Tag: Plato
What Does Your Brain Do? And What Can It Not Do?
A surprising result of pioneering neurosurgery was the discovery that some mental processes could be stimulated in the brain but others could not be.
Do We Need Language to Think?
For a long time, it was only a philosophical issue: Plato saw thinking as a conversation with oneself.
Life Devalued: Suicide and Infanticide in Classical Antiquity
Nick Vujicic’s story would probably have turned out quite differently if he had been born in ancient Greece or Rome.
An Evolutionary Theorist Plays with Words; Let’s See How Far It Gets Him
Francis Heylighen’s “ontology of relational agency” starts with an interesting observation.
On Natural Theology and Natural Revelation
The nihilist sense of our having been involuntarily flung into the midst of some unchoreographed theatre of the absurd is swiftly offset,