Philosophical Darwinism: On the Origin of Knowledge by Means of Natural Selection

ISBN-13: 9780415086028 / Angielski / Twarda / 1993 / 262 str.

Peter Munz;Munz Peter

Opis

Philosophers have not taken the evolution of human beings seriously enough. If they did, argues Peter Munz, many long standing philosophical problems would be resolved. One of philosophical consequences of biology is that all the knowledge produced in evolution is a priori, - established hypothetically by chance mutation and selective retention, not by observation and intelligent induction. For organisms as embodied theories, selection is natural and for theories as disembodied organisms, it is artificial.

Spis treści

INTRODUCTION: COGNITIVE CONDITIONS 1 MAN’S GLASSY ESSENCE 2 THE DUBIOUS CREDENTIALS OF POSITIVISM 3 THE LURE OF SOCIOLOGY 4 THE NATURE OF THE MIRROR 5 THE VIEW FROM SOMEWHERE

O autorze

Peter Munz