Sentences with phrase «philosophical questions posed»

Unlike most of his contemporaries, d'Espagnat was one of the brave ones unafraid to tackle the thorny and profound philosophical questions posed by quantum physics.

Not exact matches

In the course of that same history, and in the context of crises posed by philosophical and cultural changes as well as manifest ecclesiastical corruptions, the question of how to determine authentic apostolic teaching came into intense dispute.

An unsettling question, but this way of posing it does keep it at arm's length, a subject for theological or philosophical or medical discussion.

Woody poses basic religious or philosophical questions often ignored by the secularly oriented as «too deep» and skipped over by religionists engrossed in particular issues.

These questions get to the heart of a philosophical problem posed by Intelligent Design: It supposes that natural law, which is the basis for science, operates most of the time but is periodically suspended, as in the Cambrian «explosion» and the origin of life itself.

Ivan does not pose the question of theodicy as a philosophical conundrum, as it is often posed in the West.

We don't need to be dissected and posed thought provoking philosophical questions to give meaningful answers.

As a scientist who is also a Jesuit brother, Consolmagno suggests that science poses philosophical questions that in turn spark religious inquiries.

Now, Pfister is calling the shots himself, making his directing debut with «Transcendence» — and he seems to be aiming for the same kind of philosophical questions and existential dilemmas that «Inception» posed.

Levine's last game, you see, used high - end literature as source material and immersed players in a world that posed political, philosophical and social questions, while bombarding the player with bullets and boss battles.

Galactic Café's take on interactive fiction doesn't just pose intriguing philosophical questions — it's also wildly inventive, self - deprecating, and laugh - out - loud funny!

Visitors will explore Brazilian art history and major postwar movements channeled through Maiolino's personal, psychologically charged practice that not only charts her own path as a mother, migrant and global citizen, but poses significant philosophical questions of repetition and difference, transience and permanence.

Urgent, thoughtful, and compassionate, his works — which have been cited for their visual intensity and graphic flair — pose deeply philosophical questions in order to provoke awareness and debate.

Using collage as a form of interpretation and critique, Hirschhorn presents intellectual history and philosophical theory much as he does everyday objects and images, and poses questions about aesthetic value, moral responsibility, political agency, consumerism, and media spectacle.

With the double maze of Jasper's Dilemma (1962 - 63), Stella posed a question of such philosophical brilliance, an aesthetic dichotomy that is so utterly at the core of Modernist and even Postmodernist painting, that it stuns me as deeply as the many profound observations on composition and spatial relations he made during the course of his Charles Eliot Norton lectures at Harvard in 1983 (collected in the indispensable volume, Working Space).

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.

Ackling also poses a philosophical question: «what is the work — the artefact or the smoke?»

For those without the background that would enable them to make the calculations, I would pose two rather more philosophical questions;

One of my colleagues in law school posed a philosophical question as to whether death could be prorogued.

So like Arnie Herz and Future Lawyer (see previous posts), I pose my own philosophical question: Is it better for a law firm to blatantly express looks - based preferences (as in the UK) or keep it covert and unspoken (as in the U.S.)?