Sentences with phrase «discussed by philosophers»

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...

This is something like the «blik» discussed by philosophers in an earlier decade, but it is not wholly noncognitive: explicating it requires propositions capable of being true or false.

Not exact matches

It is the purpose of this chapter to discuss the interpretations gleaned from the writings of the old schools of Muslims — mystics and rationalists, including both the theologians and the philosophers — who are not usually regarded by the orthodox school as strict Muslims, but whose influence on Muslim thought and practical religious life is felt even today.

After all, I'm not still in that comfortable college setting discussing «reality» as portrayed by philosophers and the media.

The fact that science has now destroyed the Newtonian framework (so far as relevant to the issue we are discussing) seems not to have been properly grasped by most philosophers, though Whitehead (1926) has spelled out the story with great power.

This rotation will include a selection of rare pieces, such as a collage of printed cutouts of philosopher Baruch Spinoza's biography — a figure often invoked by Andre when discussing LeWitt's work.

Thursday October 17th at the Drawing Center, philosopher Vinciane Despret was discussing animal's viewpoints with Alexis Rockman whose watercolor drawings served as the first stage in the development of «Life of Pi» by Ang Lee

The practice of hindcasting remains unscientific because it circumvents deduction and, as has been widely discussed by the great philosophers of our time (e.g. Popper), just because induction works in some cases does not prove that it works in all cases and does not make it an acceptable scientific method.