Sentence examples for conventional philosophy from inspiring English sources

Bostrom had little interest in conventional philosophy — not least because he expected that superintelligent minds, whether biologically enhanced or digital, would make it obsolete.

"Wouldn't it be great to think beyond the conventional philosophy?" Yet the Shed could end up competing with other cultural institutions for donations, rental income and audiences, including a planned performing arts center at ground zero, which is expected to cost more than $300 million and for which fund-raising has not yet begun.

Roy fought against the grain of conventional academic philosophy throughout his career.

Moreover, its basis -- that disease is a state of imbalance -- does not always set well with conventional medical philosophy.

This exhibition was organized and first presented by the Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles, an idiosyncratic institution founded by David Wilson and known for irreverently challenging conventional museum philosophies and practices.

But then Voltaire was never exactly a "philosopher" in the conventional sense; his philosophy is almost always a moral instinct rendered as a dramatic gesture, rather than consecutive thoughts turned into a logical argument.

Recent earthquakes have revealed that conventional seismic design philosophy allows for large levels of nonstructural damage.

While conventional literature in philosophy and religion remained popular, writings in new genres such as chronicle, biography, history, encyclopedia, novel, drama, and musical treatise became popular.

The authors recommend a shift away from the conventional people-free parks philosophy to one that sees the remaining Congo basin rainforests not as pristine nature to be saved but as places where local communities are part of the equation and can benefit from the forests.

This paper sees this conventional solid waste management philosophy as a potential barrier to an efficient and sustainable management and argues that adopting an integrated systemic approach will both help to control the processes that generate waste (including waste handling and utilization) and enable city managers to minimize waste generation in the first place.

In the existing literature, the philosophy of conventional medicine has been described as scientific [ 6, 32, 33], analytic [ 34, 35] and deductive [ 32], and the data should be measurable [ 35] (see Table  1).