Sentences with phrase «philosophical problems with»

It is one of the fundamental philosophical problems with IPCC (causing much debate already in conjunction with the 4th report) that it refuses to provide an upper limit for sea - level rise, unlike other assessments (e.g. the sea - level rise scenarios of NOAA (which we discussed here) or the guidelines of the US Army Corps of Engineers).

I always kind of feel bad when people write in with philosophical problems with their kids masturbating, but at least they're pretty easy to address (kids need to explore their bodies, just let them do it).

SENIOR MOTORSPORTS EDITOR MAC MORRISON: I never had a philosophical problem with the Panamera as many seemed to — including Rory, apparently — but I did experience an involuntary gag reflex upon its first appearance.

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Problems with large practical and political components, where his philosophical learning provided a foundation but everything else was left to his own wits and experience.

With the modern problem of theodicy, the readings of Job that attract Larrimore's attention are increasingly embedded in larger philosophical, literary, or academic projects.

The problem Brigitte, when you go on these long philosophical journeys, is that you show not the slightest ability to pay attention to (or even comprehend it seems) the very valid points being made by all the commenters who have attempted to reason with you.

For Metz the primary problem of Christianity today is not that its doctrines are unclear or out of contact with current scientific and philosophical thought, but that its practice is not faithful.

Etienne Gilson sees that Augustine is confronted with a problem for which no philosophical answer can be given, for he is working with two modes of being which are absolutely heterogeneous.

The problem then becomes how to reconcile a philosophical anthropology of individualism with the mutuality and interrelatedness of society, and the concept of civil society is that synthesis by which these theses have been bridged.

In philosophical circles, especially in nineteenth - century America, the resurgence of Hegelian idealism was to have wider influence in dealing with this problem.

The problem lies less with the «facts» they are taught than with the philosophical assumptions, the governing worldview, with which they are taught to interpret the various subjects.

Whitehead came to his mature philosophical position in Process and Reality after many years of wrestling with problems in the foundations of logic and mathematics.

I find his thesis generally persuasive, and I suggest that a doctrine of regional inclusion would handle the problem with less adjustment of Whitehead's general philosophical position and greater adequacy to the needs of the sciences than Leclerc's proposals.

This insistence that the only thing which exists is material is the key problem with philosophical naturalism.

I offer that this is not a problem specifically with Reformed, Islam, Judaism, Lutheranism, independent philosophical journeys....

Being a biologist who, since my student days, has been also concerned with philosophical questions, I believe that certain biological considerations may help clarify and perhaps solve some epistemological problems.

How else does it happen that the problem of the One and the Many, or any philosophical analysis of the meaning of God, is plagued, or at least challenged by a concern with its implications for a personal deity?

Moreover, they answer the great philosophical challenges to believing in God, most notably the Problem of Evil: how can a good, all - powerful, all - knowing God produce a world with so much evil in it?

It is true that these questions link up with very general and fundamental problems of a philosophical and theological doctrine of man, and with problems of natural philosophy in its widest sense.

For that reason something should probably be said here on the theological and philosophical problems connected with the creation of the individual human soul.

In line with this argument, there is a tendency to introduce a new philosophical approach to theological problems.

What we discover in Lewis Ford, in addition, is a mind that approaches philosophical problems in a manner quite analogous to the way that he himself depicts God (following Pannenberg) as interacting with and complementing the world the power of the future, operant in the present, effecting a slow but certain transformation and redemption of the past.

A study of Griffin's reflections on this topic thus brings the reader face to face with conceptual issues related to this concept that would be worthy of careful philosophical attention even had they no immediate bearing on the traditional problem of evil.

The problem with Aristotle from Luther's perspective was not that he believed in the eternity of the world and the mortality of the human soul (which he did), but that his philosophical vocabulary was ill - suited for theological use.

The philosophical problem is respecting the relations per se, to understand the nature of relations, and particularly those involved such that they result in just those composites with just those features exhibited by the composites.

Answers to the philosophical problem are not wholly irrelevant to the pastoral problem, but neither are they sufficient to deal with it.

