Sentence examples for philosophical stage from inspiring English sources

Sometimes I think of my whole career since as a kind of penance, still trying to wend my way through the philosophical stage that Noam had set.

The expression 'sortal' reappeared on the philosophical stage in the 1950s and 1960s in lectures and in the written work of Strawson (1959), Quine (1960), Geach (1962), and Wiggins (1967) and variations on the word entered the mainstream philosophical vocabulary.

Insofar as the ultimate achievement of Japanese Confucian philosophizing amounted to a relative turn away from nominalist Buddhist claims about the semantic emptiness of words and the merely conventional nature of meaning and truth, it set the philosophical stage in profound ways for the conceptual assimilation of Western philosophical learning during the Meiji period (1868-1912).

Modal logic was used to formulate a more perspicacious version of the ontological argument, Bayesian models of probability breathed new life into inductive justifications of religious belief, rational choice theory ushered Pascal's wager once again onto the philosophical stage, and language-game analysis offered a prima facie justification of religious language.

Among them was his appearance in 1957 in "The Fabulous Irishman," in which he played Robert Briscoe, a Jew who had been elected Mayor of Dublin, and in 1960 he performed in Thornton Wilder's "Our Town" as the philosophical New England Stage Manager.

The philosophical discourse on stage has been a departure for all.

Van Hove puts on stage the philosophical storm surrounding the collective and the individual.

At this stage, the philosophical literature on valid religious (or other conscientious) exemptions remains sparse.

It has thus brought this aspect of the units of selection controversy out onto the main stage of philosophical thought.

In the Middle Ages, they are especially important in the latter part of the period when issues of language take center stage in philosophical discussions.

Christopher E. Cosans Owenn's Ape and Darwin's Bulldog: Beyond Darwinism and Creationism was published on the 150th anniversary of Mr. Darwin's Origin and tells a detailed story of the historical, philosophical, economic, and cultural stage upon which the "ape brain debate" between Owen and Huxley ensued.