Philosophy 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Argument From Poor Design, Supreme Intelligence, Teleological Argument
19 Jan 2018
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The difference between unintelligent and non-intelligent: unintelligent, they have intelligence they just don"t use it. Is it true that acting for an end or purpose requires knowledge and intelligence: cybernetics= science of self-governing machines. Aquinas" point would be precisely that a cybernetic machine has had a human designer, an intelligent designer. Social insects: are social insects a case of non-intelligent purposive behaviour, are social insects evidence that there must be a supreme intelligence of the world. Three criticisms of paley: hume"s criticism, argument by analogy, natural selection, david hume 1711-1776, did a lot of work, we will see him again, wrote on a wide range of subjects. Leaves grow on trees: money bills are also complex cellulose structures, therefore, money grows on trees. Are there any points of disanalogy between the watch and the universe: well, the watch has an overarching purpose, namely to tell time. But it is not clear that the universe has a overarching purpose.
