Whereas the Australians take the physical as unproblematic and attempt to reduce the mental to the physical, Feigl takes the mental as unproblematic and attempts to integrate it into a sophisticated physicalistic conception of the world.
Moreover, some follow Hofweber (2005) in taking the irreducibility of haecceities and other non-qualitative properties to physical properties to constitute a challenge to more sophisticated conceptions of physicalism.
Generally, in phenomenographic studies, people are assumed to move from less to more sophisticated conceptions of a particular phenomenon in hierarchical fashion (Marton and Booth 1997).
Often they are sexist letches in the possession of sophisticated conceptions of 'good teaching.' Pedagogue bingo would include words like: 'dialogue'cutcut and thrust', 'rigour', 'candid', 'enabling promise'mentoringing'penetratinging'ironyony' and so on.
Francis and Greer suggest this is of importance to both religion and science educators, in that more sophisticated conceptions of both science (as fluid and provisional) and religion (as non-literal) may help pupils overcome negatively associating the two.
In the twentieth century, both analytic philosophy and phenomenology can be seen as developing far more sophisticated conceptions of analysis, which draw on but go beyond mere decompositional analysis.
Students who kept learning journals also showed more sophisticated conceptions of learning, greater awareness of cognitive strategies, and demonstrated the construction of more complex and related knowledge structures when learning from text.
The English statesman and scholar Francis Bacon could already, by 1625, advance a sophisticated and almost modern conception of the garden in his essay "On Gardens".
According to the threshold conception of a Sophisticated Cognitive Capacities view, any being that meets the threshold has full moral status.
And so, combining this interpretation of the threshold conception with a Sophisticated Cognitive Capacity account results in not according all cognitively unimpaired adult humans equal moral status – a problem from the commonsense viewpoint.
