Haldane was also a notable thinker who throughout his life tried to clarify the philosophical basis of biology, its relation to physics and chemistry, and the problems of mechanism and personality.
Jones was described in David Horner's The Commanders as "a steady, sincere but colourless leader", while Alan Stephens found him "a good and decent man, who had overcome considerable personal hardship in his youth to achieve exceptional professional success" but "neither an inspiring leader, nor a notable thinker".
Philip's work in turn sets the stage for the development of this topic throughout the thirteenth century, influencing the work of such notable thinkers as Alexander of Hales, Albert the Great, and Thomas Aquinas.
Though there are a couple of references in The Oxford English Dictionary to earlier occurrences of the word 'agnostic', it seems (perhaps independently) to have been introduced by T. H. Huxley at a party in London to found the Metaphysical Society, which flourished for over a decade and to which belonged notable thinkers and leaders of opinion.
A brief survey of a few notable thinkers suggests that coercion has commonly been understood as a use of a certain kind of power for the purpose of gaining advantages over others (including self-protection), punishing non-compliance with demands, and imposing one's will on the will of other agents.
In the current climate of notable thinkers making pricks of themselves like the misanthropic Slavoj Žižek, the sometime thinker and full-time asshole Richard Dawkins, or the probable Nazi Martin Heidegger Lacan's is a name that doesn't deserve to be forgotten.
In the current climate of notable thinkers making pricks of themselves like the misanthropic Slavoj Žižek, the sometimes-thinker and full-time asshole Richard Dawkins, or the probably-Nazi Martin Heidegger Lacan's is a name that doesn't deserve to be forgotten.
The results of one of the more notable, the "Thinkers 50" list, was announced on November 11th.
Yet for centuries, the creative forces of the country – its most notable poets, thinkers, writers, artists and musicians – converged here, in the spiritual and geographical heart of Germany.
This kind of cross-pollinating group call it the Recovery Advisory Council would be a constructive answer to Republican gripes that Obama's economic transition advisory team has no notable conservative thinkers or business leaders on it.
In Germany Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa (1401 64), a notable scholar and thinker, and the Franciscan theologian and preacher, Saint John of Capistrano (1386 1456), laboured hard at reform with much success.
