Evolutionary Epistemology, Rationality, and the Sociology of KnowledgeThis collection of essays--some of them already classics and some of them published here for the first time--will become the indispensible sourcebook for students of evolutionary epistemology, which has been called the most important development in the theory of knowledge since the eighteenth century. Together, these chapters give a systematic exposition of growth of knowledge by blind variation and selective retention, the nonjustificational rationality which underlies evolutionary epistemology, and the application of its principles to the sociology of knowledge. |
Contents
II | 7 |
III | 47 |
IV | 91 |
V | 115 |
VI | 121 |
VII | 139 |
VIII | 157 |
IX | 163 |
XIII | 223 |
XV | 253 |
XVI | 269 |
XVII | 279 |
XVIII | 313 |
XIX | 343 |
XX | 345 |
XXI | 401 |
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accept analytic animal argued argument Bartley's believe biology blind Campbell Chapter claim cognitive concept consistent context Critical Rationalism critical rationalist criticizable Darwin discussion dogmatic environment Ernst Mach evolution evolutionary epistemology example fact false falsified fideism Gerhard Vollmer hence human idea implies invalid justificationism justificationist justified Kant Karl knowl Konrad Lorenz language language-games locomotion logical London Lorenz Mach Marx means ment meta level mind mirror natural selection non-inferential Objective Knowledge open to criticism organisms pancritical rationalism Philosophy of Science photosynthesis physics Popper position possible Post potential criticizer presuppositions principle priori problem produce psychological question Quine Radnitzky reason refutation reject Retreat to Commitment Rorty Rorty's scientific self-applicable self-reference self-referentially semantical paradoxes sense social sort statement structures theorem theory of rationality thought tion trial and error trilemma true truth uncriticizable valid vision W. V. Quine W. W. Bartley Watkins Wittgenstein York