Sentences with phrase «philosophical developments which»

The 19th century also witnessed a number of philosophical developments which would have a significant effect on art.

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Due to the limited statistical and methodological certainty allowed by biological science, the occurrence of technical errors in biological experiments, the differences between human and animal embryo development, the rapidity by which the cloning procedure produces a totipotent zygote, and the philosophical and theological nature of the question, there is no biological experiment that will prove with moral certainty that a human zygote never exists during the OAR procedure.

In this paper I shall develop a view of perception from the partial theory to be found in Whitehead's early philosophical writings and defend it against objections which led Whitehead himself to replace it later with a somewhat different theory.1 Development of the Early Theory The first phase or moment of perception is sense - awareness (CN...

It was fascinating, and I think important, to see the development over the centuries of the philosophical rift which eventually grew between science and religion, as a result of which many scientists (although by no means all) abandoned any idea of a Creator God.

But the philosophical situation has been radically altered by recent scientific developments, which have demonstrated that the physical is in itself «active.»

It should be noted that Habermas himself has contributed to this development by identifying different types of validity claims that may be embodied in ordinary discourse — some of which can be subjected to empirical criticism, others of which remain matters of nonempirical metaphysical or philosophical reflection.

I stated this emphatically in the first paper in which I indicated my philosophical position, a review (1921) of a book by C. M. Child on The Origin and Development of the Nervous System:

Moreover, within the framework of these rubrics, it does not really make sense why Whitehead from 1912 on wrote and published — in addition to studies in natural philosophy and natural science — a series of what may be called contributions to popular philosophy, a genre which the secondary literature usually passes by In our reconstruction of the development of Whitehead's basic philosophical problem the significance of this phase of his activity becomes obvious.

We can ask why Whitehead did not reformulate his basic philosophical problem in the context of an anthropology which takes into account the processes balancing the concrete individual with its own publicity, which it can only simulate --(in connection with which Whitehead's theory of propositions would offer a still completely unexhausted source for such a development).

The extent to which human - driven phenomena, including technology and culture, can affect human nature itself raises an interesting philosophical question: Should our goals for societal development include mindfulness of how Homo sapiens evolve in response?

Ranging across Johns's entire career — from his breakthrough paintings of the 1950s, which paved the way for the subsequent development of Pop art and Minimalism, to his most recent work — the survey offers a rich overview of the visual and philosophical inquiries central to Johns's practice and illuminates his enormous impact on artistic developments following Abstract Expressionism.