Sentence examples for then philosophers from inspiring English sources

Of course, if, with Richard Rorty, we reconceive political philosophy as a post-metaphysical, pragmatic inquiry into the good life, then philosophers do have a place at the table.

Since then philosophers have debated the effectiveness of the bilking argument in particular and, in general, the validity and the soundness of the concept of backward causation.

At least this much should be relatively uncontroversial: If the claim "intuitively p" is meant to be evidence for p, then philosophers who make such claims should tread carefully, especially when it matters whether the philosopher's intuition is as widely shared as the philosopher believes it to be.

Until then, philosophers, physicians, moralists, and theologians generally used more than one term with which to theorise about mental states which would later be designated "emotions".

But then other philosophers started talking, paying attention, criticising it, and it starts impinging on people's emotions, it goes outside the realm of philosophy.

In this way, then, ancient philosophers typically justify moral virtue.

It then lists philosophers from the period in alphabetical order with sources proper to those figures.

Why, then, have philosophers believed they need to define narrow content and argue for its existence?

If it were possible to show that the world and time began at a certain instant, then the philosophers of the past would have proven it.

It is no surprise then that philosophers since antiquity have been interested in our experiences of and judgments about beauty and ugliness.

One would, therefore, expect that if there were certain moral propositions the truth of which could be apprehended by intuition, then moral philosophers would converge on these truths.