Top image credit: Photo: Doug Tompkins, courtesy of Tompkins Conservation and Open Air Philosophy (openairphilosophy. Written by The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. Olav First Class.Ĭredit: Photo: Doug Tompkins, courtesy of Tompkins Conservation and Open Air Philosophy () In 2005 he was knighted and made a Commander with Star of the Royal Norwegian order of St. Næss was involved in the Norwegian resistance to the Nazis in World War II and was a Green Party candidate for minor political office. In 1958 he founded the philosophical journal Inquiry. Næss’s philosophical views evolved from an early pragmatist-inflected logical empiricism, through a pluralistic view of the history of philosophy, to a version of skepticism that has been referred to as sympathetic metaskepticism. At Oslo, Næss became the centre of a group of young philosophers and social scientists that became known as the Oslo School, which applied empirical methods to ascertain the meanings of philosophical terms (what they called empirical semantics). In 1939 he was appointed professor of philosophy at the University of Oslo, where he taught until 1970. Næss was awarded a doctorate (1936) for his dissertation Erkenntnis und wissenschaftliches Verhalten (“Knowledge and Scientific Behaviour”). Buy Ecology of Wisdom, The: Writings by Arne Naess ANT-N by Drengson, Alan & Devall, Bill (eds), Alan Drengson (ISBN: 9781582434018) from Amazons Book Store. He participated in Moritz Schlick’s logical empiricist group known as the Vienna Circle. After receiving an undergraduate degree (1931) and a master’s degree (1933) from the University of Oslo, Næss continued his studies in Paris and Vienna.

Næss was Norway’s best-known philosopher. Næss’s participation in the environmental movement was motivated by his interest in mountaineering (he led the first expedition to climb the 7,690-m Tirich Mir in Pakistan) his engagement with the philosophies of Benedict de Spinoza, Mohandas Gandhi, and Buddhism and Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring (1962). 12, 2009, Oslo, Nor.), was one of the originators of the concept of deep ecology, which asserted the interconnectedness and equality of all organisms and sought fundamental reorientation of human values and practices to reflect that interconnectedness. Arne Dekke Eide Næss, Norwegian philosopher and environmentalist (born Jan.

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