In his book Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, E.O. Wilson laid out a grand vision for how the natural sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities might be coherently interrelated. Given how ...

In 1997, I had a vision that I drew out in a flash that would change my life. It depicted the evolution of complexity that started with energy and grew into the dimensions of matter, life, mind, and ...

The debate over the nature of knowledge has long contended with the distinction between theoretical understanding (knowing that) and the capacity to perform tasks (knowing how). This research topic ...

PROF. LADD, of Yale, is well known as an industrious writer on psychology, and upon philosophy regarded mainly from a psychologist's point of view. The present volume gives his Theory of Knowledge, ...

The brain in a jar is a different inquiry than traditional questions about artificial intelligence. The brain in a jar asks whether thinking requires a thinker. The possibility of artificial ...