Sentences with phrase «philosophical questions about»

(Müller, Höhne, Ellermann, 2009) Although there are interesting philosophical questions about when a nation should be presumed to have had enough knowledge about likely climate change harm to make them responsible for past emissions, even if the developed nations are only assumed to have responsibility after 1990, the year the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) wrote its first report to the world concluding that climate change was a huge threat, the developed nations still are responsible for the vast majority of the historical emissions since 1990.

She used her art to ask philosophical questions about racism, poverty and the brutalities of the war in Vietnam.

The titles and the imagery of these, along with more recent works that take on similar subjects, pose larger philosophical questions about the dynamics of power and responsibility, the ethics, agency and inherent bias of policing, methods of interrogation, and the politics of discriminatory practices.

Her research attends to broad philosophical questions about the nature of representation and subjectivity, and her publications have covered a wide range of artists and objects in an effort to address these issues: Edouard Manet, Marcel Duchamp, Jenny Saville, Wim Delvoye, Paul Pfeiffer, Steven Meisel and, most intensively, Jasper Johns.

New Era explores the technological ambivalence of contemporary culture, raising philosophical questions about the challenges of immediate access to communication and network while we distance ourselves from our metaphysical being.

A collective of African American artists including Charles Alston, Richard Mayhew and Hale Woodruff as well as Bearden and Lewis founded in 1963, Spiral artists dug deep into and argued over philosophical questions about how artists should engage with pressing Civil Rights concerns in their work.

A political - historical thriller set in Liberia and the USA between 1975 to 1991 that raises serious philosophical questions about terrorism, political violence, and the clash of races and cultures.

Set in Liberia and the United States from 1975 through 1991, The Darling is a political - historical thriller — reminiscent of Greene and Conrad — that explodes the genre, raising serious philosophical questions about terrorism, political violence, and the clash of races and cultures.

Donoghue raises compelling philosophical questions about free will, the extent to which a just society can tolerate religious zealotry, and the moral / ethical obligations of medical practitioners.

In a pure sf novel, you might get a lot of technical discussions of how the scientists managed to bring the dinosaurs back, along with some philosophical questions about the ethics of reviving extinct species.

Set deep in suburbia, this humorous novella asks the reader a few deep philosophical questions about their rubbish.

The story is disclosed in an extremely low - pace through a flawed screenplay that uses many ellipsis and poor art decoration, but beautifully raises philosophical questions about love, death, understanding, communication, fear for the unknown, origin of life, and might be the Paradise or even God.

A thought - provoking science fiction that may feel dated today even with its good visuals but raises interesting philosophical questions about solitude, the value of life and what it is like to risk everything for a conviction - which outweighs the ecological message intended.

For example, there is probably a material answer to philosophical questions about the nature of reality.

But he agrees that «this research quickly raises philosophical questions about what it means to be happy at all.»

It struck Muller that many philosophical questions about the meaning of human existence are based on the fundamental assumption that life is finite.

Maître and his collaborators built the digital mirror to explore philosophical questions about how we relate to our body.

In the intervening days, the photo has generated a lot of discussion and I felt it was important to circle back and address it, and also to raise some important philosophical questions about how we want to feed our children — here in Houston ISD and around the country.

Luckily, I have a new bottle of red wine sitting on the counter, so I pour myself a glass and ponder these deep philosophical questions about sugar.

But more significantly, Christian's Interpretation marvelously brings before all process thinkers legitimate philosophical questions about Whitehead's theology.

There are larger, philosophical questions about ventures like Facebook's Instant Articles and Apple's News app — both of which are trying to bring publishers further into their ecosystems — and whether media should be wary of them or not.

Not exact matches

Intelligent people tend to be inquisitive not only about everyday curiosities but also about «the big questions,» pondering philosophical topics like the meaning of life and the universe.

