On Philosophy and the Meaning of Schola | Prof. Ann Hartle
In Ep. 5 of the Project Schola Podcast, host John Trevor Berger welcomes Ann Hartle—Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Emory University—for an intriguing dis...
Philosophy
Introducing the Project Schola Podcast
We hope you enjoy the pilot episode of our latest endeavor—featuring co-hosts Brian Murphy and John Trevor Berger—the Project Schola Podcast! We’ve ha...
Wolfgang Smith at Footnotes2Plato
An insightful exchange between Dr. Wolfgang Smith and Dr. Matthew Segall, host of Footnotes2Plato. Wolfgang and Matt discuss A. N. Whitehead’s critique of...
Wolfgang Smith & John Vervaeke at The Meaning Code (II)
Karen Wong had us back once again on The Meaning Code for a second meeting with John Vervaeke. In this probing philosophical discussion, Dr. Smith and Dr. Verva...
Wolfgang Smith & John Vervaeke at The Meaning Code (I)
The first of a fascinating exchange of ideas between Wolfgang Smith and John Vervaeke at Karen Wong’s The Meaning Code the other day. Dr. Smith and Dr. V...
The Mystery of Visual Perception
Wolfgang Smith Editor’s Note: This article is also available in Portuguese language translation. Lord Kelvin made a crucially important point when he declar...
Four Ideas of Nature and the Vindication of Aristotle
Ali Sebetci The late English philosopher R. G. Collingwood (1889-1943) argues in his influential book, The Idea of Nature, that there have been three periods of...
From Cosmos to Multiverse: The Ominous Descent
Wolfgang Smith We have spoken at length of the “tripartite cosmos” as envisaged in the sapiential traditions of mankind,1 which relegates the corporeal wo...
Do We Perceive the Corporeal World?
Wolfgang Smith From time immemorial mankind has presumed that we do look out upon the world: that the objects we perceive are not in fact “mental,” but “r...
Vertical Causation (I): Matter and Form
Raphael De Paola The subject of change and motion has always baffled the human mind, arousing many seemingly unanswerable questions. Depending on the answers gi...
Unmasking “AI”
Bruno Bérard A—perhaps non-accidental—failure to distinguish linguistically between reason (dianoia, ratio) and intelligence (noûs, intellectus) has given...
The Distinction and the Priority of Philosophy
John Trevor Berger A key element of Wolfgang Smith’s thought—failure of which to grasp will forever inhibit one from understanding what makes his work so gr...
From Schrödinger’s Cat to Thomistic Ontology
Wolfgang Smith Editor’s Note: Originally presented as the Templeton Lecture on Christianity and the Natural Sciences at Gonzaga University in 1998, and ...