Sentences with phrase «interesting philosophical problem»

«They try to find some interesting philosophical problem, then engineer a robot that can solve that problem,» says John Sullins, a philosopher of technology at Sonoma State University.

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I think it would be beneficial both to Whitehead studies and to relevant portions of analytic philosophy to bring Whitehead more back into the American philosophical mainstream by considering his specific problems and solutions in light of current interests and as susceptible to criticisms from current perspectives.

Dr. Cobb honors Dr. Ford for his independent metaphysical reflections and that he made clear his interest was not merely the scholarly study of particular texts but the solution of basic philosophical problems.

This problem of the connection between the physical and the mathematical is one not merely of philosophical interest; it is one of the greatest relevance and importance for science, more particularly at the present time, which is why Whitehead, himself a scientist, made this problem central to his endeavor.

Was this due to his interest for new considerations, perhaps more theological than philosophical, such as the problem of everlastingness?

The problem to which this sentence refers is of interest to many besides those who are acquainted with philosophical language.

While the issue of consciousness is of great philosophical interest, the high humanism at stake in such discussions is often more of a problem for theology than the denial that consciousness is necessary to sustain human uniqueness.

As Whitehead's formulation of his program becomes plausible, his basic philosophical problem will become clear: Only a relativistic cosmology, in Whitehead's view, «brings the aesthetic, moral, and religious interests into relation with those concepts of the world which have their origin in natural science» (PR xii / vi).

The significant interest in philosophical mathematics follows from the amount of space allotted in IM to the treatment of the three basic problems that had occupied Whitehead in his work up to that point.

But also quite general problems of human society, such as marriage rules and incest, or even the organization of nature and the universe, may be the subject of [myths];... it is only philosophical interest, both ancient and modern, that tends to isolate the myths of origin and cosmogony, which in their proper setting usually have some practical reference to the institutions of a city or a clan.

Many of them are interesting, and taken as a group, they offer up an excellent — and quick — tour of a philosophical territory that we'll have to carefully explore if ever we want a really serious approach to the problem of global climate justice.