Sentences with phrase «consensus among philosophers»

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.»

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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.

By 1980, however, the somewhat chastened magazine acknowledged he was not: «God is making a comeback Most intriguingly, this is happening not among theologians or ordinary believers — most of whom never accepted for a moment that he was in any serious trouble — but in the crisp, intellectual circles of academic philosophers, where the consensus had long banished the Almighty from fruitful discourse.»