Sentences with phrase «as a philosopher with»

For just this reason Marx saw Bentham as a philosopher with the mind of a small shopkeeper.»

As a philosopher with a background in biological science, I applaud your recent special issue on reality (29 September, p 34) as a valuable marker of where we are, and aren't, on this important topic.

As a philosopher with a background in biological science, I applaud your recent special issue on reality (29 September, p...

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How did this teenage skate obsessive end up with a career as a philosopher?

As a political philosopher who studies how abstract moral notions such as justice apply to political institutions, I am more concerned with the fact that under - counting the undocumented might introduce bias into our public policAs a political philosopher who studies how abstract moral notions such as justice apply to political institutions, I am more concerned with the fact that under - counting the undocumented might introduce bias into our public policas justice apply to political institutions, I am more concerned with the fact that under - counting the undocumented might introduce bias into our public policy.

However, beyond what many of us were exposed to in high school, and as most are generally familiar, Physics actually branches out expansively, into numerous realms, many of which philosophers have played around with for ages.

My philosophy department dismissed me as a futurist and the economists dismissed me as a philosopher (A little vindication: I have since had a few individuals contact me and apologize for dismissing me and in review they have found my premises and argumentation sound even if they still do not necessarily agree with my conclusions).

«This globetrotting novel follows the life of an awkward female «natural philosopher» born in 1800, providing a window into the development of science as a profession in the 19th century and dealing with the slings, arrows, and random events that mark all our lives.

But Zeynep Tufekci of the University of North Carolina argues that targeting voters with ever more personalised messages will shrink the «public sphere», which Jürgen Habermas, a German philosopher, once defined as the basis of democracy.

Moreover, it is now doubtful whether the efficient market hypothesis makes any kind of sense. Indeed, a great many economists and bankers have discovered Minskyâ $ ™ s views on financial fragility and his financial instability hypothesis, according to which banks and financial markets can not be left to themselves: we need regulations even though regulating markets may not succeed in avoiding another crisis once the memory of the current crisis has faded away.As told to me by a law student recently hired by Blackrock, the largest asset manager in the world, with assets totalling more than 3,500 billion dollars â $ «thatâ $ ™ s one and a half times larger than UBS and twice as large as PIMCO â $ «many asset managers are now turning away from hiring neoclassical economists and actually prefer hiring engineers, sociologists and even philosophers.

Founded by Michael Novak and Notre Dame philosopher Ralph McInerny, Crisis rendered invaluable service in the 1980s and 1990s by challenging with intellectual force the hegemony then enjoyed by liberal proponents of the «post-Vatican II Church» as represented by, inter alia, lay - edited Commonweal and Jesuit - edited America.

Part of Maritain's appeal as a philosopher of art stems from his intimate contact with the creative atmosphere of early - twentieth - century France.

As if to turn any still - listening philosopher against him, Gadamer identified the paradigm of understanding with «the mystical submersion of Christians.»

there is certainly nothing wrong with the belief that jesus was a good philosopher once you dismiss all the magical stores as fiction.

Apart from the problems with the idea of «fixed probabilities», one might think that Papineau's readiness to surrender to the physicists the last word on human thinking imperils his employment as a philosopher.

Though acknowledging significant divergences between the Thomist schools and Holloway's thought, the editorial argued that Holloway had remained faithful to both the intentions of the Magisterium, which looks to St. Thomas as the theologian and philosopher par excellence, and to the essence of St. Thomas» project because he had attempted to synthesise theology with the scientific culture of his day.

Although Powell quite accurately notes that «Protestants were distinctively cool to this method of expounding the doctrine of the Trinity,» such philosophers as G. W. Leibniz (1646 - 1716)(with his description of the Trinity as force, intellect, and will) and Gotthold Lessing (1729 - 1781)(who defined the Trinity as an eternal act of self - knowledge) did go this route.

And what of Nietzsche, the philosopher who, with the exception of Plato and Rousseau, most influenced Bloom as teacher and thinker?

