Sentences with phrase «as professional philosophers»

As professional philosophers, it's second nature for us to ask questions: what does it mean to be fit?

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The works of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, a professional paleontologist as well as Jesuit philosopher, also exerted a formative influence.

This balkanization of meaning continues as a professional habit of philosophers, and not only among those who dismiss the self.

His breakdown amid the variety of Roman alternatives was cured by the new Christian alternative, his intellectual doubts as a late antique philosopher were resolved by Hebrew and Christian truth, his dissatisfaction with professional advancement in Rome was rechanneled into an enthusiasm for the new society of the ecclesia.

It is my hope that this volume will help to «bridge the gap» between the professional philosophers and theologians and the many other persons who are looking for a basic familiarity with process theology but who do not have the time to struggle with the complexities of the process system as a whole.

Sometimes Midgley's own remarks about the character of contemporary professional philosophy seem to lend weight to the claims of those like biologist E. O. Wilson, who regard philosophers as unhelpful amateurs (as if philosophers habitually knew nothing except what fellow philosophers had written).

And sometimes, as with the example of positivism, the work of professional philosophers actually stands in the way of progress.

Oh wait, that's what would happen in the alternate universe in which education is an obsession of every education professional, the pivot about which their professional lives revolve rather then being the sport of philosopher - kings as it is in our reality.

I never envisioned publishing encyclopedia entries on Islamic philosophers, writing about critical thinking pedagogy, investigating the doctrine of stare decisis, or sending out book proposals (as you might guess, it's the «jack - of - all - trades» syndrome, but I'm more interested in the politics and ethics of intellectual responsibility than professional standing and status): nothing could have been further from my mind!