Sentences with phrase «among philosophers on»

It has generated much discussion among philosophers on the lack of «haecceitas» of elementary particles.

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Now he reviews a new book on ethics and writes,» [The author] agrees with what now seems to be a near - consensus among philosophers that «speciesism» - the view that we are entitled to take theinterests of animals less seriously than we take human interests, simply because humans are members of our species - is not a morally defensible position.»

(ENTIRE BOOK) These chapters present a criticsl discussion among eminent philosophers, theologians, and Hartshorne himself on Hartshorne's method, his logic, his theism and his metaphysics.

His commentary on the Physics of Aristotle alone, In Aristotelis Physicorum, would have assured his place among the greats of Christian philosophers.

In the humanities, among sociologists, psychologists, philosophers and political theorists, the relational character of human beings, their dependence on their interactions with their environment, is simply assumed.

Recently many environmental philosophers in the West have come to agree.6 One of the most influential among them is J. Baird Callicott, professor of philosophy and natural resources at the University of Wisconsin, author of numerous influential works on environmental ethics and foremost interpreter of the pioneer of Western environmental philosophy, Aldo Leopold.

Frei said on at least one occasion that among theologians he claimed to be a historian and among historians he claimed to be a theologian — but he avoided a complete identity crisis by being consistently clear that he was not a philosopher!

Among them will be the Orthodox theologian John Zizioulas on «An Ontology of Love: A Patristic Reading of Dietrich von Hildebrand's The Nature of Love»; philosopher Josef Seifert on «Dietrich von Hildebrand on Benevolence in Love and Friendship»; and literary scholar Brian Sudlow (author of Catholic Literature and Secularization in France and England 1880 - 1914) on «The Non-Violence of Love: A Hildebrand - Girard Encounter.»

The study draws a number of important conclusions on the basis of careful analysis both of the research data and on the basis of the understanding of human nature that was unanimous until recently among Catholic philosophers.

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.

Kennedy's dignity jurisprudence draws on recent work among legal philosophers.

In a «reverie» circulated among friends but not published until after his death, the philosopher Jacques Maritain included what he called a «conjectural essay» on eschatology, in which he contemplates the possibility that the damned, although eternally in hell, may be able at some point to escape from pain.

Moskop claims that there are five points of agreement between the two philosophers: both maintain that ethics is» (1) teleological, (2) having its telos in experience, (3) requiring qualitative distinctions among experiences, (4) based on an aesthetic criterion of good experience, and (5) altruistic» (MH 19).

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.

There is certainly disagreement among scientists and philosophers on when, or even whether, we will encounter such a nonbiological entity.

Amartya Sen, winner of the Nobel Prize in economics, is university professor at Harvard, formerly master of Trinity College, Cambridge, and also a philosopher, with a prodigious and influential bibliography on technical issues in economics, welfare economics, economic development, social philosophy, the role of the non-Western world in world civilization, and the importance of Indian thought and science, among other topics.

Under various topics such as «Reason and Politics», «Genocide», «Trance», and «Totem and Fetish», individuals among which are philosophers, musicologists, ethnologists, healers or fetishists speak directly to the camera as they build a massive essay on psychiatric pathology en masse.

On the 210 - foot - lons scroll, she was charting the female status throughout history, representing figures of different women who move among quotations about misogyny in the canon of male European philosophers.

Notable participants include: choreographer and dancer Kyle Abraham; poet Elizabeth Alexander; performer Eric Berryman; performance and installation artist Tania Bruguera; urban revitalization strategist Majora Carter; innovator James Burling Chase; actress and playwright Eisa Davis; architect Elizabeth Diller; The Met's Kimberly Drew; photographer John Edmonds; juvenile justice reformer Adam Foss; writer and performance artist Malik Gaines; social practice artist Theaster Gates; filmmaker Tony Gerber; FLEXN dance pioneer Reggie (Regg Roc) Gray; trombonist, painter, and composer Dick Griffin; dancer and choreographer Francesca Harper; trombonist Craig Harris; vocalist Nona Hendryx; playwright Branden Jacobs - Jenkins; cinematographer Arthur Jafa; artist and cultural worker Shani Jamila; trumpeter JAWWAAD; gaming pioneers Navid and Vassiliki Khonsari; NYU Professor and musician Jason King; philosopher Gregg Lambert; composer and Bang on the Can co-founder David Lang; novelist, filmmaker, and curator Ernie Larsen; Wooster Group founding member and director Liz LeCompte; Harvard Professor Sarah Lewis; journalist Seamus McGraw; poet Aja Monet; jazz pianist and composer Jason Moran; performance studies professor Fred Moten; visual artist Shirin Neshat; playwright Lynn Nottage; professor of contemporary rhetorical theory Kendall Phillips; doctor Jeremy Richman; poet Carl Hancock Rux; performance artist Alexandro Segade; writer and activist Tanya Selvaratnam; guitarist and composer Marvin Sewell; playwright and actress Anna Deavere Smith; conceptual artist Hank Willis Thomas; performance artist Carmelita Tropicana; puppeteer Basil Twist; theater director Roberta Uno; vocalist and composer Imani Uzuri; and Wooster Group founding member and actress Kate Valk, among others.

The work comprises a passageway lined on each side with colorful, wall - sized paintings of historic, male, Western authors, artists and philosophers — Balzac, Degas and Foucault among them.