Sentences with phrase «although most philosophers»

I ask you now not to forget this notion; for although most philosophers seem either to forget it or to disdain it too much ever to mention it, I believe that we shall have to admit it ourselves in the end as containing an element of truth.

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Although it is safe to say that most philosophers reject the argument, few are now satisfied with parroting Gaunilo or Kant and critical treatments of the argument acknowledge Hartshorne's contributions.

Although he was a political philosopher of the first rank, he thought that most people greatly exaggerated the importance of politics.

Although not well - known in American intellectual discourse, he is without question one of the most important living Catholic philosophers, perhaps second only to Alasdair MacIntyre.

Although the complex moral ability called courage, highly honored by the ancients and ignored by most non-existentialist modern philosophers, is not directly named by Whitehead, it is directly implicated throughout his works in discussions of tragedy and heroism.

«Most historians and philosophers of science, although they like the thrust [of Kuhn's argument], don't buy it all,» says Alan Rocke, a science historian at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland.

Although, most education philosophers would have significant problems with some of the conclusions of «A Nation at Risk,» they would all agree that teachers are a vital key to accomplishing positive education reform.

The artist and philosopher Adrian Piper's direct and subtly intellectual approach to unpacking the tangled issues of race, gender, identity, and belonging has inspired a generation of socially - conscious artists across all media, although her impact is just now being fully recognized: she was the recipient of the Golden Lion for best artist at this year's Venice Biennale, and MoMA has recently announced plans for, in the words of Robin Pogrebin in the New York Times, «the most comprehensive exhibition to date on the conceptual artist,» set to open in 2018.

Most philosophers regard Kuhn as historian who had pretensions as a philosopher, although some have recognized his claim as philosopher because he changed the debate about scientific realism..