Explaining Rationalist Weak Conciliationism: A Challenge

Conciliationism and Uniqueness

Extinction from a rationalist perspective.

The merging of the computational theory of mind and evolutionary thinking leads to a kind of rationalism, in which enduring truths about the world have become implicit in the computations that enable the brain to cope with the experienced world. The dead reckoning computation, for example, is implemented within the brains of animals as one of the mechanisms that enables them to learn where they...

Biogeochemistry of beetle-killed forests: explaining a weak nitrate response.

A current pine beetle infestation has caused extensive mortality of lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta) in forests of Colorado and Wyoming; it is part of an unprecedented multispecies beetle outbreak extending from Mexico to Canada. In United States and European watersheds, where atmospheric deposition of inorganic N is moderate to low (<10 kg⋅ha⋅y), disturbance of forests by timber harvest or viol...

A Genealogy of the Western Rationalist Hegemony

This paper traces the development of critical rationality and rationally defined intelligence from ancient times through to the present. The idea of intelligence will be situated within a civilisational perspective, and in particular the western rationalist hegemony. Thus the development of western theories of mind is first traced, up until the beginnings of the modern era. Then seminal relevan...

The Critical Rationalist