As a senior lecturer in science studies at Birmingham University, his work spanned science and philosophy, but he gravitated towards moral philosophy and, rejecting religion, adopted humanism.
The purpose of this qualitative study is to understand the rationale behind surgeons' decision to reject or adopt robotic-assisted surgical techniques.
Believing herself to be "exceptional", she rejected the evidence, adopting a get-well-or-die-trying attitude that caused intense anguish among the people who cared for her – her son David, friends, nurses, hired hands.
Two of the arguments seem to be faulty, and the third can be rejected if we adopt some familiar, though by no means universally endorsed, theories of vagueness.
The mechanical philosophy's explanation of natural phenomena, which Descartes quickly adopted, rejected the use of Scholastic substantial forms (see Section 2).
A fortiori, he rejected the view adopted by Malebranche, that we have no basis for believing the alleged content of revelation unless we have a prior proof that there exists a God who is capable of communicating with us.
If Rationality is rejected and Rationality* adopted in its place, then the truth of (2) (i.e., 'Lois believes that Clark Kent is not strong') and (4) (i.e., 'Lois believes that Clark Kent is strong') does not entail that Lois is irrational.
Females have been observed nursing infants of their close relatives, while close kin have adopted rejected infants, acting as foster parents.
For example, according to Lewis, Islam "from the first denounced aristocratic privilege, rejected hierarchy, and adopted a formula of the career open to the talents".
Over the past two decades, we've proposed, rejected, failed to adopt and naturally evolved a potpourri of solutions to the problem of Internet conversation.
