- August 15, 2019
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Edward Feser breaks down many of the simplistic readings of contemporary neuroscience
- August 15, 2019
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Michael Egnor has an exciting conversation with Edward Feser, Aristotelian, prolific blogger and philosopher. Neurobabble and pop-scientific dismissals of mind, ultimate causes, abstract thinking, and free will meet Feser's pervasive critique.
Show notes
- 12:41 | Edward Feser introduces himself
- 01:00 | Roger Scruton on answers without neuroscientific questions
- 02:20 | A problem of pop neuroscience: ignoring the ultimate causes and focusing on material and efficient causes
- 03:48 | How can people think logically, think logically and think abstractly?
- 04:30 | Triangles, symbols and other abstract thoughts
- 05:45 | Concrete objects and finding triangles in the brain
- 07:10 | Is the mind a calculation? Can computers think?
- 08:00 | John Searle on computers as an artifact, not natural objects
- 12:15 | Neurobabble and reading philosophy in the neurosciences
- 14:34 | Did Libet's experiments undermine free will?
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