In mathematics, Hilbert's fourth problem in the 1900 Hilbert problems was a foundational question in geometry.

Shaumyan's later work is marked by a broad interest in the philosophy of science, in foundational questions of linguistics and in related but separate studies of consciousness theory, and neurolinguistics.

According to Wolfram, the purpose of the prize was to encourage research to help answer foundational questions associated with the structure of what he calls the "computational universe".

Rights are often included in the foundational questions that governments and politics have been designed to deal with.

In the intellectual sphere the race shows in the manner of creation, the evaluation of the results, and I guess also in the standpoint considering foundational questions.

The relationship of institutions to human nature is a foundational question for the social sciences.

These classes emphasize the ability to ask conceptual and foundational questions, think critically about the situation, and practice rigorous and logically informed reasoning.

The Metanexus Institute is a not-for-profit organization founded in 1997, "dedicated to promoting scientifically rigorous and philosophically open-ended explorations of foundational questions."

They cut to the foundational questions framing contemporary and past feminist movements in order to expose the stereotypes, inaccuracies, or misconceptions that derail and devalue the movement.

It was a Hilbert problem (the fifteenth, in a more stringent reading) to overcome the apparently arbitrary nature of these interventions; this aspect goes beyond the foundational question of the Schubert calculus itself.