Although the philosophy of Breakthrough is that teams set local goals and report on local indicators, agreeing on a common set of measures which all teams will register enables teams to learn from each other and keeps teams focused on the collaborative target.
Differences of opinion are particularly stark between people whose lives are marked by Europe's still largely unacknowledged past of colonialism and slavery, and those who see metropolitan Europe as the apotheosis of modernity: the place that made the crucial breakthroughs in politics, science, philosophy and the arts.
It may be that, once there's been a breakthrough, and there's a popular philosophy shelf in the store, it becomes easier to do other books.
The Muslim world reached the zenith of its influence in the Middle Ages -- when it preserved the best of classical Greek and Roman teachings, and inspired breakthroughs in mathematics, science, medicine and philosophy.
In recent years, Lauren Gunderson has written some exquisite plays about intelligent women making major breakthroughs in the fields of mathematics, philosophy, and science.
He also traces Drebbel's breakthrough to an unexpected source: the spiritualist philosophy of the alchemists.
In 1956, Joseph Needham, a chemist, made a significant breakthrough by interpreting Zhu's system in terms of a process philosophy, Whitehead's organic naturalism.
The only school that avoided these two was "speculative theism" and it was under their influence that Lotze's breakthrough emerged: the decisive repudiation of naturalism without falling into mere "history of philosophy".
"We have not made any changes in our general philosophy of following scientific innovation in an attempt to develop novel, breakthrough medicines to improve and extend people's lives.
Dr. Liao, 40, the director of the bioethics program at New York University, deploys the tools of philosophy, history, psychology, religion and ethics to understand the impact of neuroscientific breakthroughs.
