Sentence examples for philosophical establishment from inspiring English sources

Indeed, in the past few years, some of these philosophers have occupied positions of leadership in the philosophical establishment and their work has been the subject of discussion by prominent non-Latino/a philosophers.

Tallis is not a professional philosopher, but for years he has single-handedly taken on the philosophical establishment in his campaign against what he calls "neuromythology", attacking big shots like Daniel Dennett, who probably never bother to reply.

Despite his obvious abilities, however, Ayer could not secure a permanent teaching position at Oxford a fact that increased his hostility toward the philosophical establishment there.

Toulmin was made director at the Nuffield Foundation's unit for history of ideas in 1960, and was disappointed to find this yet another subject area belittled by the British philosophical establishment.

He loathed the philosophical establishment at the universities, their methods, genres, and, above all, their style and terminology.

And there was always a relatively small but lively group of scholars who strove to maintain the values of what was championed as a distinctive American philosophical tradition even when this tradition was largely ignored by the philosophical establishment.

He attacked the literary, philosophical, and ecclesiastical establishments of his day for misrepresenting the highest task of human existence namely, becoming oneself in an ethical and religious sense as something so easy that it could seem already accomplished even when it had not even been undertaken.

Her distrust of grand schemes and theories was to make her much in demand as a kind of philosophical plumber to the establishment - whenever some tricky problem arose, she could be trusted to get things flowing freely again.

As commentator Andrew Brown wrote in 2003: "Her distrust of grand schemes and theories [made] her much in demand as a kind of philosophical plumber to the establishment - whenever some tricky problem arose, she could be trusted to get things flowing again".

Thus, Ayer represented, in its most Establishment form, the philosophical tradition that Stoppard had set out to undermine.

According to Novalis, the "academy ought to be a thoroughly philosophical institution only one faculty the whole establishment organized to arouse and exercise the capacity to think [Denkkraft] in a purposive way" (MO #4, trans. modified).