Dr. Stephen Hicks

Let me just interrupt. Are you talking about my experience of that or your experience of it? Because I came in with a pre-intention in that case. And yours was a different passive surprise response. Let's get to that. Exactly.

Let me just interrupt. Are you talking about my experience of that or your experience of it? Because I came in with a pre-intention in that case. And yours was a different passive surprise response. Let's get to that. Exactly.

But they still respond.

But they still respond.

But they still respond.

Humans too.

Humans too.

Humans too.

Let me say, all of that is great, all of it is beautiful, all of that is directly relevant. So, to tie that back into what our philosophical intellectual predicament is now, if we want to say postmodernism,

Let me say, all of that is great, all of it is beautiful, all of that is directly relevant. So, to tie that back into what our philosophical intellectual predicament is now, if we want to say postmodernism,

Let me say, all of that is great, all of it is beautiful, all of that is directly relevant. So, to tie that back into what our philosophical intellectual predicament is now, if we want to say postmodernism,

As a skeptical project that's given up on everything versus those who see it as an active, ongoing project that we're learning more and more, that's going to give us a better and better epistemology. All of that is great. So I'm a kind of empiricist, but what I would say is that... Everything that you have said was, in the early days of empiricism, not known to any of the empiricists.

As a skeptical project that's given up on everything versus those who see it as an active, ongoing project that we're learning more and more, that's going to give us a better and better epistemology. All of that is great. So I'm a kind of empiricist, but what I would say is that... Everything that you have said was, in the early days of empiricism, not known to any of the empiricists.

As a skeptical project that's given up on everything versus those who see it as an active, ongoing project that we're learning more and more, that's going to give us a better and better epistemology. All of that is great. So I'm a kind of empiricist, but what I would say is that... Everything that you have said was, in the early days of empiricism, not known to any of the empiricists.

So, in many cases, they had very crude understandings of what memory would be, what reflex would be, what emotions would be, perception, right, and so forth.

So, in many cases, they had very crude understandings of what memory would be, what reflex would be, what emotions would be, perception, right, and so forth.

So, in many cases, they had very crude understandings of what memory would be, what reflex would be, what emotions would be, perception, right, and so forth.

And so, naturally, then it makes sense that they're trying to insist that we actually are in contact with reality at a basic level, but then very quickly they are speculating about what's going on in all of these other areas, and their theories are faulty, and it's the weaknesses of those theories that then lead people to start to say, well, empiricism is a failed project, instead of seeing it as an ongoing project.

And so, naturally, then it makes sense that they're trying to insist that we actually are in contact with reality at a basic level, but then very quickly they are speculating about what's going on in all of these other areas, and their theories are faulty, and it's the weaknesses of those theories that then lead people to start to say, well, empiricism is a failed project, instead of seeing it as an ongoing project.

And so, naturally, then it makes sense that they're trying to insist that we actually are in contact with reality at a basic level, but then very quickly they are speculating about what's going on in all of these other areas, and their theories are faulty, and it's the weaknesses of those theories that then lead people to start to say, well, empiricism is a failed project, instead of seeing it as an ongoing project.