Sentence examples for popular philosopher from inspiring English sources

In 1926, however, he insisted on dissolving this marriage and married the neurologist and popular philosopher Mathilde von Kemnitz.

His prolific writing, TV programmes and media presence have made him an internationally popular philosopher, a label with which he has no problem.

The peaceful alternation of power would be a backhanded tribute to the guerrilla turned popular philosopher of democracy.Read an edited transcript of The Economist's conversation with Mr Mujica here.

Another popular philosopher, Alain de Botton, has also turned his attention to art and is curating his own philosophy-infused exhibits that also mix time periods, which will open next year in Amsterdam, Melbourne and Toronto.

Sam Finkler is a popular philosopher and TV pundit, adept at turning out books with Alain de Botitlessh titlikelike "The Existentialist in the Kitchen" and "The Little Book of Household Stoicism".

Commissioned by popular philosopher Alain de Botton, as part of his Living Architecture series of holiday homes, the House for Essex is by far the wildest of the bunch yet.

André Comte-Sponville is a popular French philosopher.

This view, Cook Wilson held as being in accordance with ordinary language and common sense, if not popular among philosophers (SI, 344 345).

Here the focus will be on just one proposal that is popular amongst philosophers: the use of sets of probability and utility functions to represent uncertainty in belief and desire respectively.

While less popular among philosophers than economists, such understandings have their naturalistic friends, Peter Railton for example characterizing them as offering "the clearest idea we have of what it is, at a minimum, to have a reason for action" (Railton 2003, 47, cf. 6).

While less popular, many philosophers accept the temporal analog of actualism, the thesis of presentism, according to which absolutely everything is present and how an object is simpliciter is how it presently is, how an object was and will be are in some sense hypothetical ways of being for that object.