contemporary philosophy

collocation in English

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contemporary
adjective
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/kənˈtem.pər.ər.i/us
/kənˈtem.pə.rer.i/
existing or happening now, and therefore ...
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philosophy
noun
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/fɪˈlɒs.ə.fi/us
/fɪˈlɑː.sə.fi/
the use of reason in understanding such things as the nature of the real world and existence, the use and limits of knowledge, and the principles of ...
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Contemporaryphilosophydoes not generally share this view.
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This tendency may not surprise, given the dominant secular aims of muchcontemporaryphilosophy.
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In many ways the dilemma for clinical psychiatry is similar to that forcontemporaryphilosophy.
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Unfortunately, this volume neglects many important positions and ignores key authors in thecontemporaryphilosophyof religion.
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Cartesian dualism is a minority position incontemporaryphilosophy, at least as a scientific theory of mind, and for very good reason.
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Not least because of this tradition's lasting influence oncontemporaryphilosophy, consent is seen as a fundamental principle both of moral action and of political legitimacy.
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The questions of whether consensus in fact occurs in science, and whether it is congenial to scientific progress, are highly controversial incontemporaryphilosophyof science.
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Epistemological and confirmation holism are mainstream ideas incontemporaryphilosophy.
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Contemporaryphilosophyregards possibility, as studied by modal metaphysics, to be an aspect of modal logic.
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He graduated in 1991 with a thesis on transcendental arguments incontemporaryphilosophy.
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The writer brings to the defence of the doctrine the best thatcontemporaryphilosophycould adduce.
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Toscano has published numerous articles oncontemporaryphilosophy, politics and social theory.
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Each book was edited by an esteemedcontemporaryphilosophyacademic and contained analysis of a group of philosophers from a chosen period.
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Incontemporaryphilosophy, specialties within the field are more commonly divided into metaphysics, epistemology, ethics and aesthetics (the latter two of which together comprise axiology).
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Her critical writings on motherhood, women in history, identity, and philosophy of language, are recognised as an important contribution to feminism andcontemporaryphilosophy.
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This celebrated position is indeed a radical departure from the cardinal approaches in classic as well ascontemporaryphilosophyof mind.
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The ideas of various scholars were brought in, including the application ofcontemporaryphilosophyto the field of theology, and a more personal, individual approach to religion.
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Konturen prints work that takes into account the contributions ofcontemporaryphilosophyand theory to an understanding of problematic discursive places of meeting, overlap, or disjunction.
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Philosophy underwent this process toward the end of the 19th-century and it is one of the key distinguishing features of thecontemporaryphilosophyera in western philosophy.
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However, as is customary incontemporaryphilosophy, the term ethical intuitionism will be used in this article to refer to the general position that there are basic (non-inferential) moral beliefs.
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