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Sociobiology and Epistemology

Author : J.H. Fetzer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400953704
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Sociobiology and Epistemology written by J.H. Fetzer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers presented in this special collection focus upon conceptual, the oretical and epistemological aspects of sociobiology, an emerging discipline that deals with the extent to which genetic factors influence or control patterns of behavior as well as the extent to which patterns of behavior, in turn, influence or control genetic evolution. The Prologue advances a compre hensive acco/unt of the field of gene-culture co-evolution, where Lumsden and Gushurst differentiate between "classical" sociobiology (represented especially by Wilson's early work) and current research on human socio biology (represented by Lumsden and Wilson's later work), which emphasizes interplay between genes, minds, and culture. The specter of genetic deter minism, no doubt, has created considerable controversy, some of which may be laid to rest by Hanna's analysis of the (ambiguous) notion of a "genetic program", which indicates the necessity for distinguishing between descriptive and prescriptive dimensions of this complex concept. Brandon offers a framework for assessing the respective contributions of nature and of nurture by advancing a means for measuring genetic and cultural influences upon "inheritance", which supports the conclusion that evolving patterns of behavior do not always maximize inclusive fitness, contrary to what socio biologists have claimed. The influence of culture upon genetic evolution, of course, can be adequately appraised only when a suitable account of culture itself has been found, a desideratum Smillie attempts to satisfy by utilizing the notion of "cinfo" as culturally transmitted ecological informa tion, a resource other species tend not to exploit.

Darwinism in Philosophy, Social Science and Policy

Author : Alexander Rosenberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521664073
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Darwinism in Philosophy, Social Science and Policy written by Alexander Rosenberg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-03-28 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays by Alexander Rosenberg, the distinguished philosopher of science. The essays cover three broad areas related to Darwinian thought and naturalism: the first deals with the solution of philosophical problems such as reductionism, the second with the development of social theories, and the third with the intersection of evolutionary biology with economics, political philosophy, and public policy. Specific papers deal with naturalistic epistemology, the limits of reductionism, the biological justification of ethics, the so-called 'trolley problem' in moral philosophy, the political philosophy of biological endowments, and the Human Genome Project and its implications for policy. Rosenberg's important writings on a variety of issues are here organized into a coherent philosophical framework which promises to be a significant and controversial contribution to scholarship in many areas.

Evolution and Ethics

Author : Franklin Roy Bennett
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137523824
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Evolution and Ethics written by Franklin Roy Bennett and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does evolution inform the ancient debate regarding the roles that reason and instinct play in how we decide what to do? Evolution and Ethics offers an insightful analysis of four epistemological types of sociobiology which appear in the extant literature, and includes a preliminary analysis of Darwinism itself.

Reductionism and Cultural Being

Author : J.W. Smith
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400960956
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Reductionism and Cultural Being written by J.W. Smith and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Sociobiological Imagination

Author : Mary Maxwell
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791407684
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book The Sociobiological Imagination written by Mary Maxwell and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1991-09-19 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents reports on the uses of sociobiology and general evolutionary theory by members of diverse disciplines: psychiatry, law, management theory, anthropology, economics, primatology, history, political science, ethical philosophy, cognitive psychology, epistemology, socioecology of religion, studies of conflict, Marxist thought, aesthetics, sociology, linguistics, and psychology. The purpose of the book is threefold to acknowledge the remarkably wide influence of a central idea; to demonstrate that the research of human sociobiology takes place in disparate fields; and to introduce the major principles of sociobiology. There are many surprises to be found in these pages, not least the psychiatrists new look at anxiety, the management theorists explanation for the success of Japanese firms, the Soviet philosophers report on sociobiology in the U. S. S. R., the explanation given for the keeping of harems in ancient kingdoms, and the economists view as to why people care if a bargain price is really a fair price all cast in sociobiological terms.

