Sentence examples for philosophical engagements from inspiring English sources

While Borgmann and Dreyfus's views continue to inform the philosophical conversation about social networking and ethics, both of these early philosophical engagements with the phenomenon manifest certain predictive failures (as is perhaps unavoidable when reflecting on new and rapidly evolving technological systems).

"This whole market on a national level suffers from an excess of philosophical engagement and a deficiency of practical management," he said.

But space for this philosophical engagement is vital and would be lost in a one-size-fits-all equality body; inevitably, the issue of racism would become a lower priority.

Nevertheless, it is generally acknowledged that the approach taken by ordinary language philosophy tended to discourage philosophical engagement with new developments in other intellectual fields, especially those related to science.

It's one of the most gloweringly magnificent pieces of fiction I've ever encountered: a cross between Dickens and Dostoevsky in the incandescent vividness of its extraordinary characters, and a clear precursor to the epic prose poems of Saul Bellow in its minutely attentive sensory and philosophical engagement with modern urban reality.

An attempt to clarify what's at stake can be found in a new entry in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy by Shannon Vallor, "Social Networking and Ethics".. Vallor begins with a brief history of philosophical engagement with the Internet, concluding that much of it has been outmoded by the rise of the more dynamic and interactive "Web 2.0".

Serious philosophical engagement with neuroscience dates back at least to Patricia Churchland's Neurophilosophy (1986).

"The book doesn't abandon the philosophical engagement of his other Australian novels.

Others contend that this sort of approach to scientific knowledge is non- or anti-philosophical, and defend philosophical engagement in debates about realism (Crasnow 2000, Mcarthur 2006).

It is with Heidegger, however, that Gadamer had his most significant, sustained and yet also most problematic philosophical engagement (see especially Gadamer 1994a).

It could be said that textualists approved of them as an aspect of the conduct of ritual, but there was little philosophical engagement with their details.