Sentences with phrase «philosophical epistemology»

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This course is basically an introduction to certain topics in metaphysics and epistemology philosophy, centered around major philosophical questions that come up again and again in Star Trek.

For examples of a rich humanity combined with keen philosophical analysis, I would recommend «Kant versus Sullivan,» a refutation of Kant's epistemology based on Annie Sullivan's treatment of Helen Keller; a review of B. F. Skinner's Beyond Freedom and Dignity, «The Stimulus and the Response»; «The Inexplicable Personal Alchemy»; and her obituary for Marilyn Monroe.

Commentators of Aristotle have often noted an unresolved tension at the center of his philosophical system, inasmuch as the Aristotelian ontology is centered on the primacy of individual substances, while his epistemology is centered on the intelligibility of the universal.

The result is a complete muddle in scientific thought, in philosophical cosmology, and in epistemology.

We are radicals for capitalism; we are fighting for that philosophical base which capitalism did not have and without which it was doomed to perish... Politics is based on three other philosophical disciplines: metaphysics, epistemology and ethics — on a theory of man's nature and of man's relationship to existence.

I do not know whether he would have done this or not, since I believe that with his pragmatism he might have accommodated relativity physics without altering his epistemology, though I can not go into the question here.16 What seems to me clear is that the philosophical issues underlying Hartshorne's criticisms of Peirce can not be settled by theories of physics or the mathematics of continuity.

The epistemology of control has its roots not only in our Western philosophical tradition, but also in the very nature of human beings.

The doctrine of creation assumed the existence and essential dependability of external reality and the doctrine of the Incarnation practically anchored a realist epistemology as an essential philosophical prerequisite of Christian faith.

The philosophical proposals of new materialism probe the limits of historical theories attached to Enlightenment ontology (what is in the world) and epistemology (what we know about what is in the world, and how it is classified), wherein things were considered to be separate and unable to affect one another.

Her work is the product of a fiercely intellectual and distinctive study of semiotics, epistemology, mathematics, history, and ecology, which are grounded in philosophical inquiry and social observation.