Rationalism and the Sex Instinct

The Heyday of Rationalism

Biological Rationalism

I argue that contemporary philosophy of language in the analytic tradition rests on two fundamentally wrong assumptions: empiricism and externalism. After I show why these two assumptions are incorrect, I turn my attention to biological rationalism. Biological rationalism—a research program inspired by the work of Noam Chomsky—is committed to nativism and internalism. I believe biological ratio...

Developing the teaching instinct.

The first approach focuses on giving the right stimulus to elicit the response you desire. It lays emphasis on reinforcing desired performance through feedback and activity. It is known as ‘Behaviourism’. Another approach is about mental processes, ie what the brain does with information. It focuses on ensuring the learner can make sense of information through relating it to what has been previ...

Instinct and Intelligence

in the higher animals?including man?by sensory stimuli through the special senses and association areas. He argues in the most readable way from this foundation on the importance of the application of the appropriate stimuli on the education and training of the child. We have nothing but praise for the scientific manner in which he deals with a difficult subject and admiration for a veteran edi...

Against Rationalism

Rationality and the issues associated with it have always occupied a central place within the Western philosophical tradition. Moreover, as the humanities and social sciences have found themselves under assault from post-modernists and deconstructionists, the role of rationality has also become a pressing problem well beyond the borders of philosophy. In this paper I am going to take issue with...