In order to understand the reception of Newton in biology in the eighteenth century we must first decide what we mean by biology and characterize those aspects of Newton’s work that can plausibly be thought to have had some impact on the life sciences in the eighteenth century. When Immanuel Kant at the end of the eighteenth century despaired of a ‘Newton’ of the organic world, ‘who could make ...

Predictive processing (PP) is a paradigm in computational and cognitive neuroscience that has recently attracted significant attention across domains, including psychology, robotics, artificial intelligence and philosophy. It is often regarded as a fresh and possibly revolutionary paradigm shift, yet a handful of authors have remarked that aspects of PP seem reminiscent of the work of 18th cent...

O presente artigo pretende explorar a máxima contida em Os irmãos Karamázov (se não há Deus, tudo é permitido?) à luz do pensamento de Immanuel Kant. Para tanto, se vale Dostoiévski apenas na medida que ele serve como auxílio apresentação da ideia Deus e sua relação com posição ateu. Tendo vista filosofia kantiana, buscamos dessa ideia, mas também o ato moral própria condição desse ato. Isso, p...