In 1720, while completing a four-year tour of Europe as tutor to a young man, Berkeley composed De Motu, a tract on the philosophical foundations of mechanics which developed his views on philosophy of science and articulated an instrumentalist approach to Newtonian dynamics.
This is especially so when the proposal in question rests on unsteady philosophical foundations.
De Man induced Derrida to teach a seminar, in Paris, on the philosophical foundations of literary criticism for specially selected students from Cornell and Hopkins.
Despite being mainly devoted to the exposition of the formal machinery of IP, Walley's book contains a lot of interesting material on the philosophical foundations of IP.
Constructed on the communitarian philosophical foundations of Fourierism, it reserved some of its units for the tradesmen who built it and set aside the 12th floor for artists' studios.
Thus, in Greek astronomy there was a high road based on philosophy of nature and rooted in geometrical methods, and there was a low road based on the convenient arithmetical methods adapted from the Babylonians, even if these could not be considered to rest on adequate physical or philosophical foundations.
It's easy to see our current-day talking cures and trauma cures as Galenic spinoffs, notions so deeply rooted in Western culture that to abandon them would be to abandon, in some senses, the philosophical foundations on which medicine and religion rest.
Having summarized the philosophical foundations on which risk benefit analysis is based, various relevant clinical situations faced in health care are grouped.
Aquinas, in some 25 years of work, set theology firmly on a philosophical foundation, especially in his Summa contra gentiles (1258 64) and Summa theologiae (1265/66 1273).
The Chinese developed their own oriental systems methodologies based on the philosophical foundation of ancient oriental philosophy thoughts and dialectic principle, the most distinctive of which include the Meta-synthesis Approach and the Wuli- Shili-Renli approach.
