With a background in philosophical logic andmetaphysics, his current research interests focus on the theoretical basis of bioethical inquiry.From theCambridge English Corpus
The very fact that the word "philosophia" has been transferred from the seven liberal arts to natural science andmetaphysicsis significant.From theCambridge English Corpus
While data cannot falsify scientific theory, data, however, unlike scientific theory, can falsifymetaphysics.From theCambridge English Corpus
It does not aim to reproduce existing categories of legal thought but to refashion them in the light of a defensiblemetaphysicsor politics.From theCambridge English Corpus
Attaining these cognitions will require the mastery of bothmetaphysicsand physics, which entails that only a philosopher can attain this perfection.From theCambridge English Corpus
True enough if philosophy, theology, andmetaphysicsare not serious academic exercises.From theCambridge English Corpus
The biblical orientation is, of course, prominent, but in addition he combines it with logic andmetaphysics.From theCambridge English Corpus
Idealism, like any philosophically decentmetaphysics, can be logically sustained in the teeth of any evidence, if one isn't scared of wild ideas.From theCambridge English Corpus
Many philosophers have objected to themetaphysicsof self behind multiple-lives views.From theCambridge English Corpus
The sufficiency of themetaphysicswas judged in turn by whether the constraints it dictated resulted in explanations that were conceivable or plausible.From theCambridge English Corpus
Jevons, like many of his contemporaries, simply dropped themetaphysicsof free will from the list of things that successful human science needed to support.From theCambridge English Corpus
It also generates a critique of any modernmetaphysicsof the subject as itself a ground - of value, of knowledge, or of the world.From theCambridge English Corpus
And finally, it's the practice of the sciences to avoid inflationarymetaphysics.From theCambridge English Corpus
He holds that when doingmetaphysics, we ought to refrain from making judgements about what we do not clearly and distinctly understand.From theCambridge English Corpus
In effect, he became one ofmetaphysics' sacrificial lambs.From theCambridge English Corpus
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