Philosopher Lynne Rudder Baker has outlined four main contemporary approaches to belief in her controversial book Saving Belief:

Philosopher Daniel Dennett responded to criticism of his book Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon by saying that " when someone puts forward a scientific theory that critics really don't like, they just try to discredit it as ' scientism '".

Philosopher and Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen, a former student of Rawls ', critiques and attempts to revitalize A Theory of Justice in his 2009 book The Idea of Justice.

An example of this line of thinking is Rancière's book entitled Le philosophe et ses pauvres ( The Philosopher and His Poor, 1983 ), a book about the role of the poor in the intellectual lives of philosophers.

Philosopher John Kekes makes a similar point in his book The Art of Politics: The New Betrayal of America and How to Resist It in which he suggests that there is a danger to elevating any one particular political good – including equality of opportunity – without balancing competing goods such as justice, property rights, and others.

Philosopher David Schmidtz draws on this distinction in his book " Elements of Justice ", apparently deriving it from Wittgenstein's private language argument.

The claim that follows is that the Philosopher burned his book in light of the belief that no one besides a member of the Ahlul Bayt could say something like this and that he must truly be the eleventh Imam from this lineage.

Philosopher Thomas Nagel has supported Sokal and Bricmont, describing their book as consisting largely of " extensive quotations of scientific gibberish from name-brand French intellectuals, together with eerily patient explanations of why it is gibberish ," and agreeing that " there does seem to be something about the Parisian scene that is particularly hospitable to reckless verbosity.

In October 2002, a book on Khushal Khan Khattak, Khushal Khan, The Afghan Warrior Poet and Philosopher, has been published.

Philosopher Michael Sandel's book “ Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do ?” and Harry Frankfurt's " On Bullshit ” hold the uncommon distinction of having been written by professional philosophers but directed at and ultimately popular among a broader audience of non-philosophers.

Thomas Dick, who was known as " The Christian Philosopher " after the title of his first book.

Calvinist Political Philosopher, John W. Robbins pointed out in a book printed in honor of Sennholz shortly after his death that " Sennholz, ... rests his defense of a free society on revelation.

Philosopher John Dupré argued that the book overstated the case for biological explanations and argued for a balanced approach.

* Philosopher King by Adam Goodheart — book review in New York Times

Father and son jointly authored a book Le moine et le philosophe ( The Monk and the Philosopher ) about the son's conversion and Buddhism.

Omine stated in the DVD audio commentary for the episode that the segment was “ a really hard sell ”, since only about four of the writers had read Harry Potter and the Philosopher ’ s Stone, the book the segment was based on, while the rest of the writers did not know about the book and thought viewers would not know who Harry Potter was.

At the time of the episode ’ s production, four books had been written in the Harry Potter book series and the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Philosopher ’ s Stone would be released at the end of November, the same month that this episode aired.

In her 1988 book, Lesbian Ethics: Towards a New Value, Lesbian Philosopher Sarah Lucia Hoagland alludes to Lesbian Separatism's potential to encourage lesbians to develop healthy community ethics based on shared values.

Philosopher Jacques Derrida, whose texts are considered difficult even by fellow scholars, explained that " In order to unfold what is implicit in so many discourses, one would have each time to make a pedagogical outlay that is just not reasonable to expect from every book.

Our sources also make reference to it as the thirteenth book of the Laws ( though this presupposes the division of that dialogue into twelve books, which " is probably not earlier than the Hellenistic age "), as well as under the titles Nocturnal Council ( because it deals with the higher education of that Council, beyond what is described in Laws, in mathematics-based astronomy ) and Philosopher ( probably because the Nocturnal Council's members are " the counterpart of the guardians in the Republic who are said to be the true philosophers ").

Philosopher John Locke developed an indexing system which served as a model for commonplace books ; for example, it inspired another book, Bell ’ s Common-Place Book, Formed generally upon the Principles Recommended and Practised by Mr Locke nearly a century later.

Philosopher Peter Singer describes his vision of a new liberal political view that embraces hereditarianism in his 1999 book.

Philosopher Karl Popper asserted, in The Open Society and Its Enemies Vol.

One of these was Polish Philosopher Alfred Korzybski's General semantics, which was espoused in the US by Stuart Chase.

* Saint Cyril the Philosopher, whose original name was Constantine

In 1721 The Christian Philosopher was published.

In the narrow scope it would read the Philosopher of Greece was not bald.

Galen was concerned to combine philosophical thought with medical practice, as in his brief work That the Best Physician is also a Philosopher.

From the lonely life he led, and still more from the riddling nature of his philosophy and his contempt for humankind in general, he was called " The Obscure " and the " Weeping Philosopher ".

Philosopher George Bernard Shaw initially had flirtations with individualist anarchism before coming to the conclusion that it was " the negation of socialism, and is, in fact, unsocialism carried as near to its logical conclusion as any sane man dare carry it.

To be such a painter, he was a profound and penetrating Philosopher.

Julian (, ; 331 / 332 – 26 June 363 ), commonly known as Julian the Apostate or Julian the Philosopher, was Roman Emperor from 361 to 363 and a noted philosopher and Greek writer.

Philosopher Laozi was keeper of books in the earliest library in China, which belonged to the Imperial Zhou dynasty.

Philosopher Jean-François Lyotard was also part of this movement.

That fact has been confirmed explicitly by the papal letter Industriae tuae ( 880 ) approving the use of Old Church Slavonic, which says that the alphabet was " invented by Constantine the Philosopher ".

Philosopher Rudolf Steiner, like Diefenbach, was a follower of Theosophy.

But when I met it in James ' ' The Moral Philosopher and the Moral Life ,' it was with a shock of recognition.

Philosopher Philip Stokes of the University of Reading noted that overall, Foucault's work was " dark and pessimistic ", but that it did leave some room for optimism, in that it illustrates how the discipline of philosophy can be used to highlight areas of domination.

Philosopher Roger Scruton agrued that Foucault was a " fraud " because he exploited known difficulties of philosophy in order to " disguise unexamined premises as hard-won conclusions ".

Unlike many commentators on Euclid before and after him ( including of course Saccheri ), Khayyám was not trying to prove the parallel postulate as such but to derive it from an equivalent postulate he formulated from " the principles of the Philosopher " ( Aristotle ):

He also wrote The Peripatetic Philosopher ( 1869 ), a series of amusing papers reprinted from The Australasian ; Long Odds ( London, 1870 ), a novel ; and numerous comedies and pantomimes, the best of, which was Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star ( Theatre Royal, Melbourne ; Christmas, 1873 ).

The Dungeon expansion was released in May 2009 and includes a new region, an L-shaped piece connected to one corner of the board, a new deck of cards called Dungeon cards to be used in the new region, as well as five new characters ( Gladiator, Amazon, Swashbuckler, Gypsy, and Philosopher ).

His influence was such that Avicenna referred to him simply as " the Master "; Maimonides, Alfarabi, Averroes, and Aquinas call him just " the Philosopher.

* Political Philosopher, Thomas Hobbes succinctly wrote in 1651 that a hypothetical State of nature was a condition of Perpetual war.

Alfred of Sarashel, also known as Alfred the Philosopher, Alfred the Englishman or Alfredus Anglicus, was born in England some time in the 12th century and died in the 13th century.

Throughout the 17th century there was great resistance to the Ottomans in the Morea and elsewhere, as evidenced by revolts led by Dionysius the Philosopher.