Interactivist Summer Institute

July 22 - 26, 2003

Copenhagen


Tutorial

Interactivism: From Parmenides to Persons

Mark H. Bickhard

Interactivism began as a solution to the skeptical problem in epistemology. That solution, however, involved deep presuppositions that were in conflict with the dominant metaphysics of contemporary studies of the mind and the person (the most fundamental of which began with the Pre-Socratics), from philosophy to psychology to artificial intelligence and robotics. Uncovering those presuppositions and conflicts, and developing alternative models that are consistent with the presuppositions of interactivism has created a systemic theory and philosophy that begins in metaphysics, and spans from biology through studies of the mind and person, including the emergence of social realities and social beings. This tutorial will present a surview of the history and scope of interactivism, with special focus on selected topics, such as the emergence of normativity, representation, development, consciousness, language, rationality, and persons.

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