This debate concerning our knowledge of the external world will generally be our main focus in what follows.
Like philosophical debates generally, the rationalist/empiricist debate ultimately concerns our position in the world, in this case our position as rational inquirers.
"The military invasion of Kuwait by Iraq, which deeply concerns our people, will affect the world petroleum market and will bring inevitable political and economic consequences for Central America," the President of Honduras, Rafael Leonardo Callejas, said yesterday.
While appreciating the opportunities for economic growth and material prosperity which this process offers, the church cannot but express profound concern that our world continues to be divided, no longer by the former political and military blocs, but by a tragic fault line between those who can benefit from these opportunities and those who seem cut off from them.
When will concern for our world take precedence over company profits?
Stress is a serious concern facing our world today, motivating the development of a better objective understanding through the use of non-intrusive means for stress recognition by reducing restrictions to natural human behavior.
As you know from my prior blog on menopause, I am no longer in need of feminine care products, but I do have a step-daughter I love and adore, girlfriends whose health I care deeply about and a concern for our world that impacts every breath I take.
An original and thoughtful reassessment of civil war terminations, Securing the Peace will interest all those concerned about resolving our world's most pressing conflicts.
Forces are now at work to create a world where people will be primarily concerned with saving our world and sharing it with others, rather than being concerned with making others feel bad about who they are.
Our perceptual judgments concerning the external world, our judgments about our own pain and pleasure, and our aesthetic judgments, for example, are not the products of reason.
In the first of his two lectures Martin Rees talked about what we might expect, and what we should be concerned about, in our world in 2050.
