Tag: René Descartes
Artificial General Intelligence: The Poverty of the Stimulus
It doesn’t even matter if the child is blind, deaf, or both. Barring developmental disorders (such as some forms of autism), the child can learn language.
To Understand Nature’s Intentionality, We Must Go Back to the Future
It required the truly inimitable intellect of Aquinas to Christianize and modernize what Aristotle had said 1,600 years before him.
How to Overcome Scientism
Descartes is one of the founding fathers of Western science. And the conversion from medieval scholasticism to Cartesian dualism propelled science dramatically.
Understanding the Limits of Scientism
The great impasse in empirical science was reached early in the 20th century when quantum mechanics was first being developed.
What Is Primary: Mind or Matter?
The standard narrative tells a story of the increasing merit of materialistic causes. All of this allegedly occurs in a series of inevitable stages.