Category: Cognitive Theory

Relating Description and Explanation: The Case of Gregor Mendel

by David Fleischacker Description and Explanation: Mendel’s Pea Plants One good illustration of the dynamic relationship between description and explanation is found in Mendel’s breakthrough into genetics.  Description to recall […]...

Light and Transcendence

If you glance through the liturgy of the hours and the divine office, you will notice the frequency that the word light is used.  Of course, it is in the […]...

Indwelling

By David Fleischacker I am aware of at least two theological teachings that make significant use of the notion of indwelling. The first deals with the indwelling of God in […]...

Lonergan and the Shift to Method

by David Fleischacker   Method can be looked at as technique. This of course entirely misses the meaning of method as Lonergan conceived of it. For Lonergan, method is a […]...

Judgment and the Recovery of Being

by Dr. David Fleischacker Lonergan’s explanatory formulation of the interior structure of judgment dismantles one of the great culprits of the modern world that has left vast reaches of the […]...

Isomorphic Existentialism

Existential Isomorphism By Dr. David Fleischacker I would like to make a simple statement. The finality of the human person is one of existential isomorphism. Why Existential? I am sure […]...