Sentence examples for philosophical obstacles from inspiring English sources
He is the author of Brainchildren: Essays on Designing Minds; Sweet Dreams: Philosophical Obstacles to a Science of Consciousness; Elbow Room: The Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting; Sweet Dreams: Philosophical Obstacles to a Science of Consciousness (all published by the MIT Press), From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Mind, and other books.
Into this fray ridesonce again the tireless figure of Daniel Dennett...whose new book, Sweet Dreams: Philosophical Obstacles to a Science of Consciousness is a collection of essays devoted mainly to identifying and pummeling those diehard intuitions that he believes, rightly, still obstruct the progress of cognitive neuroscience.
(Treating Nietzsche's fundamental criterion of value as "power" confronts even more serious textual and philosophical obstacles: see Section 3.1, below).
Second, a traditional course-based program in mathematical biology would have faced bureaucratic obstacles (e.g., faculty governance approval of new courses), philosophical obstacles (e.g., debates over topics to be covered in courses and programs), and financial obstacles (e.g., the cost of offering courses with the required frequency).
As the scope of the claim grows, so do the number of philosophical objections and practical obstacles to proving it.
Goodman himself is clear about this, for he notes there that "Similarity, ever ready to solve philosophical problems and overcome obstacles, is a pretender, an impostor, a quack….
A considerable obstacle to understanding contemporary philosophical usage of the term, however, is that the notion does not seem to be a unitary one.
Some obstacles are rooted in the personal and philosophical differences between Mr. Lang and Mr. Rosenman that date back four decades.
Along with his student Thomas Aquinas he was of the opinion that Aristotle and the kind of natural philosophy that he represented was no obstacle to the development of a Christian philosophical vision of the natural order.
Mr Kissinger recently wrote that: "The growth of democracy will continue as America's dominant aspiration, but it is necessary to recognise the obstacles it faces at the moment of its seeming philosophical triumph".
There is a growing philosophical literature, which crosses over into psychology and economics, on the obstacles to effective dynamic choice.
