Information and Meaning in Evolutionary Processes - Couverture rigide

Harms, William F.

 
9780521815147: Information and Meaning in Evolutionary Processes
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0521815142 ISBN 13 : 9780521815147
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2004

Synopsis

This book develops the tools necessary to transform the philosophical study of knowledge into a proper scientific discipline.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This book is intended to help transform epistemology - the traditional study of knowledge - into a rigorous discipline by removing conceptual roadblocks and developing formal tools required for a fully naturalized epistemology. The evolutionary approach which Harms favours begins with the common observation that if our senses and reasoning were not reliable, then natural selection would have eliminated them long ago. The challenge for some time has been how to transform these informal musings about evolutionary epistemology into a rigorous theoretical discipline capable of complementing current scientific studies of the evolution of cognition with a philosophically defensible account of meaning and justification.

Revue de presse

'I strongly recommend this book for anyone interested in pursuing the development of a biologically based naturalistic account of knowledge and the evolution of cognitive mechanisms. It is not an easy read but will more than repay the careful reader with suggestive insights and, I believe, a unique slant on the host of problems that we have inherited from the work of Donald Campbell.' Michael Bradie, Bowling Green State University

'This book contains original insights about information transmission and the evolution of meaning. After you read Part III the is/ought question will never look the same.' Brian Skyrms, University of California, Irvine

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
2004
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0521815142
ISBN 13 
9780521815147
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
282
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
Avery
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9780521039215: Information Meaning Evolution Procs

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0521039215 ISBN 13 :  9780521039215
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2008
Couverture souple