Many tech tycoons still try to persuade us that they are here to unite humanity, with profit as a mere side-effect, but most of the attendees I met were willing to chew over the profound philosophical questions tangled up in the power and reach of digital capitalism, and the urgent necessity for governments to get to grips with them.
The speculative final chapter, a tangle of philosophical free association punctuated by short bursts of incisive reasoning, includes a lot of huffing and puffing and hyperbole.
Judge Tingling blocked the Bloomberg soda ban not on any high-minded philosophical grounds, but because its tangle of loopholes, exemptions, and penalties were "arbitrary and capricious".
Stoppard does a wonderful job of unravelling tangles of meaning and holding philosophical puzzles to the light.
These papers provide beautiful illustrations of one of Chisholm's most characteristic philosophical procedures — the clear definition of a tangle of related concepts by appeal to a small set of undefined primitives.
Though 'intentionality,' in the sense here at issue, does seem to attach to some real and fundamental (maybe even defining) aspect of mental phenomena, the relevant use of the term is tangled up with some rather involved philosophical history.
Philosophical problems are typically occasioned by some kind of theoretical tangle.
One scholar who's been all over this is Pasadena College philosophy professor Edward Feser, who regularly tangles with intelligent design creationists and deconstructs their arguments on purely philosophical grounds.
Its philosophical focus is steady, even if its narrative threads are full of disorienting tangles.
But as the group moved toward the Meat Rack, a tangle of woods known for fleeting encounters of the less philosophical variety, islanders seemed puzzled by our eruption into their ordinary Saturday night.
What seems to identify these as philosophical issues is that our thinking is in some kind of theoretical tangle, supporting different lines of thought that lead to conflicting conclusions.
