Sentences with phrase «most contemporary philosophers»

Unlike most contemporary philosophers, who restrict their examination of induction to the modern sense of the term, in which it is construed as a method of inference which permits some prediction of future events on the basis of past events, Whitehead also recognizes the importance of the ancient meaning of induction.

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The political philosophers Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson reject not only Tutu's invocation of religion and charged that, by seeking to transform the attitudes, emotions, and moral judgments of citizens, he improperly imports soulcraft into statecraft and transgresses the autonomy of citizens — contemporary liberalism's most sacrosanct value.

These latter - day celebrants will include most contemporary Catholic and Protestant theologians and several contemporary secular philosophers.

Along the way to proving his thesis, Jenkins rewrites the book on Aristotle's Posterior Analytics (his reading, and his devastating criticisms of Oxford's influential Jonathan Barnes, set the standard for such scholarship) and he shows how even the most decorated of contemporary «philosophers of religion» (Plantinga, Stump, Penelhaum, et al.) grossly misread Aquinas.

Nevertheless, most of these persons would probably agree with the recent statement of a contemporary Christian philosopher that «Christian belief means accepting the resurrection of Christ, and therefore it seems to involve believing in at least one miracle.

MacIntyre, who portrayed the decay of Western ethics in After Virtue, is the philosopher who defines this new traditionalism, but its most vigorous spokesperson in contemporary religious life is Hauerwas.

The most well - known contemporary Slovenian authors include the philosopher Slavoj Žižek, the novelist and translator Ales Steger as well as the children's book author and illustrator Lila Prap.

He was named one of Time Magazine's 100 Innovators in 2001, a continuing series that features the most influential artists, scientists, entertainers and philosophers of the 21st century, and he continues to be shaped and shape «contemporary networked media art cultures of remix, glitch, social and environmental encounters».

Reflecting the multiplicity of the artists» practices, this publication is part exhibition catalogue, with essays by the exhibition's curators, Xiaoyu Weng and Hou Hanru, and the philosopher Yuk Hui; part artist book, with special contributions by the five artists; and part anthology, with a selection of poems by some of the most exciting voices in contemporary Chinese literature: Wu Qing, Zhang Xiu, the worker - poet Xu Lizhi (1990 — 2004), and a new series by Hong Kong — based poet Nicholas Wong.

By exploring quotation's links to gender, identity, and history, he offers new approaches to works by some of the most influential modern and contemporary artists, writers, and philosophers, including Walter Benjamin, Guy Debord, Michel Foucault, Marcel Broodthaers, Glenn Ligon, Sharon Hayes, and Vanessa Place.