Sentence examples for the philosophical analysis from inspiring English sources

This course introduces students to tools for the philosophical analysis of science.

It's hard to think of another painter these days who has such infectious fun with the philosophical analysis of modern painting.

The philosophical analysis of consciousness as such, and particularly the mind-body problem, really starts with Descartes, at the beginning of the Age of Enlightenment.

Finally, we briefly tease out some of the implications of civil recourse theory for private law beyond torts (contract law, in particular), and for the philosophical analysis of concepts such as accountability and responsibility.

However, the philosophical analysis itself could be challenged.

The philosophical analysis of mathematical explanations concerns itself with two different, although connected, areas of investigation.

An important recurring theme in the early philosophical analysis of knowledge is the paradigm of manipulating a piece of wax: either by simply deforming it, by imprinting a signet ring in it or by writing characters on it.

Margit Sutrop has lamented in the pages of this journal the resilient attitudes of those cultural critics who take as axiomatic Barthes's claims: "Even the sharpest philosophical analysis has had no influence on those speaking about the death of the author". 7 In fact, many of the critiques are so good, one must wonder if our continuing concern with Barthes isn't bordering on overkill.

What has contributed as much as anything to the prevalent misunderstanding of the nature of philosophical analysis is the fact that propositions and questions which are really linguistic are often expressed in such a way that they appear to be factual.

In Aristotelian syllogistic theory, and especially from the time of Descartes, forms of analysis have also involved 'reduction'; and in early analytic philosophy it was 'reduction' that was seen as the goal of philosophical analysis (see especially the supplementary section on The Cambridge School of Analysis).

For the positivists of this school, the goal of philosophical analysis is to clarify the language of science, a clarification which would result from, for example, elucidating the relationships between observation and theory, or between scientific concepts at different levels of abstraction.