Sentences with phrase «leading philosophers of»

The man was David Chalmers, one of the world's leading philosophers of the mind.

A knowledge of the aporias in which Whitehead finds himself on the individual levels of the development of his cosmology allows us further to comprehend why many leading philosophers of his time stopped taking an interest in his theory and quit discussing his writings.

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Just brilliant and in total agreement with the leading philosopher / political theorist of the 20th Century, Eric Voegelin, who opposed pathological ideologies (Socialism, National Socialism, Communism, Fascism), though I doubt he considered «localism and traditionalism,» at least in the FPR «sense,» to be radical pathologies.

Bertrand Russell - philosopher, logician and leading atheist - was clearly a brilliant man, and he's famous for his «celestial teapot» argument regarding the burden of proof: «Nobody can prove that there is not between the Earth and Mars a china teapot revolving in an elliptical orbit, but nobody thinks this sufficiently likely to be taken into account in practice.

In the latter book Whitehead recognizes the danger that his earlier rise of «perception» can lead into confusion, and he acknowledges «that it may be advisable for philosophers to confine the word «perception»» to «experiential functions which arise directly from stimulation of the various bodily sense - organs» (AI 229).

Historians of the French Revolution have debated the point as to whether or not it was the ideas of the philosophers concerning human rights, equality, justice, democracy, freedom or the interests of the ordinary people pinched in belly and pocketbook that led to the uprising of 1789.

This starting point will lead the philosopher to the consideration of many questions ordinarily not treated by Christian theology and to the omission of many questions usually treated by theology.

Scotus calls St. Paul the Christian philosopher and seeks in his philosophy to find a balance between Augustinianism and Aristotelianism in such a way that he often agrees with Aquinas but sometimes disagrees where therigour of his thinking leads him in other directions.

Whatever theologians and philosophers have dreamt of in their theories, Christian artists have typically followed John's lead in portraying a cruciform beauty.

Indeed, the overwhelming consensus among mathematicians who work with transfinites is that transfinite mathematics entails no ontological commitment.4 In fact, when Platonic realism or Russellian logicism (which holds to the extra-mental reality of infinite sets) are employed as interpretations of infinite sets, we open the door to the very antinomies and problematics, such as the Burali - Forti antinomy and Russell's difficulty with sets and impredicative definitions, which have led mathematicians and philosophers of mathematics to new interpretations of set theory such as the axiomatic.

His resignation from the Harvard philosophy department (and total retirement from university life) where he had graduated and taught from 1899 was the source of some distress to American philosophers who had regarded him as one of the leading figures in a distinctively American tradition,

The intuition that I, with my conscious experience, am an actual individual with the power of self - determination, to make decisions and to cause my body to do my bidding, is reconciled with the equally strong sense that my body is real, and that it exerts powerful causation upon me, in terms of the speculative hypothesis that all actual occasions are occasions of experience, so that interaction of body and mind is not the unintelligible interaction of unlikes (the unintelligibility of which has led philosophers to deny the distinct actuality either of the mind or of the body).

This is not to be the object of criticism, for all welcome the attention and notoriety it brings and the realization that it usually leads to improved solutions to the problems faced by the community of philosophers.

Despite the fact that leading process theists have devoted a substantial part of their writings to the discussion of evil, we find publication after publication by philosophers on the problem of...

The Relevance of Cosmic Unity In the lead letter of the same issue of Philosophy Now the prominent anti-reductionist philosopher of ethics and of science Mary Midgely makes a point often made by Edward Holloway (though he might not have used the word «choice»), namely that «simple logic surely shows that natural selection can not be the universal explanation because «selection» only makes sense a clearly specified range of choices — an idea to which far too little attention has been given.»

«Our age is in need of a great philosopher; one who can thread his way, step by step, through the intricate labyrinth of reasoning into which scientists have been led, eyes riveted to earth... one who can keep his mind, at the same time, open to the metaphysical implications of all he learns, and at last put the whole corpus of our knowledge together in one grand synthesis... He must at once be a Thomist and an Atomist; until that reconciliation is attempted, the pulpit and the laboratory will be forever at cross-purposes.»

He has certainly had the misfortune of being too often labelled the «leading exponent of Whitehead,» whereas in fact Hartshorne is a significant philosopher - theologian who evolved his own principal positions prior to his contact with Whitehead.

Charles Hartshorne, the most gifted interpreter of Whitehead and the leading philosopher / theologian of process theology, asks in A Natural Theology for Our Time, «What is the religious sense of god?»

I profoundly disagree with his desire to deontologize religious faith; I think that this tendency following the lead of 19th - century philosopher Ludwig Feuerbach in reducing the transcendent to secular concerns, profoundly misconstrues the essential genius of faith — at least Christian faith.

Our age is in need of a great philosopher; one who can thread his way, step by step, through the intricate labyrinth of reasoning into which scientists have been led, eyes riveted to earth, by the desire to improve our human lot, the desire to destroy life, or mere common curiosity; one who can keep his mind, at the same time, open to the metaphysical implications of all he learns, and at last put the wholecorpus of our knowledge together in one grand synthesis.

The man Time credited more than any other for this turnabout was «America's leading orthodox Protestant philosopher of God, Alvin Plantinga.»

