Sentences with phrase «contemporary philosophy of nature»

Here it is evident that Whitehead's philosophy is attractive to many of us because it makes a real contribution to mainly two domains: theology and contemporary philosophy of nature.

It is also true, though, that dualism still lurks behind the dominant contemporary philosophies of nature in which matter remains essentially mindless and lifeless.

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This reduction of the nature of modern scientific methodology is hard to maintain in the light of most contemporary philosophy of science, as Stephen Barr for instance has shown in this magazine.

This was not to be one further elucidation of Whitehead's «philosophy of organism,» but Leclerc's own detailed recounting of how we must recover a few basic presuppositions if we are ever to elucidate a philosophy of nature worthy of our post-Whiteheadian era — an era unhappily determined to grapple with the complexities of contemporary science by leaving Whitehead aside.

A revised philosophy of mechanism, understood from a contemporary image of a machine, must recognize that a good model is the best vehicle for describing nature, rather than old images of machines, which are not complex enough to represent adequately a reaction of a complex entity with its environment.

He can in this way realign philosophy with contemporary scientific theory, while at the same time providing the latter with a «ground» in immediate experience which had been lacking in traditional empiricism, modeled as that was on corpuscular theories of nature.8 In his early work, Whitehead employs Bradley's antiatomism within a classically empiricist framework; redefined as a continuum, sensation still plays its conventional role as a theory of «presentation» (EPNK 60), the given foundation of the reflective process.9

His understanding of the major elements of contemporary philosophy, his careful and penetrating analysis of the multidimensional nature of the religious use of language, and his grasp of the tacit and mediated character of religious awareness and knowledge all exhibit a kind of thinking badly needed in religious circles today.

As a contemporary commentator noted as early as 1865, Mill's anti-Hamiltonian view of feeling as a neutral stuff prior to the correlation of Ego and Non-Ego, and his confession that the continuity of feeling, though as real as the sequence, was a «final inexplicability» 4 — both positions impelled British philosophy in the direction of some kind of original unity.5 To this end, Bradley will conflate the «feeling» of Hegel and of Mill in order to transform it from a psychological into a metaphysical category that can accomplish the reconciliation of nature and spirit.

Under Fishbone Clouds is at once an examination of the nature of love and the human heart, a survey of 20th century Chinese history, an introduction to Chinese mythology and philosophy, and a poetic work of contemporary fiction.

Samuel Loncar is a philosopher, scholar, and writer whose work critiques the categories through which modernity interprets itself and develops a new theory of the nature, relationship, and potential of philosophy, religion, science, politics and art in the contemporary world.

Foreword by James Rosenquist vii Preface by Ira Goldberg viii Acknowledgments x Introduction: Miracle on 57th Street 1 Part 1: Lessons and Demos 15 Henry Finkelstein: On Painting, with a Critique 17 Mary Beth McKenzie: Painting from Life 27 Ephraim Rubenstein: Painting from Observation 39 Thomas Torak: A Contemporary Approach to Classical Painting 59 Dan Thompson: Learning to Paint the Human Figure from Life 75 Sharon Sprung: Figure Painting from Life in Oils 91 Frederick Brosen: Classic Watercolor Realism 107 Naomi Campbell: Working Large in Watercolor 123 Ellen Eagle: Poetic Realism in Pastel 135 Costa Vavagiakis: The Evolution of a Concept 148 Part 2: Advice and Philosophies 165 William Scharf: Knowing that Miracles Happen 167 Peter Homitzky: Inventing from Observation 181 Charles Hinman: Painting in Three Dimensions 193 Deborah Winiarski: Painting and Encaustic 203 James L. McElhinney: Journal Painting and Composition 213 Part 3: Interviews 229 Frank O'Cain: Abstraction from Nature 231 Ronnie Landfield: On Learning and Teaching 251 Knox Martin: Learning from Old and Modern Masters 269 Concours: Painting and the Public at the Art Students League by Dr. Jillian Russo 282 Index 286

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