The classic philosophical enquiry into what a work of art is.

CA We're in Oxford, which is the home of philosophical thought experiments.

Whether or not he was right, he did not entirely succeed in ending philosophical dispute.

The meaning of life is a philosophical and spiritual question concerning the significance of living or existence in general.

Kant sparked a storm of philosophical work in Germany in the early nineteenth century, beginning with German idealism.

This understanding, they claimed, ties like minded people from similar cultural backgrounds together and provides a sense of cultural continuity with the philosophical past.

Actually, you know that old philosophical thing, if a tree falls in a forest and nobody hears it, did it happen? Remember that old chestnut?

Other defenses of objective truth in ethics made no appeal to religion, but could make little headway against the prevailing philosophical mood.

In the philosophical interpretation of nature, the content is similar to that of the natural history and personal experience essays, but the mode of presentation tends to be more abstract and scholarly (Lyon 25).

Pope John Paul II, with his mastery of religious mysticism, philosophical contemplation and poetic and artistic creativity, exerted every effort for the triumph of truth, justice and peace.

His philosophical framework includes insightful interpretations of the cognitive role of mediation tools, as well as the re interpretation of well known concepts in psychology such as internalization of knowledge.

It differs from the logical mathematical concept of class by not having any concept of extensionality, and from the philosophical concept of class in that a property is considered to be distinct from the objects which possess it.

Lazarus notes the widely accepted philosophical principle that happiness depends on the background psychological status of the person...and cannot be well predicted without reference to one's expectations.

Historically the term comes from the Greek philosophical term nous , which was translated into Latin as intellectus (derived from the verb intelligere ) and into French (and then English) as intelligence .

We believe that the Agreement reinforces and institutionalizes the relationship between the United Nations and the ICC, ensuring that, on both a philosophical and a practical level, those two important elements of international justice can work together.

Proof theory is important in philosophical logic, where the primary interest is in the idea of a proof theoretic semantics, an idea which depends upon technical ideas in structural proof theory to be feasible.

The prolific author or co author of over 30 books and over 300 scholarly articles has contributed to mathematical logic, philosophical logic, the philosophy of mathematics, epistemology, language theory, and the philosophy of science.

His most noted work (see below) was published in a series of essays from the 1960s onward, moving successively through philosophy of action into philosophy of mind and philosophy of language, and dabbling occasionally in aesthetics, philosophical psychology, and the history of philosophy.

It is said to be effective, evidence based, and cheap to implement. Most of all, it stakes a claim to a degree of philosophical coherence of which the various third ways of the last decade could only dream.

Indeed, at least in the arena of financial economics, a vulgar version of equilibrium theory rose to dominance in the years before the financial crisis, portraying market completion as the cure to all problems, and mathematical sophistication decoupled from philosophical understanding as the key to effective risk management.

Or is it subject to a fatal compulsion to repeat the same mistakes, despite the disastrous lessons of the past? President Bush s new strategy for Iraq has posed anew this age old philosophical and historical question.