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Concepts and Approaches in Evolutionary Epistemology

Author : Franz M. Wuketits
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400971273
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Concepts and Approaches in Evolutionary Epistemology written by Franz M. Wuketits and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume brings together current interdisciplinary research which adds up to an evolutionary theory of human knowledge, Le. evolutionary epistemology. It comprises ten papers, dealing with the basic concepts, approaches and data in evolutionary epistemology and discussing some of their most important consequences. Because I am convinced that criticism, if not confused with mere polemics, is apt to stimulate the maturation of a scientific or philosophical theory, I invited Reinhard Low to present his critical view of evolutionary epistemology and to indicate some limits of our evolutionary conceptions. The main purpose of this book is to meet the urgent need of both science and philosophy for a comprehensive up-to-date approach to the problem of knowledge, going beyond the traditional disciplinary boundaries of scientific and philosophical thought. Evolutionary epistemology has emerged as a naturalistic and science-oriented view of knowledge taking cognizance of, and compatible with, results of biological, psychological, anthropological and linguistic inquiries concerning the structure and development of man's cognitive apparatus. Thus, evolutionary epistemology serves as a frame work for many contemporary discussions of the age-old problem of human knowledge.

Concepts and Approaches in Evolutionary Epistemology

Author : Franz M Wuketits
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789400971288
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (712 download)

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Issues in Evolutionary Epistemology

Author : Kai Hahlweg
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438405391
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Issues in Evolutionary Epistemology written by Kai Hahlweg and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1989-11-01 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides the fullest philosophical examination of theories of evolutionary epistemology now available. Here for the first time are found major statements of new theories, new applications, and many new critical explorations. The book is divided into four parts: Part I introduces several new approaches to evolutionary epistemology; Part II attempts to widen the scope of evolutionary epistemology, either by tackling more traditional epistemological issues, or by applying evolutionary models to new areas of inquiry such as the evolution of culture or of intentionality; Part III critically discusses specific problems in evolutionary epistemology; and Part IV deals with the relationship of evolutionary epistemology to the philosophy of mind. Because of its intellectual depth and its breadth of coverage, Issues in Evolutionary Epistemology will be an important text in the field for many years to come.

Evolutionary Epistemology, Rationality, and the Sociology of Knowledge

Author : Karl Raimund Popper
Publisher : Open Court Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780812690392
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Evolutionary Epistemology, Rationality, and the Sociology of Knowledge written by Karl Raimund Popper and published by Open Court Publishing. This book was released on 1987 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Bartley and Radnitzky have done the philosophy of knowledge a tremendous service. Scholars now have a superb and up-to-date presentation of the fundamental ideas of evolutionary epistemology." --Philosophical Books

Issues in Evolutionary Epistemology

Author : Kai Hahlweg
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791400128
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Issues in Evolutionary Epistemology written by Kai Hahlweg and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides the fullest philosophical examination of theories of evolutionary epistemology now available. Here for the first time are found major statements of new theories, new applications, and many new critical explorations. The book is divided into four parts: Part I introduces several new approaches to evolutionary epistemology; Part II attempts to widen the scope of evolutionary epistemology, either by tackling more traditional epistemological issues, or by applying evolutionary models to new areas of inquiry such as the evolution of culture or of intentionality; Part III critically discusses specific problems in evolutionary epistemology; and Part IV deals with the relationship of evolutionary epistemology to the philosophy of mind. Because of its intellectual depth and its breadth of coverage, Issues in Evolutionary Epistemology will be an important text in the field for many years to come.

Evolutionary Epistemology

Author : W. Callebaut
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400939671
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)

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Book Synopsis Evolutionary Epistemology by : W. Callebaut

