Sentences with phrase «among philosophers for»

Gadamer stands out among philosophers for suggesting that the conversation partner with whom truth emerges is not necessarily another person.

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His work is not necessarily the best moral philosophy now being written — Iris Murdoch, for one, may offer a rival philosophy he would find difficult to answer — but his analysis of our moral paradox is so acute that he, perhaps uniquely among contemporary philosophers, offers the possibility of its solution.

This theological perspective has a profound implications for the correction of the scientific epistemology, which tends to regard as the objective and objectifying process, although nowadays there are efforts to correct this situation among the scientists and philosophers of science.

«Lewis wrote in a time when, among the educated British public if not among their professional philosophers, there was considerably more agreement than there is now about what constitutes a valid and rational argument for a given case.»

«Peter's proposals regarding infanticide are among the weakest points in his philosophy,» says Tony Coady, an Australian philosopher who has known Singer for many years.

He was among the first to coin the phrase «land ethic,» and to this day his understanding of the phrase's content serves as a resource for environmental philosophers.3

Therefore, it is hardly surprising that his writings have found scant interest among professional theologians and philosophers, for one can easily arrive at the conclusion that, despite all the fanfare, Schweitzer's mind was shallow.

Certainly one of the reasons for the neglect of both thinkers among English language philosophers has been that they have not played the role which Russell and Wittgenstein did in generating so - called analytical philosophy (a philosophical style inimical, upon the whole, to attempts to theorize about the nature of the universe in general.

In general, American process theology is consciously dependent upon the process philosophy of either Whitehead or Hartshorne or both; and Hartshorne deserves a large amount of credit for doggedly advocating Whiteheadian - Hartshornian process philosophy during the past four decades when such advocacy was not popular among either philosophers or theologians.

Nevertheless, it was among the scientist - philosophers of Greece that reason was carried to the highest pitch of development and that the activity of reason came to be prized most highly for its own sake.

Among the pile of Pascal's papers that were to be the «Pensees» was a proposition that has kept philosophers and theologians occupied for the last 350 years, Pascal's wager: betting on God is the prudent option.

Whitehead is remarkable among recent philosophers for his insistence that man has, or is, a soul.

By 1980, however, the somewhat chastened magazine acknowledged he was not: «God is making a comeback Most intriguingly, this is happening not among theologians or ordinary believers — most of whom never accepted for a moment that he was in any serious trouble — but in the crisp, intellectual circles of academic philosophers, where the consensus had long banished the Almighty from fruitful discourse.»

Certainly among philosophers of this century Alfred North Whitehead has been a seminal thinker for one increasingly influential group in the theological world.

Among philosophers working on the mind / body problem, the word «qualia» stands for all those features of consciousness that give awareness its specific identity as a particular kind of experience: the redness of red, the sadness of depression, the piquancy of papaya juice, the irksomeness of traffic jams, the crankiness that comes from insomnia, the hurt feelings arising from playground taunts, and so forth.

Among the philosophers whose works contain the seeds of this dichotomy is David Hume: «If we take in our hand any volume» of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance» let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number?

A common climate of opinion and a common community of shared, mutual concerns among these philosophers was, in itself, sufficient to account for the similarities occasionally evidenced.

In fact, his hypothesis had not encountered much support among ethnologists and sociologists, but it had been useful as a springboard for discussions among philosophers, sociologists, and psychologists.

Now, as part of a radical approach to animal welfare and conservation, 30 or more eminent biologists, philosophers and writers (Kortlandt and Teleki among them) are to launch what amounts to a citizen's charter for chimpanzees.

The program traces its roots to John Paul II's call for a renewed dialogue among scientists, theologians, and philosophers.

We discuss, among other topics, about photography in the Middle East with Peggy Sue Amison, artistic director at East Wing; net art and networked cultures with Josephine Bosma, Amsterdam - based journalist and critic; urban digital art and criticality in the media city with curator and researcher Tanya Toft; art and technology with curator Chris Romero; the politics of surveillance and international security with political scientist David Barnard - Wills; art and architecture with Maaike Lauwaert, visual arts curator at Stroom, an independent centre for art and architecture in the Netherlands; the intersections of art, law and science with curator and cultural manager Daniela Silvestrin; the architecture of sacred places with curator Jumana Ghouth; the historical legacy of feminism today with Betty Tompkins and Marilyn Minter; hacktivism and net culture with curator and researcher Tatiana Bazzichelli; culture, place and memory with Norie Neumark, director of the Centre for Creative Arts in Melbourne; anthropology and the tactical use of post-digital technologies with artist and philosopher Mitra Azar; or feminism and the digital arts with curator Tina Sauerländer.

Of the prestigious pool of nearly 70 leading thinkers who nominated artists for the survey, there were nine sitting museum directors (among them the heads of the Pompidou, Tate Modern, Palais de Tokyo, and Haus der Kunst); the philosopher - critics Boris Gorys and Theirry de Duve; the director of Frankfurt's influential Städelschule art school; the art critic Dave Hickey, Frieze editor Jennifer Higgie, and Texte zur Kunst editor Isabelle Graw; and the curators of that year's dOCUMENTA, Gwangju Biennial, and following year's Venice Biennale.

For example, an entire exhibition - within - the - exhibition, «Dios es marica» (God Is Queer), organized by Peruvian curator Miguel A. López and including self - portraits by Mexico's Nahum Zenil and Franco - era Spanish drag artist José Pérez Ocaña, among others, occupies a central position in the biennial's trajectory, as do the samplings of comparable work by São Paulo — based artist Hudinilson Jr. and Peruvian philosopher and drag queen Giuseppe Campuzano, whose ambitious Línea de vida / Museo Travesti del Perú (Life's Timeline / Transvestite Museum of Peru), 2009 — 14, a fictional museum, is one of many things in the biennial «that don't exist» — yet.

Though he insists philosophy has no direct relationship to his art, he retains an enthusiasm for a number of philosophers, both eastern and western, among them the Taoist sage, Lao Tzu, and the pre-Socratic Greek thinker, Heraclitus.

Among the prominent Asian philosophers, he took second place to Lao Tzu and Taosim, and for obvious reasons.

Her personal art notebooks [15][16] have become source for theoretical articulations, and her art has inspired art historians (among them the distinguished art historian Griselda Pollock and international curator Catherine de Zegher) and philosophers (like Jean - François Lyotard, Christine Buci - Glucksmann and Brian Massumi) who dedicated a number of essays to her painting.

That's a point I've made for a long time, and has been echoed by, among others, Ken Caldeira of the Carnegie Institution and Stanford (read his reference to the philosopher David Hume).

A broad stream of opinion among philosophers of science holds that coherence of explanations or theories is a necessary or at least a «conducive» criterion for truth.