Samuel Baudinette
phd from uchicago. once a scholar of the middle ages, philosophy, theology, and religion. now an aspiring psychoanalyst obsessed with surrealism. on the aristotelian left
- In “Humanism and Science” Ilyenkov shows how scientism gives rise to the worship of artificial intelligence (by granting science the right to dictate what is ethical in an idealistic manner comparable to Kant’s desire to regulate reason by submitting it to an abstract moral law).
- Reading some more Ilyenkov this morning. Here, in the short paper “Activity and Knowledge,” he considers the pedagogical demand that we must be taught how to “apply” knowledge correctly in order to critique the positivist assumptions that subtend that demand.
