Sentences with phrase «contemporary philosophers of»

There are exactly parallel views of scientific models that have been held by many contemporary philosophers of science, namely, that models are purely subjective, psychological, and adopted by individuals for private heuristic purposes.

A view of scientific explanation as metaphorical has been developed as a supplement to the deductive model of explanation by some contemporary philosophers of science (Black 1962, pp. 25 - 47 and pp. 219 - 243; Hesse 1966, pp. 157 - 177; MacCormac 1971).

In his «friendly criticism,» which we enjoy, Ed regrets that we've given so much room to contemporary philosophers of religion, for example Richard Swinburne and Alvin Plantinga, who argue for «theistic personalism.»

George Santayana (1869 - 1952) and A.N. Whitehead (1861 - 1947) were almost precisely contemporary philosophers each of whom elaborated a complete metaphysical or ontological system, the affinities and contrasts between which are of considerable interest (I am not distinguishing here between metaphysics and ontology as the terminologies of our two thinkers diverge on this in ways attention to...

George Santayana (1869 - 1952) and A.N. Whitehead (1861 - 1947) were almost precisely contemporary philosophers each of whom elaborated a complete metaphysical or ontological system, the affinities and contrasts between which are of considerable interest (I am not distinguishing here between metaphysics and ontology as the terminologies of our two thinkers diverge on this in ways attention to which would only unnecessarily complicate comparison).

Not exact matches

The political philosophers Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson reject not only Tutu's invocation of religion and charged that, by seeking to transform the attitudes, emotions, and moral judgments of citizens, he improperly imports soulcraft into statecraft and transgresses the autonomy of citizens — contemporary liberalism's most sacrosanct value.

His work is not necessarily the best moral philosophy now being written — Iris Murdoch, for one, may offer a rival philosophy he would find difficult to answer — but his analysis of our moral paradox is so acute that he, perhaps uniquely among contemporary philosophers, offers the possibility of its solution.

God's Kindness Has Overwhelmed Us: A Contemporary Doctrine of the Jews as the Chosen People by jerome (yehudah) gellman academic studies, 120 pages, $ 59 As German - Jewish philosopher Franz Rosenzweig observed a hundred years ago, Jewish chosenness is not one of the thirteen principles of....

In this perspective he was following a trail first blazed by a fellow Alexandrian a century and a half earlier, the Jewish philosopher Philo, a contemporary of Jesus who attempted to clothe the Septuagint in amenable patterns from Greek philosophy, particularly Platonism.11 His synthetic effort is echoed throughout the corpus of Clement's writings, which are far less systematic in approach than one would wish; the Stromata («Miscellanies») is less an orderly treatment of theological topics than a series of notes woven into a tapestry whose warp and woof are difficult to discern.12

Emil L. Fackenheim, the distinguished theologian and philosopher, is a Fellow at the Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

To a large degree, these theologians have followed Whitehead's thought, but they have also used the thought of Charles Hartshorne, the contemporary American philosopher whom I have quoted earlier and who has developed Whiteheadian themes and added some of his own.

Perhaps not since the generation of the classic American philosophers — Pierce, Royce, James, Dewey and Mead (none of them technical philosophers in the contemporary meaning of the term)-- has it been possible to range so broadly over the great intellectual issues of the day and break the taboo that would separate religion from secular culture.

It is his opinion that we can best state the evangelical message and the evangelical demand in the idiom of contemporary existentialism, more particularly by use of the analysis of the human situation made in the writings of the German existentialist philosopher Martin Heidegger.

Unlike most contemporary philosophers, who restrict their examination of induction to the modern sense of the term, in which it is construed as a method of inference which permits some prediction of future events on the basis of past events, Whitehead also recognizes the importance of the ancient meaning of induction.

As is observed by J. Baird Callicott, a contemporary environmental philosopher and defender of Leopold, what is noteworthy about this principle «is that the good of the biotic community is the ultimate measure of the moral value, the rightness or wrongness, of actions» (AL 318).

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.

The new book on contemporary French (and Catholic) political philosopher Chantal Delsol, Lucid Mind, Intrepid Spirit: Essays on the Thought of Chantal Delsol is now out.

Nothing is born of anything else, and nothing is necessary to the existence of any other thing,» so wrote a contemporary philosopher (A. Consentino).

Along the way to proving his thesis, Jenkins rewrites the book on Aristotle's Posterior Analytics (his reading, and his devastating criticisms of Oxford's influential Jonathan Barnes, set the standard for such scholarship) and he shows how even the most decorated of contemporary «philosophers of religion» (Plantinga, Stump, Penelhaum, et al.) grossly misread Aquinas.

(This correspondence between Buber and Niebuhr will be published in Maurice Friedman, ed., «Martin Buber» section, Interrogations of Contemporary Philosophers, ed.

A view held by many contemporary metaphysicians is that the problem of induction, so much discussed by philosophers of science, arises only because of mistaken metaphysical views; in particular views (deriving from Hume) about the nature of the causal relation and / or about the internal relations among different entities.1 Contrary to this view, I will try...

The assessment of a philosopher's importance by his or her contemporaries is a risky business, for future generations have a way of unmaking the judgments of their predecessors.1 Yet, by standard measures, Charles Hartshorne (1897 - 2000) was one of the premiere philosophers of the twentieth century.

Blaise Pascal, brilliant French mathematician, philosopher, and contemporary of Hobbes, saw the modern problem as clearly as did the Englishman.

