Sentences with phrase «philosophical account»

«Numerous philosophical accounts of evidence for causal claims have argued that the strongest causal inferences result from multiple mutually - reinforcing evidence sources,» Blunt points out.

However, even if one admits on the basis of experience alone that one feels individuals, and that by this very fact one is inclined to the view that somehow individuals are immanent, the question still remains: Does Whitehead's metaphysics provide an adequate philosophical account of this fact of experience?

Novels are particularly rich in their explorations of these issues, though such understanding need not be gained only from novels: In The Therapy of Desire (1994) Nussbaum seeks» not always successfully» to discover in certain Hellenistic thinkers a distinctively philosophical account of the value of the emotions.

Wiedermann and von Eye present their methods in the metric and categorical data domains, other researchers from all over the world present modeling approaches that are related to direction dependence, and leading philosophers discuss the relation of these methods to philosophical accounts of causality.

But even if on the basis of experience we were inclined to think that they do, we would still have to give some philosophical account of just how they perform this function.

Taylor's first contribution to theology is this philosophical account of why the frameworks of meaning by which we attempt to order life as whole are important and worthy of study.

In this last book, Buchler weaves together the general ontology and the metaphysics of human process in a philosophical account of poetry.

Bergson, then, explicitly claims to be profoundly un-Kantian However, it is one thing for him to say this and quite another to give a philosophical account of its possibility.

Bergson would say that he at least is giving a philosophical account of time, whereas the determinist is silent on the subject.

Easy term paper topics are many and diverse and they may include virtually anything from personal matters (relationships, teen years, social deviance) to philosophical accounts (Does God exist?