Sentences with phrase «as philosophers among»

Meland expressed his view that while Wieman may have been a valuable member of the University of Chicago faculty, he was somewhat out of place there as a philosopher among theologians.

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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.

Ethically, we are in an age in which there is grave doubt among theologians, philosophers, jurists and social scientists as to whether any universal principles exist which can be reliably known and used by the international community to define torture or terrorism as fundamentally wrong.

As Whitehead's thought became better understood among academic theologians and philosophers, it attracted a small but staunch group of followers who found his explanation of God to be both intellectually satisfying and religiously credible.

In his introduction, Oden throws down a «gauntlet»: He challenges the reader to assemble a collection of passages from any ten major philosophers as funny as those he has compiled from Kierkegaard's writings; furthermore, he makes bold provisionally — until this challenge is met — to declare Kierkegaard «as, among philosophers, the most amusing.»

But perhaps it is important to note that another environmental philosopher, Mary Ann Warren, believes silence of this sort betrays an as yet unanswered question among environmental philosophers.

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

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 explicating his own notion of «dynamism» Sullivan notes that, «Whitehead, among the philosophers, has conceived the universe as an organism, and certainly there is no difficulty in seeing living organisms as particular dynamisms.»

Among philosophers, your very valid question is known as «Pascal's Wager,» because it was first posited by Blaise Pascal, a mathematician and philosopher in the 17th century.

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.

Whitehead's understanding (or, as I shall argue, misunderstanding) of Aristotle's concept of «substance» has continued to flourish, entrenched and unquestioned, among subsequent Whiteheadian philosophers.

Karl Popper, second to none among living (now, 1996, no longer) philosophers of science, defends indeterminism, as do Dirac and Wheeler, among the more creative of living scientists, including some biologists.

Philosophy's recognition of itself as religion is neither achieved nor admitted by all philosophers, but among these who have recognized the identity of philosophy and religion are Socrates, Plotinus, Erigena, Spinoza, Hegel — in short, and in general, most of the speculative, «Platonic» tradition, in opposition to the mainstream of the analytic, «Aristotalian» tradition (if the reader will forgive such a gross oversimplification of a very complex history of thought).

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

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.

But God as a physical entity was largely rejected by theologians and philosophers because they thought that God was not one object among other objects in the world.

Both «symbolic reference» and «propositional feelings» have receptive and imaginative aspects; but, whereas Whitehead emphasized the former, cognitive aspect in his discussion of «symbolic reference,» as a rebuttal to Hume and Kant, he emphasized the latter, creative aspect in his discussion of «propositions,» an emphasis needed to counter «the interest in logic, dominating over-intellectualized philosophers,» among whom «aesthetic delight» is eclipsed by «judgment» (cf. PR 184 - 86 and WH 33) In «symbolic reference» a dim, but indirect, mode of perception («causal efficacy») is combined with a clear, but indirect, mode of perception («presentational immediacy»), which produces a sense of the external world.

As Hegel, among other philosophers, has put it, to know a limit as a limit is already to be beyond that limiAs Hegel, among other philosophers, has put it, to know a limit as a limit is already to be beyond that limias a limit is already to be beyond that limit.

16To hold otherwise is to suppose a form of «immediate knowledge,» an absurdity if, as Hartshorne among many others holds, «human consciousness is essentially linguistic» («A Philosopher's Assessment of Christianity,» in Religion and Culture: Essays in Honor of Paul Tillich, ed.

There were philosophical debates among Greek philosophers as to exactly what this word means, but common to their usage was the idea expressed in the adage, «two substances can not occupy the same space at the same time.»

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.

As regular readers know, Girard is something of a cult figure among a large number of literary critics, philosophers, and theologians (see Joseph Bottum's «Girard Among the Girardians,» March 1among a large number of literary critics, philosophers, and theologians (see Joseph Bottum's «Girard Among the Girardians,» March 1Among the Girardians,» March 1996).

Modern mathematicians like Sir James Jeans can find in God, the Thinker, the final explanation of the starry heavens and of man's life; and a modern philosopher like Alfred North Whitehead can find God to be the vision of the whole and of what can be, and the mediating thought between them, as he contemplates or «envisages» the possible beauty of the harmonies among the worlds of flux.

I have suggested, however, that science is not as objective, nor religion as subjective, as the view dominant among philosophers of religion has held.

