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HoP 300b - The Relevance of Medieval Philosophy Today

History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

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How to Make Psychology Much Simpler?

Ri: Acom's a bit odd in that he thinks that you can make psychology much simpler. He says we don't need to give complex causal accounts of exactly how information gets from the ar intellective part of the brain over to the sensitive part of the of the brain, and so on and so forth. The meat and potatoes of this kind of almost functionless attitude towards the mind are to be found in its ability to identify smaller parts, which you can then utilize in various explanations for various things. And that project is, in general, the project, as i said, of modern cognitive science.

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