The Sociobiological Imagination

Author : Mary Maxwell
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791407677
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book The Sociobiological Imagination written by Mary Maxwell and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents reports on the uses of sociobiology and general evolutionary theory by members of diverse disciplines: psychiatry, law, management theory, anthropology, economics, primatology, history, political science, ethical philosophy, cognitive psychology, epistemology, socioecology of religion, studies of conflict, Marxist thought, aesthetics, sociology, linguistics, and psychology. The purpose of the book is threefold -- to acknowledge the remarkably wide influence of a central idea; to demonstrate that the research of human sociobiology takes place in disparate fields; and to introduce the major principles of sociobiology. There are many surprises to be found in these pages, not least the psychiatrist's new look at anxiety, the management theorist's explanation for the success of Japanese firms, the Soviet philosopher's report on sociobiology in the U. S. S. R., the explanation given for the keeping of harems in ancient kingdoms, and the economist's view as to why people care if a bargain price is really a fair price -- all cast in sociobiological terms.

Philosophy Of Social Science

Author : Alexander Rosenberg
Publisher : Westview Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813306179
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Philosophy Of Social Science written by Alexander Rosenberg and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 1988-09-07 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the philosophical foundations of the human sciences. The author takes readers through behaviourism, naturalism, interpretativism about human action, and macro-social scientific perspectives, setting out to illuminate the motivation and strategy of each.

Sociobiology and the Preemption of Social Science

Author : Alexander Rosenberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781421435442
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (354 download)

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Download or read book Sociobiology and the Preemption of Social Science written by Alexander Rosenberg and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why have the social sciences in general failed to produce results with the ever-increasing explanatory power and predictive strength of the natural sciences? In seeking an answer to this question, Alexander Rosenberg, a philosopher of science, plunges into the controversial discipline of sociobiology. Sociobiology, Rosenberg asserts, deals in those forces governing human behavior that traditional social science has unsuccessfully attempted to slip between: neurophysiology, on the one hand, and selective forces, on the other. Unlike previous works in the two fields it straddles, Rosenberg's book brings thinking about the nature of scientific theorizing to bear on the most traditional issues in the philosophy of social science. The author finds that the subjects of conventional social science do not reflect the operation of laws that social scientists are equipped to discover. The author argues that much of the debate surrounding sociobiology is irrelevant to the issue of its ultimate success. Although largely conceptual, the book is an unequivocal defense of this new theory in the explanation of human behavior.

Philosophy of Biology Today

Author : Michael Ruse
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438418361
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Philosophy of Biology Today written by Michael Ruse and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1988-10-21 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This short and highly accessible volume opens up the subject of the philosophy of biology to professionals and to students in both disciplines. The text covers briefly and clearly all of the pertinent topics in the subject, dealing with both human and non-human issues, and quite uniquely surveying not only scholars in the English-speaking world but others elsewhere, including the Eastern block. As molecular biologists peer ever more deeply into life's mysteries, there are those who fear that such 'reductionism' conceals more than it reveals, and there are those who complain that the new techniques threaten the physical safety of us all. As students of evolution apply their new-found understanding to our own species, some people think that this is merely an excuse for racist and sexist propaganda, and others worry that the whole exercise blatantly violates the religious beliefs many of us hold dear. These controversies are the joint concern of biologists and philosophers—of those whose task it is to study the theoretical and moral foundations of knowledge. The comprehensive and fully up-to-date bibliography makes this an invaluable and indispensable guide.

Evolutionary Epistemology and its Implications for Humankind

Author : Franz M. Wuketits
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791402856
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Evolutionary Epistemology and its Implications for Humankind written by Franz M. Wuketits and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1990-01-01 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.

Evolutionary Epistemology

Author : W. Callebaut
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400939671
Total Pages : 453 pages
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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.

Philosophy Of Social Science

Author : Alexander Rosenberg
Publisher : Westview Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Philosophy Of Social Science written by Alexander Rosenberg and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 1995-10-12 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an expanded and thoroughly revised edition of the widely adopted introduction to the philosophical foundations of the human sciences. Ranging from cultural anthropology to mathematical economics, Alexander Rosenberg leads the reader through behaviorism, naturalism, interpretativism about human action, and macrosocial scientific perspectives, illuminating the motivation and strategy of each.Rewritten throughout to increase accessibility, this new edition retains the remarkable achievement of revealing the social sciences' enduring relation to the fundamental problems of philosophy. It includes new discussions of positivism, European philosophy of history, causation, statistical laws, quantitative models, and postempiricist social science, along with a completely updated literature guide that keys chapters to widely anthologized papers.

