Sentence examples for contemporary proponents from inspiring English sources

Jazz critics can -- and will -- object to Mr. Burns's omissions, his emphasis on classical jazz and his celebration of its contemporary proponents like Wynton Marsalis, whose buoyant commentary gleefully combines a musician's technical understanding with an earthy, understandable scholarship.

Ancestors of this idea can be found in Sidgwick and Ewing, and it has found a number of contemporary proponents.

Contemporary proponents of quasi-perceptual models of introspection concede the existence of such disanalogies (e.g., Lycan 1996).

Though substance dualism is at present largely out of favor, it does have some contemporary proponents (Swinburne 1986, Foster 1989, 1996).

Variants of this view perhaps go back to Aristotle (cf. Sherman 1993) and can also be found in Montaigne (1603/1877) and Hegel (1997); contemporary proponents include Solomon (1981 , 1988, Scruton (1986), Nozick (1989), Fisher (1990), and Delaney (1996).

This is the sort of account that Thomas Morris and Christopher Menzel adopt, and they are the foremost contemporary proponents of the view that abstract objects depend on God.

The most influential contemporary proponent of this view is Immanuel Wallerstein, who is known for world-systems theory.

A contemporary proponent of this theory is Roger Scruton, who analyses amusement as an "attentive demolition" of a person or something connected with a person.

As its main contemporary proponent concedes, it requires us to see the Laws as inconsistent: the earlier provisions of political authority to various offices are incompatible with assigning such unlimited powers to the Nocturnal Council.[35] Further, such a grant of power is at least in serious tension with one of the Laws' basic political principles.

Contemporary design proponents, by contrast, generally attempt to distance themselves from Paley so as not to be seen as simply repackaging a 200-year-old theological argument.

Of more relevance to contemporary debates, proponents of embodied cognition must show that this dependence cannot be accommodated within traditional cognitive science and its working commitments (e.g., to the computational and representational theories of mind).