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  E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25965400 Title: Philosophical Darwinism : on the origin of knowledge by means of natural selection Author: Peter Munz Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 1993. ISBN/ISSN: 0415086027 9780415086028 OCLC:25965400

  
  

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Philosophical Darwinism : on the origin of knowledge by means of natural selection

Author:	Peter Munz
Publisher:	London ; New York : Routledge, 1993.
Edition/Format:	Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	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 the philosophical consequences of biology is that all the knowledge produced in evolution is a priori, i.e., 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, though artificial, guided by those very same principles which have made possible biological evolution itself. Following Popper, the growth of knowledge is seen to be continuous from 'the amoeba to Einstein'. Philosophical Darwinism throws a whole new light on many contemporary debates. It has damaging implications for cognitive science and artificial intelligence, and questions attempts from within biology to equate mental events with neural processes. More importantly, it provides a rational postmodern alternative to what the author argues are the unreasonable postmodern fashions promoted by Kuhn, Lyotard and Rorty.  Read more...
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