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Getting more out of the human mind than we put in. Review of ‘Getting more out of mathematics than what we put in’ from Mark Steiner (2011) and the ‘Comment on Mark Steiner's `Getting more out of mathematics than what we put in'’ from Marcus du Sautoy Vrije Universiteit Brussel
In his statement on the power of mathematical concepts with their inherent latent information, Steiner brings together three elements: mathematics, nature and human mind. He finishes his article by posing the philosophical question 'which of these three elements is responsible for the remarkable richness of 'mathematical essences'?'.
In his 'Comment on Mark Steiner's `Getting more out of mathematics than what we put in'' du Sautoy also ...
In his 'Comment on Mark Steiner's `Getting more out of mathematics than what we put in'' du Sautoy also ...
Idols of the Imagination: Francis Bacon on the Imagination and the Medicine of the Mind KU Leuven
We propose to read Francis Bacon's doctrine of the idols of the mind as an investigation firmly entrenched in his mental-medicinal concerns and we argue that an important role therein is played by the imagination. Looking at the ways in which the imagination serves to pinpoint several crucial aspects of the idolic mind permits us to signal the explicit or implicit cross-references between what in Bacon's tree of knowledge appear as distinct ...
Faculties of the Mind. The Rise of Facultative Logic at the University of Louvain KU Leuven
This project, which will take the form of a PhD thesis submitted by Steven Coesemans, will use the student notebooks from a historical point of view.The seventeenth and eighteenth century in the Low Countries have been an especially turbulent period, especially from the viewpoint of intellectual history. Institutions with a largely medieval structure, such as the University of Leuven, provide education in the form of a scholastic curriculum. In ...
The Subject of Enhancement: Augmented Capacities, Extended Cognition, and Delicate Ecologies of the Mind KU Leuven
This paper argues for an inflationary and capacity-relative understanding of human enhancement technology. In doing so it echoes the approach followed by Buchanan (2011a, 2011b). Particular emphasis is placed on the point that capacities themselves are relative to demands placed on the organism by its environment. In the case of human beings this environment is institutionally structured. On the basis of the inflationary and capacity relative ...
On philosophy and schizophrenia : the case of thought insertion Universiteit Gent
Philosophers have often turned towards schizophrenic experience as a way to empirically substantiate philosophical assumptions regarding the essential nature of selfhood. In this context, the phenomenon of thought insertion (TI) has served as a particularly privileged example, as it is assumed to reveal, in a pathological or negative way, the nature of ordinary self-experience. In this chapter, we critically discuss one such philosophical ...