Sentence examples for philosophical tool from inspiring English sources

Gilbert Ryle, Moore's successor as editor of a leading journal, Mind, was among the most prominent of those analysts who were regarded as using ordinary language as a philosophical tool.

The 'linguistic turn', as it is known, was adopted as a philosophical tool in order to explicate the rationality and the objectivity that is, inter-subjectivity and communinter-subjectivity and

But in order to dismiss thought experimenting as a useful philosophical tool one has to show that intuition cannot be a source of knowledge and that an epistemic tool should be useless because there is a serious chance it can fail.

And since these feminist philosophers employed the philosophical tools they both knew best and found the most promising, U.S. feminist philosophy began to emerge from all the traditions of philosophy prevalent within the U.S. at the end of the twentieth century including analytic, Continental, and classical American philosophy.

Some philosophers invoke more traditional philosophical tools such as analogies to get those in dominant groups to take the perspective of those in subordinate groups.

It is not surprising that Wollheim should describe his work as "applied philosophy," a supposedly science-like mode of investigation, though it requires not much more than the basic philosophical tools of a desk to put one's feet on, a window to stare out of and a head full of ideas.

It's a kind of greatest hits collection, pieced together from mainly previously published work to present both a summation of his central ideas about meaning, consciousness, evolution and free will, and to share some of the philosophical tools he has used to craft them.

Which philosophical tools can and should be employed in describing and reconstructing scientific theory?

He adds that the illusion against which his pseudonymous writings are directed is an illusion about what Christianity requires, and that these writings, though employing philosophical tools, thus subserve a religious intent.

The Kyoto School, of which Nishida was the pioneering founder, is so identified because of its common focus; Nishida's important work, East/West comparative philosophy, and an on-going attempt to give expression to Japanese ideas and concepts by means of the clarity afforded by Western philosophical tools and techniques.

The album itself is a trajectory of the survival mechanisms and philosophical tools needed in order to have survived such a lifestyle.