As a result of this surge in interest in film as a subject for philosophical reflection, the philosophy of film has become an important area of research in aesthetics.
There is also an intensive reflection in philosophy about the interrelation between different types of theory, such as contractualist and consequentialist accounts.
He eschewed the profession's embrace of complex models and maths in favour of serious reflection on political philosophy (leading some to dismiss him, wrongly, as a lightweight).
Schulz's self-styled discipline of wrongology contains a great deal of lightly worn learning and careful reflection on psychoanalysis, philosophy, science and art.
The slogan on the coin, she said, was also meant as a reflection of her philosophy that life is not a dress rehearsal for anything: "Good for one fare".
It's possible to trace in it terms of arithmetic, geometry, dualism, epistemology and ontology, and it acts as a demonstration of art and as a reflection of life, philosophy and death.
The critique of the status quo sometimes led to a careful reflection on what philosophy is (or should be), as a practice, and as an academic discipline.
In Insight and Reflection (also in Philosophy of Mathematics and Natural Science) Weyl uses a geometric analogy to illustrate his metaphysical scheme.
In addition, many of the reported details of his personal life suggest a fundamentalist interpretation of religious belief that is difficult to reconcile with the critical reflection that defines philosophy as a discipline.
"The material is so fragmentary," he said, "that we really can't know, and so our differences often are a reflection of different philosophies and experience in research".