Download or read book Evolutionary Epistemology written by W. Callebaut and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume has its already distant or1g1n in an inter national conference on Evolutionary Epistemology the editors organized at the University of Ghent in November 1984. This conference aimed to follow up the endeavor started at the ERISS (Epistemologically Relevant Internalist Sociology of Science) conference organized by Don Campbell and Alex Rosen berg at Cazenovia Lake, New York, in June 1981, whilst in jecting the gist of certain current continental intellectual developments into a debate whose focus, we thought, was in danger of being narrowed too much, considering the still underdeveloped state of affairs in the field. Broadly speaking, evolutionary epistemology today con sists of two interrelated, yet qualitatively distinct inves tigative efforts. Both are drawing on Darwinian concepts, which may explain why many people have failed to discriminate them. One is the study of the evolution of the cognitive apparatus of living organisms, which is first and foremost the province of biologists and psychologists (H. C. Plotkin, Ed. , Learning, Development, and Culture: Essays in Evolu tionary Epistemology, New York, Wiley, 1984), although quite a few philosophers - professional or vocational - have also felt the need to express themselves on this vast subject (F. M. Wuketits, Ed. , Conce ts and Approaches in Evolutionary Epistemology, Dordrecht Boston, Reidel, 1984). The other approach deals with the evolution of science, and has been dominated hitherto by (allegedly) 'naturalized' philosophers; no book-length survey of this literature is available at present.

Evolutionary Epistemology and its Implications for Humankind

Author : Franz M. Wuketits
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438424515
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Evolutionary Epistemology and its Implications for Humankind written by Franz M. Wuketits and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1990-07-05 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This books aims to outline the scientific (biological) foundations of evolutionary epistemology, and to discuss its implications for humankind. Wuketits covers all aspects of evolutionary epistemology, including its empirical foundations and its philosophical and anthropological consequences, providng an accessible introduction with a minimum of jargon.

Information and Meaning in Evolutionary Processes

Author : William F. Harms
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139451626
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Information and Meaning in Evolutionary Processes written by William F. Harms and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-04-26 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is intended to help transform epistemology - the traditional study of knowledge - into a rigorous discipline by removing conceptual roadblocks and developing formal tools required for a fully naturalized epistemology. The evolutionary approach which Harms favours begins with the common observation that if our senses and reasoning were not reliable, then natural selection would have eliminated them long ago. The challenge for some time has been how to transform these informal musings about evolutionary epistemology into a rigorous theoretical discipline capable of complementing current scientific studies of the evolution of cognition with a philosophically defensible account of meaning and justification.

Evolution, Cognition, and Realism

Author : Nicholas Rescher
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 9780819177551
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (775 download)

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Download or read book Evolution, Cognition, and Realism written by Nicholas Rescher and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 1990 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays originated from an interdisciplinary conference on 'Evolutionary Epistemology' held in Pittsburgh in December of 1988 under the sponsorship of the University of Pittsburgh's Center for Philosophy of Science. Contents: Epistemological Roles for Selection Theory, by Donald T. Campbell; Evolutionary Models of Science, by Ronald N. Giere; Should Epistemologists Take Darwin Seriously? by Michael Bradie; Natural Selection, Justification, and Inference to the Best Explanation, by Alan H. Goldman; Interspecific Competition, Evolutionary Epistemology, and Ecology, by Kristin Shrader-Frechette; Toward Making Evolutionary Epistemology into a Truly Naturalized Epistemology, by William Bechtel; Confessions of a Creationist, by C. Kenneth Waters. Co-published with the Center for Philosophy of Science.

The Genealogy of Knowledge

Author : Christiaan Jozef Joannes Buskes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Genealogy of Knowledge written by Christiaan Jozef Joannes Buskes and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chris Buskes's The Genealogy of Knowledge provides a comprehensive and critical defense of evolutionary approaches to epistemology and philosophy of science. Buskes shows that, until recently, many philosophers had a keen interest in physics and mathematics, but they tended to neglect the findings and important implications of evolutionary biology. By trying to rectify this omission, the author convincingly demonstrates that neo-Darwinian theory is simply indispensable for a proper understanding of the various cognitive processes found in animals and man. He also shows that, from a biological point of view, we are forced to broaden our concept of knowledge: all instances of adaptive evolution are instances in which knowledge about the natural world has been gained. Finally, The Genealogy of Knowledge explores the many parallels between biological and scientific evolution. It is claimed that Darwin's scheme of explanation can be applied successfully to the epistemic domain, which means that scientific and methodological change can be understood as analogous to biological evolution.

