What is "philosophers"

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Nowadays, most philosophers of physics, the most mature of the sciences, have distanced themselves from scientific realism, adopting views closer to those of Cardinal Bellarmine than of Galileo.

Many of these later philosophers and scientists were well aware of the writings of the medieval voluntarist theologians.

When it came to probing the nature of subjective mental events or consciousness itself, these early philosophers had little to say, in comparison, for instance, to the contemplatives and philosophers of India during that same era.

While many philosophers acknowledge that little or nothing is known about consciousness, many people today make strong, diverse claims concerning the human soul and consciousness based upon religious and scientific authority.

Like Hacking, most contemporary philosophers of neuroscience, among the youngest of sciences, adopt scientific realism.

There are many scientists and philosophers, of course, who deny that physicalism is simply a metaphysical principle.

Assertions concerning subjective experience were similarly denied by certain philosophers of the same period who argued against the very existence of subjective statements.

According to this view, there are no significant philosophical problems in the scientific acquisition of knowledge, and the subjective cogitations on this subject by philosophers are largely useless.

The belief that God created the universe by way of the divine, transcendent language of mathematics is one that captivated the minds of many natural philosophers a millennium later.

Far from tending toward atheism, the mechanical philosophers believed that their assertion of the mind and life originating outside of nature and exerting no influence upon it actually pointed to the existence and creative power of God, the Creator of nature.

The most eminent philosophers of nature during the seventeenth century were not members of the clergy but laymen who developed their own theologies.

Many natural philosophers of the late seventeenth century, including Boyle, shared a corresponding vision of scientific inquiry itself as a form of worship, with scientists serving as priests in the temple of Nature.

Thus, these pioneering natural philosophers looked to science to be the final arbiter to help settle theological controversies.

Despite the extensive common ground between Christian theology and the mechanical philosophy that was emerging in the seventeenth century, many natural philosophers and theologians of this time saw a potential threat to Christianity from this new way of viewing nature.

Thus, while some theologians looked to the mechanical philosophy to defend Christian doctrine against the potential heresies of organic views of nature, other theologians and natural philosophers believed that this mechanical view needed to be defended against those of its critics who thought it might lead to heresy.