The genius of the scholastics and contemporary issues in philosophy and formal sciences

Since the mid-twentieth century, Anglophone philosophy, cognitive science and related areas have moved from arid positivism and linguisticism towards directions pioneered by the medieval and early modern scholastics. This talk gives a simple introduction to some of these currents, illustrated with easily understood examples. Examples include the Aristotelian realist perspective in the philosophy of science and mathematics; the "cognitive turn" in psychology and artificial intelligence, which resembles medieval "faculty psychology"; and the philosophy of social sciences and law, where the conceptual analysis and objective ethical stance of late scholasticism is apparent in such areas as political theory and human rights law.

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http://web.maths.unsw.edu.au/~jim/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Franklin_%28philosopher%29