"I wouldn't call it petty infighting, I'd call it philosophical warfare," said Michael Ludwig, an aquatic resources specialist who worked on Sound issues for three decades for the National Marine Fisheries Service before going into private consulting last year.
There has been an explosion of scholarly growth in classical Chinese studies over the past half-century, sufficient in both breadth and depth to allow non-specialists to read translations of Chinese philosophical texts with sensitivity and understanding.
Similar questions can be asked of nearly every curriculum area; they are at least partly philosophical and so are routinely addressed by philosophers of education as well as by curriculum theorists and subject-matter specialists.
In this regard he was more comparable to a Leibniz or a Hume as opposed to our present-day specialists in this or that particular domain of philosophical inquiry.
Specialist of Bioethics and Temporary Professor in Bioethics and Philosophical Anthropology at University of Palermo.
Practically speaking, this implies employing individuals with philosophical training in a wide variety of policy and regulatory institutions: not as specialists whose job is to provide answers, but to ask the right kinds of questions.
This implausible, extravagant, coincidence-riddled romantic drama, from 1954, made Rock Hudson a star and Douglas Sirk a specialist in "women's pictures," a genre that he infused with a philosophical import all his own.
This independence created by philosophical insight is--in my opinion--the mark of distinction between a mere artisan or specialist and a real seeker after truth.
"Thomas Kuhn: A Philosophical History for Our Times" is nearly unreadable by any but the most devoted maven of the sectarian disputes between specialists in the sociology and philosophy of science.
Just Roca, 56, a specialist in sexology who participated in Mr. Tunick's mass photo, quit Mr. Ribas's association over "philosophical differences" about nudity and founded his own group called Aleteia, a rendering of the Greek word for truth.
