Mortimer J. Adler

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Books by Adler

• Dialectic (1927)
• The Nature of Judicial Proof: An Inquiry into the Logical, Legal, and Empirical Aspects of the Law of Evidence (1931, with Jerome Michael)
• Diagrammatics (1932, with Maude Phelps Hutchins)
• Crime, Law and Social Science (1933, with Jerome Michael)
• Art and Prudence: A Study in Practical Philosophy (1937)
• What Man Has Made of Man: A Study of the Consequences of Platonism and Positivism in Psychology (1937)
• St. Thomas and the Gentiles (1938)
• The Philosophy and Science of Man: A Collection of Texts as a Foundation for Ethics and Politics (1940)
• How to Read a Book: The Art of Getting a Liberal Education (1940), 1966 edition subtitled A Guide to Reading the Great Books, 1972 revised edition with Charles Van Doren, The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading: ISBN 0-671-21209-5
• A Dialectic of Morals: Towards the Foundations of Political Philosophy (1941)
• How to Think About War and Peace (1944)
• The Revolution in Education (1944, with Milton Mayer)
• The Capitalist Manifesto (1958, with Louis O. Kelso) ISBN 0-8371-8210-7
• The Idea of Freedom: A Dialectical Examination of the Conceptions of Freedom (1958)
• The New Capitalists: A Proposal to Free Economic Growth from the Slavery of Savings (1961, with Louis O. Kelso)
• The Idea of Freedom: A Dialectical Examination of the Controversies about Freedom (1961)
• Great Ideas from the Great Books (1961)
• The Conditions of Philosophy: Its Checkered Past, Its Present Disorder, and Its Future Promise (1965)
• The Difference of Man and the Difference It Makes (1967)
• The Time of Our Lives: The Ethics of Common Sense (1970)
• The Common Sense of Politics (1971)
• The American Testament (1975, with William Gorman)
• Some Questions About Language: A Theory of Human Discourse and Its Objects (1976)
• Philosopher at Large: An Intellectual Autobiography (1977)
• Reforming Education: The Schooling of a People and Their Education Beyond Schooling (1977, edited by Geraldine Van Doren)
• Aristotle for Everybody: Difficult Thought Made Easy (1978) ISBN 0-684-83823-0
• How to Think About God: A Guide for the 20th-Century Pagan (1980) ISBN 0-02-016022-4
• Six Great Ideas: Truth-Goodness-Beauty-Liberty-Equality-Justice (1981) ISBN 0-02-072020-3
• The Angels and Us (1982)
• The Paideia Proposal: An Educational Manifesto (1982)
• How to Speak / How to Listen (1983) ISBN 0-02-500570-7
• Paideia Problems and Possibilities: A Consideration of Questions Raised by The Paideia Proposal (1983)
• A Vision of the Future: Twelve Ideas for a Better Life and a Better Society (1984) ISBN 0-02-500280-5
• The Paideia Program: An Educational Syllabus (1984, with Members of the Paideia Group)
• Ten Philosophical Mistakes (1985) ISBN 0-02-500330-5
• A Guidebook to Learning: For a Lifelong Pursuit of Wisdom (1986)
• We Hold These Truths: Understanding the Ideas and Ideals of the Constitution (1987)
• Reforming Education: The Opening of the American Mind (1988, edited by Geraldine Van Doren)
• Intellect: Mind Over Matter (1990)
• Truth in Religion: The Plurality of Religions and the Unity of Truth (1990) ISBN 0-02-064140-0
• Haves Without Have-Nots: Essays for the 21st Century on Democracy and Socialism (1991) ISBN 0-02-500561-8
• Desires, Right & Wrong: The Ethics of Enough (1991)
• A Second Look in the Rearview Mirror: Further Autobiographical Reflections of a Philosopher At Large (1992)
• The Great Ideas: A Lexicon of Western Thought (1992)
• Natural Theology, Chance, and God (The Great Ideas Today, 1992)
• The Four Dimensions of Philosophy: Metaphysical-Moral-Objective-Categorical (1993)
• Art, the Arts, and the Great Ideas (1994)
• Adler's Philosophical Dictionary: 125 Key Terms for the Philosopher's Lexicon (1995)

Collections Edited by Adler

• Scholasticism and Politics (1940)
• Great Books of the Western World (1952, 52 volumes), 2nd edition 1990, 60 volumes
• A Syntopicon: An Index to The Great Ideas (1952, 2 volumes), 2nd edition 1990
• The Great Ideas Today (1961–1977, 17 volumes), with Robert Hutchins, 1978–1999, 20 volumes
• The Negro in American History (1969, 3 volumes), with Charles Van Doren
• Gateway to the Great Books (1963, 10 volumes), with Robert Hutchins
• The Annals of America (1968, 21 volumes)
• Propædia: Outline of Knowledge and Guide to The New Encyclopædia Britannica 15th Edition (1974, 30 volumes)
• Great Treasury of Western Thought (1977, with Charles Van Doren)

INDEX: H

Hawaii (HI)

Hawking, Stephen  (1942-    )

STEPHEN HAWKING

Stephen Hawking in wikipedia  See below for selected works.

