Philosophers writing in this vein (exemplified by Graham, 2010) look to incorporate empirical results into philosophical reflection on topics like personal identity, rationality or voluntary action.
AVAILABLE LIGHT Anthropological Reflections on Philosophical Topics By Clifford Geertz Princeton University Press.
I couldn't wait to hear my son's reflections on these topics.
Include your own reflections on the topics raised by these items as well.
She also offers striking reflections on such topics as the Unabomber and the commodification of Anne Frank.
Spheres is a wildly eclectic work; the third part, on foam (Schäume), is full of reflections on such topics as the vitreous dreamland of the Great Exhibition, the Victorian invention of the concept of environment, the deployment of poison gas during the first world war and the geodesic domes of Buckminster Fuller.
First the provocative statistic, then a discussion of how it has been interpreted and then my own reflections on the topic, The Decline of the American Summer Vacation, an already-much-scrutinized phenomenon that accounts, as it happens, for my need to write this article efficiently and swiftly.
(Prauss 1981 argues that Kant failed to achieve this insight, in part because he did not appreciate how cognitive success is a fundamentally practical goal. Förster 1992 discusses Kant's reflections on this topic in his final manuscript, the Opus Postumum).
These workshops provide 'safe' spaces for discussion and critical reflection on the topics of gender, human rights, women's rights, and masculinities.
Theology combines some philosophical reflection on these topics with reflection on religious beliefs that take some of the answers for granted that philosophers of religion would want to question.
