Cognitive Pluralism via Steven Horst
The following is a description of philosopher Steven Horst’s model of cognitive pluralism. The human mind is ultimately a product of evolution in which different phylogenetic parts, or modules, of the...
View ArticleSocial Science, Psychology, and Physics Envy
There is a common assumption that true scientific laws have no exceptions. These would be the basic laws of physics, for example. They hold over all time and space, in any situation, in regards to...
View ArticleDescriptive Inexhaustibility and its Implications
German-American philosopher Nicholas Rescher coined the term descriptive inexhaustibility, which refers to the fact that since the world (reality) is infinitely complex, our descriptions of it can...
View ArticleThe Post-Philosophical Sciences of Humanity
For quite a while, the cognitive and neural sciences have been on the rise, along with a synergistic and ‘consilience’ style incorporation of evolutionary theorizing into the mix. This shift has been...
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