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Philosophical Darwinism - On the Origin of Knowledge by Means of Natural Selection (Paperback)
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Philosophical Darwinism - On the Origin of Knowledge by Means of Natural Selection (Paperback)
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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
concequences 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 artificial. 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 reduce
mental events to neural processes. More importantly, it provides a
rational postmodern alternative to what the author argues are the
unreasonable postmodern fashions of Kuhn, Lyotard and Rorty.
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