Evolutionary Epistemology, Language and Culture

Author : Nathalie Gontier
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402033958
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Evolutionary Epistemology, Language and Culture written by Nathalie Gontier and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-07-25 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time in history, scholars working on language and culture from within an evolutionary epistemological framework, and thereby emphasizing complementary or deviating theories of the Modern Synthesis, were brought together. Of course there have been excellent conferences on Evolutionary Epistemology in the past, as well as numerous conferences on the topics of Language and Culture. However, until now these disciplines had not been brought together into one all-encompassing conference. Moreover, previously there never had been such stress on alternative and complementary theories of the Modern Synthesis. Today we know that natural selection and evolution are far from synonymous and that they do not explain isomorphic phenomena in the world. ‘Taking Darwin seriously’ is the way to go, but today the time has come to take alternative and complementary theories that developed after the Modern Synthesis, equally seriously, and, furthermore, to examine how language and culture can merit from these diverse disciplines. As this volume will make clear, a specific inter- and transdisciplinary approach is one of the next crucial steps that needs to be taken, if we ever want to unravel the secrets of phenomena such as language and culture.

Concepts and Methods in Evolutionary Biology

Author : Robert N. Brandon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521498883
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Concepts and Methods in Evolutionary Biology written by Robert N. Brandon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of Professor Brandon's recent essays covers all the traditional topics in the philosophy of evolutionary biology.

A Useful Inheritance

Author : Nicholas Rescher
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780847676156
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (761 download)

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Download or read book A Useful Inheritance written by Nicholas Rescher and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1990 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book formulates an evolutionary approach to the theory of knowledge, based on the parallelism between the natural selection of our cognitive capacities and the rational selection of the methodological processes by which we put them to work. The former reflects the biological evolution of homo sapiens, the latter the cultural evolution of homo quaerens through the development of a scientific community of inquirers with its characteristic practices. This dual aspect of cognitive evolution indicates that our human cognitive accomplishments are limited by our particular evolutionary attunement to the world's scheme of things and are bound to reflect the character of our particular evolutionary niche. The resulting doctrinal position is one of a realistic relativism.

The Promise of Evolutionary Epistemology

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book The Promise of Evolutionary Epistemology written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because the human cognitive system is the product of an evolutionary process, we may expect that for its understanding an evolutionary perspective may be helpful. This collection argues that the analysis of such different domains as perception, self-identity, human rationality, and culture does indeed profit from an evolutionary approach. However, before the evolutionary project gets started, evolutionary epistemology faces a number of charges: incoherence, irrelevance, mental suicide, circularity, including Stich's charge that the evolutionary argument in favor of the reliability and rationality of our everyday knowledge is based mainly on false premises. This book answers these charges.

World Ordering

Author : Emanuel Adler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110841995X
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book World Ordering written by Emanuel Adler and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-07 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "We usually identify international orders with stability and established arrangements of units and institutionalization"--

Keywords and Concepts in Evolutionary Developmental Biology

Author : Brian K. Hall
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674022409
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (224 download)

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Download or read book Keywords and Concepts in Evolutionary Developmental Biology written by Brian K. Hall and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2006-09 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering more than 50 central terms and concepts in entries written by leading experts, this book offers an overview of this new subdiscipline of biology, providing the core insights and ideas that show how embryonic development relates to life-history evolution, adaptation, and responses to and integration with environmental factors.

Evolution and the Big Questions

Author : David N. Stamos
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444359002
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)

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Download or read book Evolution and the Big Questions written by David N. Stamos and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-09-23 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evolution and the Big Questions “David N. Stamos’s Evolution and the Big Questions delivers what its title promises—you get to look at all of the issues, such as race and ethics and religion, that make the study of evolution so interesting, and more than just a science. The book is written in a clear and friendly manner and deserves a very wide readership.” Michael Ruse, Florida State University This provocative text considers whether evolutionary explanations can be used to clarify some of life’s biggest questions. It offers a lively, informative, and timely look at a wide variety of key issues facing all of us today—including questions of race, sex, gender, the nature of language, religion, ethics, knowledge, consciousness, and, ultimately, thc meaning of life. Some of the questions examined are: Did evolution make men and women fundamentally different? Is the concept of race merely a social construction? Is morality, including universal human rights, a mass delusion? Can religion and evolution really be harmonized? Docs evolution render life meaningless? Designed for students and anyone with an interest in the relationship between evolutionary heritage and human nature, the text takes an interdisciplinary approach and offers direction for further reading and research. Each chapter presents a main topic, together with discussion of related ideas and arguments from various perspectives. Along the way, it poses life’s biggest questions, pulling no punches, and presenting a challenge to thinkers on all levels.