Sentences with phrase «of philosophy of»

This credo is at the heart of the philosophy of the Foundation and the Council for the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings.

He has been a visiting scholar at Columbia University, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto (on a Feodor Lynen fellowship from the Humboldt Foundation) and acting Professor of Philosophy of Science and Technology at Stuttgart University, before joining the faculty at Hannover as a tenured professor in 2011.

Professor of Philosophy of Medicine, Institute for Medical Humanities, University of Texas Medical Branch

Her research focuses mainly on historical and modern theories of innovation, narrative theories, general philosophy of science and epistemology with special consideration of philosophy of synthetic chemistry and the pharmaceutical sciences.

These requirements are satisfied, in part, through the Department of Philosophy of the Johns Hopkins University, Department of Philosophy of Georgetown University and the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University.

While I was taking the engineering degree at NYU, I used to moonlight a bit and take philosophy and psychology courses, and I began to be much more interested in the whole area of the philosophy of mind and the way in which psychology tried to explain some of our cognitions and related behaviors.

Darwin further noted that evolution must be gradual, with no major breaks or discontinuities and finally, he reasoned that the mechanism of evolution was natural selection and those four insights serve as the foundation for Darwin's founding of a new branch of the philosophy of science, a philosophy of biology because Darwin introduced history into science.

This is ironic in a volume where so much concerns the assimilation of the philosophy of perception to science.

A collection of essays intended to broaden the scope of the philosophy of biology through considerations of molecular biology as a unifying perspective on life.

He is described as «a Victorian thinker fated to live in an unsympathetic modern age», part of an «ultimately disappointing effort to turn the cloth of «science» into a wardrobe of a philosophy of life and a programme for social progress», a liberal on race who was «a reflection of elitist English upper - class attitudes towards the others, be they the races of Empire, the lower classes in England, or Blacks in the American South».

In 1748, in one of his key essays, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, the Scottish philosopher David Hume gave an account of the philosophy of miracles that impressed and...

«What Obasanjo said is the clearest endorsement of the philosophy of our leader and prophet of our time Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, that the only way to reign in a dictatorship is by confronting it head - on with the truth.

Dr Catharine Abell, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Manchester Dr Arif Ahmed, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Cambridge David Archard, Professor of Philosophy, Queen's University Belfast Helen Beebee, Samuel Hall Professor of Philosophy, University of Manchester Simon Blackburn, former Professor of Philosophy, University of Cambridge, Fellow, Trinity College Cambridge, and Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, UNC - Chapel Hill Margaret A. Boden, Research Professor of Cognitive Science, University of Sussex Dr Stephen Burwood, Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Hull Dr Peter Cave, Lecturer in Philosophy, Open University Andrew Chitty, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Sussex Michael Clark, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, University of Nottingham Antony Duff, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, University of Stirling John Dupré, Professor of Philosophy of Science, University of Exeter Dr Nicholas Everitt, Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy, University of East Anglia Simon Glendinning, Professor of European Philosophy, LSE C. Grayling, philosopher and Master of the New College of the Humanities Dr Peter King, Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Oxford Dr Brendan Larvor, Reader in Philosophy and Head of Philosophy, University of Hertfordshire Dr Stephen Law, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Heythrop College, University of London Ardon Lyon, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, City University London H. Mellor, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, University of Cambridge Peter Millican, Gilbert Ryle Fellow and Professor of Philosophy, University of Oxford Richard Norman, Emeritus Professor of Moral Philosophy, University of Kent Eric Olson, Professor of Philosophy, University of Sheffield David Papineau, Professor of Philosophy, King's College London Derek Parfit, Professor of Philosophy, University of Oxford Duncan Pritchard, Professor and Chair in Epistemology, University of Edinburgh Janet Radcliffe Richards, Professor of Practical Philosophy, University of Oxford Jonathan Rée, philosopher and author Theodore Scaltsas, Professor and Chair of Ancient Philosophy, University of Edinburgh Peter Simons, Professor of Philosophy, Chair of Moral Philosophy and Head of the School of Social Sciences and Philosophy, Trinity College Dublin Tom Sorell, Professor of Politics and Philosophy, University of Warwick Dr Tanja Staehler, Reader in Philosophy and Head of the Department of Philosophy, University of Sussex Thomas Uebel, Professor of Philosophy, University of Manchester Dr Nigel Warburton, philosopher and author Keith Ward, Regius Professor Emeritus of Divinity, University of Oxford John White, Emeritus Professor of the Philosophy of Education, Institute of Education, University of London Stephen Wilkinson, Professor of Bioethics, Lancaster University RE professionals (other than teachers):

A week after Lady Thatcher's 86th birthday, one of the institutions that formed a pillar of the philosophy of her government, and of many before it, faces a crisis of existence.

When babies die because of the philosophy of normal birth, they have two choices to reduce cognitive dissonance.

For others it goes far deeper than that — part of a philosophy of being close to the baby whenever possible.

Although tuition will increase over $ 1000 per student to cover the lunch cost, at least the caterer was selected because of its philosophy of providing healthy choices for kids.

Cech is well aware that his Arsenal career did not get off to the best of starts, but he has given us a glimpse of his philosophy of picking yourself up and improving in the next match.

