Perhaps taking a cue from David Hume's skepticism about the capacity of philosophy to replace the judgments of common life, Smith is suspicious of philosophy as conducted from a foundationalist standpoint, outside the modes of thought and practice it examines.
According to David Wilson, 65, the director of the Museum of Jurassic Technology, Ms. Coyne and Mr. Knutzen had found a new philosophy to replace their academic training.
Another highly plausible reading of Du Châtelet's mimicking of Descartes' mature work is that she sees herself offering a new natural philosophy to replace the largely rejected Cartesian system, just as Descartes before her aimed to replace the old Scholastic natural philosophy with his Principles of Philosophy.
He became friends with Tony Blair, another new MP, and the two soon found themselves at the forefront of the campaign to modernize Labour's political philosophy, replacing the goal of state socialism with a more pragmatic, market-friendly strategy.
With Bain, the nature of the demise is evident; the philosophy of mind is replaced by empirical psychology.
In one of the early scenes of the documentary, Wexler visits the 60-plus Ms. Senior of America Pageant in Las Vegas, where a "philosophy of life segment" replaces the swimsuit portion of the competition.
Al-Fārābī tries in his writings not only to reconcile the opinions of Plato and Aristotle, with Plato seen as somewhat of a mystical figure, but also, in his discussions of political philosophy, he replaced Plato's philosopher- king with an Imam whose understanding of truth is intuitive, who knows not only theoretical virtues but also the practical ones.
From rude beginnings undirected passion is transformed into virtue, the bestial state of early society is subordinated to the rule of law, and philosophy replaces sentiments of religion.
There were clearly mixed sentiments regarding PBL as an educational philosophy replacing the traditional programme.
