History of Ideas
Scholastic Shadows in Silicon: The Medieval Roots of Machine Ethics
Long before the first transistor was etched onto a wafer, medieval philosophers were wrestling with questions that now sit at the center of artificial intelligence ethics. The debates of Aquinas, Ockham, and their contemporaries over causality, rational agency, and the limits of human knowledge were not merely theological exercises—they were early attempts to define what it means to reason, and who or what is entitled to do so. Tracing this philosophical lineage reveals that the anxieties surrou
