Sentences with phrase «purely academic issue»

Although what he writes is open and unapologetic «heresy», at least Jack Mahoney has highlighted the fact that the question of science and religion is not some purely academic issue revolving around a few specialised philosophical and theological discussions.

Not exact matches

Some of these problems are purely academic, while some are social issues that affect learning.

The policies have stirred debates about the purpose of issuing academic grades and whether they should be used to punish, motivate or purely represent what students have learned in class.

So far my practical experience with this approach has been and until such time that I see reasons, aside purely academic ones, to take a different route, I will try to address firmware issues with mark - up as best as I can.

Carvin did forcefully make some First Amendment arguments, but, in doing so, too often failed to observe that various opinions were not only permitted, but reasonable... Because Steyn and National Review have parted ways, Carvin and National Review seem to have been unaware of the long backstory and more or less presented the dispute (from National Review's perspective) as little more than a purely academic controversy over the validity of tree rings as a temperature proxy, leaving the judges completely mystified on why Mann, as opposed to any one of hundreds of scientists, was at issue.