.
Include the following:

•Information about the thinkers’
contributions to society

•Each thinkers’ personal/ social/
political environments and how you think these factors contributed to their
creativity

•The problems or issues that their
ideas sought to solve

•A description of the solutions, and
how their ideas were implemented

•The creative process of each
thinker and a comparison of the two creative processes

•A critique of their ideas and what
could they have done differently

Include at least four references.

Format your paper consistent with
APA guidelines.

Week 4

Famous Thinkers

Readings:

“Gates, Bill (born William
Henry Gates)” (2004). The New Zealand Oxford Dictionary.

“Gates, Bill” (2008).
World Encyclopedia.

“Kripke, Saul Aaron”
(2008). The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy.

“Kripke, Saul” (2005). The
Oxford Companion to Philosophy.

“Parfit, Derek” (2008).
The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy.

“Rorty, Richard McKay”
(2008). The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy.

Kripke semantics. (2008). The Oxford
Dictionary of Philosophy.

Prof. Nicholas Dent “Parfit,
Derek” (2005). The Oxford Companion to Philosophy.

Prof. Owen Flanagan “Dennett,
Daniel C.” (2005). The Oxford Companion to Philosophy.

Software’s great survivor. (2003,
November 22). Economist, 369(8351), 64.

Taking apart the ‘roads ahead’: User
power versus the futurology of IT. (1998). Retrieved on October 1st, 2009 fromhttpss://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/3226/1/Taking_apart_the_roads_ahead.pdf.

Ansbro, J. J. Dr. (1989, January
15). The courage of Dr. King: Challenging the legacies of other black leaders.
New York Times , A.30.

Aronson, R. (2005, June-December).
Camus versus Sartre: The unresolved conflict. Sartre Studies International,
11(1/2), 302.

Attfield, Robin (2006). The shape of
a global ethic. Philosophy Social Criticism , 32, 5.

Baert, P. (2002, February). Richard
Rorty’s pragmatism and the social sciences. History of the Human Sciences, 15,
139.

Camus, A. (1988). After Hiroshima:
Between hell and reason. Philosophy Today, 32(1), 77.

Camus, A., & Van den Hoven, A.
(2001, December). Democracy is an exercise in modesty. Sartre Studies
International, 7(2), 12.

Cohen, A., & Wilber, K. (2009,
June-August). Freedom in the face of fear. EnlightenNext, (44), 44.

Cohen, A., & Wilber, K.
(2008/2009, December-February). The interdynamics of culture + consciousness.
What is Enlightenment?, (42), 41.

Cowie, F. (1998, June). Mad dog
nativism. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 49(2), 227.

Cumming, R. (2009). Contrasts and
fragments: An exploration of James Cone’s theological methodology. Anglican
Theological Review, 91(3), 395.

Dennett, D. (2009, April 1). Daniel
C. Dennett. Freethought Today, 26(3), 10.

Engelhardt, E. S. D. (2001). West,
Cornel The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature.

Fodor, J. (2006, Summer). How the
mind works: What we still don’t know. Daedalus, 135(3), 86.

Fox, S. (2009, September). Plugged
in. PC World, 27(9), 13.

Fuller, S. (2008, March). Richard
Rorty’s philosophical legacy. Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 38, 121.

King Jr., M. L. K. Dr. (1992,
January 20). This Is Not Just’: A Revolution Of Values on the Jericho Road.
Newsday, 58.

Luther King Jr., M. K. Dr. (2003,
August 28). I have a dream. The Commercial Appeal, E.3.

Russell, B. (). Why I am not a
Christian. Retrieved on October 1st, 2009 fromhttpss://users.drew.edu/~jlenz/whynot.html.

Schultz, B. (1996, September).
Bertrand Russell in ethics and politics, philosophy and power. Philosophy of
the Social Sciences, 26, 317.

Scruton, R. (2005, June 25). The
power of negative thinking: Roger Scruton says that France has never recovered
from Jean-Paul Sartre’s horror of the bourgeoisie and his repudiation of both
Christianity and the idea of France. Spectator, 298(9229), 28.

Sloane, A. (1999). Singer,
preference utilitarianism and infanticide. Studies in Christian Ethics , 12,
47.

West, C. (2003, July/August).
“Not a minute to hate.” Tikkun, 18(4), 11.

West, C. (1993, July 25). Where are
dynamic black leaders? Las Vegas Review – Journal, 1.

Young, J. E. (2002). A spectrum of consciousness for CEOS: A
business application of Ken Wilber’s spectrum of consciousness. International
Journal of Organizational Analysis, 10(1), 30