Tag: Unmoved Mover
Intentionality in Living Systems: What Does It Mean?
One historically dominant position on intentionality has been the Brentano thesis, proffered by 19th-century German philosopher and psychologist Franz Brentano.
Artificial General Intelligence: The Oracle Problem
Our most advanced artificial intelligence systems, which I’m writing about in this series, require input of external information to keep them from collapsing.
Old Wine in New Bottles: How Darwin Recruited Malthus to Fortify a Failed Idea from Antiquity
It was undoubtedly a tremendous philosophical coup for Darwin whose knowledge of formal philosophy was limited.
Intelligent Design and Natural Theology
How just is the imputation of “neo-creationist” tendencies to members of the intelligent design community?
“Who Designed the Designer?”: Egnor Addresses a Perennial Challenge
Because the challenge is perennial, and because we’re not all philosophers, it’s good to come back to it from time to time.