Sentences with phrase «contemporary philosophers see»

«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.

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Many contemporary philosophers would refuse to read further, once they come upon the claim that what we see are mere colored shapes.

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

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.

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.

This exhibition of contemporary artworks presents photography, video, sculpture, and painting seen through the lens of influential philosopher Walter Benjamin's magnum opus The Arcades Project.