Sentence examples for past philosophers from inspiring English sources

In the past, philosophers have worked from the assumption that humans are rational beings.

ReprintsWhen thinking about the mind, past philosophers have tended either to accept some sort of materialism roughly the view that consciousness is a physical state of the brain or to take the dualist outlook that mental and physical things, minds and brains, were irreducibly different.

That in the past philosophers only rarely took notice of disability is understandable, if not condonable.

It is not hard to think of deep-seated intuitions appealed to by past philosophers that have since been discredited.

In the past, philosophers have often appealed directly to introspection on behalf of the view that qualia are intrinsic, non-intentional features of experiences.

In the past, philosophers with a variety of meta-ethical commitments have sometimes claimed that in everyday moral practices people implicitly suppose that moral objectivism in some sense is correct (for example, see Blackburn 1984: 180 and Jackson 1998: 137).

Chris expressed a frustration that looks set to be shared by many more fans until the site develops past its Philosophers' Stone phase.

Various forms of divine command theory have been presented in the past by philosophers including William of Ockham, St Augustine, Duns Scotus, and John Calvin.

For most of the past century, philosophers have been keen on imitating the natural sciences, due in some measure to an envy of their results.

During the past few decades, philosophers of biology have debated the issue of reductionism versus anti-reductionism, with both sides often claiming a 'pluralist' position.

But the city is trapped by its location, its past, and what philosophers would have called its facticity — its limitations, given the circumstances.