      The following article appeared in The Spokesman-Review, January 8, 2011.

Physicist celebrated on 70th

Few survive as long with Lou Gehrig’s disease

Professor Stephen Hawking sits in his
office at the University of Cambridge in
England in December 2011.

       CAMBRIDGE, England – British scientist Stephen Hawking has decoded some of the most puzzling mysteries of the universe but he has left one mystery unsolved: how he has managed to survive so long with such a crippling disease.

      The physicist and cosmologist was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s disease when he was a 21-year-old student at Cambridge University. Most people die within a few years of the diagnosis, called motor neurone disease in the U.K. Today, Hawking will turn 70.

      “I don’t know of anyone who’s survived this long,” said Ammar Al-Chalabi, director of the Motor Neurone Disease Care and Research Centre at King’s College London. He does not treat Hawking and described his longevity as “extraordinary.”

      “It is unusual for (motor neurone disease) patients to survive for decades, but not unheard of,” said Dr. Rup Tandan, a neurology professor at the University of Vermont College. Still, Tandan said many longtime survivors had ventilators to breathe for them – which Hawking does not.

      To mark his birthday today, Cambridge University is holding a public symposium on “The State of the Universe,” featuring talks from 27 leading scientists, including Hawking. For 30 years, he held a mathematics post at the university previously held by Sir Isaac Newton. Hawking retired from that position in 2009 and is now director of research at the university’s Centre for Theoretical Cosmology.

      Hawking achieved all that despite being nearly entirely paralyzed and in a wheelchair since 1970. He now communicates only by twitching his right cheek. Since catching pneumonia in 1985, Hawking has needed around-the-clock care and relies on a computer and voice synthesizer to speak.

      Lou Gehrig’s disease, also called amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, attacks motor neurons, cells that control the muscles. Patients typically suffer muscle weakness and wasting, become paralyzed and have problems talking, swallowing and breathing. Only about 10 percent of patients live longer than a decade.

      People who are stricken at a young age, as Hawking was, generally have a better chance of surviving longer. Most people are diagnosed between 50 and 70. Life expectancy generally ranges from two to five years after symptoms set in.

      For some reason, the disease has progressed more slowly in Hawking than in most. Al-Chalabi and colleagues are analyzing a DNA sample from Hawking, along with those of other patients, to see if there is something rare about his disease or any genetic mutations that could explain his long survival.

Maria Cheng

Associated Press

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Selected publications

Technical

• Singularities in Collapsing Stars and Expanding Universes with Dennis William Sciama, 1969 Comments on Astrophysics and Space Physics Vol 1 No.1
• The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time with George Ellis, 1973, ISBN 0-521-09906-4
• The Nature of Space and Time with Roger Penrose, foreword by Michael Atiyah, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1996, ISBN 0-691-05084-8
• The Large, the Small, and the Human Mind, (with Abner Shimony, Nancy Cartwright, and Roger Penrose), Cambridge University Press, 1997, ISBN 0-521-56330-5 (hardback), ISBN 0-521-65538-2 (paperback), Canto edition: ISBN 0-521-78572-3
• Information Loss in Black Holes, Cambridge University Press, 2005
• God Created the Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs That Changed History, Running Press, 2005 ISBN 0762419229

Popular

• A Brief History of Time, (Bantam Press 1988) ISBN 055305340X
• Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays, (Bantam Books 1993) ISBN 0553374117
• The Universe in a Nutshell, (Bantam Press 2001) ISBN 055380202X
• On The Shoulders of Giants. The Great Works of Physics and Astronomy, (Running Press 2002) ISBN 076241698X
• A Briefer History of Time, coauthored with Leonard Mlodinow, (Bantam Books 2005) ISBN 0553804367
• The Grand Design, coauthored with Leonard Mlodinow, (Bantam Press 2010) ISBN 0553805371