News Release (March 4, 1968)

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/ NEWS RELEASE NEw CoLLEGE SARASOTA, FLORIDA 33578 1 130 -3/4/68 813 / 355-7131 Furman C. Arthur IMMEDIATE RELEASE: .SARASOTA--A New philoso"!)hy professor has been aHarded a fellowshin by the National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities that Hill permit him to spend the next academic year research in and nr. B. r,resham Piley, assistant professor of philosophy, will probably spend the next academic year in Mass., his research. The fellat-1ship, one of only 68 avrarded in the nation, qiven by the foundation under a for excellence in teaching and research in AMerica's and universities. Dr. won one of the fellmvships P.:iven to scholars to "support scholarly and intellectual growth. 11 He '"as the only faculty member in Vlorida to Hin such an Under the terms of the felloHshir>, nr. 1Uley receive $8,000 plus travel and other henefits durinP the time of his leave from the The philosophy professor said that he chose to spend the time studyinP, in the behavioral sciences to further his oHn \-York in the philosophy of the mind. Huch of the work in the philosophy of the mind, said nr. 'Riley, has been characterized by a neP,lect of the behavioral sciences and philomore

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NEH COLLEr,F Par>:e 2 sophers have attempted to analyze human nature and behavior by means of a loq,ical analysis of languane, rather than by means of the latvs and theories provided by the behavioral sciences. Dr. Riley, Hho hio:hest honors from Baylor Univers ity and earned his at Yale University, Has aHarded F'ulHoodrm Pilson and Danforth durino: his educational career. A former assistant in instruction at Yale, Dr. Piley joined the New Colleo:e faculty in 1965, The National on the Arts and Humanities, a federal authorized to promote scholarship, research, and nublic under of the humanities in the United States, was created in 1965. Dr. Barnaby C. Keeney, chairman of the National Endm.;ment for the Humanities, estimates that the felloHship proo:ram, althouo:h modest by comparison l-7ith awards in the sciences, has increased by almost 300 percent the total felloHship from all public and private sources available for youno: scholars in the humanities. 30 -