Sentences with phrase «philosophical literature»

The problem I have sketched here was often discussed in philosophical literature from the 1930's through 50's, and later, in connection with the neopositivistic requirement that every meaningful proposition must either be a formal tautology or empirically verifiable.

No brief summary can do justice to the book's imaginative blending of philosophical literature and social science research, to the wealth of small insights tucked into every chapter, or to the graceful writing that carries the reader along so effortlessly.

Because he is a voracious reader who goes in for heavy reading about ultimate concerns, his humor can be appreciated especially by those familiar with the pretentiousness of some religious and philosophical literature.

Philosophical literature is not science base literature, philosophy is completely subjective.

In the philosophical literature only two things are candidates for that: abstract objects (like numbers) and something like a mind.

The terms weak and strong are relatively recent, while the terms negative and positive atheism are of older origin, having been used (in slightly different ways) in the philosophical literature [46] and in Catholic apologetics.

Several key contributors there are well - read in the philosophical literature and are pretty good at explaining the difference between good and bad arguments.)

And instead of referencing scientific journals, I turn to the sociological, pedagogical, and philosophical literature to develop my theoretical reflections.

I also recommend Daniel Dennett's Consciousness Explained and Darwin's Dangerous Idea, which may be the finest examples of the philosophical literature of our times.