Paweł Sulmicki: Toward Rationalism

Paweł Trębas

Rabies as a disease still represents a threat to humans and animals, and as zoonosis has to be reported and subjected to official control. Under the current law, dogs over three months old should be compulsory vaccinated and boostered every 12 months. The introduction of the rules reduced significantly the incidence of the disease in these animals (9). However, rabies virus has found a new effe...

Biological Rationalism

I argue that contemporary philosophy of language in the analytic tradition rests on two fundamentally wrong assumptions: empiricism and externalism. After I show why these two assumptions are incorrect, I turn my attention to biological rationalism. Biological rationalism—a research program inspired by the work of Noam Chomsky—is committed to nativism and internalism. I believe biological ratio...

Against Rationalism

Rationality and the issues associated with it have always occupied a central place within the Western philosophical tradition. Moreover, as the humanities and social sciences have found themselves under assault from post-modernists and deconstructionists, the role of rationality has also become a pressing problem well beyond the borders of philosophy. In this paper I am going to take issue with...

The Heyday of Rationalism

Empirical Evidence for Rationalism

[PENULTIMATE DRAFT] Joel Pust University of Delaware