The familiar immediate presentation of the contemporary world, which philosophers of the day described as the awareness of sense - data, is called by Whitehead «Experience in the Mode of Presentational Immediacy.»

If, as I suggested in the last section, the obvious and oft - noted differences between Russell and Whitehead symbolize the current analytic - speculative split, then the kinds of similarities and (perhaps even more importantly) the areas of mutual influence, indebtedness, and philosophic enrichment to which Professor Kuntz rightly points can suggest to contemporary philosophers a neutral «dialogical territory» beyond the present, hostile philosophic «demilitarized zone,» which is no longer itself viable, interesting, or worthy of the vocation of philosophy.

The dictum that «the Sermon on the Mount is not for statesmen,» has become a predominant influence upon Christian political theory in our time.3 One contemporary Christian philosopher rejects all naïve ethical idealism in politics with the assertion: «The Christian kingdom is not of this world, it belongs to the realm of the spirit.

Nevertheless, most of these persons would probably agree with the recent statement of a contemporary Christian philosopher that «Christian belief means accepting the resurrection of Christ, and therefore it seems to involve believing in at least one miracle.

As his cognitional theory is explained by Elshtain, the fifth - century theologian would be at ease with contemporary philosophers such as Bernard Lonergan, whose theory of knowing begins with self - appropriation.

As our greatest educator and one of our greatest philosophers he has had an enormous influence on contemporary thought.

MacIntyre, who portrayed the decay of Western ethics in After Virtue, is the philosopher who defines this new traditionalism, but its most vigorous spokesperson in contemporary religious life is Hauerwas.

Using contemporary analytical philosophy, a number of philosophers in America and England have developed impressive responses to atheistic evidentialism.

I am confident that in time these two advantages will reverse the contemporary fashion among some philosophers and some scientists of inclining toward materialism.

During the 1960's a remarkable revival of the thought of the contemporary American process philosopher, Alfred North Whitehead, took place in the studies and dens of graduate students in philosophy.

However, I think that a great many classical as well as contemporary theologians and philosophers have supposed that if God is omnipotent, it is within his power to completely determine each of the activities of all other beings.

Few contemporary philosophers in the West have reckoned with India's complex experience of democracy; and even fewer have engaged with it as vigorously as she does in The Clash Within.

My colleague of the Université Catholique de Louvain, professor Ladrière, a mathematician and philosopher, sees also the relevance of Whitehead for contemporary thought which takes seriously the findings of recent science.

However, neither prognosticates in the sense of many contemporary media philosophers who follow Alvin Toffler in the «futurist» genre of analysis.

Contemporary philosophers have also shown some of the varied ways in which religious language is used.

The depiction of Jesus as a Cynic philosopher with no concern about Israel's destiny, no connection with the concerns and hopes that animated his Jewish contemporaries, no interest in the interpretation of Scripture, and no message of God's coming eschatological judgment is - quite simply - an ahistorical fiction, achieved by the surgical removal of Jesus from his Jewish context.

(The contemporary religious philosopher closest to van Buren, in mood at least, is Alasdair MacIntyre in «God and the Theologians,» Encounter, September, 1963, an extended review of Honest to God, a valedictory to the Christian faith, and an interesting and confused piece of work.

A contemporary of Jesus was the great Jewish philosopher Philo (c. 20 BC.

«Ninety percent of contemporary philosophers see their principal task to be that of beating religion out of men's heads,» he wrote to his mother in 1961.

Process theology, or what Charles Hartshorne prefers to call neo-classical theology, has links with the theology of the early church fathers who were influenced by Greek thought, Socinus in the sixteenth century and the philosopher A. N. Whitehead of this century, who took science more seriously than his contemporary philosophers and theologians.

In fact, process philosophers have written relatively little about ethics in general; their major contributions to contemporary philosophy, like those of Whitehead himself, have been in the areas of metaphysics, philosophy of science, and philosophy of religion.1

Like his more speculative contemporary Ptolemy, a moderate Gnostic teacher, he undoubtedly thought of himself as standing in «the apostolic tradition» in a «succession» of teachers.24 Like pagan teachers and rabbis, Justin laid hands upon the head of each disciple on the completion of the course.25 At his trial, Justin, philosopher - prophet - teacher, describes the «school» where he has been teaching for the examining prefect, who will presently put him and several of his students to death.

Edmund Burke, the radical eighteenth century politician, hack and philosopher, redeemed himself in the opinion of his more conservative contemporaries when he criticised the excesses of the French Revolution.

«The meaning of time has become terribly problematic in contemporary physics,» says Simon Saunders, a philosopher of physics at the University of Oxford.

If we look outside the scientific enterprise of his time to the culture in general, we discover that this same turn - of - the - century period in which Einstein conceived his theory of relativity put him in the national German - speaking Jewish company of such contemporaries as Sigmund Freud, Franz Kafka, the revolutionary atonalist composer Arnold Schoenberg, the critic Walter Benjamin, the great anthropologist Franz Boas, and the philosopher of symbolic forms Ernst Cassirer.

Sometimes Midgley's own remarks about the character of contemporary professional philosophy seem to lend weight to the claims of those like biologist E. O. Wilson, who regard philosophers as unhelpful amateurs (as if philosophers habitually knew nothing except what fellow philosophers had written).

Experimental philosophers continue the search to understand people's ordinary intuitions, but they do so using the methods of contemporary cognitive science (see also here and here)-- experimental studies, statistical analyses, cognitive models, and so forth.