Sentences with phrase «most philosophers»

Or consider the explanations for religious belief proposed by evolutionary psychologists, now recognised by most philosophers of biology as involving more theoretical assumptions than empirical evidence.

But since most philosophers and theologians have cut themselves off from science, few outside the process group pay much attention.

In short, they explain the meaning of life — something most philosophers have long ago given up trying to do.

In our age of academic specialization this realization of comparative importance does not influence most philosophers and theologians to broaden their study.

A window seat in the stratosphere certainly provides a better place from which to contemplate the world than most philosophers ever had.

Most philosophers of science provide little help to scientists themselves as they struggle to make sense of the strange phenomena they encounter.

With regard to justice, I can only agree that the vision of subjective immortality is absurd or selfish if in fact all persons are as privileged as most philosophers and theologians.

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.

Until the twentieth century most philosophers believed that language included a referential element.

Probably the main reason for the widespread adoption of deterministic hypotheses is that most philosophers find it difficult to see how anything else is possible.

For this reason we seldom advert to it, and most philosophers fail even to acknowledge its presence, even though it is causal of our very existence.

It is perhaps interesting to note that the term «being» is actually a form of the verb, even though most philosophers use it as a substantive noun.

Indeed the lack of serious engagement by philosophers with science, particularly physics, is all too apparent, including among most philosophers and theologians within the Church during the last century.

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..

Although most philosophers would generally be familiar with the stages of romance, precision, and generalization, espoused in Whitehead's philosophy of education, few would tend to think of him as a developmentalist.

In this way, this book highlights the vulnerability of the dead, and makes connections to a historical oeuvre, to add critical value to similar concepts in history that are overlooked by most philosophers.

How will you grasp what Gadamer is saying if you are resolutely unprepared (as most philosophers are) to acknowledge the ontological mystery of a Being that speaks directly to us» that is, to our troubles, our innermost issues of identity and value?

«According to most philosophers, God in making the world enslaved it.

Although Henry can find support in Augustine, Calvin, and even Descartes for this idea, most philosophers would be very uneasy about making the laws of logic dependent on any will, even the divine will.

Most philosophers have done so, and this kind of thinking has dominated the West.

Most philosophers do not regard their statements as providing a full and unambiguous description of the way things are.

Of course, most philosophers are aware of the difficulties with the idea of substance, and they rarely affirm the reality of substances directly.

On the whole, Maritain wrote a beautiful prose, a prose that reaches the heart and the imagination more than that of most philosophers, even while manifesting a Thomist love of exquisite clarity, particularly in the making of distinctions.

Most philosophers have long since retreated into colleges and behind pulpits, and the Roman style is not the Jesus style.