However, as in the seventeenth century the various later theories were not produced independently of each other but came to be developed by working through, and in divergence from, the first great attempt at a philosophical structure built upon a profound insight into the problems at issue, namely, that of Descartes, so in our time the new efforts which are required in the philosophy of nature will need to come to terms with the pioneering work of Whitehead.

[4] Atheism in general doesn't give us the philosophical tools to sort out when a greater loss is worth the price of ending the suffering of others — and in fact it can create dilemmas like the problem of what to do with children who are being indoctrinated by their parents into ideas we do not agree with.

Closely connected with the foregoing issues is another set of philosophical problems.

The problem to which this sentence refers is of interest to many besides those who are acquainted with philosophical language.

I outlined my problem with this claim from a philosophical perspective here.

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).

As Whitehead's formulation of his program becomes plausible, his basic philosophical problem will become clear: Only a relativistic cosmology, in Whitehead's view, «brings the aesthetic, moral, and religious interests into relation with those concepts of the world which have their origin in natural science» (PR xii / vi).

Like Wittgenstein, Whitehead is not, of course, opposed to the concept of a «philosophical illness;» the difference lies in the seriousness with which the two thinkers approach traditional philosophical issues: Wittgenstein seems to see no legitimacy in questions that science or common sense can not answer, while Whitehead struggles with classical metaphysical problems, stepping beyond the strict boundaries of the scientific method.

I suggest further that many of the problems with which theologians now wrestle arise out of assumptions formed for them by more or less consciously accepted ideas of a philosophical sort.

However, Islamists share a problem with real fascists in that their support for # 4 (isolationism) is mostly due to whom USA would be opposed militarily, NOT deep seated philosophical objection.

The sort of problem Sontag has with Jameson is, of course, the very argument Bordwell has with anyone from Slavoj Žižek to Jacques Lacan, evident in a comment he makes on his blog (but not in the book) that echoes directly Sontag's: «Most of FRT [Zizek's The Fright of Real Tears] offers standard film criticism, providing impressionistic readings of various [Krzysztof] Kieslowski films in regard to recurring themes, visual motifs, dramatic structures, borrowed philosophical concepts, and the like.»

As my colleagues at Sammamish High School and I have struggled with development and implementation of a problem - based learning (PBL) curriculum across disciplines, a great number of the discussions have involved a philosophical look at the place of seven key elements within our instructional framework.

Authentic learning activities: Learning experiences that have value or resonance beyond the classroom / academics, for example, solving real - world local or global problems; career - / workforce - related projects and skill - building; wrestling with significant philosophical or intellectual problems; and design projects and processes.

This is not a promise he's going to be able to keep,» said Michael Petrilli, president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a leading education think tank, adding that Mr. Trump also would run into philosophical problems in telling states what to do with education policy.

The philosophical problem consumer and privacy advocates have with (consumer) credit monitoring is the credit bureaus charging you for access to your own credit report.

Wikipedia says that he concluded that with his Tractatus he had resolved all philosophical problems, and upon its publication retired to become a schoolteacher in Austria.)

The problem with WWE 2K16 is both a technical and philosophical one.

If his abstractions are «about» anything, they are about resuscitating a pragmatic concept of holistic experience and modifying that naturalistic idea to meet the needs of a dedicated contemporary art practice in which emotion and contingency interact with larger structures of personality, and philosophical problems interact with real production.

If Stella's call for a new sense of space tends too quickly towards a literal - minded interpretation, the problem with Peter Halley's Neo-Geo abstraction was that it moved painting into a philosophical, theoretical, and technological / conceptual space which was literal or literalizing in its very own way (e.g., as geometric abstractions came to serve as the pictorial ««models» of intellectual concepts»).

In general, this essay (which is unfortunately behind a paywall) is worth running down, particularly if you want an introduction to some of the philosophical problems associated with the GDRs approach, and a collection of opinions on the various quantitative / philosophical judgments that are embedded within the framework.

An additional philosophical problem worth considering in discussions about the implications of ACE - type research is whether advocates should use a list of childhood features that are associated with long - term health effects as the primary criterion of what childhood adversities to prioritize for prevention.