Sentence examples for contribution to philosophy from inspiring English sources
A technique for "the fresh examination of particulars" thus constituted his chief contribution to philosophy.
That would surely have meant more to him than any misplaced encomium about his academic contribution to philosophy.
Rorty made his first, and perhaps most famous, major contribution to philosophy in 1979 with the publication of Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature.
Plato's foremost contribution to philosophy was his theory of Forms, which posited a realm of ideal, perfect, and changeless entities standing behind the world of ordinary experience.
In 1944 Russell returned to Trinity College, where he lectured on the ideas that formed his last major contribution to philosophy, Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits (1948).
A. J. Ayer, in his book "Wittgenstein," wrote, "I can think of no one but Elizabeth Anscombe who has made an original contribution to philosophy on the basis of Wittgenstein's teaching".
His Beiträge zur Philosophie (Contributions to Philosophy), composed in 1936 38 but not published until 1989, was viewed by some interpreters as the long-awaited sequel to Being and Time.
The strategy adopted here will be to view the later philosophy through the lens of Heidegger's strange and perplexing study from the 1930s called Contributions to Philosophy (From Enowning), (Beitrage zur Philosophie (Vom Ereignis)), henceforth referred to as the Contributions.
The core elements of the turn are indicated in what is now considered by many commentators to be Heidegger's second greatest work, Contributions to Philosophy (From Enowning), (Beitrage zur Philosophie (Vom Ereignis)).
The proceedings of the first international conference on Nicolai Hartmann (Poli, Scognamiglio, Tremblay 2011) and this entry provide information on Hartmann's thought that may contribute to open evaluation of his contributions to philosophy.
He has made significant contributions to philosophy in the fields of logic, philosophy of language, metaphysics, and philosophy of mind.
