He may be a scientist, as he claims, but I feel fairly confident in saying he's
never studied philosophy of science.
Yes, technically we're Doctors of Philosophy (which is also weird, because I don't know about you, but I've
never studied philosophy).
Even those who have
never studied philosophy will recognize his name as the author of «Ockham's Razor» — the principle (still used in the sciences as well as in philosophy) that, as a general rule, the simpler of two explanations should be preferred.
Not exact matches
I'm concerned about Tony's theology, whose philosophical foundations I criticized pretty consistently while I was involved in EC in 2004 - 7 before bowing out because Tony seemed more into pushing with some arrogance a pomo
philosophy he
never really
studied in school than he was into fostering dialogue (I went back to just reading the wonderful books of Brian McLaren which is how I got involved in the first place).
Early in the Middle Ages, Muslim faylasuf pursued natural
philosophy, but they were
never accepted by the culture at large and «Greek
studies» remained a marginal, private affair.
The comparative
study of religions has
never been merely an academic concern for the great Hindu scholar to whose
philosophy this volume is dedicated.
When Newman was
studying the history of the early Church he noticed that «the true faith
never could come into contact with the heathen
philosophies, without exercising its right to arbitrate between them» (Arians p. 101).
It's a picture showing a throng of the disaffected, the abused, the former fundamentalists, the kids who were raised by fundamentalists, people whose parents were alkies», religious, but wildly hypocritical, who
never actually
studied religion, science,
philosophy, etc..
I «ve
never enjoyed
studying anything even closely related to
philosophy.
One question the writers of «legal eduction»
studies might ask — perhaps they have, I've
never bothered to look — is «what does it tell us about law as a discipline that so many people who claim they're no good at math, sciences,
philosophy, logic etc. (and whose transcripts show it), manage to get into law school and then do reasonably well»?