In The Philosopher's Pupil (1983) a man's life is changed by his vision of a flying saucer; a key episode in The Good Apprentice turns on what appears to be the effects of a love potion; a young girl in The Green Knight exerts an involuntary telekinesis over the stones that she has collected in her room; in the same novel the goodness of a man named Peter Mir (Mir meaning, in Russian, both «world» and «peace,» as several characters note) seems to be contagious, bringing sweet dreams and love to those with whom he comes in contact.

Not all of these philosophers are traditional theists; some simply hold, with atomic theory, that reality consists of relationships (as protons with electrons) instead of «hard matter.»

Professor Hartshorne, who has much more to say on this matter, believes that «the Christian idea of a suffering deity» «symbolized by the Cross, together with the doctrine of the Incarnation» (C. Hartshorne: Philosophers Speak of God, p. 15 [University of Chicago Press, 1953]-RRB- may legitimately be taken as a symbolic indication of the «saving» quality in the process of things which despite the evil that appears yet makes genuine advance a possibility.

The rejection of metaphysics by most modern philosophers and theologians has seen the gap filled by influential scientists, often with little philosophical training but with the credibility that their status as scientists confers on them.

Process thought developed in the evolutionary philosophies of the late nineteenth century, and has a kinship with the «emergent revolutionary» theorists.38 The process philosophers are interested not only in an evolutionary description of the cosmos, but in what happens to all the traditional metaphysical problems when time is seen as an ingredient of being itself.

On the one hand, process philosophers have made important advances under the inspiration of the writings of Alfred North Whitehead, while on the other a group of thinkers has pursued the developmental implications of the classical Christian doctrine of God as Trinity.1 Normally these two discussions proceed with little cognizance of or interaction with one another.

In order to avoid these consequences while at the same time maintaining «process» as the ultimate key - concept, process philosophers are obligated to invest this process itself with a generalized psyche.

Indeed, the overwhelming consensus among mathematicians who work with transfinites is that transfinite mathematics entails no ontological commitment.4 In fact, when Platonic realism or Russellian logicism (which holds to the extra-mental reality of infinite sets) are employed as interpretations of infinite sets, we open the door to the very antinomies and problematics, such as the Burali - Forti antinomy and Russell's difficulty with sets and impredicative definitions, which have led mathematicians and philosophers of mathematics to new interpretations of set theory such as the axiomatic.

In his review article of Hartshorne's Creative Synthesis and Philosophic Method (PS 2:49 - 67), Robert Neville remarks that «one of Hartshorne's most important contributions» has been his concern to deal «with problems as formulated by public discussion, usually that of analytical philosophers.»

The question then is whether time as the process philosophers think of it is incompatible with causal determinism» (PS 6:238).

And, if the sequence of past events is infinite in extension and is always so relative to any designated present, as process philosophers assume, then, in conjunction with the above, there must be at least one actual event O which is infinitely past relative to some designated present event E. 3

Part of what is implied here is the importance of tradition as opposed to detached rationality — a theme that philosophers Hans - Georg Gadamer and Alasdair MacIntyre, among others, have asserted with particular force.

It apparently does not mean that theology must begin with a theory of the essence of God as a philosopher would.

However, some philosophers of time like Herman Weyl, Adolph Grünbaum, and J.J.C. Smart, who are preoccupied with problems of chronology and chronometry as they emerge in physics, take temporal passage to be either an inessential or a nonsensical feature of time.

Hartshorne definitely thought of Brightman as a process philosopher, largely on the basis of Brightman's «A Temporalist View of God» in The Journal of Religion 12 (1932), 545 - 555, which Hartshorne cites with some frequency in his writing of the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s.

Whitehead, another mathematician - physicist - philosopher, had a similar view Thus our theological scheme is no longer as seriously at odds with science or the philosophy of science as it was in the days of classical or Newtonian physics.

