Sentences with phrase «revolution in human understanding»

His simple telescope would set off a revolution in the human understanding of the cosmos.

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Two and a half centuries later the German philosopher Immanuel Kant, in the «Preface to the Second Edition» of his Critique of Pure Reason (1787), appropriated this «Copernican Revolution» in thought for his own shift from the presumed objectivity of what we know to the act of conscious knowing itself.2 It remains a contestable assessment because the movement is precisely in the opposite direction: After Copernicus, we humans are no longer understood to be in the center of the universe, whereas Kant concentrated precisely on the subjectivity of individual knowing.

Whitehead's use of assumptions dating back to Descartes and Locke in his account of perception leaves him vulnerable to the criticisms introduced by the revolution in philosophic method taking place at the time he was writing his major works, one in which the analysis of the functioning of language was replacing psychological introspection as the principal method for understanding human thought.

These two revolutions in the understanding of human nature and society constitute «liberalism» inasmuch as they introduce a radically new definition of «liberty.»

Its two revolutions — its anthropological individualism and the voluntarist conception of choice, and its insistence on the human separation from and opposition to nature — created its distinctive and new understanding of liberty as the most extensive possible expansion of the human sphere of autonomous activity in the service of the fulfillment of the self.

While his account is often sloppy, he is nevertheless right that the transhumanist agenda is a logical consequence of Gnosticism (which he and many others mistake for Christianity), and that this Gnosticism, which has theological roots in the Scotist - nominalist revolution in metaphysics, ever more exclusively shapes the modern cultural imagination and our understanding of what it is to be human.

Throughout the centuries, others have attempted to carry out Hobbes's project; the attempt to understand the human mind in terms of the structure and functions of computers is but one of the more recent strategies for completing the Copernican Revolution along the lines charted by Hobbes.

But the fact that technological and social revolutions which did have the potential and promise of producing a world community with richer and filler human life for all humanity, resulted in the intensification of mass poverty, social oppression, war and ecological destruction, have led many to consider self - sufficient Secular Humanism as inadequate to understand or deal with the tragic dimensions of the human selfhood and social existence.

Your online traces are helping fuel a revolution in the understanding of human behaviour — one that's revealing the mathematical laws of our lives

But it has missed out on a revolution in understanding human origins: the study of ancient DNA.

Pictured: Fernando Centeno presented «Bolivarian Revolution in Retreat: Understanding the Venezuelan Crisis, its Human Toll and its Outlook».

This shift has been fueled by changes in our understanding of human biology as a result of the genomic revolution and the recognition that genes are not the dominant cause of disease.

Globalization, the digital revolution and advancements in our understanding of human biology all present new opportunities and challenges.

Awards & Distinctions 2015 ICP Infinity Award 2015 World Press Photo Award, 2nd 2015 Photographic Museum of Humanity, 1st 2015 White House News Photographers Assoc., 1st 2015 POYi Award of Excellence 2014 TIME's Top 10 Photos of 2014 2014 Aaron Siskind Fellowship Grant 2014 Pulitzer Center Grant 2013 Getty Images Grant 2012 Pulitzer Center Grant 2012 POYi World Understanding Award 2012 Saint Brieuc Festival Grant 2012 IoS Photography Books of the Year 2012 POYi Best Book Award, Finalist 2011 Leica Oskar Barnack Prize, Finalist 2011 Magnum Foundation Grant 2010 POYi Photographer of the Year, 1st 2008 Hearst Fellow, Univ. of Colorado 2008 Amnesty Human Rights Award 2008 Photographer of the Year, 2nd 2008 POYi Award of Excellence 2008 Alicia Patterson Fellowship 2007 Amnesty Human Rights Award 2007 POYi Award of Excellence 2006 Perpignan Young Photographer 2006 Bayeux War Correspondents Prize 2006 POYi Award of Excellence 2006 Days Japan Jury Prize 2006 PDN's 30 Past Solo Exhibitions Blue Sky Days in Bayeux, France Oct - 2015 Blue Sky Days in Cortona Italy Jul - 2015 Blue Sky Days in Barcelona Jul - 2015 Borderline North Korea Nov - 2013 Castaways of the Marshall Islands Oct - 2012 Behind The Curtains of 21st Century Communism Jul - 2012 Behind the Curtains Aug - 2010 Behind the Curtain May - 2009 Nepal Rituels & Revolution Feb - 2009

Exhibition: SOLO EXHIBITIONS Blue Sky Days in Bayeux, France Oct - 2015 Blue Sky Days in Cortona Italy Jul - 2015 Blue Sky Days in Barcelona Jul - 2015 Borderline North Korea Nov - 2013 Castaways of the Marshall Islands Oct - 2012 Behind The Curtains of 21st Century Communism Jul - 2012 Behind the Curtains Aug - 2010 Behind the Curtain May - 2009 Nepal Rituels & Revolution Feb - 2009 AWARDS & DISTINCTIONS 2015 ICP Infinity Award 2015 World Press Photo Award, 2nd 2015 Photographic Museum of Humanity, 1st 2015 White House News Photographers Assoc., 1st 2015 POYi Award of Excellence 2014 TIME's Top 10 Photos of 2014 2014 Aaron Siskind Fellowship Grant 2014 Pulitzer Center Grant 2013 Getty Images Grant 2012 Pulitzer Center Grant 2012 POYi World Understanding Award 2012 Saint Brieuc Festival Grant 2012 IoS Photography Books of the Year 2012 POYi Best Book Award, Finalist 2011 Leica Oskar Barnack Prize, Finalist 2011 Magnum Foundation Grant 2010 POYi Photographer of the Year, 1st 2008 Hearst Fellow, Univ. of Colorado 2008 Amnesty Human Rights Award 2008 Photographer of the Year, 2nd 2008 POYi Award of Excellence 2008 Alicia Patterson Fellowship 2007 Amnesty Human Rights Award 2007 POYi Award of Excellence 2006 Perpignan Young Photographer 2006 Bayeux War Correspondents Prize 2006 POYi Award of Excellence 2006 Days Japan Jury Prize 2006 PDN's 30

Back in the 1970s, climate scientists understood that the carbon dioxide that humans had been emitting since the Industrial Revolution — from cars, power plants, factories — was intensifying the greenhouse effect that warms the planet.

In the last thirty years there's been a revolution in our scientific understanding of babies and young children, a revolution that's also transformed our understanding of human nature itselIn the last thirty years there's been a revolution in our scientific understanding of babies and young children, a revolution that's also transformed our understanding of human nature itselin our scientific understanding of babies and young children, a revolution that's also transformed our understanding of human nature itself.