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How does the intellect differ from the senses? Is it merely a difference of degree—a relatively hyperfunctional neurological processing that enables us to supersede the cognitive capacities of non-human animals? Am “I” really nothing more than the firing of synapses in the brain, the concatenation of neurochemical exchanges? Or is human knowledge something—different? Unique? Irreducible …
Continue reading "Quaestiones de Quodlibet – Prima Series, Q.1, A.1"
The following is a preview selection (rough draft) of the forthcoming Quaestiones de Quodlibet, Prima Series, based upon the questions I received this past July/August. This is the respondeo portion of q.1, "On Knowledge", a.1, "How does intellectual knowledge differ from sense knowledge?" I respond: We must distinguish the faculties and operations of sense perception and intellect. The …
[CPI Seminars] [CPI Lyceum Platform] What is a sign? Though a seemingly simple question, and one which may receive a technically simple answer, attaining a clear understanding of signs is a task both very difficult and very important; so important, in fact, that the whole future of philosophy (and by extension, human knowledge in general) …
Part 2 of the AI & Concept Formation audio series
As part of a forthcoming endeavor, I am launching a new program of Quaestiones disputatae. More details will be shared on this new program in the near future. Right now, however, I would like to draw attention explicitly to the public-facing part of this program, the quodlibetal question. Quodlibetal questions were a special form of disputation in …
We're four weeks into the pilot seminars and results, so far, feel mixed. Immediate attrition hit and several people, clearly not enthused, dropped out and away. This is to be expected; I am not trying to appeal to everyone, but to the persons for whom this kind of education will be most fruitful. That said, …
This week's 15 Minute Insight (the 4th and final in the series), on semiotics as a discipline and as the normative science of truth. But now, let us ask—since we’re talking about the study of the action of signs and this questions seems pretty important for that discussion—let us ask, what is a sign? In …
The following came from notes initially prepared for the "On Semiotics" 15 Minute Insight, which has since moved in a new direction (and will, I hope, be released this Monday or Tuesday [6/24 or 25]). To talk about semiotics, the doctrine of signs, I think it’s prudent to summarize the peculiar philosophical history which has …
Continue reading "On Semiotics – Supplemental Considerations"
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