Category: Philosophy

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Content. The classic case for rationalism.

An erudite balance of biography and philosophy.

I really wonder how much Philosophy of Mind (which is what, as far as I can tell, this mostly is) has subsequently progressed. Particularly notable is James’ attack on Associationism – the notion that ideas are compounded out of elemental constituents. Reductionism has not just been vehemently applied to the question of the relationship between the Mental and Physical realms – but also within the realm of the Mental itself. Associationism is, par excellence, an application of the reductionist thinking that seems to tempt many a human mind wherever it turns its attention.

A brutally short overview of Chomsky’s take on the linguistic (~computational) template of thought.

A courageous attack on the Subject-Object distinction.

Wow. ‘Now who would have thought of that?’