Physics, Culture, and Philosophy | Prof. Raphael De Paola (Part 2)
In this segment (Part 2 of Ep. 2), co-hosts Brian Murphy and John Trevor Berger continue their discussion with Prof. Raphael De Paola (Dept. of Physics, PUC-Rio...
Philosophy of Science
Pondering the Brave New Particle Physics
Wolfgang Smith Following the epochal discovery of quantum mechanics,1 foundational physics has gradually morphed into the forbidding discipline of “particle...
Ontological Dimensions of Causation
Ali Sebetci It is well known that the modern conception of science is fundamentally different from the traditional. What makes science modern, moreover, is its ...
Vertical Causation (III): Vertical Causality and the “Limit Theorems”
Raphael De Paola According to Wolfgang Smith, modern physics has discovered a unique, hitherto unknown ontological plane, namely the aforementioned “physical...
On the Scientific Implications of Vertical Causality
Wolfgang Smith Following Galileo, Descartes and Newton, Western civilization succumbed to the spell of what I have termed horizontal causation. From the publica...
Unmasking “AI”
Bruno Bérard A—perhaps non-accidental—failure to distinguish linguistically between reason (dianoia, ratio) and intelligence (noûs, intellectus) has given...