Sentences with phrase «philosophy as an academic discipline»

Clearly it is not philosophy as that academic discipline is now defined.

Palmer wanted to narrow the vision of philosophy as an academic discipline and was the architect of the department that hired Josiah Royce.

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This quest requires an internal renewal of theology and philosophy — not merely as academic disciplines, but as ways of life — and they need to be brought to bear on the governing assumptions, the unarticulated ontology of our culture.

This ideal was generally framed in neo-Thomist terms, with first philosophy and later theology acting as the intellectual glue that united the disparate academic disciplines.

Thus philosophy was recognized, not as one academic discipline among others, distinguished by its subject matter, but as replacing theology as the queen of the sciences.

Such developments within academic disciplines are highly significant in a society in which the social sciences are viewed as instruments for the clarification, support and advancement of the government's philosophy and policies.

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Critical thinking as an academic discipline is based on the rules of formal logic, theory and practice of argumentation, rhetoric and scientific epistemology (a section of philosophy that deals with instruments and limitations of cognitive activity).