Philosophy, including
Reason itself, has been under attack for centuries. Our mission is to restore the greatness of the one while clarifying the meaning and use of the other in the age of science and information theory.
We will show that three developments in the physical sciences of the twentieth century must profoundly influence our thinking about some of the greatest problems (or questions) of traditional philosophy.
In the past, when a part of philosophy made recognizable progress, such as logic or the natural sciences, that part was removed from philosophy, leaving only unanswered - some thought unanswerable - questions. Using recent advances in scientific knowledge to examine three fundamental questions about
freedom,
value, and
knowledge, we hope to reconcile science and philosophy. We will explore...
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The connection between quantum mechanics, the uncertainty principle, and freedom of the human will.
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Negative entropy as the cosmic source of value which underlies all systems of values, material, biological, and human.
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How exactly knowledge (the sophia) is created in the human mind, communicated to others, then represented as meaningful information. A growing body of knowledge is humanity's greatest legacy to its own future, a mark of progress, and arguably a fundamental human purpose.
When these processes are fully understood, philosophy may recover from its current collapsed state. Tragically reduced to the history of philosophical thought and the biographies of philosophical thinkers, misled by a misconception that its questions were "pseudo-problems" to be dis-solved by careful logic and analysis of language, and most recently deconstructed by sophistical arguments whose limits were well understood by the ancients, philosophy could reassume its proper place and once again include natural philosophy. The proper philosophical method should be seen as nothing different from the scientific method.
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