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Alan Charles Kors
12+ albums
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Alan Charles Kors (born July 18, 1943) is Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania, where he teaches the intellectual history of the 17th and 18th centuries. He has received both the Lindback Foundation Award and the Ira Abrams Memorial Award for distinguished college teaching. Dr. Kors graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University in 1964, and he received his M.A. (1965) and Ph.D. (1968) from Harvard University, in European History. He is the Henry Charles Lea Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. Kors has written on the history of skeptical, atheistic, and materialist thought in 17th- and 18th-century France, on the Enlightenment in general, on the history of European witchcraft beliefs, and on academic freedom. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
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Human History
118204 - The New Astronomy and Cosmology
35303 - The New Vision of Francis Bacon
344Descartes - The Method of Modern Philosophy
34501 - IntroductionóIntellectual History and Conceptual Change
316Galileo and the New Astronomy
31706 - The Specter of Thomas Hobbes
29805 - Descartes's Dream of Perfect Knowledge
289Rousseau's Dissent
281011 - The Lockean Moment
25albums
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The Birth of the Modern Mind: The Intellectual History of the 17th and 18th Centuries
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Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition, 3rd Edition
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60 Second Lectures - Video
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60 Second Lectures
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60-Second Lectures
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60 Second Lectures - Audio
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The Birth of the Modern Mind
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Part 3 ~ From The Renaissance to The Age of Reason
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TTC - Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition, 3rd Edition
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Birth of the Modern Mind: The Intellectual History of the 17th and 18th Centuries
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Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition
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Birth of the Modern Mind