Sentence examples for distinguished thinkers from inspiring English sources

Distinguished thinkers like Steven Pinker have argued that we have become less violent than before.

To make matters worse, distinguished thinkers in the field, often white men, frequently excuse the contributing factors.

It has been espoused by a variety of distinguished thinkers, including Epicurus, Jeremy Bentham, and John Stuart Mill, and important discussions of it can also be found in works by Plato, Aristotle, Joseph Butler, G.E. Moore, and Henry Sidgwick.

In the acknowledgments of ANATHEM (Morrow/ HarperCollins $29.95), Stephenson, the author of such meticulous historical novels as "Cryptonomicon" and "The Baroque Cycle," gives inspirational credit for his latest work of fiction to a long line of distinguished thinkers, from Thales and Plato to Husserl and Gödel.

It sounded so promising – the setup from a humanist writer professing his boredom with the stagnancy of debate, a panel of distinguished thinkers charged with leading the way forward, and a full house of engaged attendees, palpably waiting for the emergence of a new agenda that could save us from more rounds of knockabout "is-there-or-isn't there" pantomime.

After all, for almost 20 years, as a graduate student at Columbia and a postdoctoral fellow at institutions like Oxford and the University of Colorado, he had been a spear carrier in the quest to unify the forces of nature and establish the elusive and Einsteinian "theory of everything," hobnobbing with Nobel laureates and other distinguished thinkers.

And games enable employers to gather performance information and distinguish analytical thinkers from weaker employees.

The task for the associationist is to explain how associative structures can distinguish a thinker who has a single (complex) thought birds fly from a thinker who conjoins two simple thoughts in an associative structure where one thought, birds, is immediately followed by another, fly.

On this point the daojia thinkers distinguished themselves from proponents of Confucianism, who stressed the efficacy of ritualized behaviour (li) in promoting humane (ren) government and maintaining the state.

An influential author, distinguished teacher, brilliant thinker, and long-time activist for social and economic justice, Liz inspired generations of students, teachers and countless others whose lives she touched so profoundly.

The philosophical and religious movement subsequently known as Daoism (daojia), whose thinkers gradually distinguished themselves from the Confucians, launched the second great critique of ren in the Daodejing, a philosophical and spiritual text composed about 300 bce and traditionally attributed to the mythical sage Laozi.