So, although this version of the philosophers' stone may not actually turn base metals into gold, it could yet end up, metaphorically, making some.
At the workshop the philosophers and scientists each added his own gloss to neo-Darwinian reductive naturalism or materialistic neo-Darwinian reductionism or naturalistic materialism or reductive determinism.
Isaac has told Henry how he lived for a time among the philosophers at Brook Farm and then at Fruitlands, but now he says he cannot be driven from the certainty of his books.
He is President of the Dining Philosophers and the Lead Organizer of PennApps, the largest college hackathon in the nation.
Like the ancient philosophers or medieval mystics, we long to perceive the secret and idiosyncratic pattern within chaos, the singular currents running through the tumultuous sea.
One age has taken away the reflective inquiry that was the domain of philosophers in the past.
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The aptly-titled Ayn Rand and the World She Made provides new and illuminating insight into the psyche of one of the most influential philosophers of the last century.
In his article defending Nagel, Ferguson targeted the opinions of the scientists and philosophers who attended the Moving Naturalism Forward Conference, which took place last Fall in the Berkshires.
Writers deprecated the Latin of the medieval philosophers and tried to write like Cicero and Virgil.
This conflict, which continues to vex the cleverest philosophers, is old and deep.
And I look forward to hearing what the psychologists and philosophers working down at the trolley yards have to say about it.
Throughout the ages philosophers and theologians have debated this question with respect to Judeo-Christian faiths, in which dogma holds that the world was created from the void, creation ex nihilo.
The Third Assembly of the International Network of Women Philosophers under the auspices of UNESCO will take place on 17-18 November 2011.
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It is our hope that the academians, philosophers and policy makers will finally realize that it is the children whose hearts and brains we must tap with that Culture of Peace versus a Culture of War.
And this includes the need for Islamic philosophers and religious scholars to study how the Christian churches in the West have (largely though by no means completely) adapted to the findings of science and its implications for religious beliefs.
Barbara Cassin, the Founding President of the Network, reminded participants that, since the network had been set up for all women philosophers around the world, it would be up to them in the future to make their Network into a universal gathering to which each participant could personally contribute.
Pope, when explaining his views to me, invoked not Rand but the great political philosophers.
As is the way with philosophers, many have often come to diametrically opposite conclusions.
Derman rests much of his current world view on the writings of philosophers Arthur Schopenhauer and Baruch Spinoza.
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The subject is more appropriately the purview of philosophers, psychologists and sociologists.
They have indeed been influential, drawing the attention and even admiration down the ages of philosophers as diverse as Hegel, Kierkegaard and Nietzsche.
This is a critical discussion that demands the engagement of philosophers.
Mr Evans said the writings of philosophers Martin Heidegger and Ludwig Wittgenstein had inspired him to try to instil computer-created characters with an understanding of social mores.
There is, he believes, a problem of consciousness, a scientific problem, but not a mystery in the way that philosophers like Thomas Nagel and Colin McGinn think there is.
In the previous century, Jesuit missionaries had brought back the first substantial accounts of the Chinese language, and many philosophers were taken with the notion that its characters signified concepts rather than sounds, and that a single ideogram could have the same meaning to people all over East Asia, despite sounding completely different in each tongue.
Although there has been little public discussion of the morality of suicide, philosophers have always been fascinated by the subject.
Those in the West looked to the ancient Greek and Roman philosophers and historians, at least as far as the elite were concerned.
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