Sentences with phrase «basic philosophical issues»

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Lewontin, a Marxist whose philosophical sophistication exceeds that of Sagan by several orders of magnitude, came to see the issue as essentially one of basic intellectual commitment rather than factual knowledge.

Woody poses basic religious or philosophical questions often ignored by the secularly oriented as «too deep» and skipped over by religionists engrossed in particular issues.

The basic issue in question is philosophical; however, there is reason to believe that Whitehead's reading of the Einsteinian formulation is not necessarily the most satisfactory.

The philosophical issue here — and it is a quite fundamental one — is whether the basic acting of an existent is, or can be, a psychical or mental act.

But, alas, and this is not without its significance as showing the nature of the philosophical task, the result of Martin's critique is not to shake my confidence in my side of the basic issue that divides us.

I was recently a consultant on a study of 11 countries that examined what we called «normative conflicts» — basic conflicts about philosophical and moral issues.

David Spratt and Philip Sutton, Climate Code Red (Fitzroy, Australia: Friends of the Earth, 2008), http://www.climatecodered.net, 4; Brown, Plan B 3.0, 3; James Hansen, et al., «Climate Change and Trace Gases,» Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 365 (2007), 1925 — 54; James Lovelock, The Revenge of Gaia (New York: Basic Books, 2006), 34; Minqi Li, «Climate Change, Limits to Growth, and the Imperative for Socialism,» this issue; «Arctic Summers Ice - Free «by 2013,»» BBC News, December 12, 2007.

John Carter wrote: > For libertarian conservatives, there is a chance to learn and grow about the issue, but only if they don't use as their source blogs like this (and many others that are far worse) that continue to post clever philosophical musings to chip away at the basic idea of climate change...

For libertarian conservatives, there is a chance to learn and grow about the issue, but only if they don't use as their source blogs like this (and many others that are far worse) that continue to post clever philosophical musings to chip away at the basic idea of climate change, rather assess what those actual facts of the issue are, and more importantly, why they are relevant.