Rice University
Galileo Project: John Locke
At this site from the Galileo Project of Rice University, you can view factual information about Locke's life. Written in lists; easy to read. Includes categories such as nationality, education, religion, scientific disciplines, and...
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy: David Hume
Biography of Hume, including personal and educational information, and publication dates for major works. Also features an excerpt from a private letter written when Hume was around 15.
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Life of Amos Bronson Alcott
Biographical survey of the educational and religious philosophy of Bronson Alcott (1799-1888), author, teacher, conversationalist, transcendentalist philosopher, and outspoken advocate of educational and social reform. Includes extensive...
Arizona State University
Chicana and Chicano Space: Inquiry
Provided by Arizona State University, this website is a comprehensive thematic, inquiry-based art education resource. Includes two interdisciplinary units of lessons.
Steven Kreis, PhD
The History Guide: Mary Wollstonecraft, 1759 1797
From a college lecture on "The Language of Politics: England and the French Revolution," this biographical sketch connects Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797 CE) to the major political and philosophical thinkers of her time.
University of Nevada, Reno
Univ of Nevada: Ejse: The History of Science
The "Electronic Journal of Science Education" ISSN 1087-3430 Vol. 3 - No. 1 - September 1998 included this article called "The History of Science - What a Story!!"
National Women’s History Museum
National Women's History Museum: Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Learn biographical details on Elizabeth Cady Stanton, author, lecturer, and chief philosopher of the woman's rights and suffrage movements.
Donald Clark
Johann Friedrich Herbart
Johann Friedrich Herbart (1776-1841) is discussed, the German philosopher, psychologist, and educator acknowledged as the "father of scientific pedagogy."
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Bishop Joseph Butler
Joseph Butler (May 18, 1692 O.S. - June 16, 1752) was an English bishop, theologian, apologist, and philosopher. He is known, among other things, for his critique of Thomas Hobbes's egoism and John Locke's theory of personal identity....
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Immanuel Kant
A German philosopher and scientist. Kant is generally considered one of the greatest and most influential thinkers of modern Europe and the last major philosopher of the Enlighenment.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Plato
Plato was a Classical Greek philosopher, who, together with his mentor, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, helped to lay the foundations of Western philosophy. Plato was also a mathematician, writer of philosophical dialogues, and...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Plato
An illustration of Plato, a Classical Greek philosopher, who, together with his mentor, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, helped to lay the foundations of Western philosophy. Plato was also a mathematician, writer of philosophical...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke (12 January 1729 - 9 July 1797) was an Irish statesman, author, orator, political theorist, and philosopher who, after relocating to Great Britain, served for many years in the British House of Commons as a member of the...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: John Fiske
(1842-1901) Historian and philosopher who lectured across America lecturing on scientific, philosophic, historical thoughts such as evolution.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: James Mc Cosh
Scottish-American educator and philosopher
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Joseph Priestley
an English chemist, philosopher, dissenting clergyman, and educator. He is known for his investigations of carbon dioxide and the co-discovery of oxygen.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Abolla
A cloak chiefly worn by soldiers, and thus opposed to the toga, the garb of peace. The abolla was used by by the lower classes at Rome, and consequently by the philosophers who affected severity of manners and life.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Anacreon
Though Anacreon has been famous as the poet of wine and love, few geniune fragments of his songs have come down to us. Those which pass under his name belong to his Greek imitators in later times. Specimens are given here in relief after...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Death of Julian the Apostate
A depiction of Julian the Apostate, a noted philosopher and Roman Emperor, and his death.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Pera
A wallet, made of leather, worn suspended at the side by rustics and by travellers to carry their provisions, and adopted in imitation of them by the Cynic philosophers. This woodcut is the representation of a goat-herd with his staff...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Aeschylus
(525-456 B.C.) Ancient Greek philosopher, founder of Greek tragedies
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Albertus Magnus
Albertus Magnus was also known as Albert of Cologne and Saint Albert the Great. Magnus was a great German philosopher and theologian of the Middle Ages.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Antisthenes
(born c. 444 BCE) Greek philosopher and founder of the school of cynics.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Aristotle
(384-322 BC) Greek philosopher, scientist, physician