Handbook of Epistemology

Author : I. Niiniluoto
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9781402019852
Total Pages : 1074 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (198 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Epistemology written by I. Niiniluoto and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2004-03-31 with total page 1074 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twenty-eight essays in this Handbook, all by leading experts in the field, provide the most extensive treatment of various epistemological problems, supplemented by a historical account of this field. The entries are self-contained and substantial contributions to topics such as the sources of knowledge and belief, knowledge acquisition, and truth and justification. There are extensive essays on knowledge in specific fields: the sciences, mathematics, the humanities and the social sciences, religion, and language. Special attention is paid to current discussions on evolutionary epistemology, relativism, the relation between epistemology and cognitive science, sociology of knowledge, epistemic logic, knowledge and art, and feminist epistemology. This collection is a must-have for anybody interested in human knowledge, and its fortunes and misfortunes.

Consilience

Author : E. O. Wilson
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0804154066
Total Pages : 485 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Consilience written by E. O. Wilson and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-11-26 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • "A dazzling journey across the sciences and humanities in search of deep laws to unite them." —The Wall Street Journal One of our greatest scientists—and the winner of two Pulitzer Prizes for On Human Nature and The Ants—gives us a work of visionary importance that may be the crowning achievement of his career. In Consilience (a word that originally meant "jumping together"), Edward O. Wilson renews the Enlightenment's search for a unified theory of knowledge in disciplines that range from physics to biology, the social sciences and the humanities. Using the natural sciences as his model, Wilson forges dramatic links between fields. He explores the chemistry of the mind and the genetic bases of culture. He postulates the biological principles underlying works of art from cave-drawings to Lolita. Presenting the latest findings in prose of wonderful clarity and oratorical eloquence, and synthesizing it into a dazzling whole, Consilience is science in the path-clearing traditions of Newton, Einstein, and Richard Feynman.

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.

Epistemology and Cognition

Author : J.H. Fetzer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401137161
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Epistemology and Cognition written by J.H. Fetzer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This series will include monographs and collections of studies devoted to the investigation and exploration of knowledge, information, and data-processing systems of all kinds, no matter whether human, (other) animal, or machine. Its scope is intended to span the full range of interest from classical problems in the philosophy of mind and philosophical psychology through issues in cognitive psychology and sociobiology (concerning the mental powers of other species) to ideas related to artificial intelligence and computer science. While primary emphasis will be placed upon theoretical, conceptual, and epistemological aspects of these problems and domains, empirical, experimen tal, and methodological studies will also appear from time to time. The present volume reflects the kind of insights that can be obtained when research workers in philosophy, artificial intelligence, and computer science explore problems of common concern. The issues here tend to fall into two broad but varied sets, namely: those concerned with content and concepts, on the one hand, and those concerned with semantics and epistemology, on the other. The collection begins with a prologue that focuses upon the relations between connectionism and alternative conceptions of nativism and ends with an epilogue that examines the significance of alternative conceptions of the Frame Problem for artificial intelligence. Because these papers are rich and diverse, they ought to appeal to a wide and heterogeneous audience. J.H.F.

Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Biology

Author : Francisco J. Ayala
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405159987
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Biology written by Francisco J. Ayala and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-12-07 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of specially commissioned essays puts top scholars head to head to debate the central issues in the lively and fast growing field of philosophy of biology Brings together original essays on ten of the most hotly debated questions in philosophy of biology Lively head-to-head debate format sharply defines the issues and paves the way for further discussion Includes coverage of the new and vital area of evolutionary developmental biology, as well as the concept of a unified species, the role of genes in selection, the differences between micro- and macro-evolution, and much more Each section features an introduction to the topic as well as suggestions for further reading Offers an accessible overview of this fast-growing and dynamic field, whilst also capturing the imagination of professional philosophers and biologists