A Theory of Atheology: Reason, Critique, and Beyond

Science, Reason, Knowledge, and Wisdom: A Critique of Specialism

In this paper I argue for a kind of intellectual inquiry which has, as its basic aim, to help all of us to resolve rationally the most important problems that we encounter in our lives, problems that arise as we seek to discover and achieve that which is of value in life. Rational problem-solving involves articulating our problems, proposing and criticizing possible solutions. It also involves ...

Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason Reading Guide

1. Kant uses the terms perception, appearance, object, thing, and thing in itself throughout this book. Many of the most common misinterpretations of Kant arise from mistakenly reading the term “appearance” to mean something like “mere appearance,” that is, an illusion of a thing, or just an idea of a thing, or a perception of a thing. For Kant, the term “appearance” is synonymous with the term...

The Scientist as an Analogical Reason Er : a Critique of the Metaphor Theory of Innovation

In the context of a lunchtime chat between two coUegues in the laboratory, one takes his protein samples from theshelf and shows them to the other. They had been talking about the difficulties of explaining the different volumes obtained from proteins which were exposed to varying degrees of heat temperature. One of the scientists says that one hardness of the protein particles might be a relev...

What computers still can't do - a critique of artificial reason

Beyond All Reason

(iConstable, 1964, 21s.) In this book we walk through phantom towns, phantom offices, we are taken t0 phantom hospitals, we meet phantom people?the author never names a place, ?r tells us what her work was-?her parents, her friends, her psychiatrists, nurses aflo fellow patients have no faces. As though the world she moved in had hardly touch^0 her. How can you live like this and not die of lon...