The arts become a model for engaging with problem-solving: uncertainty and ambiguity confront art makers and viewers all the time; artworks are experiments that work by different sets of rules.
Frank suggests that the O.W.S. protesters may enjoy cheering each other on more than engaging with problems, and asked why there were no voter-registration tables or campaigns to contact representatives.
The FPs pointed out the risk that this could lead to FPs who did not actually appreciate engaging with problems in the community.
His mind is restless and prone to engage with problems, sometimes obsessively.
Akamai is not the first company to engage with problems associated with consumerism.
It would be a decision to engage with problems – economic regulation, climate change, migration – at the continental level because there are no self-contained national solutions.
Seymour took a provocatively different approach, arguing for "projects over problems". Of course, he wasn't opposed to problem solving, but he felt that it was important for children to engage with problems in the context of meaningful projects.
Thus, we must think creatively and systematically about ways to better support philosophers who want to engage with problems germane to civic life, about how to make this work not merely supererogatory, but a valued form of professional philosophy.
His e-mail brought up a point I didn't have time to make in my earlier response to the controversy, namely that first-person narratives that are exclusively personal are likely to be judged by far looser standards than those that turn their gaze outward to engage with problems of larger social or political import.
Capstone teams engage with problems that may have wide-ranging effects in a variety of settings: clinical, research, and industry.
On the positive side, several philosophers have developed Rand's theory of perception in a way that successfully engages with problems in contemporary analytic epistemology (Kelley 1986; Ghate 2012; Salmieri 2012).
