Mind and the Machine, The: What It Means to Be Human and Why It Matters by Matthew Dickerson

Author:Matthew Dickerson [Dickerson, Matthew]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Published: 2011-04-30T16:00:00+00:00

In other words, if reason is merely descriptive of human minds rather than normative, then we lose not only the trustworthiness of the reasoning process, but the trustworthiness of science and of all knowledge. To cite Moreland again: “Scientists justify their scientific models . . . by appealing to reasons and observations as normative courts of appeal for their theories.” And, in case one is tempted to use scientific results to justify the reliability of the senses and of the mind’s reasoning, he adds, “It would be question begging to use a scientific theory about the senses to justify the senses themselves. That justification is a philosophical matter, and the reliability of the mind and senses is a philosophical presupposition of science.”[136] (This is a comment that also lends support to our argument about reason in the first half of the chapter.)

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