"academic thought" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to ideas and theories that are formulated and discussed within the academic community. You can use the phrase "academic thought" when discussing a specific topic or concept that has been studied and debated in academic circles. For example: "The role of ethics in artificial intelligence has been extensively studied and debated in academic thought."
This reflex continues to bedevil both popular and academic thought.
During his interview with Mr. Robbins, he realized that they shared a vision of melding academic thought with practical application.
All the modules equip me better to understand up-to-date thinking, the academic thought behind modern business processes and to see how that applies within our business.
Throughout the whole of the 18th century, Halle was the leader of academic thought and advanced theology in Protestant Germany, although sharing that leadership after the middle of the century with the University of Göttingen (founded 1737).
"Superintelligence" is not intended as a treatise of deep originality; Bostrom's contribution is to impose the rigors of analytic philosophy on a messy corpus of ideas that emerged at the margins of academic thought.
He wrote in a letter to The Times: "Along with many others, I didn't like Sir Tim Hunt's joke, but 'disproportionate' would be a huge underestimate of the baying witch-hunt that it unleashed among our academic thought police: nothing less than a feeding frenzy of mob-rule self-righteousness".
The title refers to the glass and steel structure built to house the Great Exhibition of 1851 in London, so academic thoughts about European imperialism are implied.
At the professor's home, the pair smoke a bong in the hot tub, and Ali tries to seduce Leslie with her academic thoughts – specifically by telling her that a vagina is equivalent to the Holocaust.
But the talk tonight brought some old aspiring academic thoughts back into my head and it made me start to wonder if I really, truly never cared.
His tone is less stringent than that of some academics (thought this isn't a book for anyone scared of theory), and he pokes around into more historical badger holes than other writers in his cohort (the Turing machine pops up).
He published a small but influential group of articles on 20th-century compositional technique that had a profound effect upon the development of academic musical thought, especially in the US.
