But other philosophical considerations track in a different direction, as for example when God's relation to time is considered.
By contrast, the drolly philosophical title-track describes Adam's life as free from worry or fear, but wonders where, without danger and temptation, lies his nobility?
On a parallel track, philosophical work in ethics has not been obliged to identify the steps to translate theoretical conclusions into adequate practice.
Joshua Landy is associate professor of French and co-director of the Literature and Philosophy Initiative at Stanford, home to new major tracks in philosophical and literary thought.
Conceiving of biological explanation in terms of mechanisms provides a philosophical framework that closely tracks biological practice and does not rely on the notion of a theory.
That resulting physical and emotional journey undertaken by the soft-spoken Whitfield and his fiercely supportive wife, Vashti — from hopeful defiance to philosophical acceptance — is touchingly tracked by American filmmaker Lilibet Foster.
Gartside made his philosophical interests explicit in a track called "Jacques Derrida" (1982), a jolly two-step that sounds like a sped-up and neutered version of an Alan Jackson song.
But it is by no means clear that this is the type of question concerning which mathematical standards have a better track record than philosophical ones.
Except that Mr. Palmieri, with his experimental cast of mind, did it in a particularly open-ended way, with a Latin-funk band playing powerful, slow-riding songs against philosophical English-language vocals, in tracks up to 10 minutes long.
His 1981 film "Stations of the Elevated" is one of the best filmed city poems an admiring documentation of the graffiti with which artists adorned subway cars and tracks, and a philosophical meditation on urban life.
