Concept
University of Amsterdam
Overview
The University of Amsterdam (abbreviated as UvA; Dutch: Universiteit van Amsterdam) is a public research university located in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Established in 1632 by municipal authorities, it is the fourth-oldest academic institution in the Netherlands still in operation.
The UvA is one of two large, publicly funded research universities in the city, the other being the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU). It is also part of the largest research universities in Europe with more than 44,000 students, ca. 6,200 staff, ca. 3000 PhD students and an annual budget of €850 million. It is the largest university in the Netherlands by enrollment. The main campus is located in central Amsterdam, with a few faculties located in adjacent boroughs. The university is organised into seven faculties: Humanities, Social and Behavioural Sciences, Economics and Business, Science, Law, Medicine, Dentistry.
Close ties are harbored with other institutions internationally through its membership in the League of European Research Universities (LERU), the Institutional Network of the Universities from the Capitals of Europe (UNICA), European University Association (EUA) and Universitas 21. The University of Amsterdam has produced six Nobel Laureates and five prime ministers of the Netherlands.
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But had it not been for those institutions, they would not have been commonly taught at all; and both the individual and the public would have suffered a good deal from the want of those important parts of education. The present universities of Europe were originally, the greater part of them, ecclesiastical corporations, instituted for the education of churchmen. They were founded by the authority of the pope; and…
Adam Smith, An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
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The Chancellor of that time was Queen Elizabeth’s favourite, the Earl of Leicester, who in the first issue of the new Press is celebrated as its founder. Convocation in 1584 had appointed a committee _De Libris imprimendis_, and in 1586 the University lent £100 to an Oxford bookseller, Joseph Barnes, to carry on a press. In the next year an ordinance of the Star Chamber allowed one press at Oxford, and one…
Oxford University Press, Some Account of the Oxford University Press, 1468-1921
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To estimate the character of their artistic interest we must view them in close connection with the actual panorama of their own times. This is a problem of history. The Dutchman has in great measure himself created the ground wherein he lives and finds a home, and has been forced continuously to preserve and defend that home against the invasion of the sea. The citizens of the towns no less than the rural…
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Philosophy of Fine Art, volume 1
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Philosophers who discussed University of Amsterdam
- Judith Butler
- Meister Eckhart
- Axel Honneth
- Nancy Fraser
- Bruno Latour
- Hilary Putnam
- Graham Harman
- Sandra Harding
- Sally Haslanger
- Johan van Benthem (logician)
- Philippe Van Parijs
- Gerrit Mannoury
- Luca Incurvati
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Place in the tradition
Part of Dutch philosophy.