Sentence examples for philosophical methods from inspiring English sources

Because they were Enlightenment thinkers, the drafters of the declaration, particularly Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin, began by positing basic premises, an analytic approach that reflected the philosophical methods of John Locke and the scientific method of Isaac Newton.

Partly because of the work of some women, such as Onora O'Neill, and some men, such as yourself, the application of philosophical methods to other subjects is becoming more widely recognised.

At the same time, using Western philosophical methods, he helped to create a systematic history of the theories of Oriental philosophy and sought to develop a synthesis of Western philosophies (notably German idealism) and Oriental philosophies.

Variations in Islam range from the rigid orthodoxy of the Ḥanbalites (a conservative school of law following the teachings of Ibn Ḥanbal) to the rational liberalism of the Muʿtazilites (a school of law utilizing Greek philosophical methods) to the dialectical doctrines (kalām) of the Arabian theologian al-Ashʿarī and the Turkish philosopher al-Fārābī.

First, philosophy of biology uses philosophical methods to address topics of central importance in the biological sciences, such as natural selection, fitness, adaptation, and the nature of genes.

Yet he also believed that the philosophical methods taught in the schools of his time and used by most of his contemporaries were deeply flawed.

Thomas Reid (1710 1796) is a Scottish philosopher best known for his philosophical method, his theory of perception and its wide implications on epistemology, and as the developer and defender of an agent-causal theory of free will.

For the 20th century existentialists, a decisive philosophical inspiration was phenomenology, the philosophical method devised by the German philosopher, Edmund Husserl, during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and which his famous student, Martin Heidegger, developed into a combination of existential analysis and deep ontology.

Because of this, some naturalist philosophers have advocated a revisionary attitude to philosophical method.

For this reason, a number of philosophers have expressed skepticism about the viability of conceptual analysis as a philosophical method (e.g., Ramsey 1998, Stich 1992).

Al-Kindi's account of astral causation and providence is a very good example of his philosophical method: combining and building on ideas taken from Aristotle, later Greek philosophers, and "scientific" authors like Ptolemy, he gives a rational account of a central concept in Islam.