(Barron's) • In Search of the Perfect Recession Indicator (Philosophical Economics) • A Fireside Chat With Charlie Munger (MoneyBeat) • Complexity theory and financial regulation (Science) • Five Pieces of Conventional Wisdom That Make Smart Investors Look Dumb (CFA Institute) • This Lawyer Is Hollywood's Complete Divorce Solution (Bloomberg) • Curiosity update, sols 1218 - 1249: Digging in the sand at Mar's Bagnold Dunes (Planetary Society) • The Plot to Take Down a Fox News Analyst (NYT) • Ask the aged: Who better to answer questions about the purpose of life than someone who has been living theirs for a long time?

The philosophical significance of his own attitude to transgenderism seems lost on him: Transgenderism raises fundamental questions about the nature of the human person — indeed, about whether one can even speak in terms of human nature anymore in any universal, meaningful sense.

Whitehead's philosophical thinking about time begins with questions about passage as a character of nature.

In particular, questions about the rights of animals have made their way into texts in philosophical ethics.

Today, writes Buber, «the question about man's being faces us as never before in all its grandeur and terror — no longer in philosophical attire but in the nakedness of existence.»

The condition requisite for healing it always this about - face, and from a purely philosophical point of view it might be a subtle question whether it is possible for one to be in despair with full consciousness of what it is about which one despairs.)

They think about philosophical questions as well as historical, economic, and political ones.

There is a great gap between the immediate, concrete experiences in which questions about death arise and the abstract, philosophical reflection in which relational theology is couched.

This decisiveness and completeness of acceptance is prevented when we become entangled with questions about how it is related to scientific knowledge and philosophical speculations.

Belief in God is about the philosophical questions that existence raises.

In the Introduction to her Love» s Knowledge: Essays on Philosophy and Literature (1990), Nussbaum relates that when she was in high school and college, she wrote papers about literary works that explored questions that she would later learn to call «philosophical» questions.

He is a witness to how science is looking for answers about the world and is having to deal with philosophical and religious questions.

By reasoning and being logically analytical about the philosophical question of good and evil, and applying it correctly.

All of sudden, science was challenging some of the philosophical / theological teaching of the church, and once again, the church was faced with the question of what to do about it.

Just make the catch next time and don't worry your little head about such philosophical / theological questions.

We are becoming aware of a whole body of data accumulated within the last one hundred years which has stirred the flames of controversy in religious, anthropological, and philosophical circles — data that raises new questions about the origins of the family and of human society.

Those who have read the book know that Tickle goes into much greater detail about the questions and challenges raised by cognitive science, literary deconstruction, higher criticism, Freud, Jung, Campbell, Einstein, Heisenbuerg, and many other philosophical / scientific / cultural movements.

But the questions remain about Malone motivating this team, making rotations and adjustment both in game time, and with philosophical direction.

It isn't just self - interest which is plunging Labour into civil war; there's a deep philosophical division about both the means and the ends too (as well as questions of individual competence).

I am not asserting that kind of conservatism is good or bad as a starting point for looking at policy, I am merely asking a question about how someone ascribing to this viewpoint would reconcile a potential philosophical inconsistency.

A romantic comedy, an epic fairytale, a fiery philosophical debate, Man and Superman asks fundamental questions about how we live.

Much like Ridley Scott's masterful predecessor, Villeneuve's sequel maintains the philosophical themes and ambiguous questions about life, death, and humanity.

While Roseanne plans a spa trip, Dan struggles with unanswered philosophical questions and worries about a family member.

He also kindly indulged my penchant for getting philosophical with a question about how we perceive media by musing on the generational differences in attitudes towards the bombardment with which modern live is gifted / cursed.

If much sci - fi is about the philosophical question of what it means to be human, or of imagining dystopia to comment on the politics of today, Arrival takes a more personal, emotive approach to the genre.

First 3 lessons for a CRE unit, philosophical investigations, skills used in RE and thinking about the «big» questions.

Topics Include: - Christian Beliefs about God - Miracles - The Trinity - Effect of belief in God on community - Philosophical Arguments for / against - Comparisons to Buddhism - Design vs Evolution - Nature of Christian Worship - How to answer exam questions

From the country's philosophical position on high - stakes testing, to the methods of efficiently implementing policies, Ng answered questions about the thought process behind education reform in Singapore over the previous decades, and the secrets to its success.