Tag: ontology
Dangerous Skating: Kauffman, Jaeger, and Roli on the Need for a New Teleology
Openly breaking with naturalism can get one dispatched to the gulag of intelligent design. For most scholars, that is a one-way trip to academic Siberia.
The Most Valuable Aspect of Avi Loeb’s Intelligent Design Case
The most valuable aspect of his case is the stimulus it provides to the question, “If non-human intelligences exist, how would we detect them?”
Aquinas’ Fourth Way: Light in a Mirror
It’s helpful, as with his Third Way, to begin with a metaphor, in order to get an intuitive feel for the proof.
“Emergence” and the Soul
Emergence, as a perceptual surprise, can’t explain the mind because emergence presupposes the mind.