The story is told that in the University of Paris the philosophers once disputed among themselves as to the number of teeth in a horse's mouth.

Although this misinterpretation had been effectively criticized, not only by philosophers such as Bergson, Meyerson, Whitehead and Reichenbach, but also by a number of physicists — among them Einstein himself, Langevin, Eddington, etc. — it was again revived recently by Costa de Beauregard, Adolf Gruenbaum, and J. J. Smart, and apparently accepted by W. Quine.

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.

Among other accounts, the Greek philosopher Plutarch described a hazy light around the rim of a darkened sun as early as AD 71, and Johannes Kepler noticed something similar in 1605.

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.

Philosophers, theologians and life coaches are among those that Gardner sees as having high existential intelligence.

There are certain truths that can be explained in different words, and with different frames of reference, and yet still produce a spark of recognition among people as diverse as quantum physicists and gnostic philosophers.

Among Descartes» many contributions (he was a brilliant mathematician and scientist as well), the «cogito» (as philosophers call it) remains his most significant contribution to the history of ideas.

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.

As the set configurations and collage works of von Bonin and Burr invert particular aesthetic styles and art historical doctrines — including the supposed neutrality of Minimalism, the circuitous heritage of negative aesthetics, and the role of the artist as iconoclast, among them — Sullivan and Zmijewski adopt different versions of what philosopher Alain Badiou has argued is constitutive of cinema, namely «a procedure of theatrical sampling.&raquAs the set configurations and collage works of von Bonin and Burr invert particular aesthetic styles and art historical doctrines — including the supposed neutrality of Minimalism, the circuitous heritage of negative aesthetics, and the role of the artist as iconoclast, among them — Sullivan and Zmijewski adopt different versions of what philosopher Alain Badiou has argued is constitutive of cinema, namely «a procedure of theatrical sampling.&raquas iconoclast, among them — Sullivan and Zmijewski adopt different versions of what philosopher Alain Badiou has argued is constitutive of cinema, namely «a procedure of theatrical sampling.»

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.

Among an ever expanding (and as Karen Barad might say, «entangled») list, I am inspired by the complex and contradictory city I live in (the city of Chicago) and the incredible community of hard working, sincere, talented artists who I am surround by and have the privilege of working alongside and in collaboration with every day (too many and to diverse to name individually here) / / by mentors A. Laurie Palmer and Claire Pentecost and Anne Wilson and Ben Nicholson / / by Simon Starling and Andrea Zittel and Mark Dion and Sarah Sze and Phoebe Wasburn and Mierele Laderman Ukeles and Joseph Beuys and Eva Hesse and Hans Haacke and Robert Smithson / / by writers and philosophers Karen Barad and Jane Bennett and Rebecca Solnit and Italo Calvino and Steward Brand and the contributors to The Whole Earth Catalog (of which my father gave me his copies) and Ken Issacs and Carl Sagan and Neil deGrasse Tyson and William Cronon and Bruno Latour and Deluze and Guttari and Jack Burnham / / by ideas of radical intimacy and transformation and ephemerality and experimentation and growth and agency and mobility and nomadicism and balance and maintenance and survival and change and subjectivity and hylozoism and living structures / / by mycelium and soil and terracotta and honey and mead and wild yeast and beeswax and fat and felt and salt and sulfur and bismuth and meteorites and microbes and algae and oil and carbon and tar and water and lightening and electricity and oak and maple / / by exploration and navigation and «the Age of Wonder» and the Mir Space Station and the Deep Tunnel Project / / by Lake Michigan and the Chicago River and waterways and canals and oceans and puddles... to name a few.

In addition to being regarded by many as prefiguring some of the ideas proposed in the 1980s by philosopher Judith Butler about gender performativity, many of her photo - text pieces point to territory later mined by Cindy Sherman, among many other contemporary artists.

By means of accounts given by, among others, a psychoanalyst, a neurologist, a surgeon, a philosopher, a historian, a dancer and a musician, the phenomenon of phantom pain is viewed as a symptom of the denial and invisibility of such traumas as genocide, slavery and colonisation that are experienced collectively.

Reading French philosopher Simone Weil's 1947 book Gravity and Grace inspired Anatsui to explore the concepts of what he calls «the material and the spiritual, of heaven and earth, of the physical and the ethereal» by using a limited, contrasting color palette, as typified in this work, among his largest.