He was an assistant of Whitehead at Harvard, since when he has become the leading process philosopher.

And this leads us to the views of philosophers and to the central and ever - present problem of reductionism.

The inevitable distortions and sloganizing of politics led the philosopher R. G. Collingwood to argue that a society needs its artists as well as its politicians.

By and large the analytic philosophers who have led the resurgence of interest in the philosophy of religion have shown little interest in either fideism or the often - skeptical themes of Continental philosophy (they have shown somewhat more interest in process theology).

This kind of consideration has even led some philosophers to urge the acceptance of scientific claims where acceptance involves no belief about the truth or probable truth of the statement itself.

One of the philosophers who has devoted extensive attention to the concept of supervenience in relation to the problem of mental action is Jaegwon Kim, who has been considered one of the leading analysts of the concept, especially since the publication in 1993 of a collection of his essays as Superveniece and Mind (henceforth SM).

For this philosopher, «our intuitions» led us inexorably down a single path, at the end of which, once medical advances made it physically possible, men should give birth to children.

In the 1960s, Flew was one of the world's leading atheist philosophers.

In the philosopher's own words, his thought, early and late, has led him to «a permanent mistrust of the pretensions of the subject in posing itself as the foundation of its own meaning.

These philosophers also believed that people were basically virtuous; they supposed that improved standards of living, and habits rationally modified by knowledge, would lead to gradually rising moral standards in society.

Its modern development in the light of science is largely the work of Alfred North Whitehead and those process philosophers and theologians who have taken their lead from him.

Curiously, for many years the main interaction with philosophers working in an Anglo - American mode has been through the active participation of Dutch philosophers of religion, led by Vincent Brummer, in the Society for the Study of Theology.

Here, if you like, is a man who, over a long period of time, has followed a certain scientific method and laboriously gained his results, who says to us: «Experience, with the help of reasoning, leads to this point; scientific knowledge begins here and ends there; such are my conclusions»; and the philosopher would have the right to answer: «Very well, leave it to me, and I'll show you what I can do with it!

It does not matter whether one is by God's providential decree placed in the role of politician, engaged in public action for the common good, or in the role of a lover of wisdom (philosopher), engaged as a private person in contemplation of eternal truths, or in some combination of the two: «A man can still lead a life of faith in any of these three lives and reach the eternal rewards.

If Charles Hartshorne has been the leading process philosopher to articulate the rationalist perspective, Schubert Ogden has been the central thinker to contend for the necessity of metaphysical analysis for theological reflection through the development of his notions of faith, religion and theology.

For those who rest easily and uncritically within the uses of language in the Christian community, the kinds of questions posed by the philosophers of language may lead to uneasiness and therefore rejection, or the questions may not even be considered.

Philosopher AC Grayling lectures on humanism, while 40 leading women poets and performers read the whole of Sylvia Plath's celebrated work Ariel.

Both William Olaf Stapledon, early twentieth century philosopher and science fiction author, and Professor Sir David Weatherall, distinguished medical scientist, have strong ties to Liverpool; and Birmingham has historically been home to a wide range of humanist thinkers like John Baskerville, nineteenth century avowed atheist and renown printer, Harold Blackham, first director of the BHA; George Holyoake, nineteenth century writer who coined the term «secularism», sex education pioneer Martin Cole, leading international humanist and philosopher - physicist Sir Harry Stopes - Roe; and writer and comedian Natalie Haynes.

The story begins with the first ideas of the early Greek philosophers — Thales, Pythagoras, Democritus and others — leading to the theory of the four elements of Plato and Aristotle.

Philosophers long ago suggested that awe binds people together, explains lead author Paul Piff, an assistant professor of psychology and social behavior at the University of California, Irvine, who began his investigation of awe in Dacher Keltner's lab at the University of California, Berkeley.

This idea of the homunculus led me to Tufts University philosopher Daniel Dennett and his criticism of what he calls the Cartesian theater — the notion that consciousness occurs at a single place in the brain, symbolized by a small person within it receiving all sensory input and issuing commands.

It predates the theory of evolution and over the centuries has been led by priests and physicians, philosophers and physicists.

It is as if Saccharomyces cerevisiae has found the philosopher's stone but instead of changing lead to gold, it turns noncoding DNA into a gene that codes for a partially structured protein.

The septuagenarian Hegelian philosopher writes in his book of being in the world capital of romance (Paris) and everywhere coming across posters for Meetic, which styles itself as Europe's leading online dating agency.

The star, Baird Whitlock (George Clooney, «Tomorrowland»), has been abducted by a couple of extras who take them with their true captors, a group of communist writers (led by the epically inconsistent communist philosopher Herbert Marcuse) that call itself «The Future.»

Jay falls in with a German writer - philosopher fancy - camping his way across the frontier and is stalked by a coed / multiethnic gang of bounty hunters led by the crude, absinthe - loving Payne (Ben Mendelsohn).

There is a community of thinkers from social psychologists to moral philosophers who have emphasized that the caring, courage, and compassion that lead to trust are fundamental to what it is to be human.

A collaboration between an award - winning novelist and a leading environmental philosopher, Love in the Anthropocene taps into our corrupted environment to investigate a future bereft of natural environments.