Sentence examples for philosophical circles from inspiring English sources

Just over 20 years ago, an obscure Australian philosopher named David Chalmers created controversy in philosophical circles by raising what became known as the Hard Problem of Consciousness.

Marx became interested in the recently deceased German philosopher G. W. F. Hegel, whose ideas were then widely debated among European philosophical circles.

This idea of multiple universes, or multiple realities, has been around in philosophical circles for centuries.

This "subject-object" divide, as it is known in philosophical circles, is nothing new, according to João Ribas, a curator at the Drawing Center in SoHo.

In many philosophical circles, that agenda continues to be central to the philosophy of science, sometimes accompanied by the dismissal of critiques of logical empiricism and sometimes by an attempt to integrate critical insights into the discussion of traditional questions.

He also established himself in literary and philosophical circles and counted the dramatist Ben Jonson, the jurist and scholar John Selden, and the statesman Lord Falkland among his friends.

He joined a philosophical circle in Assos on the coast of Asia Minor, but soon moved to the nearby island of Lesbos where he met Theophrastus, a young man with similar interests in natural science.

Candide and his companions, as they find themselves at the end of the novella, are in a very similar position to Voltaire's tightly knit philosophical circle which supported the Encyclopédie: the main characters of Candide live in seclusion to "cultivate [their] garden", just as Voltaire suggested his colleagues leave society to write.

As a young man, Josef joins a mystical-philosophical circle surrounding a photographer guru, with whom he soon grows disillusioned; he interviews for a job as a tutor for a wealthy family; and he works at an institute identified as the Cultural Center, haphazardly run in Kafkaesque fashion by a group of employees who are overwhelmed by their own bureaucracy.

According to Leng, All Things Must Pass represents the completion of Harrison's "musical-philosophical circle", in which his 1966 68 immersion in Indian music found a Western equivalent in gospel music.

In his book While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Simon Leng describes George Harrison's musical projects outside the Beatles during 1969 70 – such as producing American gospel and soul artists Billy Preston and Doris Troy, and touring with Delaney & Bonnie and Friends – as the completion of "a musical-philosophical circle", which resulted in his post-Beatles solo album All Things Must Pass (1970).