The Logician and the Biologist
The Logician and the Biologist

Summary/Abstract: Modern theories of intelligence have been constructed in an intellectual environment characterized by the results of on-going work by computational theorists on artificial intelligence and by philosophers and cognitive psychologists on the nature of human intelligence. One result of this work is that the line of demarcation between what is human and what is a machine (an artefact) is often blurred or even erased. Were one to seek an alternative general research program aimed at understanding human intelligence especially, then key elements of Aristotle’s theory laid out in the first two books of De Anima would be a good place to start.

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