I accept you should probably have an understanding of the philosophy of the club if you're old enough to fully comprehend exactly what it is your club strives for, but you don't necessarily have to believe in the CURRENT philosophy to be a fan because clubs go through transitions.

The selection of Embiid is a microcosm of the philosophy of the process itself, Bucks or Timberwolves could've picked Embiid and «Gotten lucky» that their top draft pick needed two years to get healthy.

Jerry L. Walls is professor of philosophy of religion at Asbury Theological Seminary.

(I have summarized Ford's positions expressed in this book in my book review in The International Journal of Philosophy of Religion, 1986.)

(This article is a revised version of a lecture given on September 30, 1991 in Claremont California during a conference celebrating Charles Hartshorne and the publication of The Philosophy of Charles Hartshorne, Vol.

A Colloquium on «Body, Soul and Mind: Aquinas and modern developments in Biotechnology and neuroscience» in Oxford last March emphasised the relevance of the philosophy of science...

Not only do the individualities influence the change of the images; it would be an important problem of the philosophy of history in the study of the history of religions to search out the influences, the categories, through which a precise «relative a priori» — to use Simmel's expression — acts upon the shaping of the «images»: national, tribal, race, class, sexmembership.

One way of moving toward such a model is through a consideration of the philosophy of language.

We now should be aware of how important questions of the philosophy of mind are for our understanding of creativity.

3 See D. W. Hamlyn, Sensation and Perception: A History of the Philosophy of Perception (London, 1961), Chapters 8 and 9.

One of the heartening facts of our day is the emergence of a philosophy of civilization about which there is great and significant agreement among many who are willing to engage in the intellectual labor which such an inquiry demands.

Here again we have the pre-figuration of an important concept of the philosophy of organism.

The object of criticism or of the philosophy of religion is simply to reduce these modes to the creative activity of the mind, of which they are the determining conditions, to order them in an ascending hierarchy, and thus afford them their rational justification.

This paper will attempt an assessment of Leclerc's radical position, using as a foil the thought of the baroque scholastic, Francis Suarez.5 The latter was picked to fulfill such a function both because he represents the most complete summation of the older Aristotelian theory of substance Leclerc attempts to appropriate and reinterpret, and because he was the most important scholastic figure for the age that Leclerc sees as both the turning point in the history of the philosophy of nature, and as the golden age of such a philosophy, namely, the modern age (PN 194 - 95).

The practical value of this philosophy of personhood and of therapy depends, of course, on how it is implemented in actually doing therapy.

Whitehead's philosophy offers a unique perspective to understanding the problems of philosophy of religion.

Unless the Crucified Jesus is emphasized as the central symbol of Christian messianism, the contribution of Christianity to Indian philosophy may be the intensification of a philosophy of history which posits totalitarian statism of a religious or secularist kind as its goal (MMT.

The purpose of this book is to present his view of reality, to show the development of his thought concerning God, and to explore the implications of his system for the traditional problems of philosophy of religion.

For this reason, Leo XIII styled his great encyclical on the importance of the philosophy of St Thomas Aquinas as a social encyclical.

(Adventures of Ideas New York: The Free Press, 1967, 25) I will analyse the relationship of religion and philosophy by examining Whitehead's view of the nature of speculative philosophy, his view of religion, and his view of philosophy of religion.

The whole point of the philosophy of durations, which starts from the sort of perception an organism which wasn't human might have, is that you are not within the ordinary climate of thought.

We do so theologically through the contributions of Mgr Cormac Burke and Canon Ruscillo and, in the area of philosophy of science, through our Cutting Edge column, Pia Matthews» review and our response to our lead letter.

They include expositions of his philosophy of nature and his philosophy of science as well as more topical and critical treatments.

What an empire is in political history, such is a university in the sphere of philosophy of research.

This is true even if the metaphysical description should include the results of a philosophy of religion with its persistent concern for value as a category of all experience.

At the beginning of The Philosophy of History, Hegel says that the rationality of history «is not a presupposition of study; it is a result which [he adds without apology] happens to be known to myself because I already know the whole.»

Northrop, by changing the rules of evidence in the light of the philosophy of science, claims that language is not simply a linguistic convention but is a report on reality.

Kant was «the good father» of Royce's ideas, and he added, «the Kantian construction of the philosophy of experience is one that must forever form a part of all genuine metaphysics in the future.»

This alternative way, one which I have followed in my The Nature of Physical Existence (Allen & Unwin, in the Muirhead Library of Philosophy, 1972), is to seek to recover the problematic of the philosophy of nature though a study of the philosophy of nature in past periods, particularly those in which it has been vigorous.

This is indispensable if there is to be knowledge of the physical, as the history of philosophy of the last three centuries has made clear.10 The second is that mental acting is required by the physical in the process of physical acting.

It should be emphasized, what is sometimes liable to be overlooked, that Whitehead's recovery of the problematic of the philosophy of nature would not have been possible without his having gone back extensively to earlier philosophy, especially Greek and that of the seventeenth century.

Considerations that are connected with recent progress in understanding self - organizing chemical and physical systems lead me to propose a criterion for application of the category of actual entity that retains many of the distinctive features of the philosophy of organism while dealing with some of the objections raised against that system, and including aspects of the Buchler - Wallack approach.