Where Descartes turned to the language of substance to explain
certain philosophical problems, social theorists like Morton frequently establish a body / culture dualism in its place.
Not exact matches
Being a biologist who, since my student days, has been also concerned with
philosophical questions, I believe that
certain biological considerations may help clarify and perhaps solve some epistemological
problems.
The contributions of Christian, Hartshorne and several others to the current
philosophical development of process theology are probably best viewed in the context of
certain important
problems of process theism.
To help point the way out of the
problem I will turn to the writings of Whitehead (particularly his later works), drawing from his work
certain conclusions which, while not explicitly stated by him may nevertheless be said to follow from his overall
philosophical scheme.
What we discover in Lewis Ford, in addition, is a mind that approaches
philosophical problems in a manner quite analogous to the way that he himself depicts God (following Pannenberg) as interacting with and complementing the world the power of the future, operant in the present, effecting a slow but
certain transformation and redemption of the past.