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Issues in evolutionary epistemology / edited by Kai Hahlweg and C.A. Hooker. [electronic resource]
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- SUNY series in philosophy and biology
- SUNY series in philosophy and biology Issues in evolutionary epistemology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Knowledge, Theory of--Congresses.
- Knowledge, Theory of.
- Science--Philosophy--Congresses.
- Science.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 605 p. )
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, c1989.
- Language Note:
- English
- Contents:
- 1: New approaches to evolutionary epistemology
- Evolutionary epistemology and philosophy of science / Kai Hahlweg and C.A. Hooker
- Self-organization: a new approach to evolutionary epistemology / Wolfgang Krohn and Günter Küppers
- A genotype-phenotype model for the growth of theories and the selection cycle in science / Aharon Kantorovich
- The view from somewhere: a critical defense of evolutionary epistemology / Michael Ruse
- 2: Enlarging the scope: new applications of evolutionary epistemology
- Extending evolutionary epistemology to "justifying" scientific beliefs (a sociological rapprochement with a fallibilist perceptual foundationalism?) / Donald T. Campbell and Bonnie T. Paller
- Somatic evolution and cultural form / Bernd Baldus
- Taking Darwin even more seriously / Peter Munz
- Evolution of the knowledge of knowledge from the perspective of the ecology of knowledge / Jerzy A. Wojciechowski
- Evolution of the steam engine / C. Brian Cragg
- A model of end-directedness / Patrick J. Ward
- 3. Critical evaluations
- Evolutionary epistemology as naturalized epistemology / Michael Bradie
- The trials and tribulations of selectionist explanations / Ron Amundson
- An evolutionary perspective on the re-emergence of cell biology / William Bechtel
- Evolutionary explanation and the justification of belief / F. John Clendinnen
- Science as part of nature / Gonzalo Munevar
- From physics to biology: rationality in Popper's conception of evolutionary epistemology / Geoff Stokes
- Stephen Toulmin's theory of conceptual evolution / Struan Jacobs
- 4. Evolutionary epistemology and the nature of mind
- Evolution, epistemology and visual science / C.U.M. Smith
- The physical manifestation of empirical knowledge / J.N. Hattiangadi
- Intentional parallelism and the two-level structure of evolutionary theory / Mohan Matthen
- Popper, natural selection and epiphenomenalism / Daniel Shaw.
- Notes:
- Edited proceedings of an international conference held July 6-10, 1987 at the University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1-4384-0539-1
- 0-585-06488-1
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