Dr. Stephen Hicks

And our cognitive powers, if we have a good healthy epistemology, should be augmented to enable us to survive and flourish better in the world.

And our cognitive powers, if we have a good healthy epistemology, should be augmented to enable us to survive and flourish better in the world.

And our cognitive powers, if we have a good healthy epistemology, should be augmented to enable us to survive and flourish better in the world.

That's exactly right. But then, if you, however, are skeptical, if you do start with the epistemology, all of the postmoderns do come out of an epistemological training. It's a striking fact, you know, the big-name postmoderns, so we mentioned Derrida, Lyotard, Foucault, Rorty, right, and the others, they are all PhDs in philosophy, right?

That's exactly right. But then, if you, however, are skeptical, if you do start with the epistemology, all of the postmoderns do come out of an epistemological training. It's a striking fact, you know, the big-name postmoderns, so we mentioned Derrida, Lyotard, Foucault, Rorty, right, and the others, they are all PhDs in philosophy, right?

That's exactly right. But then, if you, however, are skeptical, if you do start with the epistemology, all of the postmoderns do come out of an epistemological training. It's a striking fact, you know, the big-name postmoderns, so we mentioned Derrida, Lyotard, Foucault, Rorty, right, and the others, they are all PhDs in philosophy, right?

They're all doing heavy-duty work in epistemology at their graduate and doctoral level work. And that does come to become the foundation. And because of the time that they are working in, middle part of the 20th century was an extraordinarily skeptical phase for philosophy. The revealing theories and paradigms that everyone had been excited about had collapsed at that time. So they came of age.

They're all doing heavy-duty work in epistemology at their graduate and doctoral level work. And that does come to become the foundation. And because of the time that they are working in, middle part of the 20th century was an extraordinarily skeptical phase for philosophy. The revealing theories and paradigms that everyone had been excited about had collapsed at that time. So they came of age.

They're all doing heavy-duty work in epistemology at their graduate and doctoral level work. And that does come to become the foundation. And because of the time that they are working in, middle part of the 20th century was an extraordinarily skeptical phase for philosophy. The revealing theories and paradigms that everyone had been excited about had collapsed at that time. So they came of age.

Now, what that then is to say is, if you don't think... that human beings can know the world as individuals, then you don't think of developing your reason, developing your capacity for logic, for rationality, for understanding is the most important thing about human beings. So what then is it to be a human being?

Now, what that then is to say is, if you don't think... that human beings can know the world as individuals, then you don't think of developing your reason, developing your capacity for logic, for rationality, for understanding is the most important thing about human beings. So what then is it to be a human being?

Now, what that then is to say is, if you don't think... that human beings can know the world as individuals, then you don't think of developing your reason, developing your capacity for logic, for rationality, for understanding is the most important thing about human beings. So what then is it to be a human being?

And to the extent that you devalue the human cognitive apparatus, then we are going to become closer to chimps. And then the social models that are prevalent about how we think chimps are going to operate in the world. are going to become more predominant. Or even lower than chimps, baboons. Yeah, it's more of a baboon model.

And to the extent that you devalue the human cognitive apparatus, then we are going to become closer to chimps. And then the social models that are prevalent about how we think chimps are going to operate in the world. are going to become more predominant. Or even lower than chimps, baboons. Yeah, it's more of a baboon model.

And to the extent that you devalue the human cognitive apparatus, then we are going to become closer to chimps. And then the social models that are prevalent about how we think chimps are going to operate in the world. are going to become more predominant. Or even lower than chimps, baboons. Yeah, it's more of a baboon model.

I think this shows the absolute importance of these cognitive issues that the psychologists and the philosophers are trying to work out positively. Because to the extent that we can show that we have cognition, that it is efficacious, that it is competent, that our brain, mind is an enormously powerful tool. And if we learn to use it well, we will survive and flourish better as individuals.

I think this shows the absolute importance of these cognitive issues that the psychologists and the philosophers are trying to work out positively. Because to the extent that we can show that we have cognition, that it is efficacious, that it is competent, that our brain, mind is an enormously powerful tool. And if we learn to use it well, we will survive and flourish better as individuals.

I think this shows the absolute importance of these cognitive issues that the psychologists and the philosophers are trying to work out positively. Because to the extent that we can show that we have cognition, that it is efficacious, that it is competent, that our brain, mind is an enormously powerful tool. And if we learn to use it well, we will survive and flourish better as individuals.

And socially, we'll start to work out the win-win positive, some social things. Otherwise, we will sort of regress socially and evolutionary to chimp and baboon kinds of levels.

And socially, we'll start to work out the win-win positive, some social things. Otherwise, we will sort of regress socially and evolutionary to chimp and baboon kinds of levels.