Like the true philosopher, as opposed to the philodoxer, Koontz confines his work within the metaleptic reality whereby his novels emerge as a contemporary dialectics with the various protagonists engaged in rescuing the truth of reality from either the lie or the distortion.

Unluckily just when scientists are opening their minds to a nondeterministic view of cosmic order many philosophers, here and in England, are still playing the old game (as old as ancient stoicism) of trying to reconcile human freedom with strict causal determination of all events.

I would add, following the example of the best American Catholic «public philosophers» John Courtney Murray and Orestes Brownson, that we should, as loyal Americans [we Porchers and REM fans are all about standing for the place where we live], actually explain why our Fathers built better than they knew — which means criticizing their thinking and affirming [most of] their practice with a theory that at least wasn't completely their own.

I ended my book, Philosophers as Educators, with a call for philosophers to join in a cPhilosophers as Educators, with a call for philosophers to join in a cphilosophers to join in a conversation.

Gods will is for us humans today to evolved to a level of conciousness that will prepare us for the challenges of our future survival, Scientists now predicts of hardships in the future due to over population and changes to the natural environment.and that is happening now with activists through out the world are reminding us of protecting nature.That is why we need a phsychological revolution to hasten the evolution of consciousness that will address the problems.Ideological and philosophical enlightenment had the past great minds to develop ideas and belief because God sent them to reality in their times.Abraham, Jesus, Mohammad, Buddha, and many other religious leaders to teach humanity the doctrines that God willed to be appropriate and applicable in those periods of their existence, Also great philosophers in another dimension of social involvement were born to interprete and connect philosophically as the second element of our conscience, Kant, Marx and countless of them also were born.To complete the triangular structure or dimension of our conscience is knowledge.

First, as I note at Public Discourse today in» Kermit Gosnell and the Logic of «Pro-Choice,»» the most up - to - the - minute philosophers in bioethics are dispensing with any «sharp distinction,» as Jon puts it, between the unborn child and the one who has been born.

If Scully's mentor and former partner, Red Barber, was the soft - spoken, southern - accented master of the homely analogy — «This game is tighter than a new pair of shoes on a rainy day» — Scully brings to his work the perspective of a philosopher at ease with the human condition, perhaps first formed by the liberal arts education he received at Fordham University shortly after World War II: «Andre Dawson has a bruised knee and is listed as day - to - day.

Whitehead agrees with Plato that the mark of the philosopher, as distinct from the sophist, is the «resolute attempt to reconcile conflicting doctrines, each with its own solid ground of support» (AI 153).

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.

It also called upon to her aid, able philosophers such as Celsius, Porphyry to defeat the Church with their criticism of the claim of new faith.

Starting with Socrates, ancient philosophers in the Platonic - Aristotelian tradition contended that the human being is best understood as the subject of wonder.

Along with Paul Weiss, he should probably be regarded as preeminent among living American philosophers who still pursue their work in the grand style of systematic metaphysical description and construction.

In his book Science, Truth and Democracy, scientific philosopher Philip Kitcher argues that the old way of doing science with its hierarchies, taxonomies and categories, such as could be applied to species, must be...

Working with Colin McGinn's ideas on consciousness Charlton illustrates the inconsistencies of philosophers who view mind as explainable by science, while suggesting himself that «the presence of mind in nature is not something invisible and hidden except to introspection, but the most palpable thing there is.

No longer repudiated as a spiritual ancestor of Nazism (a charge that was quite unfair to begin with), he is now made to legitimate every variant of political correctness on the left; one can imagine his discomfort if news of this reaches him in whatever sector of the hereafter is reserved for bad philosophers.

James, the philosopher of individuality and private conscious experience was a gregarious and community - oriented personal figure; Royce, the philosopher of community and loyalty was, somewhat like Whitehead, a quiet loner, on one occasion reportedly offering a lecture course with an enrollment of one student, whom he never so much as addressed or personally acknowledged.